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Digital | Strategy | Know-how to Perform

To compete, resource operations must make the best decisions to produce, operate & deliver at maximum efficiency, safely. The focus is now on leveraging digitally enabled solutions for expert decision support to uplift operational intelligence.

sinektik knows how to get the return on your technology investment, so you get the know-how to perform.

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Let sinektik help you close four critical gaps to give your Integrated Operation the know-how to perform.

digital

A typical integrated asset generates billions of data points in a given week which means big challenges, and big opportunity.

Let sinektik help you close the data gap and digitise your field and operations.

strategy

Executives claim they do not manage to execute on 55% of their strategies.

Let sinektik help you ideate a strategy and define a program to close the strategy gap for your digital production operations vision.

production

With a focus to reduce OPEX and increase revenue, reducing lifting costs by up to 40% and increasing production by 3-10% are not uncommon targets.

Let sinektik help you close the production and operational gap and give you the know-how to operate at optimal production levels.

performance

Operations need a managed system of continuous improvement such as Operations Excellence. But to compete, Integrated Operations must first know how.

Let sinektik help you close the performance gap and define a system for expert operational decision support and performance, so you know how to compete.

Digital Gas Field
I first met David when he was assigned as the principal executive helping us deliver a strategic initiative in the form of a large and complex Digital Field. David is a significant enabler that allowed us to not only formalise our vision but also help us by leveraging his extensive global network... David has deep O&G knowledge and is technically brilliant which helped us onboard key stakeholders. He is able to inspire through his passion and creativity but still instil confidence...more
- James Blair, Business Advisory Lead - LNG Business, Origin Energy
Large, Complex Production Chain Systems
David is a consummate professional with a deep knowledge of his subject areas based on a significant background in information system architectures for large, complex production chain systems. His ability to link our strategic priorities to tangible outcomes is exceptional. I would not hesitate to engage David again on a suitable assignment.
- Richard Davies, Commercial Systems Manager, Glencore
Meticulous
In a word David is meticulous! What does that mean? If you are a customer with a question, you will not get the glib marketing answer. You will instead get the well researched and factually correct response you sought. If you request a proposal do not expect the boiler-plate material. You will instead get a well researched response tailored to answer, very accurately, the...more
- Peter Lawrence, Principal, Inova8
Application of Advanced Software Technology
David is very experienced and very knowledgeable about the oil & gas business, and how to apply advanced software technology to deliver benefits. He thoroughly understands how to deliver results to operating companies, and is good at explaining where and how to improve results through the application of the latest technologies.
- Jim Christian, Chief Technology Officer, INOVx Solutions
Ensuring Innovation is Key to Unique Business Value
David and I worked together for over 6 years within both Matrikon and Honeywell, in providing integrated information systems that helped optimise our customers operations... His approach to business is highly creative and provides insight and perspectives, that ensure innovation is key to the unique business value he provides his customers... more
- Ubaldo Torre, Marketing Manager - Mining & Materials Handling
Passionate Leader and Creative Problem Solver
David is a passionate leader and creative problem solver, who works well in a multi-disciplined team environment as either lead or peer. I've had the pleasure of working alongside David at several timeframes since the early-90's and always found it very rewarding; his capacity to keep progress towards goals, while managing the details and his determination for the project to succeed make him a great partner and his keen sense of humour and perspective make him a pleasure to work with...more
- John Colpo, Oil & Gas Global Marketing Manager

What sinektik can do to best help you

Let sinektik help you close the critical gaps in your Integrated Operation to give you the know-how to perform.

Close the strategy gap to make material your digital production operations vision: sinektik can help you ideate a strategy and define a program. Statistics show Operations must be wary of assuming if they build it (e.g. the Digital Field), a strategy for Integrated Operations will naturally result. Roll-out and choice of the right technology must be supported by a top-down strategy to realise your operational vision, and bottom-up prioritised set of constant gains and a focus on change, to feed forward your digital initiative and satisfy the business.
In other words Digital initiatives must of course be business-driven and user-led to harness the full potential of such technologies.

Close the data gap to digitise your field and operations: sinektik can help you leverage Digital technologies as part of the enablement strategy toward Integrated Operations, you’re able to do more with less by better understanding the dynamics of production operations, the effect of decisions on integrated processes, make operations more productive and knowledgeable, and better equip the workforce for change.

Close the operational gap to give you the know-how to operate at optimal production levels: sinektik can help you develop and implement a harmonised, functional landscape within the context of remote collaborative paradigm, best aligned to your work-streams that support delivering product to market with certainty and optimised operating cost.
In Production Operations this means more reliable, predictive actions and better decisions by optimised collaborative operations team, and improved accuracy & quality of production.
Ideally this leads to less unplanned deferral and downtime & improved deliverability, results in less waste, ultimately an uplift in production with operations having the know-how to meet demand, and importantly sustain a competitive advantage.

Close the performance gap so you know how to compete: sinektik can help you define a system for expert operational decision support and performance, Accordingly performance and practice must converge to a level of maturity to operate in a highly competitive market. So the big questions such as what is performance, how can it be measured, how can you operate to achieve it, and how you can act to improve upon it, can be reliably answered.

Benefits For Industry

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A little bit about sinektik

We at sinektik believe that central to expanding and maturing our presence in Oil & Gas is to drive innovative engagement methods and solutions to support market growth, and the improved business position of our clients.

sinektik’s vision is to provide integrated operations the know-how to perform by uplifting production & operational effectiveness through enabling technologies. sinektik believes to do this, identifying and solving problems depends on engaging collaboratively, among a group of individuals with diverse experience and expertise thinking creatively. sinektik’s founder and principal is David Dickson.

years of experience

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David Dickson

Introducing David

David has over 23 years of experience, in over 40 countries worldwide, connecting with at least as many leading operators in establishing digital strategy, & making these functional by implementation & operationalization.
Most recently David focused on designing and executing Honeywell’s O&G market and business engagement strategy for Honeywell’s Advanced Solutions. This involved re-architecting Honeywell’s Digital solution portfolio for Upstream O&G. Advanced Solutions focuses on delivering to O&G operations, software solutions and digital technologies for real-time production optimisation and to drive improved operational & commercial performance.

Ultimately David is passionate about outcomes, will drive hard in achieving these, and also introduces a level of intelligent creativity to the outcomes-realisation process. This passion and innovation has enabled his business strategy to be successfully applied to industry challenges throughout the operational lifecycle whether for complex or constrained operational environments. These in turn have translated into profitability by uplifting the maturity of production operations to high performing ones through the measured introduction of effective sustaining, and where appropriate disruptive, technology across the supply chain.

Aside from the application of digital innovation and creative thinking to Oil & Gas, what David also truly enjoys about what he does is the ability to combine his passion of immersing himself in different cultures, and finding himself in unique recesses of the world spanning the range of geographies resource industries are distributed across.

David’s interests include periods of addiction to skiing, throughout the generations being a mild music tragic, gardening, cycling around countries, traversing mountain ranges, and has a deep desire to moonlight as David Attenborough. He is also addicted to travel and now his early 40’s has travelled to 65 countries on 7 continents the majority of which has been literally, as they say, ‘on a shoestring’. Whether by bicycle, walking, hiking, hitching rides on the back of trucks, or opting for third class boat trips in Africa or train trips in South America, David likes to ‘keep it real’ to truly integrate his travel experience with the people and places he visits. David is now determined to get to every country in the world before he departs this mortal coil.

David has deep O&G knowledge and is technically brilliant which helped us on-board key stakeholders.

He is able to inspire through his passion and creativity but still instil confidence even though concepts or technologies may be new.

He has the rare ability to combine the 'big picture' with the necessary technical detail when providing solutions to clients... and a knack for discovering the performance levers inside a client's processes.

His ability to link our strategic priorities to tangible outcomes is exceptional. I would not hesitate to engage David again on a suitable assignment.

David is a passionate leader and creative problem solver, who works well in a multi-disciplined team environment as either lead or peer.

His approach to business is highly creative and provides insight and perspectives, that ensure innovation is key to the unique business value he provides his customers.

David is a significant enabler. He allowed us to not only formalise our vision but also help us by leveraging his extensive global network.

He is a strong analytical and strategic thinker who can 'think outside the box' where necessary.

His approach to business is highly creative and provides insight and perspectives, that ensure innovation is key to the unique business value he provides his customers.

David is an expert in the Digital Field who has strategic vision, excellent understanding of the Oil & Gas market, a very innovative mindset, a charismatic way to explain and discuss complex concepts and a sense to apply the latest technologies for solving complex business challenges.

David is a consummate professional with a deep knowledge of his subject areas based on a significant background in information system architectures for large, complex production chain systems.

David is one of the most professional, hardworking, innovative and driven individuals I have ever had the opportunity to work with.

introduce the clients

David has worked with all CSGs locally, and all ‘supermajor’ IOCs and many NOCs globally, in development and growth and in a consulting capacity – principally in the context establishing Digital initiatives better enabling and optimising Integrated Operations.

A sample of the businesses David has connected with is listed below and

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Be sinektik

Digital | Strategy | Know-how to Perform

To compete, resource operations must make the best decisions to produce, operate & deliver at maximum efficiency, safely. The focus is now on leveraging digitally enabled solutions for expert decision support to uplift operational intelligence.

sinektik knows how to get the return on your technology investment, so you get the know-how to perform.

be sinektik

Let sinektik help you close four critical gaps to give your Integrated Operation the know-how to perform.

digital

strategy

production

performance

What sinektik can do to best help you

Benefits For Industry

Production Throughput0

Asset Utilisation0

Maintenance Productivity0

Reduced Maintenance Service Costs0

Reduced MRO Inventory0

Asset Lifecycle Age0

A little bit about sinektik

We at sinektik believe that central to expanding and maturing our presence in Oil & Gas is to drive innovative engagement methods and solutions to support market growth, and the improved business position of our clients.

years of experience

countries

companies connected

Major Projects

David Dickson

Introducing David

– Australia Pacific LNG

– Shell

– Honeywell

– Glencore

– Honeywell

– Matrikon

– Origin Energy

– Aurecon

– Matrikon

– Hatch

– Glencore

– Honeywell

introduce the clients

David has worked with all CSGs locally, and all ‘supermajor’ IOCs and many NOCs globally, in development and growth and in a consulting capacity – principally in the context establishing Digital initiatives better enabling and optimising Integrated Operations.

A sample of the businesses David has connected with is listed below and

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Do you want to be synectic? For more information on how to get to know sinektik, click here.

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