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Interested in digital solutions for operating oil & gas facilities?

The recordings from Norwep’s webinars where they have put together a number of Norwegian vendors that present some of the technologies and novel approaches in the energy sector are now available.

NORWEP writes the following on their website:
“Norway has always had a reputation for innovation and technology development in the energy sector. Recent developments in innovative digital solutions for operating facilities has been driven by a focus on;

  • improving production,
  • reducing operational and maintenance costs, while at the same time
  • maintaining the safety and integrity of producing assets

To showcase Norway’s capabilities in these areas, NORWEP will host a series of three webinars to present some of these technologies and novel approaches. This is an opportunity for you to hear from the experts and learn from their knowledge and experience.”

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Integrated Operation Center

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What is an Integrated Operation Centre?

An Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) is a dedicated environment designed to tackle the business problems that manifest when working with highly collaborative processes. 

The most typical of these is within an operational environment where many dependencies exist between;

Creating a product

Managing the quality of the product

Getting the product out the door efficiently, to the best market conditions available

In what industries do you find Integrated Operation Centers?

Many industries utilise the concept of IOC’s to help with their operations; manufacturing, oil & gas production, energy generation & distribution and so on. The broad roles, time pressures and underlying business issues remain similar but each industry will have a different emphasis.

What does an IOC look like?

 The following simplified diagram shows typical roles and seating within an IOC to maximise collaborative efficiency for operations: 

Integrated Operation Center Roles and layout

Each seat holds a role representative, not the entire team. The individual responsible for the minute to minute operations of the role within.

How does the Center help?

IOC’s operate in very time sensitive environment and if there is friction between these areas or a single failure, then the entire operational process can be compromised leading to massive inefficiencies. There is a need for everyone to see an up to date “big picture”, share a set of common priorities and have the experts at hand to support any breakdown in the process.

IOC’s are built to support the smooth running of critical areas of a real-time business.

Large and smaller centers

Not every IOC is “whole operations” focussed. Some companies may have a need for a smaller centre (or series of centres) to manage a single complex aspect of the business. These can often provide a massive value despite their size:

Planning:
A single planning function needs constant input from a huge range of distributed stakeholders and the ability to push their plans out to the same group. These planning centres have most other roles at the end of a VC rather than in a room together. (Virtual IOC)

Equipment Support:
A series of tiered centres able to support the complexities of machines and technology. Each tier offers a different level of specialisation to provide the most efficient use of resources.

Are you interested in learning more?

We have created the ultimate guide for building operation centers based on experience from 30 worldwide initiatives.

Read more here

Corona situation (Covid-19)

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Corona situation (Covid-19)

Epsis is closely following the global situation in connection with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We as our customers have taken our own measures to keep our staff as safe as possible, and most of us are now working from home. The IT industry is central in keeping some of the wheels rolling in our communities. This also applies to the services that Epsis are providing. We take our social responsibility seriously and work to best meet government requirements whether we are based in Norway, UK, Australia and USA, protect society’s most vulnerable and at the same time deliver on our commitment to our customers. We are grateful to all those working to mitigate the effects of the virus and out thoughts are with all who are being personally affected.

Epsis support & teamwork

We have, in recent weeks experienced that our customers have had an impressive ability to quickly find good solutions for maintaining production and capacity, while meeting the requirements of the authorities. As a result, Epsis remains fully operational and will (for the time being) continuing to provide our full range of support and services in all time zones. Our staff is working from home, in line with the most recent advices of the governments (in Norwegian, UK, US and Australian), while maintaining the same levels of professional services and availability as always.

We have long experience in working remotely without compromising the productivity and our delivery capability. We are used to handling demanding assignments, and as experts we also quickly get up to speed and become productive. We feel we have established the right mechanisms to assist our customers in this demanding situation. If anyone gets sick, we have backup routines to take over the support function. Our team is dedicated to help our customers on remote operations. Please contact help@epsis.com if you have any technical questions.

Client relationship

Our customer relationship is very important to us and we want to help in any way we can. As well as using email correspondence we are happy to talk with you on video conference or telephone. Our team is currently helping customers effectively set up virtual remote operations centres and adapt new ways of working into the operations.

Ways of working & IT security

We use Teams and Yammer as our internal communication platform and start every morning with a virtual coffee meeting. We find it important to talk on a regular basis to lift the team spirit and share tips on how to work smarter remotely. Today we got a reminder: Unfortunately, there are people with bad intentions using this situation to try to get into people’s and businesses system. Remember – Do not click on any links or attachments unless you are 100% sure. If you are wondering call and ask the sender before opening.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns regarding solutions and deliveries on Jan-Erik Nordtvedt / +47 55 92 57 50,- Together is better, even remotely.

Thank you and stay safe, the Epsis Team

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Starting an Operation Center project?

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Webinar by epsis

Starting an Operation
Center project?

Eight experience based rules to
ensure successful lift-off

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You might be considering operations center development. If so, you might be interested in joining in on this webinar.

Based on 15 years of international experience within operation center projects, Bart Stafford gives you a closer look at eight success factors for the journey from initial planning to an operational center that delivers true value.

Rule number one is: If you are spending more money on the things you can see than the things you can’t, your operations center results will not be what they should be.

When

ON-DEMAND

Register here to get the link

Speaker: Bart Stafford

Bart has been working with Epsis since 2018. Before that he has over 30 years of experience in upstream oil & gas at the intersection of operations and technology, including 15+ years with a focus on adding client value through IO. Bart has a great record of achieving desired results in the consulting and software product domain. He has an excellent track record of general business management with P&L, budgeting, hiring and strategic responsibilities in both domestic and international markets.

Bart has a passion for working with clients to design and implement Integrated Operations (IO) solutions.

Epsis is moving and re-branding

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Epsis is moving and re-branding

Epsis are pleased to announce that we have moved to new and great looking offices within walking distance to Bergen Airport, Flesland. The new offices are part of our re-branding business.

We are looking forward to being part of Bergen Business Park in Flesland and hope that you want to visit us soon.

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