SAP carve-out within an ever-shrinking time window
Murphy OilMurphy Oil Needed the Speed and Dedication of SNP to Complete an SAP Carve-Out Within an Ever-Shrinking Time Window
Ongoing pressure from the acquiring company resulted in four months being shaved off the project. This required regular weekend and overnight work.
The challenge
Murphy Oil Corporation sold its assets in Malaysia to PTT Exploration Exchange and Production for USD 2.035 billion. To facilitate the divestiture from a technical perspective, the customer wanted to carve out all data related to its Malaysia operations. The challenges Murphy Oil Corporation faced included:
- Lacking in-house experience with technical divestitures
- Lacking available resources to staff and work the project full time
- Strict time constraints at the request of the buyer
- Commitment to delivering a working system to the acquiring company
- IT divestiture planning was delyed
The solution
The SNP team worked diligently to support the completion of the Murphy Oil – PTT Exploration Exchange transaction. The approach developed and implemented by SNP included:
- Identification and consideration of industry data retention requirements
Due diligence with respect to hierarchy elements, data volume, and document volume - Three test cycles
- Leveraging the SAP Landscape Transformation tool at the request of the customer
- Global delivery locations
- Post-go-live support
What was not expected, but handled successfully, was the constant pressure to reduce the project timeline
Highlights
- Ongoing pressure from the acquiring company resulted in four months
being shaved off the project. This required regular weekend and
overnight work. - Gaps existed in the SAP Landscape Transformation tool for supporting ISOil & Gas. The SNP team brought in specialists with industry experience to
complete the work. - History retention requirements avoided the complexity of selective data
migration which supported the tight timeline.
Scope
- Two company codes representing the Malaysia operations
- Full suite of SAP functionality including EH&S
- IS-Oil & Gas solution
- Full data history
The benefits
- Disciplined delivery approach
- Speed without sacrificing quality
- Minimized resource requirements
- Prior industry experience
- Prior divestiture support experience
- Prior unique SAP solution experience (IS-O&G, EH&S)
Key Facts
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Duration
5 months – from the start of the project through to post-go-live support
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Downtime
< 24 hours
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Project Type
SAP Carve-out
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Affected countries
USA, Malysia
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SNP product
CrystalBridge® –The Data Transformation Platform
About Murphy Oil
Murphy Oil Corporation is a USD 2.6 billion global independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company. The company’s diverse resource base includes offshore production in Canada and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as North America onshore plays in the Eagle Ford Shale, Kaybob Duvernay and Tupper Montney. Their floating production system (FPS) delivers oil and natural gas to onshore facilities for processing into products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other petrochemical materials. Other offshore exploration blocks are in offshore Mexico, Brazil, Vietnam, Brunei, and Australia.
