Achieving Operational Excellence in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry with the help of Rolta OneView and SAP software

Table of Contents
1 Operating in a Challenging Environment
9 Gaining the Beneﬁts in Less Time
with Rapid Deployment
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3 Introducing Rolta OneView
2014SAPAGoranSAPafﬁliatecompany.Allrightsreserved.
Achieving Operational Excellence
in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
Gaining Integrated Business Insight
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with Rolta OneView and SAP Software
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SAP Ecosystem Partners

Operating in a Challenging Environment
Upstream oil and gas companies are operating in challenging times. They are trying to
maintain optimal production levels, while increasing recoverable reserves, and
reducing unplanned well down-time. They are implementing processes to improve their
use of technology to proactively detect anomalies, manage remote well operations,
organize logistics and improve enhanced recovery from reservoirs they acquire and
develop. Additionally, market price volatility demands accurate and timely visibility to
portfolio production yield. Managing CAPEX and OPEX spend is critical for making
decisions on portfolio risk, investment, divestment and development. All of these
elements impact operations and can easily determine the success of a field, not to
mention success for a company.
On top of this, many companies are leveraging recent
drilling technological breakthroughs to expand their
portfolio by entering the oil and gas shale market.
This has increased the pressure on operations to
develop prospects faster; which is causing
operational execution failures in the areas of
processes, systems, suppliers and safety,
simultaneously. It is clear that operators need better
information to make quick, informed decisions to
increase their rate of success and manage workers
from different suppliers with ‘one version of the truth’
for projects. This includes the ability to aggregate
multiple data sources to improve work execution;
combined with the ability to distribute information to
workers no matter where they are located in the
world.
The amount of data upstream oil and gas companies
generate each year is exploding – in no small part
due to the adoption of new operational technologies
being used for exploration and production.However,
businesses are still only using a tiny fraction of the
data they gather for decision making; this is being
limited by the current technology platform they have
in place to process the information. To improve and
optimize processes, a new approach is needed.
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Transforming data into insight
Upstream oil and gas companies generate data from
many sources at each stage of the upstream lifecycle:
exploration, engineering, operations (including drilling,
equipment, reliability and location data), projects and
business transactional data. Consider a large oil field
which can have hundreds of wells; managing all the
different data types from different companies,
partners and vendors can be complex. The number of
well-bores, multi-lateral, and instrumented data
generate an enormous load on existing systems to
process for decision making. This data, plus real-time
information from current wells; needs to be stored,
processed, analyzed, and disseminated in a usable
manner – which is truly the ‘Big Data’ challenge of
today.
Upstream companies want to increase the speed,
accuracy and frequency of data analysis to gain a
more precise view of their operational success so they
can make quick decisions. Yet the data they need
access to is often siloed throughout the enterprise.
With numerous disparate information technology (IT),
as well as operational technology (OT) systems, it
becomes difficult for a company to get a holistic
picture. Often enough, manual intervention is required
to reconcile business data from disparate systems,
which is time consuming, error prone, and not
sustainable over time. Basically, this data has
tremendous unfulfilled potential and operational
complexity in its current state.
To realize the full potential of data insight, a
comprehensive solution is needed to gather, cleanse,
correlate and consolidate multiple disparate sources;
transforming operations to drive improvements in
efficiency and a higher rate of operating success. A
variety of analytical tools and methods, including
operational analytics, real-time intelligence, locational
analytics, predictive analytics and Big Data analytics,
provide the most comprehensive insight. The pursuit of
effective OT-IT (Operational Technology – Information
Technology) integration along with integrated cross-
functional analytics can streamline processes,
optimize costs, and create substantial value.
The value comes from the continuous improvement
that is possible when organizations have complete
insight into their operations and processes.
Organizations need to make continuous real time
improvements across key functional areas of their
business (reservoir management, drilling, sub-surface,
production operations, facilities management, and
pipelines to name just a few examples) and set
measurable financial, operational, and safety goals.
Effectively managing these improvements is directly
tied to how well an organization is able to convert an
array of operational and business data into meaningful
insight directly affecting their bottom line.
Obtaining insights from this data is a key part of the journey to achieving
operational excellence (OPX).
