# MAERSK OIL QATAR CASE STUDY

## BACKGROUND

- In order to win and extend the extraction license to the hugely valuable Al Shaheen Oilfield, MOQ needed to rapidly demonstrate significant efficiencies in current operations.

## OUR INVOLVEMENT

- MOQ planned a cost reduction programme targeting savings of $250m in operating costs and set a target headcount at 800 – a 30% reduction, all in just 12 months.

- During the same period oil prices dropped from over $100 a barrel to $28.

- MOQ purchased a PCS license and Organisational Performance Dashboard and employed a team of executive coaches trained in PCS to work with the key leaders to deliver the required savings.

- In a 9-month intervention between July 2014 and March 2015, PCS was deployed across 28 teams and 33 leaders both onshore and offshore.

- Leaders all received monthly coaching support and teams received quarterly PCS development workshops aimed at alignment and performance.

- The predecessor to the current PCS system was used to support MOQ comprising 4 segments and 12 focus areas.

- The average climate scores increased from 72.6% to 77.9% whilst undergoing major cost transformation.

- 26 of the 28 teams reported an improvement in climate scores.

- The most significant increase in a team was from 57.8% to 79.2%. The number of teams scoring over 80% rose from 2 in the first round of measures to 11 in the second.

- Areas of most significant improvement across the organisation: Team Balance: 14.3% improvement between first and second measures, Performance Management: 11.8%, Resourcing and Structure: 10.8%.

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## PERFORMANCE pcsCLIMATE SYSTEM

### PCS RESULTS

**SCORE** 76.6%  
All 12 focus areas of the PCS diagnostic increased across the two rounds of measures with Team Balance,

### OUTCOMES

As well as the climate scores demonstrably improving by over 7% over the 9-month intervention, MOQ:

- Successfully reduced headcount.
- Achieved $250m operational cost reduction.
- Saw every single measure of business performance improve including health and safety measures, staff satisfaction, wellbeing, quality and risk scores.
- Increased production by over 10% and remained consistently above 300,000 barrels per day; the highest recorded was 334,000.

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