Slides from Scottish Enterprise's Resilience in Oil & Gas event held on 8 December 2015 in Dundee.
Speakers included Scottish Enterprise's David Rennie, Alan Johnstone of AMEC FW, Trever Garlick of BP, Global Energy's Roy MacGregor and Wood Group's Bob Keiller.
To find out how Scottish Enterprise can help your supply chain company, visit http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/industry-support/oil-and-gas
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Energy Jobs Task Force
Theme Champion
Balanced Messaging Alan Johnstone – AMEC FW
Shared Principles and Values Trevor Garlick - BP
Cost Efficiencies Gordon Ballard – Schlumberger
Leadership for Change Roy MacGregor - Global Energy
Retain Talent and Skills Kevin Higgins - Petrofac
Supporting our People Bob Keiller – Wood Group
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Examples of Actions
• Series of Job Fair Events (PACE)
• Series of Industry Events covering:
– Leadership
– Financial Management
– Production Efficiency
– Learning from Other Sectors
– Values and Behaviours event – follow up action plan
– Facilitating discussions between Operators and Supply Chain
– Series of consultations with SMEs – and feeding those back to Operators and Contractors
• Oil and Gas UK Efficiency Taskforce
• Set of case studies developed (now available)
• Job Matching Service
• Progress Report
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22. Collaboration - Bank and business together
What does it look like?
• Appropriate Headroom
• Support for the supply chain
• Support contribution
• Relationship & Trust
• Facilitating potential partnerships
23. Alternative Finance Options
Advances on Invoices
• Invoice Discounting – For growth and typically debtors paying within 90 days
• Supplier Finance – For suppliers to obtain advance payments from key client debts, often with
stretched terms.
Client
(Seller)
Debtor
(Buyer)Invoice
Sells debtor
Discounted cash
received in advance
@ Debtor rate Pays on due date
23
24. Alternative Finance Options (contd)
• Trade Finance– Funding from imported goods purchase through to debtor receipt
• UK Export Finance– Government support to extend bank facilities for working capital requirements
of exporting goods & services.
24
Customer
Supplier
1
2
3
4
5
Buyer
29. Turn over £12m
Direct £ 7.0
Indirect £ 3.8
Unit Costs £0.9m (unit)
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
EBITDA £1.2m
Working Cap £ 0
DRI
llstring Co
30. DRI
llstring Co
Turn over £ 8.0
Direct £ 7.0
Indirect £ 3.8
Unit Costs £1.35 / Unit
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
EBITDA £(2.8)
31. DRI
llstring Co
Turn over £ 8.0
Direct £ 4.66
Indirect £ 3.2
Unit Costs £ 0.983 / Unit
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
Working capital £ 0.983
EBITDA £ 0.136
34. • Focus on Eliminating Waste
• Reducing Cycle Times
• Cut Costs
• Reduce inventory
35.
36. “All we are doing is looking at the timeline, from the
moment the customer gives us the order to the point
when we collect cash. We are reducing that timeline by
removing the non value-adding activities”
Taiichi Ohno – Joint creator of the Toyota Production System
Lean Background
39. Waste is Non Value Adding
Activity in the process
Lean Background
40. VA NVA
Lean methods
VA NVA
Traditional
Improvement
Activities
Major Improvement
Minor
Improvement
VA NVA
Typical
Company
Current KPI
Right first time
Total Lead Time to Customer
Waste identification
52. DRI
llstring Co
Turn over £ 8.0
Direct £ 4.37
Indirect £ 3.2
Unit Costs £ 0.946 / Unit
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
EBITDA £ 0.440
54. – Focus on Company Productivity
– Promoting Best Practice in Manufacturing
– Hands-On, Practical Support
– Free Diagnostic Review
– Project Driven Approach through Direct Company Intervention
Client Enquiry & Initial Contact L1 Introduction, Information, Advice & Signposting
Manufacturing Diagnostic Review L2 Free 1-Day Review, Report & Recommendations
Best-Practice Awareness & Training L3 Best-practice sharing, awareness raising, networking and training
activities (1-2-1 & 1-2-Many)
Manufacturing Improvement Project L4 Support, Part-Funded and Delivered by SMAS Practitioners
Referrals including Specialist 3rd Parties L5 Signposting and referral to other SE and HIE services and other
recognised industry and business support bodies.
What Next
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Jim Leggatt, Joint Senior Partner, Company Growth Team Ltd, Stirling
•Jim is an experienced director in strategic marketing, coaching leadership teams,
performance management and implementing innovative business growth. Wide
experience of Oil & Gas and other sectors both nationally and internationally.
