VAM - Virtual Asset Manager™

Virtual Asset Manager™ (VAM) is a high-level business management system. It is the latest in MSi's cutting edge technology for the management, operations and optimization of complex oil and gas, multi-asset infrastructures. It provides a common communications media between the various users and disciplines into a platform that each can understand.

Virtual Asset Manager™ provides a user-friendly package to bring together mission critical information about the commercial and operational performance of demanding asset operations at the finger tips of business and asset managers.

VAM provides a component-driven, fully-modular platform to centralize key infomation from other asset-specific components like multiple Virtual Pipeline Manager™ systems, Virtual Operator™ systems, MSi's suite of other Software Systems as well as other third party systems (e.g. SCADA/DCS, historians and database systems).

VAM is designed for effective hydrocarbon management, and supply assurance, while maximizing operating profitability. It provides an integrated, open access information and control network for the management and optimization of diverse, but interdependent processes and operations.

West Natuna Transportation System Virtual Pipeline Manager™

VAM provides a comprehensive management environment that ensures that the various inputs from the asset's individual disciplines and stake holders are weighted appropriately and consistently, again with the eye on maximizing profitability for the whole asset.

VAM enables the client to effectively and efficiently handle the management and operations of complex infrastructures, meeting both the oil or condensate production commitments and the gas nominations.

Virtual Asset Manager™ is designed to issue the high-level guidance on how the whole asset needs to be managed in order to achieve maximum operating profitability.

VAM basically provides the necessary "marching orders" and centralizes all field-level responses on a global scale for metrics and analysis of the cause-and-effect of various field-level operations. This is made possible based on an integrated asset-management approach across individual systems, like Virtual Pipeline Manager™, Virtual Operator™, Virtual Manager™ and other MSi software systems, as well as other third party systems, implemented at the field-level.

VAM employs MSi field-proven, open-architecture, distributed-component philosophy, bringing together and managing the information provided by these systems under a comprehensive, asset-wide platform.

In keeping with MSi's design philosophy, VAM is a fit-for-purpose package, as such "no one size fits all". It is designed to allow each of the user classes (e.g. business and asset managers, operations and support groups) to do his or her job more effectively and efficiently.

MSi maintains a wide suite of applicable program modules that can be integrated or interfaced with a VAM, including VPM, VO, VM, FDG™ and other MSi applications.

Each client's requirement is unique to their operations and those are taken into full consideration in the design of VAM or any of our software system suite.

VAM can be designed to track key metrics for management to evaluate and quantify business performance (e.g. daily amount of cash saved by using the optimized versus unutilized operations). It can also provide estimates of cash losses if various process control loops are set to manual and are not being optimally controlled by the field operators.