Insights on AI-powered planning, field operations, and compliance across the energy sector.
Building software has never been easier, and most builds still miss. A look at what build vs buy really costs operations leaders in oil and gas, chemicals, and utilities, and the four questions that actually decide it.
An in person audit is expensive, so it should be saved for situations where documents alone are not enough to judge the risk. Sending an auditor to a…
The equipment tag is the one identifier that procedures, drawings, work orders and maintenance records all share, which makes it the natural way to link…
What to look for in a digital procedures platform for oil and gas, chemicals, and energy. Covers field execution, PDF vs step by step, offline access, AI authoring, and a comparison of Intelex, Interface, and Microsoft Power Platform.
Most sites have years of incident and near miss reports that would be very useful before a job, but nobody has time to search them, so the lessons sit…
Remote sites often have no reliable signal, so a permit system that needs a connection to sign or approve simply stops working where it is needed most…
When two people work offline on the same job, there is a real chance they both record something for the same step, and the system needs a clear rule for…
Some values in a procedure are supposed to change every time, like mud weights, volumes or pressures calculated for a specific well or job. Those should…
A focused pilot is usually better than replacing an entire enterprise platform when the problem is specific, like slow permits or procedures nobody…
Most enterprise AI security reviews ask for a description of the architecture and data flows, where data is stored and processed, which third party…
Alerts from condition monitoring or control systems are only useful if someone acts on them, and when they arrive as emails or dashboard warnings they…
Not every vendor needs the same level of review, and applying the full HSE assessment to a low risk supplier wastes time for everyone while slowing down…