•Extensive career in commercial, management and consultancy roles, various Director
Positions.
•Working with companies in the Energy, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, and
Technology sectors to help them develop and implement their strategies and mentoring
their leadership teams to realise their ambitions for growth.
•Jim is Non Exec Advisor to the Boards of companies in the Oil and Gas sector and
Paragon Music.
Welcome & introduction by Colin Turnbull SE O&G
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“The balance of power has shifted from producers to
customers - customers who know more, care more,
demand more and participate more.”
- Sandra Vandermerwe, Professor of Economics Imperial College, London
“If you always do what you've always done, you'll
always get what you've always got!”
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Prof. Economics and Business, HBS -
Strategic resilience
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
-Frank Scully
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in
the wings.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Strategic resilience
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“90% of Organisations fail to implement their
strategy”
“95% of People do not understand their organisation's
strategy or their part in it.” Source: Norton and Kaplan
Strategic resilience
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Traditional “inside out” approach
Vision
Strategic
intent
Brand
Positioning
Marketing
Model
BrandExecution &
Communications
Leadership
Style Drivers
Business&
Market
Strategies
Total
Customer
Experience
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Customer Connected “Outside-in” Approach
Vision & strategic intent
Brand
Positioning
Marketing
Model
Brand Execution &
Communications
Leadership
Style Drivers
Attitudes &
Behaviours
Business &
Market
Strategies
Operating
Model
Business Process
& Decisions
Culture norms
aligned
aligned
aligned
Customer
Needs
High
Performing
Customer
Connected
Organisation
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Industry Participation Business
Group
Distinctiveness
Strategic Business Framework
• Competitors
• New Entrants
• Product
substitutes
• Supplier power
• Buyer power
• Vertical
/Horizontal
Integration
• Diversification
• Alliances
• Cost
Leadership
• Differentiation
• Focus
• Efficiency
• Quality
• Innovation
• Customer
Intimacy
• Price
Corporate Assurance
What should be your
participation strategy to
maximise long-run
profitability?
What is your strategic
intent across our
businesses?
How do you build
competitive
advantage?
What are the
competitive forces in
your industry?
What in the macro
environment might
impact upon your
success?
Macro
Environment
• Political
• Economic
• Social
• Technological
• Legal
• Environment
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Customer
Customer
Proposition
Capabilities &
Organisation
Strategic
Positioning
(What capabilities
are needed )
(What is our competitive
distinction, strategic
options & business
model?)
How can you grow a profitable
customer base?b2b Market
Trends
(How can we learn
from x-industry
b2b marketing?
• excellence in
b2b marketing
• distinctive offers
• capabilities
• customer trends
Market
Evolution
(What opportunities
will be presented by
changes in the markets?)
• key market trends
• competitor activity
Customer Value
(How value-adding is a customer
base for you?)
• total customer value (existing & forecast)
• customer connected
Customer Understanding
(What can we learn from our customers
(existing, old & potential)?
• customer needs, attitudes & behaviours
• unmet customer needs
• new market opportunities
Market
Market
The Storyboard…
Storyboard: growing profitable customers
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Select Create Operate
The Customer Connected Model
• Discovery of
Customer Groups
•Gather Customer
insight of needs
•Customer
segmentation
•High level sales
plan to meet ambition
• Focus on Customer
Value
•Create Value
Propositions
•Innovative techniques
to create customer value
•Differential competitor
advantage analysis
•Tools for Marketing
plans
• Implementation of business
options
• Leadership of teams
• Effective stakeholder
communication
• Customer assurance
• Risk management
• Organising the customer
interface
• Understanding the Customers’
DMU
• Customer account management
tools
• Operating in the
Customer’s Space
•Developing key
relationships
• Monitoring and
measurement – Benefit
Reports
• Becoming a Trusted
Advisor
• Maximising the
constant opportunity
• Leveraging and
learning
Implement
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Sources of Value to BP from Id
EA
Id
EA is X+Y+Z
Customer
TEM
X
Y
Z
Joint Prospecting
