Integrated activity planning: a proven approach to optimising operations outcomes
Bradley Farrell A C and Vikrant Mulgund BA EY, 11 Mounts Bay Road, Perth, WA 6000, Australia.
B EY, 200 George Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: bradley.farrell@au.ey.com.
The APPEA Journal 59(2) 578-581 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ18126
Accepted: 2 April 2019 Published: 17 June 2019
Abstract
Integrated activity planning (IAP) is a proven approach for dealing with complexity and uncertainty when operating complex production systems. IAP is driven by the need to deliver on production forecasts, optimise the decision making for the planning, scheduling and execution of activities impacting production, mitigate the risk associated with major shutdowns or bringing capital projects online and optimise interfaces to allow engineering, supply, maintenance and operations to work together seamlessly. Planning is typically spread across several time horizons, including long-term strategic business plans, medium-term program plans and short-term maintenance plans and operational activity scheduling. This paper provides a definition of IAP, a description of its value, a detailed case study from one of the world’s leading IAP implementations and a series of lessons learned.
Keywords: maintenance, operational excellence, optimisation, production, scheduling.
Bradley Farrell is a Partner at EY and is the firm’s Oil and Gas Advisory Leader for Oceania. Bradley specialises in providing consultancy services to exploration and production companies, especially those with interests in LNG. Bradley’s experience includes assignments related to business transformation, asset strategy, enterprise performance management, business management systems, process analysis and improvement, organisation design and development, and change management. Bradley’s experience covers capital projects, corporate services and operations. In his oil and gas sector role for EY, Bradley monitors current and emerging issues, represents the firm at industry events and participates in consultations on energy specific issues. |
Vikrant Mulgund is a Director at EY and leads the firm’s Capital Infrastructure and Asset Management solutions across Asia Pacific. Over an 18-year international career spanning advisory and hands-on operational roles in more than a dozen countries, Vikrant has worked in strategy, operations improvement, business transformation, M&A integration and capital projects development and execution. His major clients and former employers include Schlumberger, Santos, BP, Inpex, Talisman Energy, Oman Oil Co., PTTEP, Qatar Petroleum, Samsung and Hyundai Engineering. |
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