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Enterprise Digital Transformation for Major NOC
Virtual Eye: Unifying 40 years of fragmented asset data across 700+ platforms for one of the Middle East’s largest oil field operators. Our on-premise solution integrated 20+ engineering systems with high-resolution photographic imagery, eliminating software licensing costs and creating a single source of truth.
1. Challenge
One of the Middle East's largest National Oil Companies faced an unprecedented digital integration challenge across their massive offshore operations. Developed progressively over 40 years, their asset portfolio of 700+ platforms represented a complex tapestry of mergers, acquisitions, and evolving operational standards. The field had been developed by hundreds of EPC contractors from across the globe, each implementing different engineering standards, documentation protocols, and asset numbering systems. Critical engineering drawings existed only as PDFs in traditional document control rooms, while physical data sheets filled warehouses, gathering dust across multiple locations. With four generations of employee turnover, production upgrades, and technology changes, the operational data landscape had become completely fragmented. Maintaining over 20 different engineering software systems with expensive per-user licenses, while retaining competency across multiple expertise areas, created an unsustainable operational burden.
2. Our Approach & Solution
- Comprehensive Enterprise Integration: We developed secure connectors for SAP, EDMS, PI System for live data, and multiple engineering databases from Aveva, Hexagon, and other software providers, creating a unified data layer across all legacy systems while maintaining on-premise security protocols.
- Massive Data Migration & Standardization: Processed millions of drawings and data sheets, hundreds of thousands of equipment tags, and decades of historical data into a coherent digital twin, resolving conflicts between different numbering standards and documentation formats through advanced data reconciliation algorithms.
- High-Resolution Photographic Capture: Deployed specialized teams to collect millions of high-resolution photographic imagery from offshore platforms, creating photorealistic 3D models that provide unprecedented visual clarity for remote operations and maintenance planning.
- License-Free Enterprise Platform: Eliminated the burden of maintaining 20+ engineering software licenses by providing a proprietary platform with zero per-user license fees and minimal training requirements, dramatically reducing IT costs and complexity while improving accessibility.
- Intuitive Operational Interface: Created a Google Earth-style 3D navigation system that allows operational teams to intuitively explore the entire asset base, with integrated search, measurement, and real-time data access capabilities that require no specialized engineering software training.
3. Technologies & Methodologies
4. Results & Impact:
- Total System Consolidation: Successfully integrated data from over 20 engineering systems into a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple software licenses and specialized training while maintaining on-premise security and control.
- Operational Clarity at Scale: Provided a unified view of 700+ offshore platforms across 40 years of development, finally creating a single source of truth for one of the region's most complex asset portfolios.
- Cost Elimination & Efficiency: Removed all per-user license fees for engineering software, saving millions annually in software maintenance while reducing information retrieval time from days to minutes.
- Visual Intelligence: Integrated millions of high-resolution platform imagery into the operational workflow, enabling remote inspection, maintenance planning, and operational decision-making without physical site visits.
- Knowledge Preservation & Access: Captured and organized four decades of institutional knowledge that was previously scattered across multiple systems, warehouses, and generations of employees.
5. Conclusion
This enterprise digital transformation represents a watershed moment in oil and gas asset management. By creating a unified digital twin that spans 40 years of development and 700+ platforms for one of the world's most significant energy operators, we've demonstrated that even the most complex data challenges can be transformed into operational advantages. The on-premise Virtual Eye platform doesn't just integrate systems—it integrates history, knowledge, and operations into a coherent whole that grows more valuable with each passing year. This project exemplifies GeoSoft's ability to deliver mission-critical digital transformation at the largest scale, combining technical excellence with pragmatic solutions that deliver immediate and lasting value to industry leaders.
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IMPACT
Timeline
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Deliverables
Topographical drawings, digital terrain models, contour maps, longitudinal profiles, 2D & 3D underground utility maps.
Safety
Avoided potential hazards and optimized pipeline route.
Cost-Efficiency
Achieved significant cost savings and reduced construction time.
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Utilized advanced tools like LiDAR and GPR.
Efficiency
Enhanced data collection and analysis processes.