Webinar | Energy Case Studies 1

Supply chain complexity in oil and gas operations demands more than traditional tools. When multiple parties rely on emails, spreadsheets, and paper-based processes, inefficiencies multiply, resulting in delays, disputes, and hidden costs that impact your bottom line. This webinar explored how digital traceability through multi-party workflow platforms can transform supply chain operations. You'll discover how the Rise-X Ecosystem Orchestration Platform (EOP) enables real-time visibility, automated workflows, and seamless collaboration across all stakeholders in your supply chain. 

Huub Jansen, Strategy & Transformation Lead for Supply Chain at Woodside Energy, shared firsthand insights from Woodside's implementation of SmartFlow, a Rise-X-powered solution that streamlined their multi-party supply-chain processes and delivered measurable improvements in efficiency and cost savings. 

Rowan Fenn, CEO of Rise-X, demonstrated how the platform eliminates manual processes, reduces errors, and creates a single source of truth for complex industrial operations. Whether you're managing offshore operations, logistics coordination, or procurement processes, you'll learn practical strategies for achieving end-to-end supply chain transparency, reducing operational friction, and unlocking value through digital transformation. 

See how leading energy companies are moving beyond outdated systems to build resilient, traceable supply chains.

• Woodside’s Trion project highlights the need for digital, multi-party workflows due to its remote location, complex logistics, and heavy regulatory requirements.
• Traditional systems like SAP cannot manage cross-company processes, forcing teams into manual emails and spreadsheets.
• Rise-X provides a shared, secure platform where multiple companies can collaborate, automate workflows, and eliminate redundant manual work.
• Woodside has digitised key processes such as fuel loadouts, documentation, and invoicing, resulting in major efficiency gains and fewer errors.
• The no-code platform empowers teams to quickly adapt workflows, improving transparency, compliance, and decision-making across the supply chain.

The session centers on Woodside’s experience implementing digital workflows across global operations, with special focus on the Trion development project in the Gulf of Mexico.

Trion Project Overview

Huub begins by explaining the scale and complexity of the Trion project, a remote offshore development operated by Woodside in Mexican waters. The project involves:

• Two major floating facilities were constructed in Korea and China
• A multi-year drilling program
• Complex international logistics
• Operations are located 24 hours by vessel from the nearest usable port

Additionally, Mexico’s deepwater industry is still developing, and many governmental and logistics processes remain heavily paper-based, creating delays and administrative burdens.

With over two decades of global logistics experience, Huub highlights that Trion presents extraordinary challenges in coordination, documentation, compliance, and multi-stakeholder communication, making it an ideal candidate for workflow digitisation. 

Challenges in Modern Oil & Gas Supply Chains

Rowan outlines several persistent issues across oil and gas supply chains:

• Multiple companies, multiple systems
Every partner uses its own tools, data structures, and processes.

• Redundant manual inputs and re-typing
The same information gets recreated repeatedly, often leading to errors.

• Heavy reliance on email and spreadsheets
When systems cannot integrate across company boundaries, teams revert to manual workarounds.

• Lack of end-to-end visibility
Tracking materials, approvals, compliance steps, and documentation becomes difficult.

• Misalignment and conflict risk
Inconsistent data across companies can erode trust and increase operational risk.

These challenges slow down projects and introduce cost, compliance, and safety risks.

Why ERPs Like SAP or Ariba Are Not Enough

Huub explains that while systems like SAP are powerful internally, they are not designed for multi-company workflows. Key limitations include:

• Security concerns with opening internal systems to external suppliers
• Difficulty hosting multi-tier subcontractors
• Slow, costly change cycles for even simple workflow updates
• Inability to orchestrate cross-company processes end-to-end

As a result, teams end up working “outside the system” through emails and spreadsheets, creating fragmentation, delays, and risk.

Rise-X: Digitizing Multi-Party Workflows

Rowan introduces Rise-X as a cloud-based multi-party platform built specifically for cross-company operations. It uses: