Shells QGC Business is at the Forefront of Using Digital Technologies to Improve Effectiveness for its Operations

Shells QGC business is located in Queensland in Eastern Australia. They are one of Australias leading natural gas producers, focused on improving Queenslands world-class onshore gas reserves. Shells QGC business makes natural gas to supply the Australian domestic market and for shipping as LNG via our two-train LNG liquefaction plant on Curtis Island in Queensland.

QGC produces natural gas from the Surat Basin of southern Queensland and supplies domestic and international markets.Every day there are around 1,400 people carefully going about their work in our businessmaintaining over 7,000 kilometres of finding pipelines and 25 processing facilities, investigating more than 3,160 wells. Therefore, team leaders must arrive on the site equipped with the right parts and the right knowledge to carry out their work.

Challenge
To send workers into the field with the right information so their time is not wasted, critical and relevant design information, typically held over many different systems, needs to be fast and easily available. The information also needs to be up to date and correct, with any changes achieved and tracked.

Breakthrough
To make their information readily accessible, Shells QGC business performed Bentleys AssetWise ALIM as an engineering data warehouse building a master tag registry to maintain data honesty and originally storing more than 20 million data points. Later, to provide online way while out in the area and support the increasing information needs of the business, they moved their ALIM implementation to the Azure cloud, giving a single

portal of engineering data with consistent informational integrity. Now, Shells QGC company is doubling the number of documents and model files (and the connected data points) in AssetWise migrating project documentation from an EPC-based system to their digital twin conditions.

Outcome
Shells QGC business support crews drive over 1 million kilometres per month and arrive on-site with the right information to do the work saving time plus money. Their operations have also improved efficiency with less data search time and fewer application licenses, and they have increased the efficiency of their information.

Collaboration with their many building contractors has been strengthened with enhanced transparency between the design and engineering functions. News updates are scheduled and delivered to Shell by contractors with minimal manual interference. The system has allowed the re-use of original engineering design on Brownfield projects reducing design time and costs.