Shelf Drilling has reduced the time spent on the transfer and consolidation of operational data by 98 percent following its implementation of the Jedox EPM solution. Consequently, this has enabled the company to enhance efficiencies across key functions including rig maintenance and fuel tracking.
Headquartered in Dubai, Shelf Drilling operates 30 rigs across eight countries and has 12 onshore locations, with approximately 3,100 employees and contractors. As it sought to modernise and digitalise its operations, the company was looking to implement an integrated planning system. Because of the low bandwidth of the satellite links that connect Shelf Drilling’s rigs to its headquarters, the company needed a solution that could replicate data offline and in the background.
By integrating Jedox’s solution with its existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) tools, Shelf Drilling now maintain a consistent, up-to-date, single source of financial and operational data. This near real-time data is being used for different purposes and among different departments, namely for the maintenance forecasts, project authorisations and emissions tracking.
“With Jedox, everyone in our organisation – from our headquarters to our offshore rigs – gets a close to real-time view. Business users can simply assemble the data in the system and the required operational data is immediately available for use in models and reports,” said Bryan Teo, ERP director at Shelf Drilling. Offering an example of how this data enables the company to enhance its operations, he said, “With the very accurate transfer of almost real-time data on fuel consumption from the rigs, we can optimise our engine hours, save fuel, and be more sustainable.”
Shelf Drilling has also built another solution on the Jedox platform utilising the in-built approval workflow engine, to manage project authorisations. This solution helps eliminate paper approvals that previously had to be scanned and emailed to the next approver before being uploaded to the ERP system as evidence of project authorisation.
