10 Reasons to Work with QT OT to Save Millions by Moving to Directed Work and Operations by Exception
There are numerous companies advertising OT (Operational Technology) products and services, to assist companies in moving to Directed Work and Operations by Exception.
However, very few, have proven TRUSTED OT ADVISORS that can assist you in reviewing and optimizing your WORK FLOWS, to define a new TYPICAL OPERATIONAL DAY, driven by DIRECTED WORK, your MAINTENANCE PROGRAM, and a “SMART” ALARM and EVENT MANAGEMENT strategy and solution set.
And very few focus on the right approach of work flows, driving data flows, that drive automation and technology; most companies focus too much on the automation and technology, not enough on work flows, people, and operational efficiency first.
Taking the RIGHT APPROACH to this JOURNEY can yield HUGE KPI PRIZES! This is the number one reason to work with QT OT, on your move to Directed Work and Operations by Exception.
Here are some examples of client KPIs achieved after working with QT OT:
- MILLIONS IN ANNNUAL RECURRING OPEX = a total of $130,000,000 in OPEX savings, compromised primarily of approx +$50,000,000 in annual recurring OPEX savings; savings to be used for additional free cash flow every year
- MILLIONS IN REDUCED DRIVEN FIELD KILOMETRES = from 2018 to 2020 a reduction in field kms driven from 21,090,500 to 11,166,600 kms, a reduction of approx 9,923,000 kms or 47% reduction
- REDUCED OPERATOR ADMIN TIME = less than 30 minutes per day compared to 60 to 120 hours per day previously. That is an average of an extra 60 minutes per day per operator, to do more value added tasks
- IMPROVED MAINTENANCE VISITS = 15 to 20 Visits per Operator per day, where the operator can now “get out of their truck” and do value added work at each visit, versus 50 to 70 wells per operator per day, with the Operator primarily taking notes and tasking contractors, not spending significant time at any one well to prevent future work, downtime, and visits
- HIGH QUALITY TIME SPENT AT WELLS = Operators now spending 15 minutes at each well instead of previous 2 to 5 minutes; focused on executing a preventative maintenance program, to reduce the number of needed visits per well to keep it operating
In addition to the [1] HUGE KPI PRIZES outlined above, below are nine additional reasons to work with QT OT to assist you on your journey to Directed Work and Operations by Exception.
[2] HIGH PERFORMANCE HYBRID TEAM
QT OT has proven trusted OT advisors, familiar with all aspects of OT, IT, and BI with +30 years of proven OT experience.
Our team carries multiple skills including: SCADA/Process Control integration and configuration, field communications, cyber security, mobile application development, web application development, data integration and modeling and all aspects of cloud computing.
Our team is part SCADA/Process Control Integration, computer science developers, communications, security and protocol specialists, and data specialists.
[3] RAPID SOLUTION DEPLOYMENT TOOL KIT
We bring with us a “tool kit” allowing us to rapidly prototype and deploy OT solutions by integrating mobile applications, web applications, and data integrations to create an OT Platform to support your work flows.
We do not bring a “canned” or pre-packaged solution, we bring a tool kit to rapidly deploy.
Conventional oil and gas work flows are quite similar, but how a specific company wants and needs to optimize their daily operations, and INTEGRATE their existing automation, technology, and facilities is typically UNIQUE!
The “devil is in the detail” and companies vary not so much at a tactical or strategic level, where most of the similarity exists, but they vary “on the ground” where their operators spend their day and where their facilities operate.
The ability to quickly iterate prototypes and solutions together, allows you to see your ideas work and get the field involved in shaping the solution, which creates critical and lasting buy in, and produces very tight alignment on work flows. It also engages and encourages your field to provide valuable feedback.
[4] NO MORE RECURRING PER USER or PER WELL, MONTHLY PERPETUAL USAGE and LICENSING FEES
Tired of the latest trend in technology? Being charged per month to “rent” and never own your software? Not being in control of your change management process and turn around? Being able to determine what changes you want done, when, to your software? Not owning your source code and intellectual property?
QT OT will come in, share our IP with you, charge time and materials, get the job done, and when we leave NO MONTHLY USAGE or LICENSING FEES! You own your own solution!
[5] PROVEN APPROACH TO GET YOU MOVED TO DIRECTED WORK/OPERATIONS BY EXCEPTION – HOW TO GET THROUGH THE JOURNEY
We focus on working with you to define your desired “typical operational day”, reviewing each work flow, optimizing it with you and your field, and then we review the data flows needed to support those work flows.
Then and only then, do we apply automation and technology and starting building solutions. Most companies make the mistake of buying technology first and trying to find out to get a return out of it or end up changing their desired work flows to match the already purchased software.
[6] WE COME, GET THE JOB DONE, and LEAVE
We want to help the entire oil and gas industry optimize their operations, so we get the job done, transition the solution over to the customer, and move on, so we can help other oil and gas customers.
[7] WE SPECIALIZE IN OPERATIONAL and ENGINEERING DATA
Once you define your Work Flows, “It’s all about clean integrated data“. We are specialists in data modeling, integration, designing and implementing asset frameworks and meta data.
Having an defined strong simple asset framework and strong meta data design, allows you to quickly find and integrate your data and work flows. It also allows for easy data quality / exception management reporting to maintain clean data.
We also specialize in FREEING YOUR DATA FROM YOUR HISTORIANS and getting that valuable time series data into your OT DATA WAREHOUSE so it is available real time for integration with your data, BI, and corporate systems. Most historians are proprietary and getting that data into easier to use BI architectures is key.
We KNOW DATA, operationally, engineering, volumetrics, measurement, and various corporate office use cases. We know what it means, how to use it, how to model it, how to clean it , and how to integrate and share it … we learned this from 30 years of boots on the ground experience.
[8] A KEY TO OPTIMIZING DIRECTED WORK IS USING YOUR DATA TO CONTINUOUSLY “LOOK FORWARD”
Using all your integrated and ideally consolidated OT data, you can see real time when your wells and facilities are operating outside of your defined normal operations band.
Your OT Platform can continuously monitor your data, looking for and triaging changes in your operations, and then adjust priorities, or even execute changes in your field, or generate automated work orders to drive timely action.
“It’s all about the data, but it’s really about LOOKING FORWARD with your data”. The more you execute Directed Work, consolidate your operational field data, and learn how to prioritize and automate your work, the more you can begin to see and prevent “exceptions”.
You can also find trends in your operations, and continue to optimize your operations by tuning your context rich, cross facility smart alarms and events. This will also assist you in optimizing your preventative maintenance program, your chemical management program, and detect changes in your daily volumetrics!
[9] MOVE AWAY FROM CONTEXT LESS SET POINT ALARMS AND TO THE NEXT GENERAITON OF “SMART” ALARMS and EVENTS
Traditional set point alarms have NO CONTEXT, and have a low accuracy rate, and seldom used across facilities, to verify exception states within facilities, or along flow lines.
Moving to “Smart” Alarms and Events, using multi variable, context rich equations to verify and define Health States, significantly increases your accuracy in knowing when a true exception has occurred, so appropriate and timely action can be taken or automated.
Smart Alarms and Events can be grouped into facility/well health states to assist with automated and rapid operator evaluation of the severity of the exception, and assist in the automation of a response to a changed health state (i.e. a well moving from Normal to Suspected Down Hole Failure or to Optimization Opportunity)
[10] DON’T BE LEFT OUT! OIL and GAS PRICES MAY DROP AGAIN!
Oil or gas prices could drop significantly again, and the ability to DIRECT your work force, near real time, and watch costs in real time, during times of tight cost and cash flow constraints, will be a competitive advantage!
If you want help to win the KPI Prize! and want to start the journey to Directed Work and Operations by Exception, Contact us at shane.yamkowy@qtltd.ca and check out our web site at www.qt-ot.com
