FieldDIRECT

FieldDIRECT is a field-to-office service that captures and stores daily field production data. After pumpers collect field data and send it to our hosted secure server, it is available to view. As business dictates, you permit field and corporate staff, as well as vendors and partners, access to FieldDIRECT. Because production data is in one place, it’s easy for your team and others to look at the same information without needing systems integration consulting, new servers, and new database administrators.

Some of the benefits are:

• Easily accessible production data that is stored in one place
• Current data to make critical decisions and raise production sooner
• Quick start-up
• Fast and easy-to-use interfaces
• Significantly increased surveillance, productivity and accuracy

Field operators or pumpers use a computer laptop or netbook to enter data into FieldDIRECT. Data is then sent via modem or high-speed Internet line by simply clicking "File", "Send". The data is available immediately in the desktop analysis software, Production Explorer. Also, historical data can be loaded into FieldDIRECT.

• Easily accessible production data that is stored in one place
• Current data to make critical decisions and raise production sooner
• Quick start-up
• Fast and easy-to-use interfaces
• Significantly increased surveillance, productivity and accuracy

In Production Explorer you can:

• See your data immediately
• Use extensive reporting and graphing capabilities
• View allocated production at well, field, and project level
• View specific data like gauges, meter readings, and pressures
• Focus on production operations because pumpers, foremen and field engineers along with office staff can view assigned properties together in Production Explorer
• Retrieve production data from any computer installed with Production Explorer. Your data is always available to you.

Most companies use FieldDIRECT in the following way:

1. Monitor Wells and Begin Proactive Analysis Sooner: Clients conduct analysis on current data and study trends using daily summaries and historical data. They stop "fighting fires" and begin proactively managing production.
2. Manage Reporting Data to Communicate Better: All members of the production team see the same data in Production Explorer.
3. Engage in Surveillance Activities and See Increased Production: By using surveillance tools and raising productivity sooner, and communicating the same information to the whole team, clients have reported production increases up to 3% and well operating costs reduced by 10%.
4. Use Economic Comparisons for Managing Assets: Clients compare projected production curves to actual daily production when using an economic analysis product like PowerTools that connects directly to FieldDIRECT.
5. Keep Pace During Changing Business Conditions: FieldDIRECT makes acquisitions, mergers, and divestures easier and faster when viewing near real time data. With little or no time spent in gathering information for reports, FieldDIRECT can transfer and acquire historical data from current owner and give it to the new owner, as well as allow a perspective buyer limited access to your current production.

FieldDIRECT provides pumpers and foremen with useful field tools such as ample historical information residing on the computer laptops and netbooks, as well as features like graphs and instant volume calculations. To date FieldDIRECT has trained over 3,000 pumpers and has continuously received high marks for pumper training.

1. Monitor Wells and Begin Proactive Analysis Sooner: Clients conduct analysis on current data and study trends using daily summaries and historical data. They stop "fighting fires" and begin proactively managing production.
2. Manage Reporting Data to Communicate Better: All members of the production team see the same data in Production Explorer.
3. Engage in Surveillance Activities and See Increased Production: By using surveillance tools and raising productivity sooner, and communicating the same information to the whole team, clients have reported production increases up to 3% and well operating costs reduced by 10%.
4. Use Economic Comparisons for Managing Assets: Clients compare projected production curves to actual daily production when using an economic analysis product like PowerTools that connects directly to FieldDIRECT.
5. Keep Pace During Changing Business Conditions: FieldDIRECT makes acquisitions, mergers, and divestures easier and faster when viewing near real time data. With little or no time spent in gathering information for reports, FieldDIRECT can transfer and acquire historical data from current owner and give it to the new owner, as well as allow a perspective buyer limited access to your current production.

Minimum requirements to run the data entry program, PC Data Entry (PCDE) on a computer, laptop, mini, netbook or tablet.

Minimum requirements to run the view reports program, Production Explorer (PE) on a computer, laptop, mini, netbook or tablet.

In order to run multiple applications concurrently, additional memory and hard disk space should be added in addition to upgrading the processor.

While timing varies based on each company’s operational size, the number of locations and pumpers, our trainers follow this process:

1. Assess Your Operations: Our trainer learns the intricacies of your operations and customizes the implementation process to fit your business rules, roles, and third party interfaces.
2. Build Wells: Our trainer builds your wells in FieldDIRECT.
3. Train Users: Our trainer travels to your locations training users from pumpers in the field to the executives in the office.
4. Monitor Data: Our trainer monitors the production data for a couple of weeks to make sure data entry is going smoothly.
5. Mentor Staff: Our trainer follows up with in-depth training that allows individuals to ask questions that arise after using software and before bad habits develop. Experience has shown our customers that the benefits of Mentoring result in more useful data and maximizes the service.

