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OT Security Health Check & Maturity Assessment

Getting a clear picture of current cyber states and formulating an improvement roadmap to strengthen OT security postures while optimising operational performance is a high priority.

Non Vital Rail Network Optimisation

Geographically vast and remote, Rail is a key component of the Resource sector supply chain. Getting the product from mine to port or mine to production safely and efficiently is very much dependent on an optimised rail network.

Global Miner Drives Technology Asset Lifecycle Initiative

Our global mining client sought a more robust, structured approach to their asset lifecycle management and elected to use one of their sites as a prototype to establish a Technology Asset Roadmap strategy before rolling out to other sites.

ATOM Strengthens OT Security Posture for Operational Performance Confidence

ATOM undertook an OT Network Refresh and Cyber Security Project to build real-time interfaces with customer systems and improve their security posture.

BP drives maintenance efficiencies by getting the fundamentals in check with integration and API led design

BP is one of the world’s largest energy companies and is driving a companywide digital initiative to deliver operational efficiencies across its business.   It was identified that one of the key business areas primed for standardisation is Turnarounds (TAR)

Digital Maturity Assessment

What does a digitally mature business look like? Where do you sit on the spectrum? There are many touch points across the pit to port channel that can benefit from innovation. Knowing where your organisation is on the digital transformation journey will let you set the goals you need to execute on your strategy, stay competitive and grow.

Executing Digital Strategy at Speed

In this interview with the World Refining Organisation, Simon Cherewicz, Denver discusses how businesses invest a lot of time and effort producing really well thought through digital business strategies, only to then face the challenge of executing those strategies. Speed and scale of execution is often overlooked and is an opportunity waiting to be grasped.

BP connects workers across their refineries

Denver is exploring high value opportunities to deliver operational efficiencies and execute on digital transformation across bp’s worldwide operations - driving productivity across their refineries by connecting workers to real time data via mobile, IoT sensors, analytics and wearable technology - creating the refinery of the future.

Denver Service Offering in IT/OT Network Capabilities

As IT/OT environments converge, Denver's technical and business experience within industry and between the multiple IT & OT layers has delivered value across our client base. In this IT & OT Network Capability Diagram, we give an overview of IT/OT convergence areas - where we work, partner and areas of exclusion.

Business Critical Asset Management Upgrade for BP

BP operates the BP-Husky refinery at Toledo in the United States in a joint venture with Husky Energy. The refinery processes up to 160,000 barrels of crude oil per day and provides the Midwestern United States with gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane and asphalt.

If You Can't Kick It, It's Not There

Do you have the asset visibility and data availability needed in your supply chain? In this article, we take the Maintenance Planner's perspective and discuss the importance of data in Resources and Energy supply chains. • Where is my stuff? • Has my stuff arrived or not? • Get off my stuff! • I better get my stuff here now!

Delivering Shutdown Efficiencies for Safety, Control and Monitoring

Working with Denver, the Oil and Gas leader elected to deploy a system to address safety; control and monitoring of workers’ activities; and post-shutdown reviews. The system would need to track people across a refinery that spanned 5 square kilometres and be a cost-effective solution.

Denver Merges OT Infrastructure for Iron Ore Miner

One of Australia’s premier miners is working with Denver to deliver cutting edge operations and merge its corporate and OT infrastructure for processing, as part of an essential upgrade to their Process Control System (PCS).

Securing OT Networks Beyond Guards, Guns & Gates

In this Insight, Denver Strategic Consulting Services Manager, Keren Jenns asks two of Denver's OT SME's to consider IT and OT convergence issues on manufacturing operations and look at how organisations are securing their operations beyond guards, guns and gates.

Up-time and Reliability with Better Asset Maintenance

Have you ever considered the bottom line impact of running a less than optimal asset maintenance regime? "Under servicing" can have dire impacts on up-time but so can "over servicing" where the asset life cycle management is either not understood, or not visible to those accountable.

