Aberdeenshire-based Oilcats is rolling out new software to clean up oil and gas materials data. Gunk facilitates cataloguing of oil-country materials and was designed to enhance Oilcats’ data collection and standardization service. Gunk works by creating data templates that enable end-users to source products, materials and services quickly and efficiently.
Content
GUNK’s customizable data dictionary holds over 7,500 descriptor nouns and 500,000 products which are used to provide context-sensitive help. If an offshore worker is looking for a spanner, they input spanner and up pop eighteen types of spanner.
Andrews
Oilcats MD Dave Andrews said, “We take existing data, put it into a standardized format and input it electronically on templates. This will ultimately facilitate e-commerce within our industry where the bulk of procurement transactions will benefit from electronic processing.” Gunk comprises a central dictionary of templates for product descriptions, a materials data catalogue and tools for searching, QA and administration.
Not cost saving!
Andrews told Oil IT Journal, “Forget about cost reduction - that’s rubbish! What companies want is the efficiency given by end user visibility of all their plant, inventory and spares data. This alone can increase plant efficiency by up to 5% and increase cash flow from assets by an amount equivalent to a new discovery.” BP believe him and is using Gunk to transition its inventory data to Maximo. Oilcats is considering giving Gunk away free as part of its service to clients.
This article originally appeared in Oil IT Journal 2002 Issue # 9.
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