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Chemical, Oil and Gas
Helping chemical, oil and gas companies modernize operations for sustainable, resilient growth.

Deliver for your customers today and transform the energy sector for the future

Energy companies are at a critical turning point. Climate change, cyber-security threats, inflation, and supply disruptions are forcing them to rethink their business and modernize now to better prepare for the future.

Technology transformation is at the core of these efforts. It enables innovation and greater efficiencies across the value chain. IT modernization helps drive resiliency and improved security, enhance the employee experience for increased productivity, and delivers an operating model to help meet ESG goals.

Kyndryl works with many of the largest oil and gas companies around the world, managing and modernizing their mission critical technology systems. Our industry experts help you to co-create a strategy for navigating the complexity and achieving your desired business outcomes.

Improve employee experience and safety

Modernize operations across the value chain

Protect critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats

Accelerate ambitious ESG goals

Improve employee experience and safety

Improve employee experience and safety with modern tools and actionable insights.

Kyndryl can help you:
  • Implement modern tools to improve employee efficiency, collaboration, and safety
  • Capture sensor-based data from remote locations and factories to provide real-time, actionable insights for connected workers
  • Monitor and manage end user devices to improve employee operations
  • Leverage automation, self-service tools, and predictive analytics to proactively identify and resolve issues impacting employees
Customer use case
 

Customer challenge
Dow is one of the largest chemical companies in the world and its IT team is constantly striving to  increase employee productivity. They needed help developing a strategic plan for employee experience improvements.

How Kyndryl helped
Kyndryl deployed a private cellular network/5G solution and implemented collaboration tools for better communication, digitized cumbersome paper processes, and provided ITSM support for enhanced device management. The new IT operating model is more streamlined and remote workers have easier information access for resolving issues in the field faster and safely.

Outcomes achieved

  • 45,000 devices converted to service monitoring in 6 months
  •  60% reduction of blue screen of death errors with multiple causes across multiple device types
  • 10% increase in device life across the fleet due to monitoring and remediation
  • Improved time to end-to-end deployment (Down from 18 months to 3 months)
  • 3-5x cost improvement over existing solutions

Modernize operations across the value chain

Accelerate application and infrastructure transformation to optimize efficiency and operations.

Kyndryl can help you:
  • Enhance networks to improve efficiency and backend workflows
  • Modernize and secure bandwidth infrastructure for optimized operational output
  • Improve operational efficiency, safety, and mean time to repair for maintenance issues in the field
  • Centralize data management systems for insights into real-time energy consumption, predictive maintenance needs, and more
  • Improve integration and capability management by migrating critical workloads to a hybrid cloud environment
Customer use case
 

Customer challenge
Motiva Enterprises, the largest oil and chemical refinery in North America, partnered with Kyndryl on a mission-critical journey to modernize its IT infrastructure, enabling its digital transformation and accelerating a cloud-based operational model.


How Kyndryl helped
Motiva wanted Kyndryl to help them create a new model by upgrading its network, modernizing its IT Service Management, enhancing its digital workplace services, and operationalizing their multi-cloud environment. The new model resulted in significant costs savings, reduction in employee onboarding time and in field-based Mean-Time-To-Restore issues . This transformation was foundational to Motiva’s strategy for developing their digital refinery of the future.


Outcomes achieved

  • Increased IT budget saving
  • Significant reduction in employee onboarding time
  • Reduction in mean-time-to-restore issues in the field

Protect critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats

Protect interconnected control systems from cyber attacks.

Kyndryl can help you:
  • Customize a security plan that segments and protects the control system network
  • Improve network visibility, performance, and control with 24/7 security operations center monitoring
  • Expand operating technology SaaS cybersecurity protections to maximize cyber-attack prevention
  • Identify current risks and develop a technology plan to eliminate future threats
Customer use case
 

Customer challenge
A large and privately owned North American midstream oil provider had rapidly grown their IT and OT networks resulting in vulnerability concerns over the operations and the interconnected control systems.


How Kyndryl helped
Kyndryl conducted an in-depth IT and control systems assessment, then provided insights into where the vulnerabilities lay and what actions needed to be taken. Subsequently, an OT SaaS was deployed with 24/7 managed services for improved network visibility, performance, control, and remediations. Enhancements to the security and resiliency of the operations were incorporated through the establishing of the monitoring of logins, privileged access and configurations, and intrusion and ransomware detection.


Outcomes achieved

  • Incurred cyber insurance premium savings of $50,000 per location per year
  • Expanded OT SaaS cybersecurity protections and 24/7 SoC monitoring to 3 additional plants from initial implementation
  • Level 0 monitoring of key motor controls for amine gas feflux pumps and mass flow meters

Accelerate ambitious ESG goals

The energy transition
 

For the oil and gas industry, the push towards a more energy efficient operating model is critical if businesses want to ensure future success. This transition requires a technology partner that can meet you where you are to help you innovate, digitalize, and advance your alternative energy efforts.


Kyndryl can help you:
  • Implement intelligent and resilient wireless networks that capture data in real-time helping you evaluate your energy consumption and make adjustments accordingly
  • Capture, monitor, and measure actionable insights through data and AI analytics across the enterprise to help you achieve EGS goals
  • Leverage your data to achieve your sustainability goals through greener operations and renewable production methods
Kyndryl expert spotlight

Rajeev Puri

CTO US Manufacturing, Communications & Energy Distinguished Engineer & Master Inventor


"Today clients of all sizes are struggling to automate their manufacturing operations, to remain competitive and drive business agility. They are looking for partners like Kyndryl who can help them with industry know-how and proven advanced technology skillset such as 5G, Edge, Data & AI, ML, and Security to help them optimally."

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