Downstream Oil and Gas

Why Oracle?

• Refining and delivery operations present a host of unique challenges including seasonality, scheduling challenges, and supply disruption risks due to political instability
• Oil and gas companies need to achieve total productive maintenance and maximize uptime to avoid risks related to supply disruptions
• Oil and gas companies need to accurately predict and manage demand
• Building and maintaining strategic customer relationships is more important today than ever before
• Oil and gas companies need to improve profits in commercial and retail operations by optimizing merchandise assortment and quantities and accurately pricing and promoting inventory

Oracle In the Downstream Oil and Gas Industry

• Oracle has an integrated suite of downstream applications for refining and marketing
• Oracle's JD Edwards fuels management solution integrates petroleum supply chain systems and manages bulk product storage and transportation
• Oracle Process Manufacturing integrates least cost formulations and superior cost accounting, allowing multiple simultaneous costing types
• Oracle provides process-specific advanced supply chain planning, strategic network optimization, and production scheduling to optimize sales and operations planning decisions
• Oracle delivers best-in-class oil and gas CRM solutions for the downstream commercial and retail sales divisions
• Oracle Retail helps convenience stores maximize the profit from their inventory-from optimizing the initial merchandise and assortment to pricing and promotion
• Only Oracle offers a complete, open, and integrated technology stack, from applications to disk, engineered to work together to deliver record-breaking performance, simplified management, and cost-saving efficiencies

More About Oracle Oil and Gas

More than 160 exploration and production companies and 9 of the top 10 oilfield services companies run Oracle applications.