Every oil and gas company carries a version of the same problem. Systems that were added over decades—field operations platforms, ERP, maintenance tools, trading applications, sustainability reporting tools—were never designed to talk to each other. Data moves between them slowly, manually and unreliably. And the cost of that friction shows up everywhere: delayed decisions, manual approval bottlenecks, reactive maintenance and ESG reports built on spreadsheet reconciliation.

For companies running SAP landscapes, SAP Integration Suite is increasingly the solution that closes these gaps. It's an AI-assisted integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that connects every application, system and data source across the oil and gas value chain on a single platform—without requiring companies to replace their existing investments.

Here's how two oil and gas companies put it to work.

Murphy Oil Corporation: connecting the digital oil field

Murphy Oil Corporation is an US-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas. Like most upstream operators, Murphy's operations depend on a constant flow of data: well performance readings, maintenance status, logistics co-ordination and crew activity—generated across geographically distributed field assets and multiple internal divisions.

The challenge was not a shortage of data. It was that the data couldn't move fast enough or reliably enough, between the systems that needed it. Collaboration across divisions and with external partners depended on manual processes. There was no single real-time view of well development and maintenance activity. Field operators worked from fragmented information and visibility into day-to-day performance required significant manual effort to assemble.

Murphy Oil partnered with Incture LLC to deploy SAP Integration Suite as part of a broader SAP BAIP platform—building what the company describes as a next-generation digital oil field.

The integration layer connected Murphy's field data sources, HANA-based analytics and operational systems into a centralised monitoring cockpit. Machine learning and pattern recognition capabilities were applied across integrated data streams to identify efficiency opportunities and flag anomalies before they became incidents.

The operational impact was direct: onshore field operators now use touchless mobile applications, removing the manual data entry and system-switching that previously consumed time on every shift.

"Murphy's advanced digital initiatives on SAP Cloud Platform (now as Business AI Platform) are optimising well operations. Onshore field operators can now operate with improved effectiveness and safety with touchless mobile applications."

— Rajesh Satewar, Director of SAP and Enterprise Applications, Murphy Oil Corporation.¹

For upstream operators, this is the integration payoff that matters most: field data that flows in real time to the people and systems that act on it—not data that sits in silos until someone manually exports and routes it.

HELLENiQ ENERGY: automating decisions across a complex enterprise

HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A. is one of Greece's largest energy companies, operating oil refining and petroleum distribution across a sprawling multi-country footprint with €12.8 billion in annual revenue and 3,700 employees.

The integration challenge at HELLENiQ ENERGY was different in character but familiar in root cause. The company's investment proposal and management-of-change processes involved multiple departments—finance, operations, compliance—but lacked the integrated data flows to support them efficiently. Proposals moved through the organisation manually: data was re-entered at each step, approvals stalled waiting for the right information to arrive in the right format and the absence of a single source of truth created recurring discrepancies between systems.

The cost was measurable. Approval cycles ran longer than they needed to. Data inaccuracies required correction work downstream. And the manual co-ordination burden fell on people across the organisation who had other priorities.

HELLENiQ ENERGY implemented SAP Integration Suite alongside SAP BAIP, SAP Build, SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Document Management service. The integration layer connected data synchronisation across investment proposal workflows and change management processes—ensuring that task assignments, approvals and status updates flowed automatically between systems, with the right data reaching the right people without manual routing.

The outcomes were significant:

• 99% of investment proposal and management-of-change tasks automated
• 30 person-days per month saved through workflow automation
• Data accuracy improved and manual entry reduced across finance and operations functions
• Multidepartmental collaboration simplified with dynamic approval flows and clear accountability at every stage

"Using SAP BTP (now as Business AI Platform), we developed a customised application that streamlines project approval workflows, task assignments and data synchronisation for investment proposals and change management processes. This strengthens collaboration, enhances transparency and drives a new level of operational transparency."

— Dimitris Routsis, Head of ERP Services, HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A.²

Thirty person-days per month is not an abstraction — it represents real capacity returned to the organisation and real decisions that now get made faster and on better data.

What these stories have in common

Murphy Oil and HELLENiQ ENERGY operate at different points in the oil and gas value chain—one upstream, one downstream—and they used SAP Integration Suite to solve different problems. But the pattern is consistent.

In both cases, the issue was not the absence of data or the absence of capable systems. It was the absence of reliable, real-time connectivity between them. And in both cases, SAP Integration Suite provided the integration layer that made existing systems work together—without replacing what was already in place.

This is what distinguishes a purpose-built iPaaS from a collection of point-to-point connections. Point-to-point integrations accumulate technical debt. Every new system added to the landscape requires new bespoke connections. Governance becomes fragmented. Monitoring is reactive. When something breaks, it takes hours to diagnose.

SAP Integration Suite centralises that landscape. More than 3,800 pre-built integration packages are available through the SAP Business Accelerator Hub—including content specifically designed for oil, gas and energy scenarios—meaning teams deploy proven, maintained integration flows rather than building from scratch.

The platform processes 30 billion messages per month across more than 2.4 million deployed integration flows globally, backed by a standard 99.95% SLA.³

The integration question that shapes everything else

For oil and gas companies navigating cloud transformation—whether that means migrating from SAP IP/PO (Process Integration/Process Orchestration), expanding into renewables or activating AI-driven workflows—integration architecture is a foundational decision. It determines how quickly new capabilities can be deployed, how reliably data reaches the systems that act on it and how prepared the organisation is for the AI and event-driven automation use cases that define the next phase of digital operations in the industry.

The SAP Business Accelerator Hub offers a starting point for exploring oil, gas and energy specific integration content.

Learn more about SAP Integration Suite at sap.com/integration-suite or explore oil, gas and energy resources at sap.com/industries/oil-gas.