How to Boost Offshore Visibility with Custom Reporting

Managing and analysis of offshore campaigns requires clear visibility across dozens of operational streams, from HSE performance and personnel movements to vessel activity, weather downtime, ROV utilization, fuel consumption, and emissions reductions.

Challenge

An E&P company needed a single, standardized way to track and consolidate all this information so that project teams could report daily progress consistently and feed a clean dataset into Power BI for automated dashboards.

Solution

To solve this, Energy Maritime Associates (EMA) designed and built a unified construction support vessel (CSV)-focused operations tracking system that harmonizes inputs from multiple reporting sources and provides an auditable data structure for ongoing operations. Central to this was the ability to track contracted hours against actual performance in real-time, giving project teams immediate visibility into schedule variance and contract compliance. 

Step 1: Mapping Out the DPR Workflow

The first step was to review the E&P company’s reporting requirements and the various data sources provided to them by the relevant Marine Contractor. By analysing how this contractor-generated information was structured and what operational details it captured, we identified the key reporting domains to include in the tracking system.

The data source included metrics such as:

• As-bid schedule (contracted schedule) 
• HSE and QHSE summary
• Daily operational summary 
• Log of events 
• ROV & dredging tool activities 
• Project activity progress
• Consumables usage
• Fuel consumption 
• 1^st and 3^rd-party personnel
• Weather conditions
• Equipment onboard 
• Campaign and trip structure

The goal was to consolidate this data into a clean, consistent, and interactive Power BI model.

Step 2: Designing a Structured, Vessel-Centric Tracking System

To make the data usable, we created a normalized data structure that allows each dataset to be captured independently while remaining connected through consistent campaign and date logic.

This structure ensures every part of the CSV’s operation was captured cleanly, consistently, and in a way that supports analytics.

Step 3: Building the Tracker as a Power BI-Ready Dataset

With the requirements clear, the raw data collected, and the overall structure defined, we developed a Power BI model built around multiple datasets, each representing a distinct operational domain from the CSV. This was achieved by:

• Keeping each dataset separate (As-Bid Schedule, HSE, Daily Summary, ROV, Events, Personnel, Vessel Activity, Fuel, etc.)
• Cleaning and preparing each table individually
• Creating a relational data model using Power BI’s relationship engine
• Connecting datasets through shared keys, such as:
  
  • Date
  • Campaign
  • Trip
  • DPR ID
    
• Ensuring that each table could filter and interact with others without losing granularity.
  
  

This approach maintains the integrity of each operational dataset while enabling unified reporting across the entire campaign.

The result is a flexible, scalable data model that captures CSV operations reporting in an easily interpreted and interactive way. This is achieved via multiple data streams flowing into a connected analytical environment.

Results

The completed tracking system, structured around one integrated CSV-focused reporting framework, consolidates:

• As-bid vs. actual offshore durations

• Daily operational summaries

• Full event logs

• ROV & dredging tool operations and allowances

• Project progress reporting

• Weather conditions and downtime

• Fuel consumption analysis

• Personnel onboard spread movements

• Equipment onboarding and offloading

• Segmented individual campaign analysis

By consolidating all vessel-level reporting into a single structured operations tracker, the E&P company now benefits from:

✅  Faster and cleaner DPR reporting

✅  Automated and interactive Power BI dashboards

✅  Better visibility across the campaign

✅  Consistent vessel-level analytics

✅  A scalable structure for future projects

This CSV operations tracker now forms the backbone of the the E&P company’s their offshore vessel reporting process and has significantly improved their ability to monitor and manage CSV operations.

Turn Offshore Complexity into Clarity with Energy Maritime Associates

Energy Maritime Associates (EMA) helps offshore leaders move with confidence through market intelligence, independent analysis, and decades of experience. We give your team the tools to cut through data overload and stay ahead of market shifts.

Access reliable offshore intelligence, expert advisory support, and custom reports built around your specific needs. Learn more about our custom Power BI reporting solutions for offshore energy.

For Power BI enquiries, please contact:  Ross Ord

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