A Critical Energy Operation at Scale
Beach Energy's BassGas plant sits near Lang Lang, Victoria, processing raw gas piped in from unmanned offshore wells in Bass Strait. The facility produces roughly 20 PJ of sales gas per year, plus matching volumes of LPG and condensate. Sales gas flows into the VENCorp pipeline network; LPG and condensate reach the Victorian and South Australian markets by truck.
Simplifying a Complex Supply Chain
BassGas is owned by a joint venture that includes Beach Energy, which also operates the facility. That dual role means Beach Energy carries both the operational load of a remote, complex plant and the contractual load that comes with joint ownership: onshore and offshore surveillance and diagnostics, production and joint venture accounting, inventory management, gas nominations, and truck scheduling.
Beach Energy needed one system, not several, that would let facility staff manage those obligations without stepping away from the core job of running the plant. The brief was clear: a single web-based environment for planning, executing, and monitoring the entire supply and delivery chain for gas, LPG, and condensate.
A Single Platform for End-to-End Control
IFS applied its proven products and standard project methodology to specify, design, and deliver a configured solution built on IFS.ai Operational Intelligence, engineered to scale as Beach Energy's business requirements grew.
The platform delivered a web-based data integration and visualization framework for a simplified, graphical view of production and operations; an online environment that validates both automated and manually entered data before it reaches operations for approval; an advanced calculation environment and production database with full traceability, including well allocation; and gas nomination, balancing, and truck scheduling capabilities configured to Beach Energy's operating model.
Delivering Visibility, Accuracy, and Efficiency
- Real-time surveillance. Live, web-based access to process and production data.
- Gas nominations and truck scheduling. Web-based nominations, balancing, contract management, and load-out bay scheduling, integrated directly into planning data.
- Cost savings. Lower reporting and administrative overhead, with accurate, timely delivery of contractually required information.
- Accountability and compliance. Fully auditable data collection and approval, with multiple validation layers and original values retained for audit purposes.
- Data transparency. Direct access to source systems gives every level of management and operations a reliable basis for decisions.
