Establishing principles in digital transformation through comparative analysis of frameworks and development strategies in platform/coding development for consulting
Nigel Lim A B , Lucas Lim A and Dyota Tanuwibawa AA Genesis, Perth, Australia.
B Corresponding author. Email: nigel.lim@genesisenergies.com
The APPEA Journal 61(2) 553-558 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ20067
Accepted: 24 March 2021 Published: 2 July 2021
Abstract
The industry continues to increase its utilisation of early phase and pre-execution engineering activities to provide higher-detailed solutions to reduce risks in execution. To meet this challenge, field development and engineering (concept, front-end and detailed design) have focused on digital transformation to increase their value-adding proposition. Organisations must now develop strategies to guide this digital transformation. The realities and opportunities of achieving digital transformation are demonstrated here through a comparative analysis of execution strategies (agile, on-project, stand-alone product), software/coding frameworks and discipline (field development, designand business management). These will reference successful developments of digital applications which cover the range of subjects above. The comparative analysis will present the technical and business challenges associated with digital transformations, such as the upskilling hump, complexity versus flexibility, initial scoping, data structure integration and cost-effective idea development strategies, as these challenges in implementation continue to propagate through future development. This study will also discuss the application of these alternate strategies/approaches and investigate whether we should be demanding all our workforce be familiar with current industry favourite full-code frameworks (Python, Javascript) or low-code frameworks (Microsoft Power Platform, SalesForce) to create value in everyday work. The comparative analysis will demonstrate how details within the above subjects can significantly affect the outcomes and costs of digitalisation initiatives. Finally, the study establishes key lessons learned and principles to guide the petroleum sector in this digital transformation.
Keywords : digitalisation, automation, python, finite element analysis, design, field development, concept, agile, lean, business management, powerapps.
Nigel Lim is a Senior Subsea and Pipelines Engineer with 8 years of experience in the energy industry. He has contributed to major projects in North and Western Australia (Prelude, Bayu-Undan, Gorgon), while being supplemented by experience in North Sea, Middle East and Malaysian projects. His contributions in these projects centres around scoping and implementation of digital techniques to everyday engineering tasks to add value. Through this, he has established himself as an emerging leader to developing digital ways of working and larger digital applications in the industry. |
Lucas Lim is a Subsea Engineer with 3 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, spanning projects in the NW Shelf, Africa, North Sea and the NW region of Australia. His extensive background in coding has allowed greater flexibility and efficiencies through the automation and improvements in workflow within projects. He always considers the scope, architecture and functionality when designing a program for any engineering tasks. His coding specialties include Python to perform 2D and 3D Abaqus analyses and Visual Basic for Applications within Microsoft Excel for data extraction, manipulation and automation. |
Dyota Tanuwibawa is a Business Systems Analyst with 6 years within the oil and gas industry, with a breadth of experience spanning asset maintenance and operations engineering, project management, to business management systems improvements projects and low-code software development. A major part of his current role involves developing digital solutions to reduce administrative friction, using available and accessible tools, primarily using the Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem, centred on the Power Platform. He brings both operator-side and consultancy-side perspectives to generate solutions in digitalisation for maximal benefit to stakeholders. |
References
Lim, N., and Lim, L. (2020). An application and subsequent benefits of digitalisation to pipeline engineering using a 3D pipe-in-pipe bulkhead design project case study. The APPEA Journal 60, 641–645.| An application and subsequent benefits of digitalisation to pipeline engineering using a 3D pipe-in-pipe bulkhead design project case study.Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar |
