The project "Personnel On Board (POB) in Real Time" is part of Eni Continuous Improvement initiatives and deals with people transport management on offshore installations. The main advantage is the possibility to have the information in Real Time of passengers on board (vessels/aircrafts - platforms) allowing also a better knowledge of offshore activities which can represent a support for the emergency response management.
The available and suitable technologies, constraints and requirements are the main factors considered during the technical analysis carried out to identify the optimal solution.
The solution adopted in order to track the offshore personnel transport consists of an "ad-hoc" hardware and software devices connected to an existing Eni tool.
Currently, the solution has been tested in Italy and in the near future, it will be implemented in Italy and in other countries.
The Oil and Gas industry is based more and more on activities with high HSE risks. In order to manage these risks, it is important to take under control the ongoing activities every time. The project "Personnel On Board (POB) in Real Time" has been developed to satisfy this requirement. The operations are based more and more on offshore activities, which need transport of personnel and materials to be carried out. In order to control these movements of people and materials, it is important to track the ongoing activities using a tool that collects all the important information.
This tool is an Eni software able to plan and optimize personnel and material offshore transport (by vessels and aircrafts).
Furthermore, it enables many operations to be mechanized, such as cost allocation, number of requests, stand-by time, fuel consumption optimization and vessel tracking. Currently, some information and operations regarding the scheduling of a trip are available on the Eni tool only after the end of the trip itself and need a manual input (i.e. the actual arrival/departure time of the vessel). Consequently, the integration between the existing tool and the results of the project Personnel On Board (POB) in Real Time improves the tool service and performance reducing the manual activity of trip scheduling and data updating of the software.
