Presentation: Merging Operational Technology, Information Technology, and Cybersecurity at Hess

Operational intelligence at Hess combines IT and Operations to drive operational excellence. Hess used the PI System as part of the exception-based surveillance platform and to drive operational intelligence. Hess also reorganized the workforce from asset based teams to a common pool of experts that are dynamically assigned to work on problems identified by exception-based notifications. This has led to a better understanding of the production asset which in turn has improved efficiencies in operations. This also has improved our understanding of the need to better safeguard our Operations Technology space from cyber threats. Developing SCADA security standards and implementing these standards to segregate Control Systems & Enterprise networks are in progress. The PI System only plays a role in aggregating data from control systems network, but also forms an integral part of the solution which provides security to the data from control networks to the enterprise.