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“Solutions such as Rolta OneView will play a critical role in transforming
plant management and drive growth.” Frost and Sullivan “Oil and Gas
Information Technology – Enabling Operational Excellence” September 2011
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Introducing Rolta OneView
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Rolta OneView is an Enterprise Intelligence (EI)
solution that enables role-based, actionable insight
and correlated operational and business intelligence
(BI). Available from Rolta, a strategic SAP software
solution and technology OEM partner; the solution
was developed by BI technology experts working
closely with oil and gas industry specialists who have
decades of firsthand experience with industry
processes and challenges.
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The data models and KPIs of Rolta OneView are
specific to the oil and gas industry; including more
than 400 pre-built KPIs derived from industry
standards and up stream knowledge models. The
solution combines the core functionalities of
information technology with engineering and
geospatial information systems. It extracts key
information from the functional and operational
systems in each business area, verifies the integrity
of the information and aggregates it to an industry-
standard data model to improve decision making.
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Rolta OneView breaks down the fundamental
barriers to achieving operational and business
excellence - such as silos across operational
networks, business networks, safety and
sustainability networks, and enterprise social
networks. It provides a 360-degree view of the
enterprise and touches the nerve center of all critical
functions, quickly integrating with existing systems,
instilling best practices, and accelerating process
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improvements. Rolta OneView for SAP combines the
best of Rolta’s domain expertise with cutting-edge
technologies from SAP to deliver faster ROI (return on
investment) and dramatically lower TCO (total cost of
operation), making it a win-win-win proposition.
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With Rolta OneView , your operations team can
access a single version of data to manage processes
and make faster, more informed decisions to operate
the business. The assimilated information is
presented in dashboards and reports designed to
provide actionable insights to individual managers
based on their roles in your business. When
something requires attention, the solution generates
alerts so managers can drill down through the data to
identify root causes.
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Rolta OneView brings a unique perspective to
upstream oil and gas intelligence. It monitors
operational and asset performance key performance
indicators, while at the same time delivers insights
across asset classes like shale oil and gas, offshore,
deep water, and conventional oil and gas. These
insights intersect analytics derived from the
functional (operational) areas into a single unified
view, and bring together descriptive, predictive and
prescriptive analytics.
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With Rolta OneView and SAP software,
including rapid-deployment options, you can
gather and analyze data across key areas of
the business to support informed decisions
that can help you improve performance.
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Rolta OneView in more depth
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Rolta OneView for Upstream Oil and Gas provides
analytics and insight for major areas of operations,
including: shale oil and gas, offshore, deep water,
conventional and unconventional projects. These
asset insights are based on performance measures for
the specific project areas named above and integrate
with operational systems (like SAP Plant Maintenance).
They improve work execution and decision making by
providing asset and engineering data to workers in a
single, unified view – integrating descriptive,
predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
Some examples: inform theDescriptive analytics
manager how the wells performed in the past year.
Predictive Analytics tell the manager about the wells’
probable future production performance, using a
variety of statistical, modeling, data mining, and
machine-learning techniques. Prescriptive analytics
specify remedial actions to prevent a well from
shutting down (i.e. due to degradation issues, such as
excessive wax deposition or sand production, as an
example).
While business insights deliver the high level visibility
that CXOs need, the individual KPIs bring clarity and
insight to operational managers. With timely access to
such insight, companies can speed up their decision-
making and improve consistency in work execution.
Predictive and prescriptive analytics proactively
identify potential areas for equipment failure; while at
the same time enhancing process safety, integrity
management, and decision making at all levels of
operations.
For example, high level corporate business drivers that
are supported by operations and engineering
processes at business unit levels include among
others the following:
1) Production Volumes Stewardship for Oil, Gas,
Condensate, Water
2) Oil & Gas reserves management and stewardship
to meet corporate goals
3) Drilling and Exploration goals for target counts,
drilled depths and successes
4) Financial stewardship regarding expenses,
returns and best capital utilization
5) Most importantly, manage the health and safety of
our most important asset – our people
Figure 1 below shows the high level corporate
business drivers and ways to manage and monitor
them to drive operational and asset level excellence
and efficiencies across the company.
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Some of the key benefits Rolta OneView delivers are:
Improved Field and Well Performance Tracking
Improved Reserves and Asset Utilization Management
Improved Well and Pipeline Integrity Surveillance
Sustainability in Business Operations
Crude Blending Optimization
Improved Safety and Compliance
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Figure 1: Rolta OneView Upstream Executive Dashboard
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A comprehensive and scalable
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The architecture of Rolta OneView simplifies
complexity across an enterprise's disparate data
sources. The various plant operational and business
systems are loosely coupled yet comprehensively
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integrated via Rolta OneView .
