When "Rugged" Protection Alone Isn't Enough to Safeguard Your Oil & Gas Ops

3 Ways to Confirm Your Mobile Computer’s True Safety, Security, or Performance Capacity

By Kirk Meyer, Xplore Technologies

Over the past 20 years, it’s become increasingly clear – across many global industries – that the proper utilization of mobile technologies can introduce otherwise unobtainable operational efficiencies that help stabilize business performance despite frequent market volatility. Especially in the energy sector.

No, mobile technologies cannot directly equalize supply and demand fluctuations, influence commodity pricing structures or dictate the financial performance of oil & gas corporations. However, mobile devices such as rugged tablets can make-or-break an organization’s ability to compensate for workforce reductions and budget cuts, more strategically manage assets, and effectively maximize new revenue streams when they do emerge. That’s because mobility facilitates faster – and more accurate – data acquisition and analysis via automated and manual sources alike. As such, mobility often equates to greater organizational agility across multiple oil & gas workflows, including drilling and machinery monitoring, resource and materials management, compliance reporting, spill and incident response, workforce and risk management, seismic surveys, and geomapping.

Mobile technologies also create more value throughout the supply chain, by aggregating voluminous data sets that can be thoroughly analyzed – in real-time – to inform business actions and improve a company’s capacity to reduce waste, maintain peak productivity levels, and extract new efficiency from existing business processes.