OPERATIONAL VALIDATION · OIL & GAS
Industrial MOC applied to an Oil & Gas operation
An organization in the Oil & Gas sector contrasted in EAFlow an operational model for industrial Management of Change — connecting risk assessment, MOC committee, implementation, readiness, PSSR and auditable evidence on a single Operational Graph. The experience made it possible to verify how an industrial change can stay traceable from the initial request through to start-up authorization and the generation of the final record.
EAFlow orchestrates and makes auditable the industrial Management of Change cycle in a single operational context. It is not a PSM/HAZOP/Bowtie/Asset Integrity engine and does not touch OT control: those specialist methodologies are registered as inputs, outputs and evidence of the MOC record, not executed natively.
The challenge
The organization needed to govern industrial changes across critical assets, facilities and processes without relying on information fragmented across forms, spreadsheets, minutes, emails and document repositories. The problem was not starting a MOC request: it was sustaining complete traceability.
- Change classification and structured risk assessment.
- Multidisciplinary review and derived actions with owners.
- Implementation evidence and the PSSR readiness gate.
- Disabling open items, start-up authorization and a final auditable record.
When traceability lives spread across forms, spreadsheets, minutes, emails and repositories, reconstructing the record requires rebuilding the history of the change by hand from multiple sources, precisely when it should be most auditable.
The applied solution
EAFlow made it possible to model the MOC cycle as a connected operational record. Each MOC case was related to stages, forms, risks, scenarios, safeguards, actions, approvals, committee, PSSR, open items, evidence and audit events.
- Change request and triage. Capture of the industrial change and routing by nature and criticality.
- MOC classification. MOC / Not MOC / replacement in kind / emergency, with the criterion recorded.
- Structured risk assessment. Recording of scenarios, causes, consequences and safeguards associated with the change.
- MOC committee. Votes, minutes and conditions, with the decision and its restrictions traced in the record.
- Action and evidence management. Derived actions with owners and compliance evidence connected to the case.
- Implementation and PSSR. Implementation of the change and PSSR as a readiness gate before start-up.
- Open items and authorization. Separation of disabling and non-disabling open items, and start-up authorization on that basis.
- Closure and auditable record. Final exportable record with the continuous traceability of the change.
The value was not in digitizing isolated forms, but in connecting the critical decisions of the change within an auditable operational graph. The specialist methodologies —PSM, HAZOP, Bowtie, Asset Integrity— are registered as inputs and evidence of the record; EAFlow does not execute them natively nor touch OT control.
What was validated
The validation ran through the complete industrial Management of Change cycle on a single Operational Graph: from the request and triage to the final auditable record, connecting risk, committee, implementation, readiness and evidence in one operational context.
Contrasted capabilities
- Change request and triage.
- Classification MOC / Not MOC / replacement in kind / emergency.
- Structured risk assessment.
- Recording of scenarios, causes, consequences and safeguards.
- MOC committee with votes, minutes and conditions.
- Action and evidence management.
- Implementation of the change.
- PSSR as a readiness gate.
- Separation of disabling and non-disabling open items.
- Closure and exportable auditable record.
- Traceability on Operational Graph.
The outcome
The validation made it possible to verify that an industrial MOC process can operate on a unified model that connects risk, actions, evidence, approvals, operational readiness and start-up authorization — with continuous traceability of the change.
By sustaining that traceability in a single auditable operational context, the need to manually reconstruct the record from multiple sources is reduced.
How it scales
The same Operational Graph that sustains the industrial MOC cycle enables other industry accelerators in Oil & Gas:
- To the industry accelerator Oil & Gas Industrial MOC
The industry accelerator that orchestrates the industrial Management of Change cycle —request, triage, risk, committee, implementation, PSSR, authorization and an auditable record— connected by Operational Graph.
- To the IT accelerator O&G IT
The industry accelerator for enterprise IT in Oil & Gas: change/release governance, process context and a live inventory, without touching OT control or PSM/HAZOP/Bowtie engines.