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Oil & Gas
We work with midstream operators, terminal and depot businesses, marketers and oilfield service companies on metering data integration, HSE systems, regulatory reporting and the separation of operational technology from enterprise IT.
Measurement, Reporting and Two Networks That Must Not Touch
Everything in the Nigerian petroleum value chain resolves to measurement. Upstream production must be reported to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission; midstream and downstream volumes, licence returns and depot throughput to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority. Custody transfer at a terminal is a commercial and a legal act, and a metering discrepancy of a fraction of a per cent is a material sum. Yet in many operations the meters, tank gauges and laboratory results sit in separate systems, and the daily reconciliation is assembled in a spreadsheet by one person who understands it. That is a single point of failure sitting under a regulated report.
Health, safety and environment is the second pressure and the one that carries personal liability. Permit to work, toolbox talks, near-miss reporting, incident investigation, contractor competence records and environmental monitoring are all obligations with evidential requirements, and a paper-based HSE system fails at exactly the moment it matters — during an investigation or an unannounced inspection. Spill notification obligations to the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency run to hours, not days, and a system that cannot produce the notification and the supporting record quickly turns an operational event into a regulatory one.
Third is the security boundary. Terminal automation, tank gauging and loading systems are operational technology with long lifecycles and, frequently, no realistic patching path. Enterprise IT is a different world with different risk. Where the two have been allowed to merge — a plant historian on the office network, an engineering laptop that moves between both — a routine enterprise compromise becomes a safety event. Our work in this sector is often less about new capability and more about establishing that boundary properly, instrumenting it and monitoring it, without disturbing operations that cannot be stopped.
What We Deliver in Oil & Gas
Five offerings focused on measurement data, compliance evidence and the IT–OT boundary.
Metering & Measurement Integration
Custody transfer data
Collection from flow computers, tank gauges and laboratory systems into a single reconciled daily balance, with variance flagging, sign-off workflow and a defensible audit trail.
Learn moreHSE Management
Evidence-grade records
Permit to work, toolbox talks, near-miss and incident reporting with investigation workflow, contractor competence records and statutory notification timers.
OT & IT Segmentation
Plant boundary security
Boundary architecture between plant and enterprise networks, unidirectional or brokered data flow, privileged access control for vendors, and monitoring that does not disturb the process.
Learn moreFleet & Loading Logistics
BrilliantTrack
Truck tracking from gantry to discharge, geofenced route deviation alerts, seal and volume reconciliation at discharge and turnaround analytics for the loading bay.
Learn moreRegulatory Reporting
NUPRC and NMDPRA
Reporting pipelines that draw from measurement systems rather than spreadsheets, with consistent definitions, variance explanation and a full trail from submitted figure back to meter reading.
Learn moreRemote Site IT Support
Managed services
Managed IT for terminals, depots and field offices where there is no resident IT staff — endpoint management, connectivity, backup and a support desk that understands shift patterns.
Learn moreWhere we stand in this sector
We have no delivered oil and gas engagement to point you at. The capability described on this page is real and the engineering is work we do elsewhere, particularly the measurement integration, the network segmentation and the historian access patterns, but we will not dress capability up as a track record.
If you are evaluating us for upstream, midstream or terminal work, the honest position is that you would be our first client in the sector. Some organisations will rightly rule us out on that basis. Others will weigh it against references in banking, government revenue and health, where the systems integration and control problems are closer than the industry labels suggest. Either way you should know before you start, not afterwards.
Regulatory Obligations in the Petroleum Sector
The Nigerian requirements that shape technology work in this sector, and the specific support we provide against each.
| Requirement | Regulator or instrument | What it obliges | What we provide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upstream production reporting | Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) | Accurate, timely production and disposition reporting from measured data | Automated collection from flow computers and tank gauges, reconciliation and reporting with an auditable trail to source |
| Midstream and downstream returns | Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) | Licence returns, throughput and stock reporting for terminals, depots and retail outlets | Depot throughput and stock reporting generated from measurement and loading systems on the required cycle |
| Custody transfer measurement | Metering regulations and API MPMS practice | Meter proving, uncertainty limits and documented calibration for transfers of ownership | Calibration and proving records held against each meter, variance flagging and sign-off workflow on every daily balance |
| Nigerian content | NCDMB; Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010 | Demonstrable use of Nigerian providers and reporting of local content performance | We are a wholly Nigerian, CAC-registered indigenous provider (RC 1489223); we supply the content documentation for your returns |
| Oil spill notification | National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) | Notification of a spill incident within the statutory window with supporting detail | HSE module with notification timers, escalation and a pre-populated notification record with attached evidence |
| Occupational health and safety | Sector HSE guidelines; ISO 45001 practice | Permit to work, competence records, incident investigation and corrective action tracking | Digital permit to work, contractor competence register, investigation workflow and corrective action tracking to closure |
| Data protection | Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023; NDPC | Lawful basis and safeguards for staff and contractor personal data | Impact assessment, access control and retention configuration across HSE and workforce records |
How We Would Close a Daily Balance at a Terminal
This is a proposed design, not a delivered reference. We have no oil and gas client yet, and the paragraphs below describe how we would approach the problem rather than work we have completed.
A midstream operator closing a daily hydrocarbon balance in arrears usually has the same shape of problem: flow computer data exported by hand, tank gauge readings transcribed from a local console, laboratory density and temperature results arriving by email, and the reconciliation living in a spreadsheet maintained by one measurement engineer. When a variance appears, establishing whether it is a real loss, a meter fault or a transcription error takes days, by which time the product has moved.
We would build a measurement data layer that reads flow computers, tank gauging and the laboratory system on a fixed cycle, applies the operator’s own correction and reconciliation rules, and presents a daily balance with every variance attributed to a specific stream and flagged against tolerance, with calibration and proving records held alongside so a variance can be tested against the meter’s history. Separately we would establish the boundary between the plant network and enterprise IT, move the historian to a brokered read-only feed, and put vendor remote access behind recorded privileged sessions. Nothing in the process control system would be modified.
- Proposed design, not delivered work; we have no client reference in this sector
- Measurement data read from flow computers, tank gauging and the laboratory on a fixed cycle
- Every variance attributed to a named stream and flagged against tolerance
- Meter calibration and proving history available at the point of investigation
- Plant network separated from enterprise IT with brokered, read-only historian access
- Vendor remote access behind recorded privileged sessions, with no change to control systems
Questions Oil & Gas Clients Ask
Will any of this require us to modify the control system?
Do you work offshore or subsea?
Can you support sites with no permanent IT presence?
How do you handle vendor remote access to plant equipment?
What Nigerian content documentation can you provide?
How quickly can an HSE incident notification be produced?
Talk to our oil and gas team
A two-week measurement and boundary assessment at one terminal will tell you where your daily balance is actually breaking and where the plant network is exposed.