INDUSTRY WATCH
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an you describe recent
ICT project initiatives at
Drake & Scull and how
they have better served as a
business purpose?
With the vast expansion of ADMAOPCO at its various locations with mega
projects, achieving the operational
excellence in a very short period of time
of time created a huge challenge to
the IT department. Therefore, it was
imperative to automate the oil field
environment; if the energy companies
plan to out run their competitors, they
must quickly race to full digital adoption.
Today worldwide oil prices have dropped
more than 50% since June 2014, and
production is out pacing demand. This
scenario means that oil & gas companies
need to reinvent themselves by grabbing
a hold of today’s technologies - they
must boost operational efficiency and
introduce significant cost reduction.
To achieve this end, ADMA-OPCO is
implementing many digital collaboration
tools to unify communication for its
workforces. One such wave of IT efficiency
is introduced in ADMA-OPCO through
“Cloud Computing Infrastructure”. ADMAOPCO Private Cloud, which places service
availability in tier 5 (99.999) category
helps in accelerating the IT service
delivery from days and sometimes weeks
to hours and even minutes.
ADMA-OPCO Cloud is boosting
operational efficiencies and facilitating
its users for better and faster decisions;
it shifts the responsibility to install
and maintain hardware and basic
computational services to its minimal
level. Now ADMA-OPCO users can
acquire or relinquish processing power
and storage, often in minutes.
ADMA-OPCO Converged Cloud
Infrastructure (servers, storage and back
up solution) is “virtual” in the sense that
with this technology the company is
able to deliver faster, far more efficient
way of producing oil & gas in a safe,
healthy and professional manner.
What would you say is
particularly innovative about
this project?
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