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INDUSTRY · OIL & GASAll industries

Software and industrial data systems for UAE oil & gas operations.

Your production figures, HSE records, and maintenance history are spread across historians, ERP, and a decade of spreadsheets, so getting one clear answer takes days. We build the software and data layer that sits alongside your OT and business systems - dashboards, automated workflows, and document intelligence - without ever touching safety-critical control.

Abu Dhabi-based · serving oil & gas across the UAE
THE CHALLENGE

Sound familiar?

  • Production, flare, and downtime data sits locked inside historians (OSIsoft/AVEVA PI, DCS) and shift spreadsheets, so the morning operations report is rebuilt by hand and always a day behind.

  • Permit-to-work, shift handover, HSE incidents, and inspection rounds still run on PDFs, WhatsApp, and email, making it slow and painful to reconstruct an audit trail when a regulator or ADNOC-standard review asks.

  • Teams are rightly cautious about anything that reaches into the IT/OT boundary, so genuinely useful software never gets built and staff fall back to manual workarounds.

  • Turnaround and shutdown planning, contractor documentation, and In-Country Value (ICV) records are scattered across tools, adding compliance overhead every reporting cycle.

WHAT WE BUILD

Systems for oil & gas.

Production & asset dashboards

Read-only operations dashboards that pull production, flare, downtime, and equipment data from your historian and ERP into one trustworthy view. Real-time where it matters, so the morning report writes itself instead of three people rebuilding a spreadsheet.

HSE, permit & inspection workflows

Digitise permit-to-work, shift handover, incident reporting, and inspection rounds with approvals and full audit trails. Every isolation, sign-off, and near-miss is logged, searchable, and defensible under audit.

Document intelligence for compliance

Extract and flag the key details from inspection and NDT reports, well logs, vendor contracts, and regulatory submissions. Every answer traces back to its source page, so findings are audit-ready and not a black box.

OT-aware integrations

Connect the historian (PI/AVEVA), a read layer from SCADA, ERP/SAP, and your CMMS across the IT/OT boundary using read-only data flows that respect segmentation. We work with your OT and security teams, on-premise where the data can't leave site.

EXAMPLE USE CASES

What this looks like in practice.

Illustrative scenarios - not completed client projects.

  • An Abu Dhabi upstream operator could pull daily production, flare, and downtime figures from its historian into one dashboard, replacing a morning spreadsheet that several engineers rebuild by hand.

  • A UAE gas processing plant could digitise permit-to-work and shift handover so every isolation, approval, and near-miss is logged and instantly searchable during an HSE audit.

  • An oilfield services contractor in the UAE could use document intelligence to read inspection and NDT reports, surface anomalies, and keep every finding traceable to the exact source page.

  • A pipeline operator could automate HSE incident reporting and regulatory submissions, cutting the manual re-keying that delays notifications and creates gaps in the record.

  • A downstream refinery maintenance team could connect its CMMS and historian to surface overdue inspections and asset-integrity risks well before a planned turnaround.

FAQ

Common questions.

Do you build or modify SCADA, DCS, or control systems?

No. We stay on the business and data side. We build read-layer dashboards, digital workflows, document intelligence, and integrations that sit alongside your OT, and we never touch safety-instrumented systems or control logic. That boundary is deliberate, and we're upfront about it.

Can you work safely across the IT/OT boundary?

Yes. We design for read-only data flows, respect your network segmentation, and work directly with your OT and security teams. Where data can't leave the site, we deploy and work on-premise to match your security posture rather than forcing data into the cloud.

Can this handle sensitive or regulated data and stay on-site?

Yes. We build with access control, least privilege, and audit trails by default, and we can deploy on-premise so sensitive production, HSE, and commercial data stays within your environment. Critical decisions stay human-reviewed, not left to a model alone.

What about OT and ICS cybersecurity?

We can review the software, integrations, and access controls that we or others build around your systems, and harden how they're deployed. Deep ICS or SCADA penetration testing is a specialist field, and we'll tell you honestly where a dedicated OT security firm is the right call.

START HERE

Build for your oil & gas.

Tell us how your operation runs today. We'll map the highest-impact system to build first - scoped, secure, and human-reviewed.

We reply within ~2 working daysA fixed-scope quote before any build startsHonest scope, or we'll tell you it's not a fit
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