Facilities Sharing
e-procurement
Joint
Procurement
Fluids
Management
CASTROL
LubesOnsite BP storage
Retail
Fuel Cards
Fuel Management
Logistics
Design Services
Joint Product
Development
Chemicals
LPG
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1) Define the 'market space' i.e. the result the customer is looking for
2) Identify the critical activities that customers could/should go through to achieve results in
the market space
3) Identify opportunities for adding value at each critical point
4) Identify opportunities for taking non-value out at each critical point
5) What opportunities exist to improve service? Customer
Activity
Cycle
PRE
POST DURING
deciding
what to do
doing it
keeping it
going
copyright: Sandra Vandermerwe
Customer Activity Cycle
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1. Understanding the Customer’s Value expectations
2. Understand Cost of Ownership that impact on customer’s decisions
3. Establish USP/Competitive Advantage - Superiority over competitors
4. Understand all the factors that Customer considers when making
decisions
5. Identify and nurture 1:1 relationships with DMU
6. Understand the Customer’s business operating environment
7. Ability to offer support & services
8. Understand the different DMU roles
9. Understand the decision-making processes within the Customer
10.Influencing potential customers to allow you to bid
Task and Action
77. Turn over £12m
Direct £ 7.0
Indirect £ 3.8
Unit Costs £0.9m (unit)
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
EBITDA £1.2m
Working Cap £ 0
DRI
llstring Co
78. DRI
llstring Co
Turn over £ 8.0
Direct £ 7.0
Indirect £ 3.8
Unit Costs £1.35 / Unit
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
EBITDA £(2.8)
79. DRI
llstring Co
Turn over £ 8.0
Direct £ 4.66
Indirect £ 3.2
Unit Costs £ 0.983 / Unit
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
Working capital £ 0.983
EBITDA £ 0.136
80.
81. • Focus on Eliminating Waste
• Reducing Cycle Times
• Cut Costs
• Reduce inventory
82.
83. “All we are doing is looking at the timeline, from the
moment the customer gives us the order to the point
when we collect cash. We are reducing that timeline by
removing the non value-adding activities”
Taiichi Ohno – Joint creator of the Toyota Production System
Lean Background
86. Waste is Non Value Adding
Activity in the process
Lean Background
87. VA NVA
Lean methods
VA NVA
Traditional
Improvement
Activities
Major Improvement
Minor
Improvement
VA NVA
Typical
Company
Current KPI
Right first time
Total Lead Time to Customer
Waste identification
99. DRI
llstring Co
Turn over £ 8.0
Direct £ 4.66
Indirect £ 3.2
Unit Costs £ 0.983 / Unit
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
EBITDA £ 0.136
100. DRI
llstring Co
Turn over £ 8.0
Direct £ 4.37
Indirect £ 3.2
Unit Costs £ 0.946 / Unit
Sales Value £ 1m
Unit Build Time 1 Month
Payment terms 3 Months from Invoice
EBITDA £ 0.440
102. SMAS
Began in 2005 –
shared service
between Scottish
Enterprise and HIE Projects have delivered over
£150 million
in productivity savings to date
23 practitioners
with more than
500years of
manufacturing
experience
We exist to improve
efficiencies and
reduce cost in Scottish
manufacturing
businesses
SMAS is focused on
developing a
culture of
Business
Excellence
SMAS projects in the Energy
sector = £25 million VA since
2006 - equal to £18,000 per
project day
What next
108. The building blocks of financial resilience
Financial forecasting and working capital management
Resilience in oil and gasPage 108
Short-term cash
forecast
Stakeholder
engagement
Contract to cash
(debtor) cycle
Procure to pay
(creditor) cycle
Forecast to fulfill
(stock) cycle
Medium-term
financial
projections
Building Financial
Resilience
109. Robust financial forecasting
Medium term financial projections
Resilience in oil and gas109
► Integrated trading, cash flow and balance sheet projections
► Anchored to a robust opening balance sheet
► Bottom-up view of revenue and costs – individual business units; revenues split between secured, pipeline
and “blue sky”; etc.
► Conservative ‘base case’ scenario
► Flexible financial model – which allows easy sensitivity analysis
► Examine any differences to actual performance – understand the drivers
► Don’t forget:
► Mid-month peaks
► Seasonality
110. Robust financial forecasting
Short term cash flow forecast
Resilience in oil and gas110
► Receipts and payments based – actual in and outflows of cash (not “funds flow” / “indirect” method)
► Weekly forecast – updated weekly, rolling to cover next 13 weeks
► Start point is opening cash position – either opening bank or cash book
► Keep it simple – one line for each key cash receipt / payment item
► Prepare on bottom-up basis – using base level data (sales ledger; purchase ledger; etc.)