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The heart of Rolta OneView is a data model
based on industry best-practices and recognized
operational standards. This model maintains the
cross-functional information collated from various
data sources across operations and enables
performance management and analytics. Analytics
include trends, slice-and-dice analysis, drill-down
functionality, forecasting, predictive analytics,
variance analysis, root cause identification,
scenario planning, and what-if modeling. The
solution is fully scalable across an organization's
multiple sites and businesses, which enables
consistency in asset and process performance
measurement, as well as continuous
improvements.
An organization can pace its adoption of pervasive
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business intelligence with the Rolta OneView
enterprise architecture. Built on the SAP
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BusinessObjects Business Intelligence and SAP
HANA platform, the architecture delivers a robust,
reliable, maintainable, and scalable foundation for
pervasive analytics. The overall architecture,
including performance analytics and real-time
intelligence, is illustrated in the figure below.
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As Figure 2indicates, Rolta OneView features
comprehensive analytic functionality that enables
historical, real-time, geospatial, Big Data, and
predictive analytics on large and distributed data sets
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on a single platform. For example, Rolta OneView
integrates engineering design systems with all other
system so that business users can analyze asset
information across the entire lifecycle (for example
“as-designed” versus “as-operated” versus “cost-to-
maintain”). They can interact with field and well
models, view and analyze operational and design
parameters on a single dashboard.
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Figure 2: Rolta OneView Solution Architecture
solution architecture
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Now you can consolidate data from a variety of sources and
display it in a timely and meaningful way to drive operational
excellence.You can even correlate the information to KPIs
and enable analytics that provide actionable insight.

OT-IT Fusion: Integration of real time field
operational systems such as SCADA and High
Frequency systems (such as PI) used in
downhole and surface monitoring is combined
with IT systems that include well, engineering
and surface facilities
Geospatial Fusion: Integration of location data
such as XY values, global coordinate
system(and conversions) for wells along with
well path trajectory data when combined with
engineering and business data provides the
geospatial fusion of rich data
Engineering Fusion: Engineering designs of
equipment and facilities when combined with
business data
Knowledge Model: Various oil and gas vertical
specific knowledge models (such as from
Reservoir, Drilling, Production, Facilities, etc…)
when combined with functional knowledge
models involving Assets, Operational and more
models
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Figure 3 - Rolta OneView Upstream Executive Dashboard Details
SAP Software Powers the Performance
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Rolta OneView utilizes SAP HANA to deliver a high-performance analytics solution based on modern, in-memory,
columnar data structures. The underlying metadata, modern dashboarding, adhoc querying and analysis
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capabilities are built upon the market-leading BI platform of BusinessObjects. Rolta OneView leverages
BusinessObjects Data Integrator for the ETL – for the Extract, Transform and Load operations to build the data
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warehouse. In parallel, Rolta OneView is able to leverage the predictive analytics capabilities of SAP InfiniteInsight
and the visual data exploration interface provided by SAP Lumira. All these mean that customers gain from the IT-
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OT fusion that Rolta OneView delivers on top of a proven, modern, scalable technology platform provided by SAP –
truly a profitable fusion of capabilities.
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Gaining the benefits in less time
with Rapid Deployment
Get up and running faster and more efficiently
To help companies quickly realize the benefits of
comprehensive business insight, Rolta has created
three rapid-deployment solution (RDS) modules of
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the Rolta OneView solution including:
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· Rolta OneView RDS for operational insights
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· Rolta OneView RDS for asset insights
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· Rolta OneView RDS for maintenance and
reliability insights
The modules effectively combine SAP software and
content with Rolta software and services. They are
preconfigured solutions that deliver sophisticated BI
and EI functionalities quickly and affordably in each
area of operation.
Rolta installs the rapid-deployment modules within a
predetermined time-frame, cost, and service scope.
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Each Rolta OneView RDS module integrates SAP
and non-SAP data sources, and when used with the
SAP HANA platform, provides operational data insight
previously unavailable due to an enterprise's vast
data volumes. The average time frame for a typical
deployment is 12 weeks or less. This can help oil and
gas companies lower the cost of implementation and
speed the time to value, while retaining the flexibility
to extend the solution if required.
