A refinery operator gets an alert that a critical pump is showing anomalous vibration readings. The data lives in a field sensor system. The maintenance schedule lives in an EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) platform. The parts inventory lives in SAP. The approval workflow runs through a finance system. In most oil and gas organisations today, none of these systems talk to each other automatically—and by the time a human has stitched the picture together, the window for proactive intervention has closed and now dealing with an operation failure.

This isn't an edge case. It's the daily reality for IT leaders across upstream, midstream and downstream operations. The oil and gas industry runs on some of the most complex, distributed application landscapes in any sector—and integration debt compounds every year that systems are added without a unifying platform underneath them.

SAP Integration Suite is an AI-assisted integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that connects applications, systems and data across the full oil and gas value chain. Below are four scenarios that illustrate how it works in practice—grounded in real customer outcomes and supported solutions.

Scenario 1: Closing the gap between field sensors and maintenance teams

The scenario: An upstream operator runs thousands of wellhead sensors feeding production data into a SCADA system, while maintenance work orders live in SAP. Without integration, technicians reconcile data manually — reviewing sensor exports, logging into separate systems and creating work orders by hand. Critical equipment issues are often caught too late.

How SAP Integration Suite helps: By connecting sensor data streams, SAP Asset Performance Management and Field Service Management into a single flow, the solution enables automated work order creation when equipment readings cross defined thresholds. Maintenance teams receive alerts with full asset context—not a raw data dump requiring interpretation.

The outcome in practice: Murphy Oil Corporation deployed SAP Integration Suite as part of an SAP BAIP platform to build what it describes as a next-generation digital oil field. Onshore field operators now use touchless mobile applications and machine learning-driven pattern recognition supports operational efficiency across well development and maintenance—replacing manual, fragmented workflows with connected real-time processes.¹

Scenario 2: Automating investment approvals across a distributed operation

The scenario: A midstream company with operations across multiple countries manages capital investment proposals through a mix of spreadsheets, email chains and disconnected approval systems. Each proposal touches finance, operations and compliance teams—but without integrated data flows, approvals stall, data gets re-entered manually at each step and errors compound across the process.

How SAP Integration Suite helps: Integrated with SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Build, SAP Integration Suite creates automated approval workflows that synchronise data across all relevant systems in real time. When a proposal is submitted, the right stakeholders are engaged automatically, task assignments are tracked centrally and the status is visible to everyone involved—without manual follow-up.

The outcome in practice: HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A., a Greek oil refining and petroleum distribution company with €12.8 billion in revenue, implemented this approach to digitalise its investment proposal and management-of-change processes. The results:

• 99% of investment proposal and management-of-change tasks automated
• 30 person-days per month saved through workflow automation
• Data accuracy improved across finance and operations functions

"Using SAP BTP (now 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

Scenario 3: Building real-time commodity supply chain visibility

The scenario: A trading and logistics team at a major oil company manages crude supply from multiple sourcing regions to multiple refineries. Pricing decisions depend on knowing where every cargo is at any given moment—but sourcing systems, logistics platforms and delivery networks don't share data in real time. Traders work from yesterday's numbers. Margin opportunities are missed.

How SAP Integration Suite helps: The solution connects disparate data sources—sourcing systems, port logistics, pipeline scheduling and delivery networks—into a unified, real-time view. Advanced Event Mesh, the solution's enterprise-grade event streaming capability, allows downstream systems to react instantly when supply chain events occur. A cargo delay triggers an automatic replanning workflow. A pricing window triggers an alert to the trading desk. Nothing waits for a human to notice and route a message.

The solution in practice: The SAP Business Accelerator Hub includes pre-built integration content specifically for oil, gas and energy scenarios—including hydrocarbon management and commodity supply chain processes—reducing the time required to deploy these flows from months to weeks.³

Scenario 4: Connecting the energy transition portfolio

The scenario: An integrated energy company is expanding into renewables and hydrogen with its conventional oil and gas operations. New energy assets run on purpose-built platforms—renewable energy management systems, carbon monitoring tools and CCUS tracking applications—that have no native connection to the SAP landscape. Sustainability reporting requires manual aggregation from six different systems every quarter.

How SAP Integration Suite helps: Rather than replacing the specialised new-energy platforms, SAP Integration Suite acts as the connection layer between them and the SAP core. Carbon emissions data flows automatically into sustainability reporting tools. Renewable energy output integrates with supply planning systems. ESG disclosures are populated from live data rather than quarterly spreadsheet exports.

The solution in practice: The solution's hybrid deployment option—Edge Integration Cell—is particularly relevant here: it allows integration flows to run within a private landscape for assets with data sovereignty requirements or limited connectivity, while still being designed and monitored centrally from the cloud.

What SAP Integration Suite delivers at scale

These scenarios reflect a consistent pattern: oil and gas operations generate vast amounts of data across highly distributed systems and the value of that data depends entirely on how quickly it can be connected, acted on and governed.

SAP Integration Suite currently processes 30 billion messages per month across more than 2.4 million deployed integration flows globally, with a standard 99.95% SLA. The platform connects 160+ non-SAP applications through Open Connectors and provides more than 3,800 pre-built integration packages through the SAP Business Accelerator Hub—including content specifically designed for oil and gas scenarios.⁴

For oil and gas companies already running SAP S/4HANA or evaluating RISE with SAP, integration architecture is a foundational decision. The solution that manages data flows across the value chain determines how quickly AI-powered use cases can be activated, how reliably legacy systems remain connected during cloud transformation and how efficiently new energy capabilities can be added without disrupting existing operations.

SAP Integration Suite's built-in Integration Assessment capability, powered by the SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology (ISA-M), helps enterprise architects map integration requirements to the right patterns before the first deployment decision is made—reducing rework and accelerating time to value.

Explore SAP Integration Suite at sap.com/integration-suite or review oil, gas and energy resources at Oil and Gas Software and Energy Software | SAP

Note: Scenarios 1, 3 and 4 are illustrative use cases based on common oil and gas industry challenges and SAP Integration Suite capabilities. They do not represent specific named customer deployments.