Informed Decisions in Enterprise Assets with IIoT & Industry 4.0

Organisations across almost every asset-intensive industry (such as oil and gas, manufacturing, or transportation) are challenged with how to maximise the value of assets throughout their life-cycle.

Maintenance Challenges Facing Asset Intensive Industries

Optimising maintenance is critical for organisations in asset-intensive sectors such as Oil & Gas and Mining. Failure to implement a balanced, optimal maintenance regime can increase an organisation’s costs, interrupt production and compromise its reputation. However, organisations face a range of challenges implementing such a regime.

Cyber-Attacks - 3 Things You Can Do Now to Minimize the Threat.

We hear a lot of cyber attacks like hacking and stolen data. But the true scale of the cyber crime industry will blow you away. The cyber crime industry is estimated to be valued at AUD $2.2 trillion.

The Critical Need for Secure PCN in Mining, Oil & Gas

Process Control Networks are complex in design and implementation because they integrate with a range of corporate and industrial components. PCN's perform sensitive and vital tasks for managing and handling critical infrastructure. It’s imperative to implement security in these systems because they are targets for cyber-attacks.

Tracking Key to Turnaround Success at Refineries and Mines

Shutdowns/turnarounds at mines and refineries are complex and expensive but are critical to safe, efficient operation and cannot be delayed or avoided. The key to minimising disruption is to plan and execute turnaround projects on time and within budget, while meeting business objectives.

Has Digital Maturity in Resources & Energy Reached a Tipping Point?

Digitisation in the Resources & Energy sectors is maturing from tentative experiment to application at massive scale. Mines and refineries are now striving for digital maturity and realize it is no longer a question of whether they can afford to do something, but rather a question of whether they can afford not to.

ATOM Gets Up, Running and Ready for the Future

Established in 2015, ATOM specialises in managing all aspects of terminal activities for oil and gas companies. As a new business, with its HQ in Melbourne and 17 bulk fuel terminals nationwide, ATOM turned to Denver for a complete network, fleet and managed services solution for their organisation and nationwide workforce.

Better Project Portfolio Management with Nostra

One single set of project portfolio data. Easier portfolio reporting - all projects are reported consistently, and reports can be generated in minutes rather than hours. One system login for multiple systems access.

Nostra Testimonial - Eric Zimmerman - Project General Manager, bp

First, Nostra works, from the initial installation. This may seem obvious but having spent over $100,000 on my last project trying (and failing) to get solutions up and running, I think this may be the biggest benefit Nostra offers.

Getting the underlying systems & process right for digital transformation success

In this video insight, Josh Marshall, CEO at Denver speaks to Simon Charewicz about getting the underlying systems and process - "the unsexy" - done right so that organisations can reap the benefits that digital transformation can bring.

How to Optimise Shutdowns and Turnarounds

Shutdowns/Turnarounds are essential projects for asset intensive operations. Every year, mining and oil and gas companies spend large budgets on the complex operations and compressed time windows of planned shutdowns/turnarounds.

Denver Delivers EAM Success For BP

BP’s Cherry Point Refinery in Washington, the United States, uses IBM Maximo enterprise asset management to manage operations effectively, including business-critical activities such as preventive maintenance, procurement and inventory management.

Data as an Asset: A Denver Resource & Energy Insight

What role does data play in digital execution? In this video insight, Simon Charewicz, Head of Digital Execution at Denver talks about the importance of the "data asset" – what it looks like, the quality, integrity and the integration between systems – and why it is crucial to execute digital strategy. Because without data asset knowledge, and getting the underlying data asset "right", innovation and digital transformation will not succeed.

Partnerships through Transformation: A Denver Resource & Energy Insight

Why successful partnerships are key to navigating transformation. Josh Marshall, CEO at Denver speaks to Simon Charerwicz about working in partnership with clients and vendors to drive successful outcomes - contracts drive behaviours in successful digital transformation. Building a partnership between multiple vendors and a client means nurturing the relationships and looking at the commercials that will deliver the best possible solution to the problem, quickly.