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The Rolta OneView RDS modules help you leverage
your technology investments for a consolidated view
of SAP and non-SAP operational systems as well as
your enterprise IT systems. They support operational
benefits in the areas of increased asset availability
and safety, and reduced energy and maintenance
costs, while tracking and coordinating production and
inventory.
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Rolta OneView RDS for helpsoperational insights
companies:
Improve quality of production
Lower costs of production and improve
utilization
Minimize factors causing opportunity losses
Identify potential failures before the actual
occurrence
Achieve predictable performance and
improve reliability
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Rolta OneView RDS for helpsasset insights
companies:
Analyze and manage underperforming assets
Minimize asset downtime
Analyze asset performance and compare with
engineering design data and design
documents
Gain locational intelligence for an asset
Increase asset utilization and reliability
Improve asset cost analysis and reduce cost
of ownership
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Rolta OneView RDS for maintenance and reliability
insights helps companies:
Maximize asset availability
Avoid unplanned shutdowns
Improve plant maintenance compliance
Optimize cost of ownership
Improve turnaround
Achieve predictable performance and
improve reliability
Attain higher workforce utilization
All the rapid-deployment modules can be
implemented separately or in any combination,
depending on the area of focus you desire.
While business benefits are dependent on the
modules that have been installed and implemented,
Rolta has observed the following benefits based on
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various deployments of Rolta OneView :
Reduction in downtime of 5% to 10%
Improvement in asset efficiency of 5% to 15%
Increase in asset availability of 3% to 5%
Increase in savings with improved reliability
project performance of 2% to 10%
Decrease in operational costs of 15% to 25%
Improvement in schedule adherence of 15%
to 30%
Increase in specification throughput of 10%
to 15%
Improvement in inventory turns of 10% to
15%
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Rolta OneView – designed and built
Start your journey today
from real-world experience
Rolta is a company with decades of experience in combining IT, GIS, engineering systems and
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operational systems for the benefit of its customers. Rolta OneView was designed and built on the
basis of hands-on experience in the oil and gas industry, and benefits from the insights of industry
experts employed in Rolta, as well as feedback from our customers.
Rolta is proud of its global strategic partnership with SAP, and is the winner of the coveted Pinnacle
Partner award in 2014.
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Why wait? Accelerate your journey toward achieving operational excellence, with Rolta OneView . You
will find that the solution enables you and your executives to make more well-informed decisions faster,
to help you improve operational processes and performance. Gain the holistic insight needed to
strengthen profit margins, identify operational problems, improve safety and attain greater clarity about
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past, current and future performance. With Rolta OneView and SAP software, you can improve the
synergy across people, technology and business processes to help your organization realize the full
benefits of operational excellence.
For further information
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To learn more about how Rolta OneView and SAP software can help your business achieve
operational excellence, visit Rolta at or SAP at .www.rolta.com www.sap.com
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Author Acknowledgements:
Mark Pyatt is a Senior Director for the Global Oil & Gas business unit, leading the Operational Integrity
initiative. He is responsible for defining strategy and working with customers to help them optimize the
use of SAP software across their enterprise. Mark has worked in the process industries for over 28
years, including leadership positions with other software providers, Big 4 consultants, and within the
O&G industry as a Geophysicist. He has an MBA in International Business from Texas A&M University
and a BS in Geophysics from the University of Texas.
Ashim Das, P.E. is Vice President, Oil & Gas at Rolta Americas and a 25 year upstream industry
professional with diversified experiences with Super Major and other Oil & Gas upstream companies
apart from Big 4 Consulting background with a blend of business, technology and energy expertise. He
is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in Texas, USA and is an upstream domain expert for Rolta.
He has a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from West Virginia University, and an MBA from Rice
University in Houston, USA.
Abhinav Agarwal is Senior Director, Product Management and Business Development for Rolta's BI and
Big Data solutions and products. He has 20 years of product management, product development,
startup and consulting experience across the United States, Canada, and India. He has a B.E.(Hons) in
Computer Engineering and is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Many of the ideas presented in this paper have been a result of contributions from employees from
Rolta and SAP collectively; reflecting the two firms' commitment to working together to bring powerful,
but effective solutions to market to reduce complexity and improve productivity, particularly for the
global oil and gas industry.

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