Industry
Oil and Gas
Permits to work, gas tests and tank data off paper registers. Oil and gas operations are hazardous, heavily regulated and run around the clock across refineries, pipelines, terminals, depots and retail outlets. Plant data lives in DCS, SCADA and historians, while permits, inspections and incidents are often still on paper. Software fits in the gap between the control room and the business: safety workflows, asset integrity, terminal operations and the reports OISD and PNGRB expect.
- Refineries and petrochemical complexes
- Oil and gas pipeline operators
- City gas distribution networks
- Marketing terminals, depots and tank farms
- Fuel retail and LPG distribution
- Oilfield services and upstream contractors
The pressure points
What slows oil and gas teams down
- Paper permit to work
- Hot work, confined space and electrical isolation permits are filled, signed and closed on paper. Simultaneous operations and isolations are hard to see across a unit.
- Integrity data is scattered
- Thickness readings, cathodic protection surveys, ILI runs and inspection reports sit in different files, so risk based inspection plans go stale.
- Control room data stays in the control room
- Historian and SCADA data rarely reaches planning, maintenance or management except as a daily Excel export.
- Audit and incident records are slow to assemble
- OISD audits and incident investigations mean days of finding records, near miss reports and action closure evidence.
Systems this sector runs on
The software we build and connect
Each of these can be built new, extended from what you already use, or connected to your existing ERP and accounting.
- Enterprise Asset Management and CMMSAsset maintenanceEquipment hierarchy, preventive and predictive maintenance, rotating equipment history and statutory inspection schedules for vessels, tanks and lifting gear.
- Governance, Risk and Compliance ManagementGRC and complianceOISD, PESO and PNGRB compliance registers, audit findings and recommendations tracked to closure with evidence.
- Field Service ManagementField servicePipeline patrols, CGD service connections, meter work and emergency response with geo-tagged reports from the field.
- Fleet Management and Transport Management SystemFleet and TMSTank truck scheduling, VTS and route compliance, and delivery to retail outlets and bulk customers.
- Dealer and Distributor Management SystemDealer and distributorRetail outlet and LPG distributor orders, credit, stock reconciliation and dealer performance.
- Business Intelligence and Management DashboardsBI and dashboardsThroughput, tank inventory, energy use and HSE leading indicators, combining historian and business data.
Built for this sector
Systems specific to oil and gas
The work that generic software does not cover, and where most of the value sits.
- Digital permit to work
- Permit types, gas test records, isolation certificates, approvals by role, SIMOPS conflict checks and handover between shifts, on tablets rated for the area.
- Pipeline integrity management
- ILI, CP survey and patrol data on a GIS route, with anomaly assessment, dig plans and risk ranking in line with API 1160 practice.
- HSE incident management
- Near miss and incident reporting from the field, investigation workflow with root cause, CAPA tracking and statutory reporting.
- Terminal and tank farm automation
- Tank gauging, receipt and dispatch, bay queue management, loading against orders and stock reconciliation with the ERP.
- SCADA and historian integration
- Read-only links from PI, DCS and SCADA through a DMZ, so dashboards and maintenance use live readings without touching control systems.
Where AI helps
AI use cases with a clear return
Standards and SOP assistant
Answers questions from OISD standards, plant SOPs and past audit findings, citing the clause, for engineers and safety officers.
Answers in minutes from the manuals
Rotating equipment early warning
Learns normal behaviour of pumps and compressors from vibration, temperature and pressure readings and flags drift for the reliability engineer.
More failures caught early as planned work
Permit risk checks
Reviews a draft permit against simultaneous jobs, isolations and gas test results and points out conflicts before approval.
Conflicting jobs are caught before work starts
Inspection report reading
Extracts findings, thickness readings and due actions from inspection and audit reports into the integrity and compliance registers.
Overdue recommendations become visible
Fuel demand forecasting
Forecasts product demand by depot and retail outlet to plan replenishment and tank truck schedules.
Fewer dry-outs at outlets and better truck use
What your team would see
- Active permits
- 46
- Days since last LTI
- 312
- Audit recommendations overdue
- 11
- Tank trucks loaded today
- 184
Near miss reports per week
Inspection plan completion by equipment class
- Storage tanks82
- Pressure vessels91
- Pipelines74
- Relief valves88
- Rotating equipment69
A sample of the kind of dashboard we build for this sector. Figures are illustrative.
Connects with
- SAP PM and MM
- AVEVA PI and other historians
- SCADA and DCS (read only)
- Automatic tank gauging
- GIS platforms
- Vehicle tracking systems
- Fire and gas detection panels
- Terminal automation systems
Rules we design for
- PNGRB regulations
- OISD standards
- Petroleum Rules 2002 (PESO)
- Factories Act
- ISO 45001
- API standards
Typical stack
Before you start
Oil and Gas: common questions
Will you connect to our control systems?
Only read-only, through your DMZ or historian, with your OT security team's approval. We never write back to DCS or SCADA from business software.
Can a digital permit work in hazardous areas?
Yes, on intrinsically safe or zoned tablets your site already approves, with offline mode for areas with poor coverage and a paper fallback procedure.
We run SAP. Why build anything?
SAP stays the record for maintenance and materials. We build the field facing pieces SAP does poorly, such as permits, incident reporting and terminal operations, and post results back into SAP.
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