BP, one of the world's biggest oil-and-gas companies, on Tuesday declared the establishing of a new digital centre at Pune to support the company's core operations, extend its customer interfaces and support new business models. Co-located within BP's major global business services (GBS) operations centre in Pune, the new Digital Hub is likely to be operational by July 2021, with an primary headcount of up to 100 digital engineering, data, information security and design specialists, the firm said in a statement.
"BP today announced the setting up of a new Digital Hub that will create, grow and deliver a range of digital solutions to help transform BP's core operations, extend its customer interfaces and support new and emerging business models," it stated.
Teams at the Hub would have the technical depth
and capability to discover, experiment, develop and execute digital solutions.
"These will support the digitization of BP's businesses - resilient hydrocarbons, customers and products and gas and low carbon energy - and also help deliver new energy and mobility solutions, which are both key to BP's strategy and achieving its net-zero ambition," the statement held.
David Eyton, BP executive vice president, innovation & engineering stated: "Accelerating the digitization of BP's businesses and operations is vital to our transformation into an integrated energy company, and India has the expertise we need to achieve this. We expect to attract the highest-calibre digital talent to our new Hub to help take on these important challenges."
The Hub would emphasis on building an accessible talent ecosystem of digital expertise with cross-discipline, agile teams that would scale up and evolve over time. The Hub would also consort and collaborate with other leading institutions, support start-ups and strategic organizations.
Sashi Mukundan, President, BP India and senior vice president, BP group mentioned: "Digital platforms and solutions driven by the Hub will support BP's development of new businesses and integrated models. And co-locating the Hub with our Global Business Solutions Centre will further enhance integration and deliver synergies."
BP's activities in India consist of a partnership with Reliance Industries Ltd for emerging gas fields and fuel marketing, and also Castrol lubricants business, clean energy projects through Lightsource bp and IT back-office actions.