► With summary of key upside/downside sensitivities
► Review and understand key variances – good actual data is key
► Sense check to medium-term forecasts – but don’t reconcile it!
111. Robust working capital management
Resilience in oil and gas111
Why should a business look at improving working capital management?
► An average business can generate additional cash of 5-10% of turnover through better working capital
management
► Improving working capital management is within the business’s own control
► And is typically focussed on process improvement – not cost reduction
So, why don’t businesses do it?
► ‘We can’t improve’/‘it’s the way it has always been done’
► Profit as opposed to cash focus
► Cash flow historically hasn’t been an issue – ‘what would we do with the additional cash’
► Lack of time
Now a key focus for businesses looking to improve their resilience
► Contract to cash/customer invoicing cycle
► Procurement to pay/creditor payment cycle
► Forecast to fulfill/stock cycle
112. An overview of the contract-to-cash/debtor cycle
Where does it typically go wrong?
Resilience in oil and gasPage 112
Impact of issues on cash flow:
► Delayed cash collections
► Decreased cash flows
► Borrowing cost increases
► Reduced growth
Risk and
Credit Management
Order Management
Realisation
Billing
Collections
Cash
Application
Dispute Management
Sales and
Quote Management
113. Improving your contract-to-cash cycle
Some practical suggestions
Resilience in oil and gas113
► Think differently – move towards a ‘cash culture’:
► Engaged the whole business – not just finance
► Appoint a ‘cash tsar’
► Performance evaluations / remuneration linked to cash flow, not just profit
► Can I invoice part/all in advance?
► Can I consolidate invoices?
► Can we change invoicing date to give best chance of timely cash collection?
► Start as you mean to go on:
► Consistent contract terms – or good tracking of variations thereto
► Gather as much invoice information as you can pre-service delivery
► Good contract management (change orders, etc.)
► Appropriate credit risk assessment
114. Improving your contract-to-cash cycle
Some practical suggestions
Resilience in oil and gas114
► Timely and accurate issue of invoices
► Know your invoice issue triggers – communicate and keep to them!
► Challenge whether you need all stages of your invoice approval process
► Early gathering of invoice information – up-front; use of PDAs
► Right first time mentality on invoices
► Move away from ‘month end’ billing culture
115. Improving your contract-to-cash cycle
Some practical suggestions (cont’d)
Resilience in oil and gas115
► Can your collection process work better?
► Call customer to confirm receipt of invoices and confirm payment dates
► Re-contact before payment date – to check all information received
► Documented dispute resolution/collection escalation policy – no exceptions!
► Change dispute resolution to customer as opposed to product / service based
► Understand reasons for disputes / delayed payments – and take action to prevent recurrence
► Move away from cash collection focus at key reporting dates (eg financial quarter end)
► Informative KPIs
► Track time to invoice and collection periods
► Review of overdue invoices – action focussed
116. An overview of the procure-to-pay/creditor process
Where does it typically go wrong?
Resilience in oil and gasPage 116
Results in varying degrees of:
► Low creditor days
► Early / frequent payment
► Unconsolidated spend
The procure-to-pay process is
interdependent with the forecast-to-fulfill
cycle – and there are a number of cross
related processes which should be
considered
2. Supplier and contract
management
3. Requisition and order
fulfillment
4. Goods and invoice
receipt
5. Invoice processing
6. Discrepancy
resolution
7. Payment issuance
1. Procurement strategy
Procurement policy and control (incl. contractual
terms)
Invoice processing
Payment processing
117. Improving your procure-to-pay cycle
Some practical suggestions
Resilience in oil and gas117
► Consider opportunities to improve your procure-to-pay process
► This is NOT about delaying payment to your suppliers!
► But ensuring that you pay suppliers correctly – for the right goods/services; at the right price; and on the
right day
► Three primary drivers of procure-to-pay process
► Procurement policy and control (incl. contractual terms)
► Improve your procurement process – documented policy; centralised procurement; sufficient staff
► Increased focus on payment terms in contractual negotiations
► Consistency of payment terms across supplier base (payment trigger date; payment period)
► Good recording of exceptions – so you pay to them!
118. Improving your procure-to-pay cycle
Some practical suggestions
Resilience in oil and gas118
► Invoice processing
► Avoid high volume of low value invoices – encourage invoice consolidation
► Document invoice approval process – streamlined
► Identify root causes of any disputes – and communicate with supplier to avoid repetition
► Payment processing
► No early payment runs or part payments
► Consider the frequency of payment runs – weekly?
