EPIM Logica and OpenText keep oil companies licensees compliant
Alliance Agreement makes license information sharing available worldwide
04 November 2011 - Logica, a leading business and technology service company, has signed an Alliance Partnership Agreement with OpenText and the EPIM association (Exploration & Production Information Management) to allow joint ventures of oil and gas companies to share information and benefit from EPIM’s world-class workflows through a new collaboration architecture.
EPIM is an industry driven association of 38 exploration and production companies operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf that exists to facilitate the workflows of joint venture operations and activity reporting to authorities.
EPIM’s role is to facilitate the best possible flow of information between the partners that operate a joint venture. Joint venture administration can represent an administrative burden with complexity easily spiralling. EPIM chose Logica’s expertise to make substantial upgrades to its existing information platform and move it to a cloud-based managed service. EPIM’s best practises involve the joint venture administration of exploration permits, production reports and transport licences, which means that EPIM participants can be confident that their licenses to operate are up to date and compliant.
The new architecture, License2Share, is based on OpenText’s ECM Suite 10 for enterprise content management and incorporates role-based workflows and directories. This enables JV administrators and authorities to maintain their licenses and ensure they are compliant throughout the lifecycle of a joint venture. The tool is available to 7,500 JV administrators in the Norwegian Continental Shelf and manages permits and licenses for over 500 joint ventures. It went live in February 2011 and following today’s Alliance Partnership Agreement, it will now be available to oil and gas operators and authorities worldwide.
EPIM’s Executive Director, Ove Ryland, said “Our legacy licence management and communications technology had become outdated, expensive and difficult to manage and, we needed systems that could deliver cost reductions and increased services and functionalities. Logica and its partner OpenText have delivered a secure, efficient and cost-effective solution with predictable costs that can easily be benchmarked. What’s more, everything is based on future-proofed technology, with optional extensions within the timeframe of the contract.”
Mike Pryke-Smyth, OpenText’s head of EMEA SI strategic alliances said, “If oil and gas fields are to be explored and managed with reduced risk and greater efficiency, an efficient, secure flow of information between authorities, licensees and partners is essential.”
Wouter Enderink, oil and gas portfolio manager for Logica commented, “oil and gas companies see that it pays off to collaborate by sharing information between their Joint Venture partners in Exploration and Production. Logica’s new service model is allowing them to do this using EPIM’s best practices for Joint Venture operation. The benefit of this is not only impacting daily operations and license reporting, it also allows them to make leaps forward in areas such as operational effectiveness and reducing information risks.”
About OpenText
OpenText, a global ECM leader, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. OpenText brings two decades of expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
About EPIM
The objective of EPIM is to utilize and make available IT solutions that facilitate the best possible flow of information between any and all of its users, these being relevant authorities and licensees in exploration, production and transport licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Participants are 38 operators of exploration permits, production and transport licenses and of joint ventures involved in activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. 80 companies uses the solutions offered by EPIM, including authorities.
About Logica
Logica is a business and technology service company, employing 41,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to clients around the world, including many of Europe's largest businesses. Logica creates value for clients by successfully integrating people, business and technology. It is committed to long term collaboration, applying insight to create innovative answers to clients’ business needs.
Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG).
More information is available at www.logica.com.
The company is a public company incorporated and domiciled in the UK. The address of its registered office is 250 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading RG2 6UA, United Kingdom.
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