Development of an Integrated Operation Center (IOC): Streamlining Upstream Oil and Gas Production Monitoring in Indonesia

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As appointed to represent Indonesia government for managing the entire business and operational aspects of upstream oil and gas in Indonesia, Special Task Force For Upstream Oil and Gas Business Republic of Indonesia or known as SKK Migas have established a vision to integrate operation monitoring of all oil and gas blocks in Indonesia, by means of an Integrated Operation Center (IOC) that transform the previous conventional approach in to an unified online monitoring system. It has been motivated by digital transformation trend in oil and gas industry which bring a new wave of opportunities in order to raise effectivity and efficiency in terms of monitoring and supervision.

Motivated by the fact that the old vision of the integration that never come true—due to the complicated proposed solutions at that time, therefore, a simpler method is required. Supported by the better infrastructure condition and more developed web-based technology, finally the system has been successfully built.  By combining in time and real-time connections based on web-based application, the IOC is able to provide more than 2500 derived monitoring dashboards covering oil and gas production operation and plant information management system (PIMS) in Indonesia. The system is used to monitor the daily production data of around 670,000 barrels oil per day and close to 7,000 millions standard cubic feet per day gas and, from the whole PSC companies in Indonesia, where 80% of them are in real time monitoring.

The dashboards are available in two platforms, i.e. desktop and mobile application which gives flexibility in terms of connection and access as long as internet connection available. During the pandemic COVID-19 which restricts inspection activities going to the fields, the system is proven effective in monitoring point of view, without losing the essence of direct supervision over the operational assets which usually locates on the stranded and limited areas.

In conclusion, the contribution of the presented work is the digital transformation in oil and gas sector in Indonesia, which successfully creates collaborative working environment in managing the oil and gas production operation. It changes the interaction approach between the regulator and PSC operators in terms of process monitoring as well as underlying the foundation of the data management toward the preliminary development of data analytics as path forward of the oil gas operation management in Indonesia.