The answer is in a historian or a well file
Production history, procedures and shift logs exist. Finding the right one still takes a phone call and a file share.
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Oil & Gas
Operations intelligence that stays on the asset.
Private models, document search and managed infrastructure for upstream, midstream and downstream operators. Production data, procedures and well records stay where your operations team can point at them.
The three things we hear in the first meeting.
If none of these sound like you, we are probably not the right call yet — and we will say so.
Field systems cannot call a public API
A useful assistant that needs to upload operational data somewhere else does not survive an OT security review.
The last quote assumed an office, not an asset
Per-seat pricing and a generic cloud region do not describe a site that has to keep running when the link is poor.
We speak both operations and infrastructure.
Most AI vendors understand models. Most IT vendors understand offices. The work in oil and gas sits on assets, historians and procedures — and that gap is where projects stall for a year.
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Data stays on the asset or in your tenancy.
Models run inside your environment, your on-premise rack, or a dedicated Stellar Cascade tenancy you control.
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Every answer cites the procedure.
Retrieval over your own operating procedures, well files and shift records, so an engineer can check the source before acting.
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Built for sites that cannot be down.
Backups, patching and monitoring sized for operations, not for a demo that only runs in the office.
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Operations people in the room from week one.
The people who will use it sit in the discovery sessions, not just the review at the end.
Who we build for
Different teams, different first project. The platform underneath is the same.
Upstream operators
Well-file search, production surveillance and a single layer across historians, reports and procedures.
Midstream
Pipeline integrity records, permit packs and exception handling across terminals and lines.
Downstream and refining
Turnaround planning, procedure lookup and shift handover that does not depend on who is on duty.
Drilling and EPC contractors
Specification search and deviation flagging across large tender and execution packs.
HSE and integrity teams
Incident history, permit conditions and the procedure that applied on the day, findable in seconds.
OT and IT teams
24/7 management of the estate around the asset, so your team runs the roadmap, not the pager.
What we actually deliver
Four things, in this order. Each one is useful on its own.
AI Discovery for operations
Two weeks with your engineers and IT to pick the two use cases worth funding.
Production data platform
Ingestion, access control and retention across historians, reports and document stores.
Procedure and well-file assistant
Retrieval-grounded answers over your own procedures, well files and operating limits.
Managed field infrastructure
Compute, backups, patching and 24/7 monitoring for systems that cannot be down.
How an oil and gas engagement runs
No surprises about sequence, and no invoice before there is something to look at.
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Operations discovery
Two weeks on the workflow. We come back with the use cases ranked by hours saved and operational risk.
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Architecture and sign-off
One document your operations lead, OT security and IT can all approve. Data flows, residency, retention and cost.
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Pilot on one asset
A real workflow, real users, four to six weeks. Measured against the baseline we recorded in discovery.
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Roll out and run
Asset by asset, with our team on the pager while yours learns the platform.
What good looks like six months in
- 0
- Operational records leaving your tenancy
- 100%
- Answers with a traceable source
- Minutes
- To find the procedure that applies
- 24/7
- Monitored, with a named engineer on call
The Oil & Gas AI readiness checklist
The questions we work through before recommending anything — data readiness, hosting constraints, review process and the running cost at year two. Use it with any vendor.
Oil and gas questions we get asked first
Short answers. Longer ones are a conversation.
Where does production data actually sit?
Inside your environment. That is either your own infrastructure, an on-premise rack at the asset, or a dedicated single-tenant Stellar Cascade region. Nothing is sent to a public model API unless you explicitly ask for that and sign off on it.
Can you work with our historian, SCADA and document stores?
Yes. We integrate at whatever layer the system exposes — historian reads, file drops, or the API if there is one. The integration approach is settled during discovery, not assumed.
How do you stop the model inventing an operating limit?
Answers are retrieved from your own documents and always carry the citation. If the retrieval finds nothing relevant, the system says so rather than generating something. Operational-risk use cases additionally go through a human review step that your team defines.
What about partner access and data residency?
We build to residency, retention and access rules from the start, including who a joint-venture partner is allowed to see. Your security team signs off, and our job is to make that sign-off straightforward.
How long before a site sees something real?
A working pilot on one asset or one workflow typically runs four to six weeks after the architecture is signed off. Discovery is two weeks before that.
What does it cost to run?
Infrastructure is sized to your actual usage and quoted as a monthly figure before the build starts. There is no per-seat AI licence, so adding staff does not change the bill.
Talk to someone who has worked on an operating asset.
Tell us the workflow that is hurting. We will tell you whether AI is the right answer — including when it is not.
- A reply within one working day, from an engineer rather than an account manager.
- An honest read on whether this is worth doing now, or in a year.
- No marketing list. Your details reach the solutions team and stop there.