A design approach for asset supply logistics. (1st October 2010) - Roben, Sebastiaan
In order to provide adequate logistics support for an oil and gas producing asset, onshore as well as offshore, a logistics support concept needs to be developed at an early stage in the opportunity realisation process. A vast amount of options for infrastructure (roads, ports, bases), the stochastic nature of impacting parameters, a distinct set of requirements for different phases in the asset lifetime and the potentially changing business environment over time, make finding an optimum integrated logistics solution a difficult task. This paper presents the development of a software tool that is to determine the optimum logistic concept for new developments in a new (greenfield) or existing business environment (brownfield) and how to interactively generate of a set of feasible concepts and assess concepts' robustness by key performance indicators, which include operational cost, availability, operational safety and environmental impact.