The Challenge
Shelf Drilling wanted to strengthen how barrier information was used during daily offshore operations. While technical barriers and maintenance activities were already tracked in separate systems, operational and organisational barriers often relied on fragmented workflows and siloed data. Permit authorities, OIMs, HSE personnel, and offshore crews needed faster access to a complete and real-time overview of barrier health, competence status, and operational risk directly within their Control of Work processes. This made it difficult to maintain a shared risk picture, prioritise work safely, and identify degraded barriers early enough to prevent escalation.
The solution
To address these challenges, Shelf Drilling implemented an integration between Presight Barrier Management™ and Mobydo Smart Permit. The integration connects live barrier status, competence insights, area-based risk awareness, and operational data directly into the digital Permit to Work (PTW) and Energy Isolation (ISO) workflow. Users can instantly view relevant technical, operational, and organisational barrier elements while preparing or reviewing permits. With one click, they can drill down into bowtie analysis and understand the underlying causes behind degraded barriers or unwanted conditions.
The solution integrates information from multiple systems, including HR competence and training systems, maintenance systems, CMMS data, and operational workflows into one unified operational view. Embedded Presight dashboards inside Smart Permit provide area-specific awareness of barrier conditions, personnel qualifications, and operational readiness. This gives offshore crews, permit authorities, and platform managers better insight into what is happening around them before work starts. It also allows teams to verify certifications, training requirements, and competence gaps directly inside the workflow where decisions are made.
The Result
The implementation helped Shelf Drilling reduce the need to switch between multiple systems while improving visibility into barrier health, degraded elements, and operational risk. By combining real-time operational data, competence management, and bowtie-based risk visualisation into a single accessible interface, the company strengthened decision-making, compliance, and safer permit execution. The integration also improved planning, prioritisation, and coordination during SIMOPS and daily offshore activities.
In addition, the project supported a stronger risk culture across offshore operations. Teams gained greater awareness of how technical, organisational, and operational barriers influence daily work. Better access to live risk information encouraged more proactive conversations around degraded conditions, safer work execution, and operational planning. By embedding barrier awareness directly into the Control of Work process, Shelf Drilling strengthened both operational efficiency and its proactive approach to major accident prevention. Read more about it here: Integrating Barrier Management with digital CoW
– Barrier status is a prerequisite for planning upcoming work safely. When we see degraded elements early and understand why, we can make better decisions and avoid unnecessary risk, says Svein Flornes HSE Manager at Shelf Drilling.
