Spinergie successfully deployed Smart Fleet Management (SFM) for a prominent oil and gas operator in West Africa to track, manage and coordinate a fleet of Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs), Fast Support Intervention Vessels (FSIVs) and Surfers. The fleet is used in the supply of personnel and equipment to offshore platforms, FPSOs and floatels on a number of oil fields operated by the client.
The operator’s West African fleet comprises three PSVs, four FSIVs and 12 Surfers. The client chose to utilise Spinergie’s expertise in the digitalisation of maritime operations to track, manage and coordinate its operations efficiently.
Context
The client operates multiple oil fields in West Africa including assets such as platforms and FPSOs. These assets need to be regularly supplied with equipment and consumables and personnel need transferred to and from shore. They are supervised by FSIVs who need to stay within a pre-defined radius at all times.
Operational challenges:
Lack of live data: The client had limited ability to track and manage operations efficiently, resulting in a lack of coordination between vessels, assets and ports, and avoidable waiting times for vessels and FSIVs sailing outside of the safety radius.
Piracy: This is a non-neglectable risk in West Africa which represents a threat to personnel and assets. The poor AIS signal coverage in the area makes it challenging to establish a safety perimeter around the zone of operations.
Asset surveillance: FSIV activity coordination is especially difficult as it needs to combine supply and surveillance activities. It was difficult to ensure that an FSIV always remains within a predetermined safety radius.
Fuel Consumption: Lack of sufficient data meant the client could not measure and compare its vessels' fuel efficiency.
Spinergie Smart Fleet Management
SFM is built to track, coordinate and optimize offshore operations. It relies on a combination of algorithmic interpretation of vessels’ AIS signal in relation to geo-fenced locations, as well as vessel data from Daily Reports and sensors.
Live Operations tracking
Vessel AIS (Automatic Identification System) data is embedded on an interactive map displaying relevant geo-fenced data. This enables users to access live updates of vessel positions without making phone or VHF calls. The client configured custom alerts to be instantly notified upon the occurrence of any event or vessel activity so they can take reactive decisions when operations are not performing as expected and, in the end, reduce delays and demurrage.
Digital Daily Reports
Digital Daily Reports are designed to help vessel managers standardise and centralise operational data. The user accesses a pre-designed form where user input is guided through automatic field population, error warnings and data quality checks. This significantly increases reporting consistency, while reducing manual reporting hours.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for efficiency optimisation
Data collected from vessel AIS, digital DRs, fuel sensors, and weather parameters are compiled together to generate KPIs. These performance indicators include:
- Asset visits and distance travelled: analyse the number of asset visits and time spent per asset, and calculate the distance travelled by vessel per asset visit, to measure the efficiency of rotations.
- Cargo and Pax transfers: track cargo and Pax transfers per project or asset over time within a user-friendly interface.
- Time allocation per project or asset: analyse vessel activity to measure the time spent per project or asset for accurate cost and time allocation breakdowns.
- Vessel activity breakdown: analyse DRs to identify commonly observed causes for delays and highlights possible areas of operational inefficiency.
- Benchmark fuel consumption: understand the consumption trends of operations.
Advanced environmental KPIs
SFM offers two major tools that can help vessel managers
- A Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) for any fleet: adapted from existing IMO and IMCA regulations, and developed together with leading vessel managers, Spinergie's CII goes further in assessing carbon intensity by accounting for each vessel's activities and specs.
- Model and forecast fuel consumption and emission behaviour: This helps managers take proactive action by forecasting any vessel's emissions across different scenarios and understanding the impact of upgrades.
Result
It was vital for the client to be able to track, manage and coordinate its activities efficiently, especially with the additional challenges posed by location and vessel constraints. SFM provided the client with a user-friendly platform that synchronized fleet activity tracking. Insights generated not only helped fleet organization but also increased efficiency and reduced emissions.
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