The Challenge for the Oil & Gas Industry to Face a New Way of Working

OBJECTIVES As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, most companies had to adopt home as an office to stay safe and continue operations. Based on the above, the purpose of this article is to present how a cloud solution helped Oil & Gas companies adopt a new working scheme during a global health crisis. PROCESS With the introduction of cloud solutions to help transition to a new working scheme, it was necessary to implement a migration process that would be the least impactful to both operations and end users. This migration process consisted of the following elements: (1) Infrastructure preparation based on workflows executed and computational demand;(2) Data Migration defining what is priority and what is not; (3) On boarding sessions guiding the users during the adoption of new way of working, explaining the new infrastructure, how to connect, find data, request support, and how the backup works, and (4) Online support avalable24*7 managing basic, medium, and advanced levels. CONCLUSIONS The emerging new way of working taught us that integration of teams can be achieved digitally, and independently of where teams are located under the following premises: : (1) The infrastructure was prepared to face company's needs, like disk space, workflow demand and memory; (2) Data was available in an organized, clean, and single environment; (3) Data was protected in very rigorous backup plan; (4) Users were able to work in a collaborative, secure and confident environment that let them to reach their business objectives during the pandemic; (5) A Support system was in place to guide the users during the transition and adoption phase; (6) The pieces of the puzzle (infrastructure, data, applications, users) were integrated to give the Oil & Gas business the continuity it needed in a difficult period of consolidation. A more intelligent work framework is available, where artificial intelligence is used to create automatic interpretations improving considerably the time dedicated to critical tasks and allowing end users to focus on other jobs. Data Managers and Infrastructure Engineers can use this document as a reference of how crisis have been addressed in the past and how project innovation and digital enhancements have been a key part of the solution.