Oil and Gas Supply Chain Planning

Wells move in the drilling sequence, and the casing and wellheads bought for them have to move too. DemandLabs plans materials across shore bases, warehouses and field stores, ranks long-lead suppliers by risk and keeps emissions next to margin.

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What Shapes Oil and Gas Planning

Upstream planning works with long lead times, remote sites and a drilling schedule that moves.

Well schedule

The Drilling Sequence Keeps Moving

Rig availability, permits and results from nearby wells change the drilling sequence. Casing, wellheads and completion materials bought for one well then wait, or move to another location.

Remote stock

Surplus Gets Stranded at Remote Sites

Materials are spread across shore bases, yards and field stores, often far from each other. Surplus left at one site after a campaign often sits idle while another site buys the same item new.

Emissions

Flaring and Methane Carry a Cost

Associated gas with no pipeline tie-in is often flared, and methane escapes from wells, compressors and tanks. Each reduction option has a build cost, a recovered volume and its own effect on margin.

Solutions for Oil and Gas

The DemandLabs applications that fit oil and gas, and how each one handles the planning.

Casing, wellheads and spares are planned across shore bases, yards and field stores, with service targets by site. When a well moves, a daily transfer proposal prices the freight to send its materials onward against the fill-rate gain.

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Wellhead, valve and tubular suppliers each carry one composite score built from news, financial filings and weather. The expedite or re-source for a risky long-lead order arrives staged and priced.

Explore supplier risk

Scenario rooms compare drilling program options side by side on P&L and cash, so deferring a well or bringing one forward is decided with its material cost in view.

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Pump, compressor and valve spares that move a few times a year get intermittent-demand methods, backtested on your own issue history before go-live.

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How Oil and Gas Planning Connects

Each well in the drilling program links to the materials it needs, the stock that covers them and the cash they tie up.

Operations

Drilling Program

Well sequence
Rig schedule
Completions

Materials

Well Materials

Casing and tubing
Wellheads
Long-lead items

Inventory

Base and Field Stock

Shore bases
Field stores
Surplus

Suppliers

Supplier Risk

Purchase orders
Lead times
Risk signals

Finance

Field Economics

Price deck
Capex and opex
Emissions

Built for Oil and Gas

Upstream planning has to keep up with the drilling program and the sites it moves between.

Marine Operations on the Same Graph

Supply vessel and tanker programs share one decision graph with materials and stock, so a vessel delay reaches the plan it affects.

Flaring and Methane Next to Margin

Flaring and methane are planned alongside cost and margin in one model, so each reduction option is judged on both.

Surplus Moved Between Sites

Idle stock at one base or field store is proposed for transfer to the site that needs it, with freight cost and fill-rate gain side by side.

Long-Lead Orders Ranked by Risk

Each open order for a long-lead item carries a composite risk rank, and the alert goes to the buyer who owns that supplier.

Planning Notes for Oil and Gas

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Energy

The long lead item you ordered for a well that moved

Oilfield materials planning against a schedule that moves monthly: where newsvendor logic justifies the stock, Palm's theorem on spares, remote surplus.

21 August 202610 min read

Energy

Sequencing a drilling programme when every move costs a week

Drilling rig scheduling as an asymmetric travelling salesman problem where the move cost dominates, plus skewed durations and what a rig contract buys.

21 August 20269 min read

Energy

Flaring reduction economics when the pipeline never reached the site

Flaring reduction economics at a site with no tie-in: routine versus safety volume, the options ranked by build cost, and valuing what you actually recover.

19 August 202610 min read

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Oil and Gas Planning FAQs

Does DemandLabs cover stock at remote field sites?

Shore bases, yards and field stores are nodes in one multi-echelon model, each with its own service target, and buffers are re-solved weekly from measured demand and lead-time variability.

Can local content projects be assessed in the plan?

A local content or localisation project is assessed on its cost and economic return alongside the supply plan it would change.

Does it connect to our ERP?

Materials, stock and purchase orders come in through connectors for Oracle EBS, SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC, and approved stock and transfer plans write back for the warehouses to act on.

How long does implementation take?

Eight weeks to the first live cycle for one planning area, with a value review with your CFO in week 10.