The influence of mobile development technologies is changing the face of oil and gas companies. Technology is encouraging companies to look for profitable options by implementing new technologies or increasing worker productivity. The oil and gas industry is poised for growth at the intersection of change.
In today’s scenario, it is becoming increasingly common in the oil and gas industry to use a mobile device to identify production levels while working near an exploratory site. However, it will soon become a mandate for E&P companies to invest in mobile solutions to better manage employees and equipment as well as obtain accurate data.
Mobile technology would revolutionize the operational environment and directly help upstream oil and gas companies improve their processes. To create a presence in this new world, the oil and gas companies need to be agile, connected, and collaborative — and require a drastically different approach. Several oil and gas companies are implementing mobile app solutions to transform the workflow. It is a proven phenomenon that enterprise mobility can help improve communication and collaboration among teams.
The oil and gas companies have an enormous opportunity to transform its workflow processes with mobile field service app solutions. The increasing benefits of enterprise mobility solutions are not limited to the field or refinery. Considering the prolific rate of change in the industry, technology solutions such as mobile applications can assist critical stakeholders in making decisions to increase revenue and minimize costs. It can help strategically improve employee efficiency and keep a tactical watch on operations.
Here is how Mobile App Solutions are Changing Oil and Gas Industry:
The upstream identifies and produces crude oil and natural gas involving searching underground or underwater crude oil and natural gas fields, exploratory wells, and drilling. It involves the sharing of voluminous data, as well as extracting, sharing, and analyzing information across different departments.
Upstream Sector:
- Optimizing drilling techniques for the best use of time and effort.
- Real-time monitoring of various drilling operations.
- Increased efficiency by streamlining various facets such as operation, environment, compliance and maintenance tasks.
- Work-order automation through mobile automation.
Midstream Sector:
- Automate maintenance-related tasks, work orders, and inspections for terminal operations, pipeline & storage.
- Corporate backend systems integration to ensure compliance with operational / safety procedures.
Downstream Sector:
- Ensure accuracy of critical information
- Integration to PM / ERP systems
- Control over MRO and mobile force automation improvement
- Distribution & sales management of packaged products
Corporate:
- Smartphone and tablet apps that connect all relevant stakeholders
- Complete automation and management of service call
- Effortless integration to multiple systems and assistance to corporate and oil field suppliers
- Comprehensive transparency and outlook of productivity analysis, dashboards, cost metrics
Ensure the safety of rig personnel, as well as reduce errors caused by humans, resulting in very costly blunders. The consequences can be fatal both in terms of finance as well as human life.
- Real-time reports and collaboration
- Minimizing human involvement and human error
- Managing real-time, accurate databases
- Flexibility to overcome and meet changing norms and standards of industries
- Manage tasks and resources of operators
- Rig-specific tasks such as scrutiny of critical operation points, as well as display rig-specific risks
- Gather, decipher and match data according to defined variables
- Seamless and integrated workflows
- SCADA compatible systems
Conclusion
It is important to embrace technology solutions to improve the overall operations and service delivery in the oil and gas industry.
