Segmentos / OIL & GAs

Oil & Gas: Discover the Paragon partnership

The oil and gas supply chain is one of the most complex in the world. With high costs and long-term investments in infrastructure, planning correctly is more than a desire, it is mandatory the survival of the business.

The oil and gas market lives with the most critical challenges, such as compliance with government regulations and strict safety and environmental preservation standards.

All this set of conditions make companies constantly rethink their processes, placing the digital twin as a core element in planning the integrated supply chain.

Simulation tools can help companies analyze potential changes in operations, production chains and incorporate the impact of external factors such as geological and climatic conditions, demand and market prices.

PARAGON solutions allow the modeling of discrete events, which consists of portraying the entire behavior of a complex system through a series of defined events.

This works efficiently in process environments where there is variability and complex system interactions.

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Challenges in the Oil & Gas industry

1- How to identify the bottlenecks in my operation?
2- How does my tanking capacity behave with the anticipated demands?
3- What is the turnover of my tanking?
4- How does maintenance influence my productivity?
5- What should the fleet be to reach the movement target?
6- How do modals influence my terminal capacity?
7- What should the batch size x storage capacity be?
8- What will my occupation of the cribs be?
9- What are the consequences of Lean deployment?
10- How to test Value Stream Mapping (VSM) before implementation?
11- How to reduce demurrage costs?
12- How can I improve the project?
13- How can I validate the plant capacity?
14- What is the system’s maximum capacity?
15- What are the reasons for my capacity losses?
16- How should my maintenance policy work?
17- How do shifts affect my productivity?
18- How do operators influence overall performance?
19- What is the occupation level of my resources and operators?

How we solve your problem

The PARAGON team is formed by experts in decision-making tools. Said tools include statistical, modeling, management and data visualization software and methodologies. We use the most modern simulation, optimization, scheduling and data visualization technologies. Our main goal is to offer security for decision making, presenting results and simple alternatives for complex problems that help reaching the productivity and profitability targets through cost reduction and investment optimization.

Predictability of operations

The oil and gas supply chain is extremely intricate and distributed across operations – extraction, refining, storage, distribution and consumption – which are, separately, larger than the supply chain of entire markets.

This is due to the degree of complexity of what is included in each step: equipment with a high level of elaboration and produced specifically for the segment, several public and industry regulations and the specific qualification of professionals.

Thus, the focus on processes must be complete, so that there is as much predictability as possible in the routines and the achievement of defined performance targets.

Any incorrect definition can lead to failures – which are always of great proportions in this industry – and to losses of millions of reais, in addition to putting the entire efficiency of the gas and oil chain at operational and financial risk.

The questions are many and need quick answers, like an oil and gas cycle.

The combination of high-level process mapping software and methodology is the solution to know all the sub-processes and routines – and we know there are many – and, based on virtual simulations of possible scenarios, it is possible to:

Simulation tools can help oil and gas companies detect potential changes in their operations and supply chains and even incorporate the impact of external factors – weather, market demand, currency and commodity prices.

PARAGON has the expertise in mathematical data modeling that support the design of current processes (as is) and help in choosing the scenario (to be) to achieve the desired performance levels, reduce costs, schedule events and mitigate risks.

Intelligent asset management

One of the main challenges within the oil and gas industry – perhaps the biggest one in terms of invested capital – is to carry out an assertive asset management – a series of equipment, mostly imported and with specific characteristics.

Maintenance is an extremely complex task that requires coordinated actions, such as intelligent asset management – a set of systematized actions aligned with methodologies and software.

The single management platform, with real-time and remote measurements, optimizes resources and allows you to schedule corrective outages, reducing repair costs and optimizing preventive maintenance.

Implementing and improving smart asset management allows you to define critical issues for operational excellence.

1- Tanking capacity with demand forecast;
2- Tanking rotation;
3- Required dimension of the technical park;
4- Maintenance policy (frequency, logistics);
5- Structure required for management;
6- Required system solutions.

With PARAGON, you can develop, through data modeling solutions, a project that will identify the potential risks of the current management environment, carry out a complete data survey and simulate virtual environments.

These digital environments allow you to stress all the variables without making investments until the best conditions are chosen for an asset management aligned with the company’s goals.

Oil & Gas: Paragon Cases

Oil & Gas: Paragon Clients

New projects and updates can be risky to carry out. Reduce the risk of excessive expenses and delays with the best upfront planning, and project design and architectures tested by over 1,000 Paragon clients since 1992.

Do you want to bring data excellence to your project to make the most assertive and secure decisions about the oil & gas production chain?

PARAGON can be your ally!

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