This approach, coupled with dedicated and knowledgeable trainers who are familiar with field conditions and understand oil production needs, ensures continuity throughout training so you can focus on your operations and not on training your staff.

Tools include graphs, pivot tables, exception and variance reports, and other pre-formatted monthly and daily reports. A custom report writer allows you to create detailed, sorted, and summarized reports that you can easily share.

Absolutely! After you allow them access, partners can look at data on properties that they participate in without contacting you. This saves you time and resources gathering data, while allowing partners see to data as often as they want. This also works for banks, third-party reserves services, or any properties you may be looking to divest.

Yes. You can “Copy” and “Paste” data from FieldDIRECT into various applications, as well as export pre-formatted and custom reports into various formats including .xls, .csv and .txt; or query the data through Microsoft Access.

Yes. You can use IHS’ PowerTools to view FieldDIRECT daily data and production forecasts together. Since PowerTools looks at the FieldDIRECT database directly, the data is as current as your last update.

Our clients use FieldDIRECT and PowerTools together for:

1. Day-to-Day Production Optimization: Field engineers and foremen can use PowerTools in order to visually detect when a well’s production rate is below the intended field decline rate, thus moving beyond monitoring and into production surveillance workflows.
2. Economic Analysis on Well Repairs: PowerTools provides production techs an accurate analysis of historical performance with the ability to see downtime documentation from the field and explain anomalies in historical trends. Also useful is doing an economic analysis on proposed workovers and repairs by modeling anticipated well performance using daily data and IHS historical production data.
3. Production vs. Sales Data: You can compare production (vs. sales) forecast to actual daily production in states like Oklahoma and Kansas where public data is recorded as sales rather than production data.
4. New Well Economics: Production and reservoir engineers can model scenarios based on historical volumes alongside current production rates by way of FieldDIRECT surveillance. Get faster and better forecasts using FieldDIRECT for new wells to confirm reserves after a new drill, since monthly historical data can be delayed up to six months
5. Reserves Forecasting: General managers can use PowerTools in order to determine the future of the field development and abandonment through use of long and short term data from the field. Perform longer term performance comparisons that may not be obvious on a daily basis.

FieldDIRECT and PowerTools provide more analysis options and a more complete picture of how wells are performing compared to expected production.

Connecting to FieldDIRECT data is as easy as creating a new project in PowerTools and selecting "IHS FieldDIRECT®" project as the data sources

Our clients use FieldDIRECT and PowerTools together for:

1. Day-to-Day Production Optimization: Field engineers and foremen can use PowerTools in order to visually detect when a well’s production rate is below the intended field decline rate, thus moving beyond monitoring and into production surveillance workflows.
2. Economic Analysis on Well Repairs: PowerTools provides production techs an accurate analysis of historical performance with the ability to see downtime documentation from the field and explain anomalies in historical trends. Also useful is doing an economic analysis on proposed workovers and repairs by modeling anticipated well performance using daily data and IHS historical production data.
3. Production vs. Sales Data: You can compare production (vs. sales) forecast to actual daily production in states like Oklahoma and Kansas where public data is recorded as sales rather than production data.
4. New Well Economics: Production and reservoir engineers can model scenarios based on historical volumes alongside current production rates by way of FieldDIRECT surveillance. Get faster and better forecasts using FieldDIRECT for new wells to confirm reserves after a new drill, since monthly historical data can be delayed up to six months
5. Reserves Forecasting: General managers can use PowerTools in order to determine the future of the field development and abandonment through use of long and short term data from the field. Perform longer term performance comparisons that may not be obvious on a daily basis.

FieldDIRECT and PowerTools provide more analysis options and a more complete picture of how wells are performing compared to expected production.

We can work with you to customize an interface for your needs.

Download this PDF to review the interfaces.

Yes. Our data center is a secure facility, our servers have built-in firewalls, and internal security eliminates potential outside influences and any unauthorized access. You control data access with username and password protection.

FieldDIRECT is a SQL database. When production is downloaded to your computer, it is in a database accessible by Microsoft Access.

Absolutely. Our dedicated support team is available during business hours to answer your questions. Our professionals are extremely knowledgeable, helpful, and welcome your inquiries.

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Many of our clients have told us how they enjoy and gain value from FieldDIRECT. We have captured some of these comments in case studies that can be found at: http://ihs.com/energy/Fielddirect

FieldDIRECT is a product of IHS, a company that has nearly 80 years of experience in the oil and gas production and well data business. Launched in 1999, FieldDIRECT has leveraged that knowledge to benefit hundreds of customers covering more than 50,000 wells.