Oil & gas
IT, SCADA and analytics for oil and gas, upstream to downstream
Operators want production up and lease operating and G&A costs down. We support the systems that make that possible, from field communications and SCADA to the back office and the reports leadership reads.
Oil and gas companies run on data they cannot easily see. Production numbers, equipment readings, volumes and costs sit in separate systems, and the answer to a simple question, like which wells are losing money at today’s price, takes days to assemble.
We work end to end. Field instrumentation and communications at one end, SCADA in the middle, and at the other end the reports and dashboards that give leadership a single view of the operation. Every dollar spent gets a cost-benefit case, and deviations from baseline raise an alarm instead of waiting for month-end.
What makes IT hard here
- Remote sites, unreliable links
- Field instrumentation has to report back over cellular, radio or satellite from places where connectivity is an afterthought.
- Data in too many places
- Production data in SCADA, volumes in production accounting, and the analysis in a spreadsheet someone rebuilds every month.
- Downtime costs twice
- Once for the repair, and again for the production lost while the well or facility was down.
- Regulatory reporting
- PHMSA, DOT, EPA and Texas Railroad Commission reports that rarely change from year to year, but still get assembled by hand.
- Control systems you cannot patch like a laptop
- SCADA servers and HMIs run operations. A careless update has consequences beyond an annoyed user.
- Control room workload
- Operator fatigue, alarm management and management-of-change records, all with compliance consequences.
What we do for operators
- Upstream asset analytics
- Raw data from disparate sources turned into near-real-time views of production and uptime: break-even price per well, why production changed, wells across flowing, gas lift, rod pump and shut-in, and saltwater disposal capacity.
- Asset optimization
- Just-in-time maintenance instead of run-to-failure: equipment tuned to spec, failures forecast before they happen, and optimal settings identified.
- Midstream compliance reporting
- Reports for PHMSA, DOT, EPA and the Texas Railroad Commission built to pull data automatically, so they stop being an annual scramble.
- Midstream control room analytics
- Real-time reporting, PHMSA-compliant reports, workload studies, alerts for scheduling violations, and tools for alarms, incidents and management-of-change records.
- SCADA support
- Integration, administration and staged patching for Ignition, CygNet, FactoryTalk and Wonderware.
- Field communications
- Instrumentation reporting to SCADA over VSAT, cellular, radio or hardwired links, from upstream field sites through to refineries and terminals.
- Back office and help desk
- The office network, laptops, Microsoft 365 and help desk for the people who run the business side.
Software and platforms we support
- Ignition
- CygNet
- FactoryTalk
- Wonderware (AVEVA)
- GreaseBook
- OGsys
- Enverus
- IHS Markit
- Esri
- Cradlepoint
Questions we get asked
Do you work upstream, midstream or downstream?
All three, plus chemicals. Upstream work tends to be production analytics and field communications; midstream is often control rooms and compliance reporting.
Can you replace our monthly production spreadsheet?
Usually, yes. Pulling data automatically from SCADA and production accounting into a live report is some of the most valuable work we do for operators.
Which regulators do your compliance reports cover?
PHMSA, DOT, EPA and the Texas Railroad Commission.
What does the first conversation cost?
Nothing. No purchase order, no high-pressure sales. Tell us what is causing the pain and we will tell you whether we can help.
Services that matter most here
SCADA integration, patching and support, field communications, and control room design.
ServiceHelp desk & managed ITThe whole IT function for a company that has never had one. Your people call us, and we answer.
ServiceBusiness continuity & disaster recoveryPlans that keep the business running through a hurricane, an outage or a breach, and tested before you need them.
ServiceThirty minutes, and you will know where you stand.
No obligation, no pitch deck. We will tell you what we would do and what the ceiling would be. If that is not worth it, you have lost half an hour.