Is your company realizing but hesitating on the need to add automation for remote monitoring and diagnostics, whether onshore or off?
Here are some words of wisdom.
In the words of the Borg, of Star Trek: The Next Generation, it may seem that “Resistance is futile.” Change is always a challenge, but moving from paper reports and long wellsite trips worthy of Voyager is a change that will pay off really quickly. In truth, the more assets you have, and the more distant they are, the faster a cloud-native SCADA system will pay off.
Why Not Do It Ourselves?
The short answer is, “You can indeed do it yourself.” And that does give you on-site control over the whole operation.
But the downside is this: 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. In effect you, or someone at your company suddenly has to become an expert in remote monitoring, hardware, software and communications—and stay on top of that forever.
Advantages of the Cloud
Outsourcing all that hardware, maintenance, and expertise to Emerson Zedi gets you all the remote-monitoring, data analytics 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—and install—exactly the cloud-native system that takes care of your people.
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 main business.
Efficiency
Oil and gas are notoriously far flung assets. Wells are scattered across the Gulf of Mexico, the deserts of west Texas or the hills of Oklahoma, the plains of North Dakota, or Alaska’s tundra. With cloud-based 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.
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 they’re all dealing with exactly the same facts. It makes meetings and decisions much clearer.
Safety/ESG
Every extra mile of travel is a mile that involves ruts, ditches—and even more concerning—oncoming tired and hurried drivers. Those miles not traveled, as stated above, also mean greater safety for everyone.
Resistance Is Unnecessary, Acceptance Is Profitable
The bottom line is, well, your bottom line. Black ink. Profit.
