Enterprise Sustainability Control for Facility and Production Operations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Challenges exist in tracking and improving sustainability parameters across hydrocarbon enterprise operations, including energy, carbon, waste, and water consumption, to achieve net zero carbon emissions and enhanced environmental sustainability.

Innovation Solution

A sustainability platform system collects data from various sources, analyzes sustainability parameters, generates action plans, and adjusts operations to optimize sustainability efficiencies at facility and product levels, incorporating real-time feedback for continuous improvement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If comprehensive data collection and analysis systems are implemented to track sustainability parameters across enterprise operations, then measurement precision and reliability of sustainability tracking improve, but device complexity and computational resource requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesustainability parameter trackingVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments sustainability tracking into facility-level and production-level components. Facility data includes utility operations within buildings, while production data includes operational tasks in hydrocarbon production systems. This segmentation allows comprehensive tracking without requiring a monolithic complex system, as each segment can be managed and optimized independently while contributing to enterprise-wide sustainability goals.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If real-time data collection and analysis is performed across all enterprise operations, then productivity of sustainability improvement initiatives increases, but use of energy and computational resources increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesustainability improvement efficiencyVSAvoidcomputational energy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements partial real-time monitoring by collecting facility data and production data continuously, but processes this information through scheduled operations and periodic analysis cycles. Action plans are generated based on accumulated data patterns rather than requiring instantaneous responses to every data point, reducing computational energy consumption while maintaining productivity in sustainability improvement initiatives.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Loss of information

If detailed sustainability parameter tracking is implemented across facility and production operations, then loss of information is reduced, but device complexity and operational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesustainability data completenessVSAvoiddata management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs a unified sustainability platform that serves multiple functions: collecting facility data, collecting production data, analyzing sustainability parameters, generating action plans, and tracking progress. This universal platform reduces data management complexity by consolidating what could be separate specialized systems into a single multi-functional system that handles all sustainability tracking needs across the enterprise.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Reliability

If comprehensive action plans are generated and implemented across enterprise operations, then sustainability parameters improve, but device complexity and operational changes required increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesustainability goal achievementVSAvoidoperational management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system generates action plans in advance based on analyzed sustainability parameters and facility/production data. These pre-developed action plans are then implemented across enterprise operations, reducing the complexity of ad-hoc decision-making. By performing the analytical and planning work beforehand, the system simplifies operational management while ensuring reliable achievement of sustainability goals through thoughtfully prepared implementation strategies.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260087424A1Managing facility and production operations across enterprise operations to achieve sustainability goals

Publication Date: 2026.03.26 SCHLUMBERGER TECH CORP

AI summary

A method may include receiving production data and facility data associated with an enterprise, such that the production data includes operational tasks performed in a hydrocarbon production system, and the facility data includes one or more utility operations within one or more buildings associated with the enterprise. The method may also include receiving sustainability parameter data associated with one or more operations corresponding to the enterprise based on the production data and the facility data, generating a sustainability report representative of sustainability parameters associated with the operations of the enterprise based on the sustainability parameter data, and sending the sustainability report to one or more engineering workflow systems to determine action plans associated with improving the sustainability parameters. After receiving the action plans, the method includes sending commands to cause devices to adjust their respective operations.