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IDS – new stock management software

Monday, July 19, 2010 in Feature Articles

Software company IDS (Independent Data Services) has a new version of StockNet, its web enabled software to help drilling rigs manage stock including deliveries to the platform.

The software design was made by a professional North Sea logistics co-coordinator, not a software engineer. The company spent 2 years redesigning StockNet, together with clients in Australia and Asia.

To enable faster browsing through lists, the software has a split screen approach, with a list of stock on the left hand side and planning tool on the right hand side, so you don’t have to keep going from one screen to another.

So you can go through lists of stock in the warehouse on the left hand side which you want to use on your project, and drag them across to the right to allocate them to your project.

The company claims that training rarely takes more than an hour and users can raise a manifest in just 2 or 3 minutes.

It has a rental register which flags up reminders if items are on hire longer than intended.

Web enabled

The software, uniquely, is web delivered so there is no client side installation required – only a web-browser. For areas with poor rig-town communications , the company sets up a laptop computer as a server, serving up pages to users onboard the platform and managing the data transfer to and from the platform via a built in synchronisation engine.

Charges are per month per active warehouse. Because the service is web-based, there are no charges per user, allowing for an unlimited number of users on the system at no cost. The pay-as-you-go business model also means no expensive up-front license fees.

On offshore platforms, the company sets up a laptop computer as a server, serving up pages to users onboard the platform, and also managing the data transfer to and from the platform.

A copy of the database is stored on this laptop computer and continually updated. This means that the amount of data which needs to be sent to the platform and back (over expensive and slow satellite links) is minimised.

Because the software is web based, it does not need any installation on users’ computers, apart from to set up the laptop server.

Company

The company was founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1995, developing software for Australian oil company Santos to manage drilling data. Santos still uses the company’s products on every drilling project it is involved with around the world, totaling 2,000 wells over the past 11 years.

The IDS HQ is in Kuala Lumpur with offices and agents in key operational regions.

The company aims to be large enough to meet client needs, but small enough to have a family attitude, says Beth Anderson, Sales & Business Development Manager, UK and Europe.

The general manager is Douwe Franssens, a past senior product manager and global real time technology manager at Halliburton.

The core product is DataNet2, which can be used to bring data from drilling, geology and completions reports, so it can be shared between employees via the web or the clients’ network.

Data handled includes well file, rig /package file, casing and cementing, surveys, drilling fluids.
It can receive data in WITSML format.

The company has an agreement with Samit Enterprises Pvt Ltd of India, which will promote the DataNet2 software in India, for clients who don’t like “license per seat” arrangements and prefer web software.

ProNet

ProNet is a completions and well intervention reporting package, which can be used to gather and serve up data and information for the full history of the well.

You can view everything that has happened in the well construction, and see a borehole completions diagram.

The completions engineer has all the current and historical well data available in a
single source, which should mean time saving and fewer errors.

Data captured includes perforations, coiled tubing data, production fluid, production tests, string components, sand control, stimulation, swabbing, well head activities.

The software can receive drilling data in WITSML format.

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