OSJ award winner: optimising offshore logistics is key

Digitalisation and optimisation are playing key roles in the offshore industry, with energy companies seeking greater efficiencies, further cost savings and lower emissions from logistics and vessel operations.

Energy producers are progressively implementing software to reduce the environmental footprint from offshore logistics, optimising operations and bridging the gap between vessel crews and onshore management.

Opsealog is working with several major oil and gas producers, such as Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), to monitor and optimise offshore operations across integrated fleets, to lower their carbon footprint and optimise operations.

For its complete package of Marinsights and Streamlog, Opsealog won OSJ’s Environmental Award 2023, presented to Opsealog business director Damien Bertin, who explained that these solutions collect and analyse data using algorithms and dedicated teams to provide recommendations for how to optimise vessel operations.

“This package and human support are perfect for communicating what happens at sea and what is needed ashore,” he said.

Streamlog is a digital logbook that streamlines daily reporting and vessel monitoring for crews and management. It replaces manual processes and spreadsheets, simplifying data entry, and automatically generates noon and other reports, such as waste management, product inventory, health and safety and engine running hours.

“We have specific algorithms for detecting unnormal reporting and the intelligence blocks some reporting,” said Mr Bertin.

“We cannot compromise on cyber security, it is key”

“We cross-check with other sources and can provide recommendations on how to optimise operating vessels. The biggest benefits are making life onboard and ashore easier and providing key performance indicators [KPIs].”

Marinsights is a performance management tool for monitoring and optimising marine offshore operations. Its software analyses operational patterns and identifies inefficiencies in OSV operations.

Dashboards display information collected from Streamlog and other sources, such as AIS and weather, which are collected via application programming interfaces (APIs). “This is an online application providing insights from the data via the web portal,” explained Mr Bertin. “This is cloud-based technology and a control room with KPIs for managing fleets offshore,” he said.

There is also a desktop version of both programmes for periods of lower bandwidth and less connectivity on ships. “We can adapt to different connectivity, depending on the type of vessel and where they operate,” said Mr Bertin.

With online solutions, cyber security is critical. “We cannot compromise on cyber security, it is key,” said Mr Bertin.

Opsealog runs regular penetration tests to ensure its solutions are secure. “The main risks we face are compliance and cyber security, so it is at the heart of the technical philosophy. Oil and gas companies have comprehensive standards more stringent than international standards,” he said.

Client-focused

ADNOC Logistics & Services (L&S) is optimising operations and reducing emissions across an integrated fleet of OSVs, service, diving support and crew transfer vessels.

“They have commitments towards the environment and want to be leaders in reducing their environmental input,” says Mr Bertin. “ADNOC L&S has advanced digitalisation and knows what they can get out of our partnership.”

He added: “We identified data points to meet their objectives and process this data and monitored the results,” said Mr Bertin. “We continue monitoring the data and have streamlined its analysis to produce relevant KPIs used by management ashore.”