Solution

Strategic Decision Support

Strategic Decision Support

Exploring Pathways for Mature Platforms
Exploring Pathways for Mature Platforms
Screenshot of computer simulation
Screenshot of computer simulation

Exploring strategic pathways for mature assets - balancing value, complexity, and carbon to give leaders confidence in critical field development decisions.

Client(s)

Neptune Energy

Sector

Oil & Gas

Challenge

Field Development

Decision lens

Investment Planning

Product

-

Geography

Europe

The challenge

The challenge

Making strategic choices for mature offshore platforms is never straightforward. Options often involve major investments with widely different technical, commercial, and ESG implications.


For one of Neptune’s assets, choices ranged from transforming it into a mixed oil and gas hub to focusing primarily on gas development. Each strategy came with distinct trade-offs in lifecycle value, complexity, cessation of production (CoP) timing, and carbon footprint.


Traditional approaches struggled to capture this breadth. The result: uncertainty over whether decisions were aligned with both short-term efficiency and long-term resilience.

Making strategic choices for mature offshore platforms is never straightforward. Options often involve major investments with widely different technical, commercial, and ESG implications.


For one of Neptune’s assets, choices ranged from transforming it into a mixed oil and gas hub to focusing primarily on gas development. Each strategy came with distinct trade-offs in lifecycle value, complexity, cessation of production (CoP) timing, and carbon footprint.


Traditional approaches struggled to capture this breadth. The result: uncertainty over whether decisions were aligned with both short-term efficiency and long-term resilience.

Solution

Dashboard titled “NeptuneNL Hub strategy decision support” showing three main charts: economic trade-offs scatter plot, time series of area cashflow, and a bubble chart of commercial vs. technical complexity. A bar chart shows F3-B CoP year and CO₂. Below, a table lists strategy choices with columns for timing, concepts, options, rationalisation, commercial options, and electrification.
Dashboard titled “NeptuneNL Hub strategy decision support” showing three main charts: economic trade-offs scatter plot, time series of area cashflow, and a bubble chart of commercial vs. technical complexity. A bar chart shows F3-B CoP year and CO₂. Below, a table lists strategy choices with columns for timing, concepts, options, rationalisation, commercial options, and electrification.
Dashboard titled “NeptuneNL Hub strategy decision support” showing three main charts: economic trade-offs scatter plot, time series of area cashflow, and a bubble chart of commercial vs. technical complexity. A bar chart shows F3-B CoP year and CO₂. Below, a table lists strategy choices with columns for timing, concepts, options, rationalisation, commercial options, and electrification.

We developed a decision support tool to give Neptune a clear view of the strategic pathways for the asset.


The tool systematically explored combinations of future choices, including:


  • Regional hub development for oil and gas vs. a more gas-focused hub.

  • Investment levels and sequencing of riser towers, host modifications, and tie-ins.

  • Opportunities for OPEX rationalisation, partner alignment, and electrification.


Each scenario was evaluated across economics, CoP timing, complexity, and carbon exposure. By filtering out unattractive strategies, the tool revealed two distinct strategic groups:


  • Maximising reserves and lifecycle value.

  • Maximising investment efficiency with earlier CoP.


The capability also supported what-if testing — such as the outcomes of exploration wells, changes in tariffs, or shifts in partner negotiations.

Results

Transparent trade-offs

clear comparison of strategies across value, complexity, and carbon.

Stronger alignment

scenarios enabled informed dialogue between partners and stakeholders.

Decision confidence

a structured, data-driven basis for shaping the asset’s future under uncertainty.

Results

Transparent trade-offs

clear comparison of strategies across value, complexity, and carbon.

Stronger alignment

scenarios enabled informed dialogue between partners and stakeholders.

Decision confidence

a structured, data-driven basis for shaping the asset’s future under uncertainty.

Results

Transparent trade-offs

clear comparison of strategies across value, complexity, and carbon.

Stronger alignment

scenarios enabled informed dialogue between partners and stakeholders.

Decision confidence

a structured, data-driven basis for shaping the asset’s future under uncertainty.

Related solutions

    CO2 Transport & Storage Resilience

    WhiteSpace is supporting a leading carbon storage operator in assessing the robustness of its end-to-end CO2 logistics chain. By combining probabilistic simulation and scenario analysis, the project quantifies buffer capacity, vessel flexibility, and delivery risk under real-world uncertainty — providing a foundation for future operational optimisation.

    See solution

    CO2 Transport & Storage Resilience

    WhiteSpace is supporting a leading carbon storage operator in assessing the robustness of its end-to-end CO2 logistics chain. By combining probabilistic simulation and scenario analysis, the project quantifies buffer capacity, vessel flexibility, and delivery risk under real-world uncertainty — providing a foundation for future operational optimisation.

    See solution

    Cessation of Production Strategy

    Balancing life-cycle value and cost trade-offs with transparent, scenario-based planning for plug and abandonment.

    See solution

    Cessation of Production Strategy

    Balancing life-cycle value and cost trade-offs with transparent, scenario-based planning for plug and abandonment.

    See solution

    Concept Select

    From a handful of options to the full development space - strengthening Concept Select decisions with clarity and confidence.

    See solution

    Concept Select

    From a handful of options to the full development space - strengthening Concept Select decisions with clarity and confidence.

    See solution

    Plug & Abandonment Planning

    Optimising rigs, pulling units, and schedules to maximise wells abandoned before CoP - with flexibility to adapt as conditions change.

    See solution

    Plug & Abandonment Planning

    Optimising rigs, pulling units, and schedules to maximise wells abandoned before CoP - with flexibility to adapt as conditions change.

    See solution

    CO2 Transport & Storage Resilience

    WhiteSpace is supporting a leading carbon storage operator in assessing the robustness of its end-to-end CO2 logistics chain. By combining probabilistic simulation and scenario analysis, the project quantifies buffer capacity, vessel flexibility, and delivery risk under real-world uncertainty — providing a foundation for future operational optimisation.

    See solution

    Cessation of Production Strategy

    Balancing life-cycle value and cost trade-offs with transparent, scenario-based planning for plug and abandonment.

    See solution

    Concept Select

    From a handful of options to the full development space - strengthening Concept Select decisions with clarity and confidence.

    See solution

    Plug & Abandonment Planning

    Optimising rigs, pulling units, and schedules to maximise wells abandoned before CoP - with flexibility to adapt as conditions change.

    See solution

    3D visualization of well trajectories shown as curved pink lines across a grid, illustrating subsurface drilling paths and target points.

    AIM Well Planning

    From weeks of manual design to clear options in under an hour — giving teams time to focus on value, not drafting.

    See solution

Want to learn more about this solution? Get in touch and ask for a demo.

Contact us

Want to learn more about this solution? Get in touch and ask for a demo.

Contact us

Want to learn more about this solution? Get in touch and ask for a demo.

Contact us

Want to learn more about this solution? Get in touch and ask for a demo.

Contact us