100+
Organisations trust Oxand
10%+
Increase in asset availability
6–12 months
Typical ROI horizon
Audit-ready
Safety regulator evidence
25 years
Of asset expertise
Solutions · Gas Utilities
AIP for gas utilities.
Distribution networks, compressor stations, pressure regulation, metering. Build the multi-year capital plan that prioritises safety risk.
up to 30% TCO reduction
>95% accuracy of ageing forecasts proven over 10 years
28% energy consumption cut on 15-year plans
What is AIP for gas utilities?
Asset Investment Planning for gas utilities
is the discipline used by gas distribution and transmission operators to prioritise multi-year capital programmes — main replacement, compressor refurbishment, pressure-regulation upgrades, smart-meter rollouts, hydrogen-readiness retrofits — under safety-first regulatory regimes. AIP combines asset condition, leakage data, failure consequence modelling, and decarbonisation scenarios to produce defensible multi-year investment plans.
Six pressures every gas utility has to plan against.
01
Buried-asset uncertainty
The mains underground are decades old, condition data is patchy, and digging to inspect is expensive. Decisions still have to defend themselves.
02
Leakage and emissions
Methane leakage erodes both revenue and carbon targets. Investment in detection and replacement competes with broader network CAPEX.
03
Regulatory price reviews
Safety-case filings, hydrogen transition frameworks, and emissions reporting requirements — every cycle ratchets the bar higher.
04
Climate stress and resilience
Extreme weather events and ground movement affect buried infrastructure. Resilience now shapes investment priorities as much as historical condition.
05
Energy and carbon footprint
Compression is energy-intensive. Net-zero commitments and methane-reduction targets collide with reliability and pressure-management needs.
06
Workforce attrition
Engineering teams holding the network model in tribal knowledge are ageing out. The decision logic has to live in the platform.
From cast-iron main to hydrogen-ready capital plan.
Centralise & Visualize
One asset register, fed by reality
Mains, services, pressure-reduction stations, valves, offtakes. Consolidate field condition from Simeo GO mobile inspections, CMMS and GIS into a single planning model — then visualise condition, risk and renewal value across the network on interactive maps. Bulk import in days, not months.
Simulate & Compare
Leakage-risk and renewal scenarios
Run 5, 10 and 20-year scenarios under budget, reliability and net-zero constraints simultaneously. Compare renewal and replacement strategies side by side before committing capital. Institutional knowledge is encoded in 10,000+ predictive models covering cast iron, steel and PE mains, so it does not leave with the senior engineer.
Adapt & Defend
A living plan, safety-evidence-ready at any moment
Living plans that update as field reality changes. Every recommendation links to asset, condition data, model, and action. 30,000+ recommended actions encode 25 years of asset expertise. New planners inherit institutional logic on day one. Defensible under PHMSA, HSE, or equivalent regulator review.
Connected to your tools. Secure by design.
CMMS
IBM Maximo, Infor EAM, CARL Software, SAP PM. Condition data flows in; strategic priorities flow out.
ERP
SAP and Oracle ERP. Financial data and procurement integrated with the multi-year capital plan.
GIS & BIM
Spatial and building-information data ingested to anchor asset risk to geography and structure.
IoT & SCADA
Real-time telemetry from SCADA and IoT sensors feeds asset condition directly into the investment model.
REST & GraphQL APIs
Open API layer for custom integrations. Connect any source system without bespoke middleware.
EU data residency · self-hosted option
Simeo is hosted on Azure (France region by default), keeping data within the EU for organisations under GDPR or national-security requirements. A fully self-hosted Kubernetes deployment is available for operators under air-gapped or critical national infrastructure constraints.
Three capabilities gas utilities use from day one.
Rate-case and safety filing
Evidence-backed CAPEX justification. Asset-level traceability. Defensible under safety regulator review.
Network investment planning
Main replacement, compressor refurbishment, smart-meter rollout. Multi-decade scenarios.
Compressor & regulation lifecycle
Point-asset families across compressors, pressure regulators, and valves. Refurbishment vs. replacement modelled with full-life cost and carbon.
What gas utilities say.
Electrabel
Help Electrabel extend the lifespan of 50 critical structures by 10 years through smarter asset management and optimized maintenance across two sites.
SIG - Services industriels de Genève
Harmonise and consolidate asset management within each domain and between them, and hold a decision-support tool for prioritised five-year project plans, readab…
Compagnie Nationale du Rhône
“Expert opinion used to settle it. Today every investment decision is factual and quantified — and no one can reduce it to assumptions any more.”
Renaud Blanc — Asset Management Engineer
Habitat 77
“Each territory used to defend its own priorities with no shared reference. Today works are arbitrated on objective criteria that everyone shares — and the budget is committed where…”
Stéphane LASERRE — Deputy Director of Project Management
LaGuardia Airport
“As asset leader, I'm aware of the need to challenge our practices and be at the top level of operation and maintenance practices. Within this context, we want as a first step to pe…”
APRR-AREA
“A solution that connects the technical teams, the finance teams and executive management alike”
Xavier Rigo — Deputy CEO, APRR
In'li
“We turned to Oxand because we needed a tool that would provide us with a predictive—not just corrective—view and help us manage our investments more effectively. Oxand stood out fo…”
Laura Stolz — Head of Budget and Asset Valuation Department
Département de la Meuse
“We needed a tool that would allow us to consolidate the fragmented data we had and project it in a way that could be clearly presented to our elected officials, who are the decisio…”
Dominique VANON — Chief Executive Officer (General Director of Services)
Viparis
“What we do not measure, we can neither steer nor put a value on. An estate is not a fixed inheritance, it is a living asset to be developed with intent. Simeo helps us answer a sim…”
Cyril Touboul — Technical and Works Director
Bibliothèque nationale de France
“Our spreadsheets gave us totals, never a picture of risk. With Simeo the wear and obsolescence of our equipment become visible and quantified: the investment we ask for is no longe…”
Eric Melet — Deputy DirectorRecognised by Gartner.
Gartner Market Guide for Asset Investment Planning Solutions, December 2024
Oxand is named as a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Asset Investment Planning Solutions (G00781827, December 2024). The guide identifies AIP as a distinct software category used by asset-intensive organisations to prioritise capital investment across the asset life cycle.
Frequently asked questions
Does Simeo support PHMSA or equivalent safety regulator filings?
Yes. Simeo's audit-ready evidence trail — asset register, condition data, predictive model output, action library, and multi-year plan — aligns with the documentation pipeline-safety regulators expect, including PHMSA (US), HSE (UK), and EU equivalents.
Can Simeo model hydrogen-readiness scenarios?
Yes. The same network model can be run under multiple future scenarios — natural gas only, 20% hydrogen blend, full hydrogen conversion — to identify which assets need replacement, when, and at what capital cost. The scenario comparison drives strategic asset-replacement decisions.
How does Simeo handle methane-leakage prioritisation?
Methane leakage data feeds into the investment scenario as a consequence factor. High-emission segments are prioritised for replacement, regardless of age. Leakage reduction is quantified per euro of CAPEX.
Does Simeo work alongside our existing CMMS?
Yes. Simeo integrates with major CMMS systems (Maximo, Infor EAM, CARL Software, SAP) via REST/GraphQL APIs. Field condition flows back to the model; the strategic plan flows forward to operational priorities.
How long until first value?
Most gas utility customers have a first multi-year scenario in 6–12 weeks. ROI typically lands within the first budget cycle, helped by predefined ageing models for cast-iron, steel, and PE asset families.
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