Enhancing Offshore Operational Insights with Custom Power BI Reporting

The offshore energy sector is undergoing a digital transformation. As projects grow in complexity and cost, the need for real-time, data-driven decision-making has never been greater. That’s why Energy Maritime Associates (EMA) is delivering custom Power BI solutions to help offshore operators and service providers turn complexity into clarity.

Why Power BI for Offshore Energy?

Microsoft Power BI is a data visualisation platform that allows companies to transform raw data into actionable insights through dynamic dashboards and automated reporting. EMA takes Power BI further, tailoring each solution to the unique technical challenges and workflows of offshore projects. 

Here’s how EMA’s Power BI services can support offshore industry pain points: 

• Fragmented Data Sources: Offshore operations generate data from vessels, diving systems, weather forecasts, personnel tracking, and more. EMA’s Asset Efficiency Intelligence Reporting (AEIR) platform brings all of this together into a unified, interactive reporting environment, eliminating data silos and enabling users to filter, drill down, and customise the view to surface the most relevant operational insights.
• Interactive Reporting: Traditional spreadsheet or PDF-based reports often make it difficult to identify and act on key performance metrics. EMA’s AEIR platform delivers tailored, interactive dashboards / reports that go beyond static reporting enabling faster, more informed decision-making through real-time data visualisation and user-driven analysis. 
• Scaling Issues: As projects grow in complexity, so does the data. EMA’s AEIR services is scalable, adapting to growing datasets and supporting detailed drilldowns by project, asset, time, or team. 

EMA brings deep domain experience to every engagement, ensuring your dashboards are not only visually compelling but operationally relevant and ready for real-time use. 

Asset Efficiency Intelligence Reporting (AEIR)

EMA currently offers bespoke Asset Efficiency Intelligence Reporting (AEIR) services, designed to provide clients with a tailored, integrated, and interactive reporting interface. AEIR merges data from multiple sources to deliver clear, actionable insights into asset performance, operational efficiency, and project tracking. Examples of AEIR solutions delivered by EMA to date include: 

• Vessel Activities 

• Diving and ROV Operations 

• Safety KPIs 

• As-Bid vs Actual Schedule Analysis 

• Weather Trends 

• Resource Consumption 

• Vessel Spread Tracking 

• Personnel Onboard Tracking 

• FPS Survey Tracking 

• Upstream Assets & Pipeline Maintenance Tracking 

• Rig Contracting Schedules 

With AEIR, onshore / offshore teams gain the ability to drill down into operations across projects, vessels, timeframes, and service providers, leading to improved cost management, risk reduction, and operational transparency.  

Our 5-Phase Custom Reporting Process

Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all product, EMA applies a collaborative 5-phase process to ensure your Power BI dashboards / reports are purpose-built for your operations: 

1. Research 
   We work closely with stakeholders to understand project-specific workflows, pain points, and existing data sources. This ensures the final output addresses real-world challenges from day one. 
2. Design 
   Our team sketches out dashboard wireframes, defining KPI logic, drilldown functionality, and user interface design. We focus on clarity, interactivity, and alignment with your operational goals. 
3. Build 
   Using Power BI’s full feature set, we construct custom data models, connectors, and visuals. Our expertise in DAX and Power Query ensures efficient, scalable, and transparent analytics. 
4. Test 
   Each report is validated against real operational data. We gather user feedback and iterate, ensuring accuracy, usability, and performance before going live. 
5. Deliver 
   We deploy final dashboards within your preferred Power BI environment (online or on-premise) and offer onboarding support, including documentation, training, and maintenance options. 

This structured approach is flexible. Whether you're an end user, vessel operator, EPC contractor, or subsea service provider, we tailor the process and outputs to align with your operational priorities and KPIs.

Whether you're tracking vessel activities, monitoring diving and ROV operations, assessing resource consumption, managing vessel spreads or personnel onboard, tracking FPS surveys, analysing safety KPIs, or comparing as-bid versus actual schedules, EMA’s bespoke Power BI tools are built to support your operational needs all within a single integrated reporting environment. 

For Power BI enquiries, please contact:

Ross Ord at ross.ord@energymaritimeassociates.com
or alternatively info@energymaritimeassociates.com

Please watch the video below for a more detailed run through of an example Power BI Report: