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Technology is moving forward rapidly in the oil and gas industry. These days, it is possible to automate high-cost, dangerous, and error-prone operations. This move towards digitization makes it possible for oil and gas producers to improve their bottom lines while making the oil and gas fields safer for everyone.

Why Is Digitization So Critical?

The oil and gas industry is undergoing big changes with an aging workforce and a depressed pricing structure. Automation offers the industry a chance to lower costs while maximizing profits and minimizing downtime.

• It improves the productivity of the human workforce. In decades past, field personnel spent a lot of time going from well to well monitoring output. With automation handling a lot of the monitoring needs, field personnel can focus on performing key maintenance and handling issues that the sensors detect.
• It allows for automated control of well production. Besides monitoring the well, automation allows for remote control of the well's output. This helps keep the well producing for longer with less downtime. As conditions change, the remote central center can make adjustments as needed.
• It tracks equipment efficiency and surface conditions. Well sites often have a variety of equipment for artificial lift, tanks for capturing the output, as well as other equipment needed for keeping the site productive. Remote sensors can track all this equipment's efficiencies or lack thereof. If something is breaking down, the control center can send a crew out to address it quickly. Remote cameras make it possible to monitor site security, also.
• It enhances the collaboration between off-site monitoring personnel and on-site management. The days of field personnel pretty much working independently from the central office are over. Today, the central office can monitor what is going on in the field and direct on-site personnel to where they are most needed.
• It allows on-site personnel to focus on critical issues. Instead of running from one well to another taking readings and checking for site problems, on-site personnel can do the focus attention on single-site problems while knowing what the rest of their route is doing.
• It offers a wealth of data that can help maximize productivity while minimizing downtime. In IT terms, this information is called big data. And this data stock has the potential to revolutionize oil and gas production. It can tell you when a piece of equipment is most likely to have a problem. It can help extrapolate how many workers a company needs in the field on a given day.

Automation is definitely changing the oil and gas industry. If your company has not already embraced automation, now is the time. Champion Automation can help you automate your day-to-day operations for a more profitable enterprise.