Automation – it’s a huge buzzword in the industry right now, but what does it mean for you and your oil and gas business?
Automation, simply put, means putting processes and software in place to remove the need for constant human intervention in tasks that can be managed by technology. By embracing automation, oil and gas businesses can not only increase efficiency across various layers of their operations but also save time, money, and manpower.
Below are just a few ways that automation can benefit your oil and gas operations and increase efficiency across all aspects of your business.
Increased Productivity & Efficiency
Simple tasks that involve data collection and entry, which tend to be repetitive, can be handed off to an automated system to free up time from a team member that would be best spent on more important tasks.
Automated workflows allow the collection, filtering, and logging of various data sets across all elements of oil and gas operations. Whether that be directly from drilling operations, all the way to everyday accounting data, and everything in between. This saves you countless hours of data entry and the mind-numbing entering of numbers into various spreadsheets and programs.
Real Time Updates & Alerts
The addition of automation to oil and gas systems allows for the data you need to be updated in real time without having to send someone into the field and waiting for the results. Systems that pull and compile data automatically also tend to have the ability to alert you to abnormalities in the data that they capture. With this constant stream of info, you can catch issues with anything from well heads to accounting as it is happening.
With that kind of power to oversee your operations in real time, it saves you a lot of headaches down the line if you lack the automation and have to wait hours to days for data to be gathered and out into your system. On the accounting side of things, this helps prevent those dreaded audits since you can see when numbers aren’t adding up way before it becomes a much larger problem.
Cost Saving
Combining all of the reasons above, plus more we haven’t discussed, it’s not hard to see how automation can be implemented to reduce costs and waste across many aspects of your operations.
Automated systems can replace the need for human labor to do simple tasks, reducing the need for an inflated workforce. But automation technology is not implemented to simply eliminate people from the processes. The cost-saving benefits also come from making the people you do have more efficient and able to do their jobs with a higher rate of accuracy and in more physical portions, even safer.
Where Do You Get Started?
The good news when it comes to wanting to hop on the automation train is that it is increasing in popularity in many of the oil and gas software solutions you might be familiar with or even already using.
Even better news: whether you are looking for a system to automate your well data or one that can help you compile and send vendor invoices, we can assist you in finding the perfect software that fits your needs.
Our team has decades of experience in software from all across the energy industry, and we are ready to help you find the one that is the right fit and even go as far as transferring your data and training your team on how to use it.
Want to know more about how our amazing Petroleaders can find the right software solution for you? Reach out to us today!
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