Oil & Gas and Chemicals
The Challenge
An increasingly industrialized world demands more oil, gas and chemical products. Yet political, social and environmental pressures limit access to many potential resources. To compete effectively, oil, gas and chemical companies need to overcome:
- Volume and price volatility
- Supply chain inefficiencies
- Infrastructure incompatibilities
- Unpredictable margins
- Asset mismanagement
- An aging workforce
- Compliance issues
The Answer
Global Energy Trends
This viewpoint paper details how intelligent, growth-based investment in energy markets and other infrastructure is needed to ensure a positive future for the global economy. EDS, an HP company, analyzes emerging technologies that are helping to reduce costs and risk, while continuing to drive innovation and promote greater customer satisfaction in the energy industry.
Your company must operate smoothly and efficiently to prevail over demand, cost and regulatory challenges. It's essential you have a partner that can align your technology investments with your business goals of growing reserves and increasing production. With more than 20 years of energy experience, EDS can help you by:
- Assisting with new site developments through faster equipment implementation and standardized process improvement
- Improving efficiency, productivity and communication by integrating systems and processes
- Providing real-time performance reporting and operational visibility
- Delivering supply-chain efficiencies and cost savings through improved communications, inventory management and economies of scale
- Increasing operational performance through improved knowledge sharing
- Reducing ramp-up time and training costs with standardized interfaces
We offer a variety of services that deliver superior performance and returns for companies like yours:
The Results
EDS has been helping companies perform at their best for more than three decades. Some of the largest oil, gas and chemical product companies in the world enjoy the operational and economic benefits we deliver:
- A major integrated oil company wanted to contain costs while reducing time to "first oil." We developed a process model and an applications portfolio for production operations that took full advantage of integration opportunities.
- An international energy company sought to reduce its payroll processing costs and update an old mainframe system. After upgrading the technology environment and implementing new HR software, the EDS team works with the company to continuously improve its business processes.
- The global procurement group of a multinational oil and gas company asked us to help them realize a 20 percent reduction in direct and indirect spend. Our solution set new standards for the oil and gas industry.
- See our complete list of services
- Read our Oil & Gas and Chemicals case studies
- Download the Oil & Gas Fact Sheet PDF, 138K
Oil & Gas and Chemicals Industry Contact Information
EDS Global Oil, Gas and Chemicals Leader Ian Miller
Ian Miller leads the Global Oil, Gas and Chemicals Energy Industry group for EDS, an HP company, which serves clients in the oil and gas, utilities, chemicals, and mining industry segments, bringing deep industry knowledge, world-class capabilities, innovation and a performance-based culture. He has a wealth of experience in consulting and project management, with a special focus on the energy industry.
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
Energy Industry
Behind the success of oil & gas companies and utilities providers is an ally, EDS. Helping overcome rising operating costs, improve asset productivity and transform their IT strategies to reduce risk, EDS empowers them to keep the world running.