Midstream energy and pipeline operations
Midstream Operations, Analytics and Digital Transformation
Advanced planning and scheduling built on optimization, simulation and automated scenario evaluation for a major energy infrastructure organization.
- 33% to 50%
- Improvement in schedule quality
- 9% to 18%
- Lower projected power costs
- 11% to 25%
- Fewer operational shutdowns
The situation
A major energy infrastructure organization needed to improve pipeline planning and scheduling while balancing product quality, power costs, system reliability, customer commitments, delivery predictability, throughput and operating constraints.
The challenge
Existing processes relied heavily on manual decision making and specialist knowledge, limiting the ability to evaluate scenarios, optimize network performance and consistently measure schedule quality.
The ISI approach
ISI Consulting Group partnered with operations, scheduling, analytics, business and technology leadership to design and deploy an advanced planning and scheduling capability.
Implementation
The solution integrated mathematical optimization, simulation modeling, automated scenario evaluation, data validation, decision support tools, process redesign and continuous improvement principles.
Operational strategy sessions, future-state design workshops, process redesign workshops, business rule discussions and executive alignment meetings connected technical development to operational priorities, user requirements, governance and long-term capability building.
Results
- Improved schedule quality by 33% to 50%
- Reduced projected power costs by 9% to 18%
- Reduced operational shutdowns by 11% to 25%
- Identified capacity equivalent to as many as 32 additional product batches under a defined operating scenario
- Automated critical schedule evaluation and performance comparison activities
- Reduced reliance on manual analysis and improved planning consistency
- Established a scalable foundation for analytics-driven operational decisions
Key services applied
- Enterprise Transformation
- Performance-Based Implementation
- Digital Transformation
- Advanced Analytics
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Planning
- Future-State Design
- Process Design
- Workshop Facilitation
- Decision Support
- Continuous Improvement
- Technology Enablement
- Data Governance
- Change Management
Measured change
What moved
Schedule quality
33% to 50% higher
Projected power costs
9% to 18% lower
Operational shutdowns
11% to 25% fewer
Ranges are as published, reflecting variation across operating scenarios.
Next engagement
Three companies across three countries brought onto one operating model
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