Maybe your company is still hesitating on adding automation for remote monitoring and diagnostics for your onshore or offshore oil and gas production.
I get it, change can be a giant challenge and going from paper reports and driving to wellsite locations may seem like lightyears from how you do things today. But making simple, step by step tech changes can quickly pay off in multiples. In truth, the more assets you have, and the more distant they are, the faster a cloud-native SCADA system will pay off and create wild returns.
Why Not Do It Ourselves?
The short answer is, “Sure, of course you can indeed do it yourself.” And that does give you on-site control over the whole operation. My first question for you then is are you a Software, SCADA or technology company, or are you an oil and gas production company? That's a pretty big difference in your core foundational focus area.
And trying to DIY it has some pretty steep downsides. First and foremost is the elephant in the room: Doing SCADA is not your real business—finding, producing and delivering oil and gas is your business.
To do SCADA in-house, you have to buy, install and maintain all the hardware, the communications architecture and the software that delivers the data to your decision makers, and oh please don't forget about the security of it all, keeping everything locked tightly and up to date is a pretty big job in itself. In effect you, or someone at your company suddenly has to become an expert in cybersecurity, remote monitoring, hardware, software and communications—and stay on top of that, not just for the first few months, but, well, forever.
Advantages of the Cloud
Outsourcing the always changing cyber security, hardware, maintenance, software updates to get it to 'do' what you want, and expertise to DeltaV SaaS SCADA gets you all the security, remote-monitoring, data analytics, control, remote visibility to your assets, and actionable data you could ever want—automatically!
We can start wherever your company is at. No automation? No problem. Our experts will sit down and listen to your needs, your plans and your questions. Then they’ll design, works with our trusted partners to install, and you end up with exactly the data analytics, forecasting, security and alarms you need to stop sending people to the remotely located assets without a really good reason, that they now would know before they left what they needed to bring, what the problems are, how long it will take them, and what other sites nearby may need too.
Or if you have some monitoring—on any level—and are ready to improve your system’s actionable analytics, diagnostics, alarms or anything else, we’ll start where you are and get you where you’re going. All the while you’re focusing only on your core business.
Efficiency
Oil and gas production fields are notoriously remotely located, and I don't mean just off the main drag, no, I'm taking easily hours from a main road, or even offshore. Wells are scattered across the Gulf of America, the deserts of west Texas and the hills of Oklahoma, the plains of North Dakota, or Alaska’s tundra.
When you add our cloud-native remote monitoring and control, you’re saving thousands of hours of travel time by helicopter, truck or other means. People only travel those miles when there’s something that needs in-person attention. And when they go, they have a very good idea of the tools, parts and supplies they’ll need to make a quick repair, and where else is nearby they should go while they're out there.
Your people have real-time field data and alarms to let them solve or prevent issues. They have actionable analytics that inform production trends, profitability, asset management and so much more. All this is data that is automatically loaded into a central database, where it can be mined by departments like accounting, production, field services and more, and it increases internal communication because they’re all dealing with exactly the same facts. It makes meetings and decisions much clearer, more accurate and faster.
Safety
Every extra mile of travel is a mile that involves ruts, ditches, flight hazards, and even more concerning, oncoming tired and hurried drivers. All those miles you don't have to send your people to travel means greater safety for everyone.
Safety also increases because your equipment can be better scheduled for maintenance, repairs can be proactive based on historical data that can tell you when it's time, or even before it's time to make the same repair that it usually needs at proven time frames.
You can even track all your equipment with DeltaV SaaS SCADA Asset Protect to help everyone know where things like paperwork, manuals, maintenance schedules; all live so there is no wasted time searching, or worse yet guessing when you need them the most. All your people know where to find everything they need, and everyone is working from the same factual pieces so no more estimated guesses, or searching everywhere for the parts book.
