Streamlining Field Operations with Advanced Data Management

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Empowering field staff with advanced data management technologies and integrating field and back office workflows are crucial steps toward revolutionizing field operations in the energy industry.

FREMONT, CA: Field staff is vital to bridging the gap between data and decisions in the energy industry, ensuring the smooth running of vital workflows that impact performance. Their expertise and knowledge enable them to optimize production, troubleshoot equipment, and address potential problems promptly. Let us explores the importance of field staff in powering the digital oil field and highlights the need for a paradigm shift in field operations data management.

Field staff, known by various titles such as lease operators, pumpers, and gaugers, are the backbone of energy companies, actively contributing to revenue generation, production optimization, and equipment maintenance. They collect, analyze, and report data accurately, ensuring operational efficiency and safety. Field staff also play a pivotal role in upholding HSE, regulatory compliance, and ESG standards, underscoring their multifaceted responsibilities.

While digital oil field advances have revolutionized drilling and completions, field operations have lagged in adopting modern methods of data capture. Field staff often rely on traditional approaches, such as spreadsheets or even hand-recording data on grease sheets. This outdated process delays data validation and delivery to relevant stakeholders, impeding critical business performance drivers like production targets, revenue, expenses, and regulatory compliance.

The energy industry requires a paradigm shift in field operations data management in today's connected and data-driven world. This shift necessitates empowering field staff with advanced technologies enabling smarter data gathering and seamlessly connecting the field to the back office. However, user acceptance and friction caused by cumbersome field data capture tools have hindered the adoption of mobile and cloud-based solutions.

To address these challenges effectively, energy operators must enhance their field data-gathering technologies and integrate them with back-office systems. It is not enough to provide field staff with user-friendly mobile apps; a holistic approach is essential. Data silos persist across the digital oil field, including allocation networks, SCADA systems, hydrocarbon accounting, and ERP, necessitating a comprehensive integration strategy. By fully integrating field operations data with back office systems through application programming interfaces (API), operators can streamline processes, reduce manual data entry, enhance data accuracy, and optimize workflows.

To drive oil and gas business performance, operators must upgrade their field data-gathering technologies and deploy solutions seamlessly integrating back-office systems. Such integration allows for real-time, calibrated, and validated allocations, improving production accounting and other critical workflows. By minimizing manual data entry and leveraging API connectivity, operators can achieve faster and more reliable interest owner payments, reducing the need for prior period adjustments and enhancing overall operational efficiencies.

Operators can optimize production, improve efficiency, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance overall business performance by providing field staff with user-friendly tools and seamless connectivity. Embracing these changes will pave the way for a digitally transformed oil field that maximizes the potential of field staff and drives industry growth.