Using a professional system like Synergi® to track incidents and measure key performance indicators is providing a positive step change for the HSE work in Talisman Energy Inc's global organisation.
“Implementing Synergi’s incident module is a key component in a robust global HSE system,” explains corporate HSE manager Bruce McKenzie at the Canada-based group. “Traditionally, the countries we operated in worked with a regional mind set”.
”We´re striving to improve our HSE performance globally, but that’s difficult to achieve until you have an effective system for measuring performance across the organisation.”
While the upstream oil and gas company has a long history of using Synergi in its North Sea operations, it first initiated a project to implement this solution throughout its global organisation in January 2009.
“We were using Synergi for our North Sea offshore requirements, but had to run a thorough analysis and evaluate whether or not it could also accommodate our needs in the rest of the organisation, including a significant onshore component,” says Paul Kubik, manager of Corporate Systems IT demand.
Synergi passed the test and Talisman decided to implement it globally.“We’re in the process of putting scalable systems in place across the organisation to support growth plans,” says McKenzie. “Global implementation of Synergi is a prime example of this initiative.”
Implementing Synergi’s incident module across the company has been taking place over the past 18 months. The Talisman teams in both the UK and Norway have been using the system for several years and have customised the modules in version 11 to meet their specific needs.
Talisman’s aim is to secure a single Synergi database, which can handle both global and regional business requirements. As part of this analysis, other Synergi modules will be assessed for their ability to meet the company’s business needs.
“We’ll evaluate regional requirements for data capture, regulatory reporting and corporate key performance indicators (KPIs) over the next few months, working with both Logica and DNV,” says Kubik.
The Synergi incident module is used for tracking incidents, trending, analysis and recordkeeping. All these applications are vital for operations and management.
Good-quality data input to the system coupled with robust analysis can potentially save lives.
“We can easily spot trends,” explains McKenzie. “For instance, we can review all our drilling incidents and, if we find we’re experiencing the same types of incidents – such as dropped objects – we can intervene with preventive measures right away.”
At a recent global meeting in Houston to discuss how seismic operations could be enhanced and made more efficient, incident data derived from Synergi was utilised as part of the discussion base for the leadership and fed into the decision-making process.
The company’s lost-time injury frequency has improved significantly over the past two years and its over-all goal is a workplace where such incidents do not occur.
Author: Lene Rustad
Photo: Talisman Energy Inc.