► Consolidate payments – one cheque for several invoices
119. An overview of the forecast-to-fulfil/stock cycle
Where does it typically go wrong?
Resilience in oil and gasPage 119
Results in varying
degrees of:
► Excess inventory levels
► Incorrect inventory mix
► Poor customer service
► Exposure to obsolescence
Sales/
Marketing
Forecasting
and Demand
Management
Procurement
Planning and
Scheduling
Manufacturing
Inventory Management
Logistics
120. Improving your forecast-to-fulfil cycle
Some practical suggestions
Resilience in oil and gas120
► There are three basic reasons for keeping inventory
► Lead time – sufficient stock to ensure daily operations can continue without interpution during delivery
► Uncertainty – in both demand and supply
► Economies of scale
► Challenge your product portfolio and stock holding policy
► Do we need all of our product lines?
► Do we need to hold all product lines in stock?
► Are our sales team’s customer service expectations appropriate?
► Improve your forecasting and demand planning
► Challenge whether your Sales, Inventory and Operations planning process effective
► Are your sales team being realistic with their forecast of demand?
► Is your procurement team’s estimate of delivery lead times realistic?
► Is your manufacturing / service delivery teams estimate of “start date” accurate?
► Is there effective communication between these teams?
► Measure your forecasting accuracy – and investigate where it is gong wrong
121. Some practical suggestions for improving your
forecast-to-fulfill cycle (cont’d)
Resilience in oil and gas121
► Is your procurement process effective?
► Consider size of the team – is it appropriate to ensure effective procurement?
► Is our control over who can procure appropriate?
► Are we ordering the same product from different suppliers – at different prices?
► Are our procurement negotiations effective – how important is lead time and minimum order quantities in
our discussions?
► Are supplier deliveries accurate – on time; correct specification; right quantity?
► Are there opportunities to improve manufacturing simplicity?
► Can we improve manufacturing scheduling – to reduce frequency of set-up/changeover times
► Are set-up times/changeover times appropriate?
► Is our inventory management strong?
► How good is our information on stock holdings?
► Measure your inventory accuracy – and investigate where it is going wrong
► Can logistics help reduce stock holdings?
► Assess stock holdings costs vs. logistics cost
122. And don’t forget tax saving opportunities!
Resilience in oil and gas122
► Research and development tax credits
► Significant additional tax credit / deduction for qualifying R&D spend for small to medium sized businesses
► Patent box regime
► Profits in “patent box” charged at reduced corporation tax rate
► Enhanced capital allowances for investment in energy-saving plant or machinery
► Full deduction in year of purchase
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Notas del editor
Events Delivered
10-Mar - Aberdeen Influencers Dinner - 11
20-Mar - Harvard _ Leadership Lessons - 31
20-May - Financial resilience - 30
27-May - Dinner with Sir Ian Wood - 11
11-Jun - International Tax Strategies - 8
12-Jun - Leadership - Executive tune-up Jim Alampi (in partnership with Vistage) - 100
20-Aug - Maximising Economic Opportunities - Sir Ian Wood - 10
24-Aug - Sales Masterclass (Now Sales Leadership) - 50
07-Sep - Globalscot - Walter Light Masterclass -horizontal drilling and completion in the US - 20
08-Sep - Offshore Europe '15 Networking Reception held at The Hub 'Excellence in Supply Chain' - 70
09-Sep - Offshore Europe '15 Networking event held at The Hub 'Digital Offshore Playspace' Event - 30
16-Sep - Leadership - Bart van Ark Masterclass -25
22-Sep - Maximising Economic Potential - Sir Ian Wood - 11
27-Oct - Oil & Gas UK/SMAS Production Efficiency Conference -109
10-Nov - Operators’ Dinner - 10
Total
526 attendees
PACE - 3 PACE events delivered:
25 March, Pittodrie Stadium - attended by 850 individuals
17 June, Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen - attended by 870 individuals
16 September, Beach Ballroom - attended by 790 individuals
What is next
Continued focus on supporting individuals affected.
Help companies to address short term impact – 5 Business Resilience events planned
Capitalise on growing momentum to look at new ways of working.
Support the industry to focus on efficiency, value and collaboration, underpinned by positive behaviours.
Increase focus on the innovative capability of supply chain to find solutions
Communicate best practice examples of positive change happening within the sector.
Taskforce continues to meet quarterly to oversee delivery of action plan, monitor performance of industry and ensure appropriate response to the sector challenges.
