Meana Petro
OP-05IntermediateWave 3AIIT

Field Logistics Planning

In one sentence

Plans crew, vehicle and material movements across the field so that fewer kilometres are driven, which is also the largest safety exposure most operators have.

The problem

Journeys are planned per department, so three vehicles visit the same remote well on the same day from different teams. Road travel is the single largest cause of fatalities in upstream operations, and every avoided kilometre is a real risk reduction.

How it works

Work orders, rounds and material deliveries are consolidated into optimised routes under vehicle, competency, journey-management and daylight constraints. The objective is weighted toward reducing exposure kilometres rather than only reducing cost, because those two objectives diverge more often than expected.

Data required

  • Planned work: work orders, rounds, deliveries with locations and time windows
  • Vehicle fleet with capacities and driver competencies
  • Road network with condition, restrictions and journey management rules
  • Site access requirements and permit constraints

What you get

  • Consolidated daily route plans by vehicle with job sequence
  • Exposure kilometres saved against the unconsolidated baseline
  • Journey management plan documentation per trip

What it cannot do

Optimised plans are only followed if the departments accept consolidated scheduling, which requires a change in how work is planned across organisational boundaries. In deployments where departments retained independent scheduling, the measured reduction was a small fraction of the modelled one, and we report that experience rather than the model number.

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