Notes from invited speaker sessions DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: OIL AND GAS Jayant Malhotra, General Manager, and Kumar Aditya, Technical Lead, Schlumberger, India
Jayant Malhotra shared that the oil and gas companies are now using disruptive technologies to increase production while keeping costs low. To meet demand and production volume are not
ERP IMPLEMENTATION IN HYDEL PROJECTS
harmonized and cost are rising, there is
Arun Kakru, Senior Program
business challenges of the sector where
a need for constant conversations between companies and customers. In his opinion, the factors that would contribute towards a lower cost per barrel are people, technology, risk-
Manager, IFS India
Arun Kakru shared how following PMI’s project management principles, helped IFS implement ERP
sharing, knowledge, and experience.
for NHPC which has 53 locations,
Kumar Aditya provided an overview of
difficult terrains. This project team
Schlumberger’s cognitive environment, known as Delfi, with a video presentation. Delfi leverages digital technologies such as security, analytics, machine learning, high-performance computing, and internet of things to improve operational efficiency and deliver optimized production.
many of which are in remote and had around 12000 people. IFS succeeded by doing multiple roll outs instead of one large deployment. It minimized the time and effort by replicating one roll out to multiple locations. It adopted a centralized approach to change management for successful delivery of this mega project.