Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK — Shell has contracted ABL to supply its Effio data build and optimization software to support various newbuilding projects, including the Jackdaw Field development in the UK central North Sea.
Effio is a cloud-based master data build, ETL (extract, transform and load) and optimization tool developed for use on internal new projects for data enhancement, build and optimization of maintenance, materials and resources.
The software captures learning from projects as rules and governance, and it is said to improve project delivery by enabling quality assurance checks to be made on datasets before bulk loading into an enterprise resource planning system or a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
This allows the automation of some activities within a maintenance context.
To date, ABL claims the service has helped generate time savings of up to 50% along with improved management and visualization of asset integrity management.
“This is done by introducing a novel solution that eliminates many MS Excel heavy activities common in CMMS projects, spanning data preparation, field population, quality checks and complex transmittal package management,” said Stuart Murray, head of technical at ABL’s asset and integrity management team.
Other deployments have taken place on upstream oil and gas projects operated by various supermajors and IOCs and on FPSOs.
“Our goal is focusing on getting data right the first time and building trust in the business through applying established industry and data standards such as ISO standard, CFIHOS, etc.,” Murray added.
02.08.2024
