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Participants of the conference “Oil and Gas: Effective Management Practices”, which took place in Moscow on November 18, 2009, discussed application of IT-solutions in oil and gas industry. The conference was organized by IT-providers Parma-Telecom and ITSK. The discussion focused on such issues as project planning optimization, capital construction project documents management, plant maintenance in production and processing of resources. The last session of the conference was devoted to the strategic management of a vertically integrated oil company.
The presentation on market trends and IT development for oil and gas industry made by Yekaterina Osorina, representative of SAP CIS, was followed by a discussion of the companies’ practical experience.
The report of Vladimir Torkonyak, director of ITSK SAP Competence Center, focused on the concept of targeted logistics transactions and a thorough control of all the procurement cycle stages in OJSC Gasprom Neft. The unified vertically-integrated management system covers the whole procurement process from demand to retirement and provides coordination between the company divisions and suppliers.
Azat Ishmiyarov, specialist of the Procurement and Contracts Department, told about the experience of LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd. in managing supplier relations with the help of SAP SRM. He presented the organizational model of procurement process used by LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd., and the procurement management process in general.
Igor Yelovikov, director of LUKOIL-INFORM industry expertise center, spoke about the p system for planning and control of investment activities used in by LUKOIL group. This IT-solution allows to plan and control the timeframe of investment activities, develop and assign strategic objectives, and to use unified data at all management levels. It also gives an opportunity to control performance and take timely management decisions.
Vladimir Reflov, Deputy Manager of Economy and Investment Department at Gasprom Neft, made a presentation on the system of petroleum products planning and sales control – software solution, which integrates divisions of a geographically dispersed company into a whole and helps to improve the quality and accuracy of planning the petroleum products sales distribution.
During the conference over 70 participants from different RF regions had an opportunity to discuss issues related to the management of oil and gas companies.