Developing a Framework for IM

Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) is a consortium formed to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and Lunskoye gas field off the north-eastern coast of Sakhalin. Sakhalin Energy operates under a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) signed in 1994 with the Russian Federation. Main shareholders include Gazprom, Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi.

Our customer was in a transition phase, improving their own IM strategy and structure having previously heavily relied on another party within their consortium.

A strategy and roadmap for change was required, which would:

• Produce a vision of how IM could contribute to the development of two new fields, and overall business performance
• Determine which technologies to use in what circumstances
• Create a roadmap to take the strategy forward
• Scope out projects that build towards the vision

• The introduction of consistent, centrally-controlled IM procedures that are more relevant to the business functions within an operational organisation
• The promotion of more effective and efficient use of procedure which is easier to support from the central IM function
• The optimisiation of search functionality through metadata implementation
• Improved quality of information
• Reduction in duplication and the probability of a user accessing obsolete information
• Protection of information from accidental deletion
• The foundation for future digitalisation projects was put in place
• The importance of IM was raised across the business