The Electronic Boat Sheet (EBS) is a tool that provides a consistent and efficient means of communicating shipment logistics information across Exxon refineries, Mobil refineries, Lube & Petroleum Specialty Headquarters (L&PS HQ), customers, and other entities.

Basestocks and specialty products are shipped and received via barge and ocean-going vessel from three U.S. ExxonMobil Refining locations and the Valero Refinery. Scheduling arrivals, departures, loading, and unloading activities for these vessels requires communications between the refineries, customers, L&PS HQ, shippers and other lesser entities. The goal of the EBS was to develop a tool that provides a way for interested parties to automatically communicate shipment information in a consistent and efficient manner. The EBS was designed to replace some of the existing Exxon processes (DOMIINO) that were being retired and manual processes currently used at Mobil locations.

The EBS is a web based data entry and reporting system that was deployed in the ExxonMobil Intranet environment. Users can enter and view data via the Internet Explorer browser. Security was integrated with the ExxonMobil Windows NT LAN security mechanisms.

EBS System Components consisted of:

• MS Internet Explorer 5
• MS Internet Information Server (IIS)
• Crystal Reports 8.5 Developer Edition
• MS SQL-Server 7.0

Some benefits of the EBS include:

• Improvements in productivity associated with not having to manually coordinate logistics data between involved parties (refineries, L&PS HQ, etc).
• Customer service and communication benefits.
• Lower maintenance and upgrade costs associated with centralized, web-based application architecture.
• Use of a modern component-based architecture will be more adaptable to business changes.