High Performance Teams: A Denver Resource & Energy Insight

Building high performance teams that successfully execute on the digital strategy and actually deliver business value begins by team members coming together as one.

Capital Performance with Nostra: A Denver Resource & Energy Insight

In this video insight, Josh Marshall, CEO at Denver speaks to Simon Charewicz about the partnership with bp that created Nostra – a seamless interface that delivers performance driven decisions across asset intensive capital programs

API Led Problem Solving: A Denver Resource & Energy Insight

API led problem solving and design allows for re-use and wider benefits for an organisation. By developing a whole catalogue of API’s for specific services, the ability to re-use delivers wider benefits across an organisation.

In the News: BP guides Denver project management tool development

Oil & Gas Today discuss with BP digital portfolio owner for productivity John O’Connor - how the creation of an end-to-end digital solution, provided transparency to cost and schedule performance across its entire portfolio of capital projects.

Webinar: Transforming Capital Portfolio Management - A BP success story

How bp improved the performance of their capital programs bp and Denver collaboratively developed a capital portfolio management tool called Nostra that has given them significant savings and transparency on their capital works programs. . In this webinar, Paul Northcote, Head of Nostra at Denver talks about the collaboration and what Nostra allowed bp to do differently that it couldn't beforehand. Today six of bp’s refineries globally -along with bp’s ANZ retail function- use Nostra to manage large projects for real time portfolio visibility and enjoy: * 5% reduction in their capital project costs * 10% reduction in budgeting variability * 98% forecasting accuracy

Transforming Capital Portfolio Management - A bp Success Story

For 30 years, Denver has worked with bp to deliver business and technology outcomes across 8 refineries, globally and execute their digital strategy at speed. We work by embedding ourselves in our client’s business and owning the outcome. For bp, this has meant working across all their refineries to drive growth and ensure future relevance across their value chain.

In the News: Keeping bums on seats

Australian Mining Monthly interview Denver: Businesses across every industry were called to sink or swim in the unprecedented environment of COVID-19. While some industries were hit harder than others, organisations in mining, oil and gas had some of the toughest challenges to overcome; from remote locations and workforces to hands-on sites with high safety requirements.

Denver Resource & Energy Insights: End to End Shutdown Process

Improving the end to end turnaround/shutdown process with standardisation, data asset management, integrated and regulated systems allows productivity to be delivered at scale.

Denver Resource & Energy Insights: Digital Strategy & Business Strategy

Business strategy and digital strategy are synonymous. Most organisations have great strategies developed, the problem lies in the execution.

Denver Resource & Energy Insights: Productivity Improvements in Shutdowns & Turnarounds

Productivity gains for mining, oil and gas companies make a huge impact to the bottom line – from a shutdown/turnaround perspective, business process standardisation, getting the data right and integrating systems can reduce the huge labour costs associated with shutdown/turnarounds.

Denver Resource & Energy Insights: Execution Savagery

Essential to digital transformation success is having a team of people who are enthusiastic to be in the team and execute to get the job done- a team of people who are driven to succeed and who have the right tools and processes to support them.

How to start a digital conversation

Despite what it may feel like, digital conversations aren't hard. Yes there is a lot to unpack and knowing where to start can be daunting, but there is also too much opportunity to be missed by sitting stagnant. Sometimes the simplest questions are enough to inspire the greatest ideas. The best way to get the digital ball rolling is to be real about what it takes to achieve growth and work back from there.

Interviews from Austmine 2021 Mining Innovation Conference

During Austmine 2021, Keren Jenns, Principal Consultant Technology, Strategy & Transformation and Simon Charewicz, Head of Digital Execution at Denver were interviewed on 7 current issues.

Oil and Gas Today : Resilience in the chaos; adapt digitally or be left behind

Digital technology emerged at the forefront of the oil and gas industry during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure productivity and efficiencies were maintained. Denver explains what this has achieved.