Energy Industry

Oil and Gas Industry

The processes and systems involved in exploration, production, refining and marketing oil and gas are highly complex, capital-intensive and require state-of-the-art technology.

The current turbulent world economy, though is on a recovery mode, brings in lot of operational challenges to the Oil and Gas Companies. While the current oil and gas production is reducing, by plan, the analysis is indicating that the demand will increase over the next ten years and the production, as well as the resources will deplete at a higher rate. The scenario is very turbulent, coupled with the challenges of technical, human capital and political issues and the industry’s notoriety in terms of social responsibility and environmental management.

When the environment is so turbulent, the companies need dependable vendors and HCL is one such organization. At HCL, we create the COEs, install and implement various systems, simulate the scenarios and create the solutions. We have industry specialists recruited on board, we have partnerships with institutions and proven organizations. We promise our employees first to ensure that our customers do not suffer. We commit to ensure that our customer succeeds.

Our COEs offer a platform for the customer to replicate the scenarios, test and verify whether the solutions actually work for their work environment. The group offers truly 360 degree services to its customers – from the very high end Domain Consulting to Application Development, Support and Maintenance Services, to the Desktop Support and BPO Services leveraging the organization’s extensive technology service.

Our focus on customer requirements has been the foundation of our deep relationships with some of the leading names in the Oil & Gas industry. We have been working with oil & gas customers for more than 10 years across North America, Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. Many of our employees have in excess of 20 years of oil & gas industry experience, and we have built robust frameworks to deliver high value to our engagements in the industry.

HCL Oil and Gas micro-vertical serves the entire value chain of Oil & Gas.

• Upstream – Exploration & Production
• Midstream – Storage, Transportation and Piping
• Downstream – Refining, Distribution & Marketing

Practice Differentiators

• 11yrs Oil and Gas industry experience
• 1^st SAP Oil & Gas SD implementations in North America
• SAP Channel Partner in O&G in NA
• First SAP Certified O&G Solution – Oil and Gas Rapid Deployment Toolkit
• Thought Leadership through 50+ Patents and several frameworks on areas like Web 2.0, SaaS, SOA, etc.
• Extensive capabilities – LIMS, Plant Automation, GIS, Commodity Trading etc.

Engagement Types

• Time & Material to Strategic Partnership
• Product Engineering & Research
• Business Strategy (e.g. Asset Planning)
• Business Transformation
• SAP Implementation & Applications Management
• Infrastructure Management
• Consulting – Business & Technical
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Duration – 4 months to 4 years

Functions

• Oil field services and drilling (OFS/D)
• Exploration & Production, Transportation, Piping, Trading, Refining and Retail
• Finance, Procurement, HR, Sales, Purchasing, Logistics, Maintenance, Projects

Oil & Gas specific Service Offerings

HCL offers a comprehensive set of services catering to end-to-end requirements of oil & gas companies. We have been working with oil & gas customers for more than 10 years and have built robust frameworks to deliver high value to them through our engagements in the industry.

Exploration & Production

The Exploration & Production segment is a mix of complex engineering technologies and applications combined with critical business applications like asset management and Revenue Accounting. HCL brings to its customers a strong mix of experience and capabilities to address some of these critical requirements in the E&P segment.

• Asset Management & Field Force Automation
• Data Acquisition & Control Automation
• Field Applications
• Petro-technical Computing Infrastructure

Pipelines & Storage

The supply storage segment needs reliable application services that match the critical reliability requirements of this segment. We understand the importance of operational safety in this segment and have teams with experience in both the design as well control automation technologies that are relevant for this industry segment. Considering the need to address a geographically spread network, we have developed solutions that can help your fleets to better serve the asset management needs while remaining connected to enterprise systems.

• Network Design and Pipeline Management
• Asset and Fleet Management
• Management Reporting and Dashboards
• Automation and control systems

Energy Trading & Risk Management

The major challenges faced by energy markets, trading and risk management customers are a range of products used and available in the market combined with manual spread sheets still being used in many critical functions. HCL brings to its customers a strong service experience that ranges from custom developed trading platforms to some of the leading ETRM products in the market.

• Front Office, Data Feed and Market Integration
• Risk Management
• Integration and SOA services
• Infrastructure Management

Downstream

In the Downstream segment, the oil & gas segments face a challenge of managing multiple variables ranging from volatile crude prices to an elastic customer demand influenced by combination of competitive, economic and geographic factors. HCL has experience and capabilities to meet the wide range of requirements in both the Refining segment as well as the Distribution and Retail segment.

• Refinery Supply Chain Management
• Demand Intelligence
• Plant Information Management
• Laboratory Information Management
• In-Store Application