Offshore, onshore and everything in between

Energy risk is concentrated and remote: platforms in a single basin, a refinery complex on one coast, a wind farm across a ridge.

The Energy Module is built for it, with geocoding for offshore and onshore facilities and energy-specific data formats and scenarios.

  • Upstream, downstream and power generation
  • Offshore and onshore facilities geocoded
An offshore platform at dusk
1 storm track

across the basin, the refinery coast and the power plants.

Offshore, placed by coordinates

An offshore platform has no street address. So where is it when the storm arrives?

A platform is a very large value in a very small place, on a schedule that rarely looks like a property schedule. A refinery is the same on land: tank farms, process units and a jetty behind one fence.

Exposure management for energy starts with putting those assets where they really are, and splitting the book by where they sit in the chain.

Upstream

Offshore platforms and rigs, many in one basin.

Downstream

Refineries and petrochemical complexes on one coastline.

Power generation

Thermal, hydro and renewables, wind farms under one weather system.

One storm track across all three

The platform photo, in three moves.

Place the asset

Asset location geocoding for offshore and onshore facilities. A platform is a point in open water, held as coordinates rather than an address, so it can sit on the same map as a refinery.

An offshore oil and gas platform standing in open water at dusk, with a tanker on the horizon and the sun low over the sea
Offshore · placed by coordinates

Asset location geocoding for offshore and onshore facilities

From the Energy Module.

A mature, production-ready module, purpose built for energy.

Available for immediate deployment for clients writing upstream, downstream or power generation risk.

Wording from the ExposureHub page on ebixrisk.com

Pre-built data formats for asset classes

Start from formats designed for energy assets.

Upstream and downstream risk segmentation

Asset location geocoding for offshore and onshore facilities

Loss scenario modelling for energy-specific perils

Ready to deploy without configuration from scratch

Open water or a fenced coastline: it has to be somewhere exact.

Offshore and onshore assets are placed differently, so that a basin total and a coastline total can be read on the same map.
LAT / LONGONE BASIN · NO POSTCODE · ILLUSTRATIVE

Offshore: a point in open water

Platforms and rigs have no address and many sit in one basin under one weather system. They are placed by coordinates, so a basin total and a storm footprint can be read on the same map.

STORM SURGEONE SITE · ONE COASTLINE · ILLUSTRATIVE

Onshore: a site on a coast

Refineries, terminals and power plants are large, fenced and often on the shore. They are placed at the site, so the question of which downstream assets share a coastline and a storm track has an answer.

Major offshore basins and energy regions
North SeaGulf of MexicoArabian GulfWest AfricaBrazil pre-saltSouth-East AsiaCaspianNorth West Shelf

The Gulf of Mexico, on the real result screen.

The demo environment ships a hurricane run over the US Gulf coast; three of its four policies are named GOM. For an energy book the points would be platforms and plants, read the same way.

Ground-up, gross and net

The Result tab lists each policy's ground-up, gross and net, with the schedule items behind it: the numbers an underwriter or a carrier asks for.

Result · event
ExposureHub Result tab: a hurricane swath over the US Gulf coast with the PML key and four policies
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ExposureHUB demo environment · sample data

Ask the book where the assets are.

The questions a team asks of this book, and what in the platform answers each.

Weather, ground and the scenarios built for energy.

For each peril: how it reaches this class, and what you look at on the map.
Windstorm and cyclone

One storm crossing a basin reaches every platform in it, then the refineries on the coast where it lands. Offshore and onshore are a single event.

A track over offshore and onshore points together, with upstream and downstream split.

Flood

Surge and river flood reach coastal refineries, terminals and low-lying plants. Offshore, the hazard is the sea, not water on land.

Coastal and flood-zone sites by value; offshore assets by basin.

Earthquake

Onshore plants and pipelines cross the same faults, and one shock reaches a refinery, its tank farm and the power that feeds it.

Site values by quake zone, with pipelines and infrastructure as a layer.

Energy-specific loss scenarios

The Energy Module lists loss scenario modelling for energy-specific perils, run over the geocoded energy book.

Scenario outputs by segment: upstream, downstream and power generation.

How the rollout runs: one class first, then the template.

The pattern comes from a fast-growing specialty MGA customer: agree which teams are in scope, hold workshops with each, go live with one class and reuse that template. It now runs seven classes of business. Energy follows the same road.
The Energy Module goes live
  • Energy asset schedules loaded in energy-specific formats
  • Offshore and onshore facilities geocoded
  • Upstream, downstream and power generation split out
The template travels
  • Each further energy team is brought on with the same template
  • Workshops with each team to agree what it needs
Phase 2
Within three months of go-live
  • Loss scenarios for energy-specific perils over the book
  • Reporting to carriers and capacity providers
Longer term
Integrity and resilience
  • Energy beside property and marine in one cross-class view
  • Third-party model and data feeds
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0classes live after a staggered go-live

From an Ebix Europe customer story. The three groupings (go-live, three months after, longer term) and the one-class-first approach are the customer's; what sits in each column for energy shows how a rollout would be scoped.

Modules involved, and the classes beside it.

The same configurable, multi-line platform runs every class. Energy is the one class with a dedicated module.

See Energy on ExposureHUB.

Book a walk-through built around your energy schedule and the questions your team asks of it.