Total Chooses Skire Unifier as Cost Control System (USA)

 

Skire, Inc., the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for managing capital projects, facilities and real estate, today announced that Total S.A. has chosen Skire’s Unifier as the company’s new cost control system for its exploration and production projects.

Unifier was selected after a formal call for tender considering a variety of cost control software systems.

The Skire solution’s strength in workflow automation, contract and change management, cost performance monitoring, earned value management, cash flow management, multi-currency support, reporting capabilities and interfacing with SAP financials and Oracle Primavera scheduling were among the critical decision criteria in making Skire the final choice. Skire’s experience implementing Unifier within the oil and gas industry and for global customers were also major factors in Total’s decision to partner with Skire.

Based in France, Total is a leading multinational energy company with over 95,000 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world. Total engages in all aspects of the petroleum industry, including upstream operations (oil and gas exploration, development and production, LNG) and downstream operations (refining, marketing and the trading and shipping of crude oil and petroleum products). Total is also a large-scale chemicals manufacturer.

Further to a six-month configuration and integration phase, Total will leverage Skire’s Unifier application to deploy a common cost controls solution for all its projects in five continents and across many currencies. Unifier will be used to monitor and control project costs in order to continuously evaluate the Estimated Final Cost (EFC) and maintain the associated forecasts for its upstream projects, while interfacing with the existing SAP systems. The system will enable Total’s project managers to rapidly adjust the execution of programs by taking the appropriate actions while adhering to overall defined strategies. Total’s annual capital program averages over $10 billion per year.

“We are very pleased to add Total, a true oil and gas supermajor, to our fast growing global customer base,” said Massy Mehdipour, P.E., chief executive officer at Skire. “Oil and gas companies make substantial investments in capital projects and have extensive and pressing needs for cost control and earned value management. Our Unifier solution enables them to see rapid and significant returns by more effectively instituting controls and creating visibility. Total’s selection of Skire is further validation of our market leadership and we look forward to working closely with Total as it optimizes its upstream program.”

With annual revenue over $200 billion, Total is considered an Oil & Gas “Supermajor,” the term used to describe the world’s six largest non-state owned oil and gas companies, which include BP p.l.c., Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell p.l.c., Total S.A., and ConocoPhillips Company.

For over a decade, Skire’s industry leading enterprise lifecycle management software system, Unifier, has helped organizations automate strategic capital planning and construction project execution.

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Source: Skire, June 6, 2011;