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Sakhalin II: 100% Information Handover | Sharecat

Fundamentally our goal was to find a way to collect the data and documents without going through the pain of earlier projects… We chose the Sharecat SaaS platform to make the process of gathering and approving data and documents easier.

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Chris Mitchell, Information Manager — AMEC
OVERVIEW

Two self-contained platforms developed 16 km off the north-eastern coast of Sakhalin Island.

Sakhalin Phase II developed fields approximately 16 km off the north-eastern coast of Sakhalin Island to deliver gas to the LNG plant developed in the previous phase, including two self-contained drilling, production, utilities and quarters platforms — Lunskoye-A (22,000 tonnes topsides) and Piltun-Astokhskoye (28,000 tonnes topsides) — the first offshore project in Russia.

Total project CAPEX was approximately $9.6 billion USD, with execution from 2003 to 2008. The Sharecat platform was used from 2003 to 2012 across AMEC, Samsung Heavy Industries and Shell.

At a glance
Oil, Gas & LNG
Upstream
Shell (SEIC)
Lunskoye-A & Piltun-Astokhskoye — platforms
Offshore platforms
Sakhalin Island, Russia
~$9.6 billion USD
2003 – 2012
BY THE NUMBERS

The full breadth of the project, captured in one workspace.

2
EPC contractors
AMEC and Samsung Heavy Industries
90
Main equipment suppliers
Onboarded across the programme
220
Purchase orders
Issued across the programme
400
Documents
Engineering and supplier documents
1.2
Document revisions
Captured and tracked
600
Tagged equipment items
Equipment items tracked across the programme
5
Data attributes
Collected across the project
PLATFORM FUNCTIONALITY USED

From supplier documents to continuous handover via API.

The Jasmine project drew on the full breadth of the Sharecat platform — from supplier document workflows through to automated tag and document numbering, with reporting threaded across the lifecycle.

01
Document management, workflows & reviews
02
Asset data & equipment registers
03
SPIR handling & processing
04
References & class management (RDL)
05
Automated tag & document numbering
06
Product catalogue
07
Reporting & analytics
WHY SHARECAT

When information volume becomes a project risk.

Collecting and efficiently distributing data and information is always the most difficult part of any information gathering process, and also an area with potential for major improvement.

On Sakhalin Phase II, the team faced unprecedented information volume across two offshore platforms, 90+ main equipment suppliers and Russia's first offshore project. Poor handling of supplier information had historically been a key cause of schedule and budget overruns on mega projects of this scale.

AMEC and Shell needed a way to collect, validate and approve data and documents across engineering project offices, fabrication contractors, suppliers and the owner/operator — without repeating the inefficiencies of earlier offshore developments.

The Sharecat platform was applied as a single common solution across all parties. By extending one platform end-to-end, the project removed silos between engineering, supply chain and operations and enabled collaboration at mega-project scale.

SUCCESSES & BENEFITS

One platform across engineering, supply chain and operations.

Sakhalin II made comprehensive use of the Sharecat platform — from supplier documents and asset data through the product catalogue, SPIR handling and reporting at mega-project scale.

~5% savings
in engineering and procurement manhours through automation and reuse of standard data.
~5% reduction
in procurement CAPEX delivered through better visibility and supplier management.
~50% manhour saving
in information management activities by removing manual document handling.
~15% reduction
in expediting and follow-up costs through real-time supplier status across the programme.
~30% saving
in spares inventory thanks to high-quality, validated spares data collected 18 months ahead of start-up.
$6M USD avoided
change order avoided by granting workspace access to a fabricator instead of issuing a separate scope contract.
Up to 50% reduction
in document volumes requiring translation through automated data extraction and validation.
100% spares completeness
for maintainable tags, enabling the correctly sized warehouse to be built in time for start-up.
Verified Savings
~100

Close to 100% handover of engineering and supplier information across the $9.6B development.

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