Equinor
About Equinor
Equinor is an international energy company headquartered in Norway, with around 25,000 employees and operations in more than 20 countries. As one of Europe’s largest energy suppliers, the company delivers oil, gas, renewable energy and low-carbon solutions, with the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) as the backbone of its operations. With more than 50 years of offshore experience, Equinor is a world-leading operator.
About the project
Project start: 2026
Current status: Final stage of implementation
Planned production date: September 2026
ChemCenter replaces the chemical management capabilities of SAP EHSM as Equinor’s global platform for safe, compliant chemical management. It automates hazard assessment, keeps end-user input to a minimum, and uses two-way SAP integration to control which chemicals can be procured and used.
The delivery covers one global chemical inventory and SDS register built on a single unique chemical identity (ChemRef) per product; automatic derivation of inherent hazard and H/P statements from the regulatory framework that applies at each location; a governed request-in workflow with a dedicated quality-assurance (QA) step; Extended Risk Assessment (use, dispensation and discharge); integration with SAP S/4HANA and SAP EHSM, including Material Master, so HSE status governs procurement; and migration of products, chemical data, location hierarchy and risk assessments from SAP EHSM.
Primary use cases
- Give tens of thousands of employees across the globe one trusted source for chemical safety data, with each chemical registered once and traceable end-to-end, from procurement to use.
- Minimise the effort of registering and approving chemicals: the system, not the user, decides which steps are required, pre-fills applications from the substance register, and reuses existing hazard and risk assessments.
- Classify hazards automatically: ChemCenter derives inherent hazard and H/P statements from the regulatory framework at each location (EU REACH/CLP, US OSHA HazCom, Brazil ABNT NBR 14725, UK REACH), and checks product ingredients against regulatory substance lists.
- Control procurement and use through SAP: only chemicals with an approved HSE status are opened for purchase, and products are flagged when a new SDS increases the hazard, with advance notice before any blocking.
Project objectives
- Improve control and visibility of chemical management across global operations.
- Standardise chemical workflows in one governed process with built-in quality assurance.
- Replace legacy systems or manual processes.
- Reduce administrative effort through automation.
- Strengthen compliance and traceability.
Key functionality
- One unique chemical identity (ChemRef), so each product is registered once and stays consistent across plants, countries and languages. ChemRef keeps the same chemical identifier across regulatory frameworks, and the system automatically serves the correct SDS based on where it is accessed from.
- Global chemical inventory and SDS management.
- Automatic hazard assessment that derives inherent hazard and H/P statements per regulatory framework.
- Ingredient-level checks: review the specific substances in a product by CAS number.
- Automated SDS scanning and revision control in the QA step.
- Governed chemical approval with a split request flow and a dedicated QA step.
- Extended Risk Assessment covering use, dispensation and discharge.
- Exposure scenario documentation.
- Full traceability and change logging (risk assessments, applications and admin settings) via API.
- Configurable regulatory frameworks and assessment areas.
Integrations
- SAP4HANA
- SAP EHSM
- Corporate identity provider with single sign-on (SSO)
Deployment
Number of sites/assets: 20–50
Expected number of users: Available to all employees and relevant contractors across Equinor’s global operations; a core group of HSE, chemical and environmental specialists are daily users.
Geographical scope: Global
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