Case Study
Leader in Oil & Gas Exploration Goes from Ad Hoc to Automated Spend Management
© 2021 Coupa Software. All rights reserved. CUSTOMER STORY Leader in Oil & Gas Exploration Goes from Ad Hoc to Automated Spend Management Talos Energy, a leading offshore energy company focused on oil and gas exploration and production, felt restricted by the need to balance purchasing speed for its platform operations with controlling spend to get more value from every dollar. Each of their drilling platforms– 35 manned and 30-35 unmanned–requires operational support to keep running around the clock. But without a purchasing system, each platform was using manual processes for procurement, which were vulnerable to rogue spend. Without a digital system for spend management, employees needing goods and services to keep the platforms operating would use vendor quotes with ad