Case Studies

Communication Problems on a Drilling Rig

The Situation:
An Oil Company was experiencing data blackouts and poor and unreliable communications of critical data. A real world solution... See more

Reliability Problem in Pipeline Control System

The Situation:
A major Oil Company operating a pipeline serving many customers controlled the entire system using a Honeywell Distributed Control System (DCS) from a central facility over a TCP/IP network. There were frequent, but intermittent, setpoint failures across the network which could — if repeated across the A & B systems — have triggered a pipeline shutdown. See our solution

Performance Problems in Well Operations System

The Situation:
An Oil Company invested significant time and effort to bring large volumes of realtime data from wellsites into a central database system and to automatically process the data to make both realtime and historical well information available to well operations engineers via a website. The continuous automatic processing of the realtime data took too long and the website was very sluggish for users. See our solution

Performance Problems in Sub-Surface System

The Situation:
An Oil Company moved to a new PC-based sub-surface interpretation system with all the data stored on Microsoft servers using an entry-level Storage Area Network (SAN) for the hard-disks. The interactive performance was inconsistent and prone to briefly freezing during seismic interpretation. The application, PC, server and network teams all blamed each other. Users and management were getting frustrated. See our solution