Maximizing Energy Performance with Advanced Data Insights - Natural Gas Production
Case Studies
Challenges & Solutions
Technical Environment
Results
Executive Summary
Client
Leading Natural Gas Producer
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Business Problem
Natural Gas production and refining client lacked proper forecasting and product optimization insights to achieve optimal production mix and polymer margins. Data from disparate systems, various business units, and geographies needed to be brought together in a centralized analytical framework.
Outcome
Achieved optimal production costs, product mix, and polymer margins with minimized plant operation constraints.
Challenges
- Lack of optimization and forecasting tools.
- Absence of a unified solution for different business units.
- Difficulty accessing data from multiple locations.
- Non-optimal production costs.
- Suboptimal product mix and polymer margins.
Solutions
Deployed and configured SAS analytics and optimization solutions, integrating data from SAP modules for comprehensive analytics and visualization.
- Analytics & Optimization Deployment: Implemented solutions for production, margin, and price optimization.
- Requirement Assessment: Performed detailed assessments to tailor the solution.
- SAS Installation & Configuration: Deployed SAS software components across development, QA, and production environments.
- Solution Architecture Design: Created comprehensive solution architecture and blueprint documentation.
- ETL Activities: Executed ETL activities for data sources from SAP modules, enhancing analytics and data visualization capabilities.
Technical Environment
- SAS Data Management: Standard Data Surveyor for SAP.
- SAS Visual Analytics (VA): Enterprise Miner with SAS Analytics Pro.
- SAS Add-Ons: SAS O/R, SAS Access, SAS ETS.
Results
- Minimized plant operation constraints.
- Met firm orders with minimal slippage and cost.
- Reduced overall operating costs by optimizing transition time, inventory, and operational costs.