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‘A large proportion of that demand could still be met by oil and gas produced from our resources in the UK. This is an estimated 20 billion barrels of oil and gas still to find on the UK Continental Shelf, but the industry is undoubtedly facing an uphill struggle to maximise recovery.’
Shale gas: ‘Most of the time companies see greater productivity as a good thing. Improved asset productivity helps companies produce more output for every dollar of input which usually increases profits. But what if every company across an industry produced more output? That is exactly what is happening in the natural gas market right now, and the results are looking increasingly dire for natural gas companies.’ (Oilprice.com)
The development of CCS technology is viewed by many as crucial to reducing harmful carbon emissions over the coming decades, and Shell wants to use the north-east to pioneer the first gas-based system of its kind in the world. At AFW we were part of the tender team, we saw this as an opportunity to survive and sustain our business. Obviously during the recent budget statement it was decided that this project would not be funded, we are not giving up on this..
"Shell remains committed to CCS - as our involvement in demonstration projects in other parts of the world shows - and view it as an important part of a low-carbon energy future.“
What we don’t want to do though is decommission too early – that again requires us as an industry to think differently and keep the assets economically alive.
So, how can we do more with less. As an industry we need become far more efficient, we have done a lot of cost cutting, margins have been cut – some may say to far, we have cut contractors rates, we have pulled back on activity levels, looked at the maintenance routines but simply we need to get far more efficient and do more with less. We need to address the behaviours we had in play – our wrench time on facilities were less than 2 hours in a 12 hour day, we need to do more to become resilient.
I am confident we can ride out this turn down – but it will take some hard decisions. While it is difficult it is an opportunity not to waste, we can take waste out of the supply chain, stream line our delivery and implement the efficiencies. The cost base we have in the UKCS on a global market is simply too high. We have tolerated – no we have encouraged this high cost base as we have dashed to undertake new projects. Re calibrating the clock is what we need to do – I believe we can be resilient and adjust to this change that is on us.
"Rising oil prices next year will not depend on OPEC reaching immediate agreement or on a return to price control, as we expect prices to increase primarily on the back of continued robust demand growth and a decline in non-OPEC oil production"
WTI forward contracts out to 2024 have dropped below $60 a barrel.
‘CNBC’ Oil under $40 barrel on OPEC production, could hit $20s in 2016
Shale oil is expensive to extract and should therefore remain in the ground until all of the world’s low-cost conventional oilfields are pumping at maximum output. Moreover, shale production can be cheaply turned on and off.
Competitive market conditions would therefore dictate that Saudi Arabia and other low-cost producers always operate at full capacity, while US frackers would experience the boom-bust cycles typical of commodity markets, shutting down when global demand is weak or new low-cost supplies come onstream from Iraq, Libya, Iran, or Russia, and ramping up production only during global booms when oil demand is at a peak.
Under this competitive logic, the marginal cost of US shale oil would become a ceiling for global oil prices, whereas the costs of relatively remote and marginal conventional oilfields in Opec and Russia would set a floor. As it happens, estimates of shale-oil production costs are mostly around $50, while marginal conventional oilfields generally break even at around $20. Thus, the trading range in the brave new world of competitive oil should be roughly $20 to $50.
So how can we survive ? We can do this, well I think Dundee has managed to do this in the gaming world. We could do much by looking towards this industry and seeing how they have adapted Technology and become Innovative. In Amec Foster Wheeler we have taken the track and trace technology of the Internet shopping world and adopted it for the North Sea, we are seeing significant cost efficiencies coming through…
Now looking at the company names hee today I guess you have lots of great ideas on how to help – the challenge is massive and we all need to listen better – don’t give up…..thanks
In a WORLD CLASS organization, 10% of all resources are spent doing value added activities.
Normally with traditional improvement activities we end up reducing value added activities without impacting non value added activities,
But with lean methods we target these non value added activities and reduce them.
Illustrate that quote with this simple diagram…..
Draw on own experience of the TPS from clothing, and impact this had on opportunity, quality, lead time, staff, etc. Explore further in next slides traditional approach versus lean approach
In a WORLD CLASS organization, 10% of all resources are spent doing value added activities.
Normally with traditional improvement activities we end up reducing value added activities without impacting non value added activities,
But with lean methods we target these non value added activities and reduce them.
Illustrate that quote with this simple diagram…..
Draw on own experience of the TPS from clothing, and impact this had on opportunity, quality, lead time, staff, etc. Explore further in next slides traditional approach versus lean approach