Sustainability Action Plan Updates for Changing Regulations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Challenges exist in efficiently tracking and improving sustainability parameters across enterprise operations, particularly in hydrocarbon enterprises, to achieve net zero carbon emissions and reduce waste while optimizing resource use.

Innovation Solution

A sustainability platform system that collects data on sustainability parameters, simulates the effect of current action plans, and generates optimized action plans to improve sustainability, incorporating real-time data and feedback mechanisms to adjust operations dynamically.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If comprehensive monitoring of all sustainability parameters is implemented across all enterprise operations, then measurement precision and reliability improve, but device complexity and computational costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesustainability parameter tracking accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments sustainability parameters into different categories (energy, carbon, waste, water) and monitors them through separate measurement protocols and data collection mechanisms. This segmentation allows precise tracking of each parameter type while managing system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements simulation for specific sustainability parameters rather than all parameters simultaneously. By selecting key parameters for detailed simulation and monitoring based on current regulatory requirements and enterprise priorities, the system achieves high measurement precision for critical parameters while avoiding the computational burden of comprehensive monitoring.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

2Adaptability or versatility

If real-time simulation and adjustment of sustainability action plans is performed, then adaptability and productivity improve, but use of energy and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaction plan adaptabilityVSAvoidcomputational energy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs simulation and adjustment of sustainability action plans at periodic intervals rather than continuously in real-time. Simulation is triggered by specific events such as regulatory updates, significant parameter changes, or scheduled review periods, reducing computational energy consumption while maintaining adequate adaptability to changing conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-simulates multiple sustainability action plan scenarios and stores the results for rapid retrieval and comparison when needed. By performing simulations in advance and maintaining a library of pre-evaluated action plans, the system achieves quick adaptability to new requirements without the continuous computational burden of real-time simulation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If detailed simulation of sustainability action plan effects is conducted, then measurement precision and reliability improve, but loss of time and computational costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaction plan effectiveness assessmentVSAvoidsimulation time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system conducts detailed simulation only for selected sustainability parameters and action plan components that have the greatest impact on overall effectiveness. By focusing computational resources on critical pathways and high-impact interventions, the system achieves reliable assessment of action plan effectiveness while reducing total simulation time through selective rather than comprehensive analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12632804B2Updating sustainability action plans based on updated regulations

Publication Date: 2026.05.19 SCHLUMBERGER TECH CORP

AI summary

An enterprise system may include one or more devices that perform respective operations of an enterprise and a sustainability platform system. The sustainability platform system may obtain a sustainability model representative of a state of operations of the enterprise and a currently implemented sustainability action plan associated with improving one or more sustainability parameters of the enterprise. The sustainability platform system may also receive updated regulation data, simulate an effect of the currently implemented sustainability action plan on the sustainability parameters based on the updated regulation data, generating simulated sustainability parameters, and determine whether the currently implemented sustainability action plan is effective based on a comparison of the simulated sustainability parameters to sustainability target data. In response to determining that the currently implemented sustainability action plan is effective, the sustainability platform system may send commands to the devices to maintain their operations according to the currently implemented sustainability action plan.