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An information handover event tends to deal with tens of thousands of documents and millions of lines of data for being handed over either from Project to Operations or from one Operator to another during asset transfer or relinquishment. The process is not as simple as transferring files to another data storage. It requires major efforts to map the data to the legacy system and meet the requirements of existing data taxonomies.

This paper presents real case studies of implementing CFIHOS (Capital Facilities Information Handover Specification) as a common taxonomy for document and equipment data in ExxonMobil. Moving from an ambiguous, inconsistent and time intensive document-centric handover to a clear, consistent and streamlined data-centric handover. Streamlining multiple information specifications into a single industry standard that provides a clear definition of company’s requirements, improves data and information retrieval, enables workflow automation, and promotes better connectivity between information systems.

These proactive approaches can accelerate project delivery time by 6 months and reduce project cost by 5 percent from the removal of hardcopy dossier. This successful implementation also enables us to build standard work processes to enable support across multiple sites, enables automation in data quality validation and creates an engineering data foundation to unlock digital capabilities in asset analytics and data-centric engineering surveillance. Furthermore, the implementation of CFIHOS in Indonesia will provide a baseline for data and information handover requirements between stakeholders. It also provides a potential of broader implementation including CFIHOS integration into the existing government regulation that will support the Indonesia Oil and Gas (IOG) 4.0 strategic pillars on centralized data management and systems.