The next level of performance
The economic climate is adding to the pressure on oil and gas companies. Though prices are expected to remain above historic norms in the long term, making significant discretionary spending possible, margins are being squeezed by rising operational costs.
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Finding and development costs are also high, while reserve replacement ratios are low, making replenishment a potential obstacle to traditional organic growth, and one which can impact the bottom line. Despite challenges like these, Capgemini can help companies to keep optimising and standardising their processes and procedures whilst maintaining operational flexibility. In this way, they can take performance to the next level and deliver the returns expected by their stakeholders.
Capgemini has a global presence in the oil and gas industry, established for more than 25 years. Locations include the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Middle Eastern countries and China, and we have worked with the majority of oil majors and oil field service and drilling companies. We support both upstream and downstream sectors, and also corporate functions.
Streamlining your business
We help leverage technology investment by improving the management of existing technology portfolios, as well as supporting the definition and selection of new technologies. Our post-implementation services allow companies to exploit investment better in order to maximise ROI.
In addition to improving performance, we can assist with expansion into new markets such as China.
Capgemini’s approach
Capgemini’s collaborative approach addresses specific needs in a way that is tailored to each client’s culture and way of working, in contrast with the traditional “one size fits all” style of consultancy. We harness the best team of specialists for each project, and they draw on the collective industry expertise of the practice as a whole. All of our projects emphasise client benefits delivery and knowledge transfer.
Capgemini’s capabilities
Capgemini has about 10,000 staff working in the energy sector across oil and gas, utilities and chemicals. Our team of experts is drawn from industry, providing us with real-world experience of all aspects of the oil and gas sectors. Specific capabilities for upstream and downstream clients include
- Exploration and production data management
- Operational performance improvement
- Asset lifecycle management
- Supply chain optimisation
- Integrated operations services
- Financial performance improvement
- Asset/company merger and acquisition expertise
- Technology enablement
- IT business services
- Retail and customer experience
- Trading systems implementation
Patrick Rowe
Vice President, Energy & Utilities Sector
Success Stories
Petrom
Capgemini enabled Petrom to confirm that Schlumberger’s software products met its requirements for data management and retrieval of upstream data types like seismic, logs, well header, deviations and production volumes. In collaboration with Schlumberger, we then installed and tested these products, migrating data from legacy systems and providing training workshops for data managers. Capgemini also developed an approach for introducing a Master Data Store.
Shell
Shell’s IT function needed to deliver business performance and growth, to achieve continuous operational improvement, and to take advantage of new technologies new sourcing models, and to do all this across a global set of businesses with diverse expectations. Capgemini supported Shell in defining an IT delivery model covering everything from portfolio management and supplier relationship management through to application and infrastructure support. The outcome was a roadmap for driving the IT function to top-quartile performance.
Petoro
Capgemini helped Petoro, the licensee for the Norwegian state’s direct financial interest in petroleum operations, to test the readiness of the various operators for deployment of smart operating practices. The project developed a first-generation diagnostic tool that can be used to assess the maturity of Smart Operations activities within an organisation. Another major output was a repository of leading Smart Operations practices worldwide.
