Gibson Energy

Case Study Oil & Gas

Fueling collaboration
in an increasingly
diversified workforce

Overview

Gibson Energy is a Canadian-based liquids infrastructure company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. With nearly 14 million barrels of storage, and over 500 km of crude pipelines, we touch 1 in every 4 barrels produced in Western Canada. Utilizing this focused asset base, along with our dedicated and talented employees, we help create value for our customers while generating stable, long-term cash flow.

Ultimately, our strategically located facilities, combined with our best-in-class market connectivity and a long-term growth outlook, help us connect our customers to markets, our employees to exciting and rewarding careers and investors to long-term value.

Discover how Gibson Energy is advancing diversity and inclusion while helping people realize their full potential

Customer Profile

Name: Gibson Energy
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Industry: Oil & Gas

14 Million

barrels of crude oil stored by Gibson, equating to one
in every four barrels produced in Western Canada

99%

of oil and gas companies in the
Forbes Global 2000 running SAP solutions

Before: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Committed to improving diversity and inclusion (D&I) with strategy that includes advancing IT capabilities for the purpose in areas ranging from recruiting and onboarding to collaboration
  • Looking to broaden outreach and metrics to attract and retain a more diversified applicant base with elevated employee experience from time of hiring to fostering immediate connections with existing staff

Why SAP and Syntax

  • SAP SuccessFactors was chosen for strength and development of technology meeting emerging D&I needs,
    from support of “beyond bias” basics to system configurability of D&I elements within standard processes
  • Syntax and SAP’s combined industry expertise is a major factor in transforming and choosing SAP
    SuccessFactors, with 99% of oil and gas companies in the Forbes Global 2000 running SAP solutions

After: Value-Driven Results

  • Recruiting technology that supports growing D&I needs, including for gender bias scan of job descriptions and postings, plus seamless sharing across a wide network of sites reaching more diversified candidates
  • Able to easily collect diversity information during the recruitment process to monitor and track related progress while everaging corresponding D&I materials, training, and workshops guidance from SAP
  • D&I plus other recruitment analytics and dashboards for the executive leadership team to quickly see trends
  • Simple and easy-to-use onboarding system that significantly decreases administrative efforts of filing onboarding paperwork for corporate and field workers; new employees start with a network of support
  • Platform to connect new employees to leaders and effectively welcome them even before Day 1