The oil and gas industry generates vast amounts of data at every stage of the well lifecycle: exploration, drilling, completion, production and decommissioning. Yet much of it remains siloed and underutilized. The Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU™) addresses this challenge by providing a common framework for storing, accessing, and exchanging information across workflows.
At IPT Global, we believe the future of well assurance depends on combining advanced digital solutions with industry-wide standards. By aligning well integrity and operational data with these standards, operators gain new ways to improve efficiency, ensure compliance, and strengthen safety.
The OSDU Forum, launched by The Open Group, provides a neutral space where operators, service companies, and technology providers can standardize the way subsurface and operational data is structured, accessed, and shared. The Forum’s goal is to establish a common data platform that removes silos and promotes intergration across digital tools.
Through this collaboration, the Forum unites operators, service companies, and software providers to create shared standards and reference implementations, forming the foundation for managing and exchanging energy data.
The OSDU Data Platform is an open-source, technology-agnostic environment created to eliminate silos and establish a single source of truth for subsurface, well, and operational data.
By providing a secure, scalable foundation, the framework makes information more accessible to operators, service companies, and regulators. This interoperability drives collaboration, speeds decision-making, and enables advanced digital solutions at scale.
Oil and gas companies face persistent data management challenges, including siloed information, inconsistent formats, limited accessibility, and difficulties collaborating across operators, service companies, and regulators.
The OSDU data platform addresses these challenges by providing standardized frameworks and integration across workflows. Adoption of OSDU enables better data accessibility, faster decision-making, lower costs, and a foundation for advanced analytics like AI and machine learning.
The strength of OSDU lies in its reference architecture and standardized data schema. These define how subsurface and operational information is structured, ensuring it can flow seamlessly between different software and workflows.
At IPT Global, we actively contribute to this effort. Our teams have shaped the schemas for Well Barrier Element (WBE) and Well Control Equipment (WCE) Pressure Tests, and Well Schematic Diagrams, which are now part of the OSDU reference implementation. This work standardizes well integrity data and contextualizes it for use across drilling, completion, and abandonment workflows.
By working within the OSDU architecture, IPT Global eliminates inefficiencies of custom integrations and positions data for advanced analytics and automation.
As an active member of the OSDU Forum, IPT Global collaborates with industry leaders, technology providers, and regulators to advance open data standards. Together with other OSDU members, we contribute expertise in well assurance, pressure testing, wellbore schematics and barrier management to shape how operational data is stored and exchanged.
This role delivers IPT Global clients access to data models designed with real-world assurance workflows in mind, allowing them to adopt OSDU more efficiently and with greater value.
Our standards-based approach extends into IPT Global technology. Through secure application programming interfaces (APIs), we integrate well data, incorporate pressure test results, and connect with cloud-based data lakes. Built on service bus architecture, these integrations deliver information that is consistent, traceable, and actionable across planning, execution, and real-time operations.
By aligning our well integrity and barrier management solutions with the OSDU platform, IPT Global makes assurance data practical and accessible across day-to-day workflows.
The OSDU™ standard is transforming how oil and gas companies manage and use operational data. By replacing fragmented systems with a unified platform, operators can unlock greater value from their information and more effectively adopt advanced digital technologies.
At IPT Global, we put these standards into action. From structuring assurance data and standardizing formatting to embedding well integrity information into daily workflows, we provide the expertise and tools for end-to-end assurance.
Learn how data standards can be implemented to improve your well assurance.
IPT Global’s SureTec PressureTesting solution is, the leading software for digital pressure testing and integrity assurance throughout the well’s lifecycle. From pre-deployment to P&A, PressureTesting enables procedural compliance with easy-to-use modules for designing, planning, testing, and reporting to drive higher levels of operational performance, assurance, and safety. PressureTesting is the only tool on the market where all relevant workflows are part of one seamless application to ensure the highest levels of performance, transparency, and compliance.
SureTec PressureTesting TestPlanner and WellSchematic modules provides interactive schematic builders to properly depict the design and layout of the blowout preventer (BOP), production trees, manifold, and wellbore. Once the schematics are built, test plans are made to comply with required acceptance criteria and process standards.
The SureTec PressureTesting solution can be utilized for all aspects of pressure testing, including integrity- critical equipment and well barrier elements. Examples of testing include: BOP testing, casing tests, well barrier elements, and completions, production, intervention, and plug and abandon tests.
Planning tests accurately without the proper tools can result in errors and omissions unless time-consuming checks and reviews are performed. Even after review, many plans often change somewhat at testing time, which makes assuring all components are tested properly very difficult. Through its TestEngine and TestPlanner modules, PressureTesting offers its provides an exclusive dynamic coverage capability and pressure path visualizations that ensure all required components are tested to the proper pressure and configuration. This coverage capability allows the user to easily assign which sides of valves and which components are to be tested to certain pressures and confirms that all will be tested properly prior to pressure testing. Dynamic coverage tracking allows test plans to be modified at test time and automatically communicates coverage status and alerts. This further ensures all required components and barriers are properly validated even when test plans must adapt to changing conditions.
For further assurance, PressureTesting’s DigitalApprovals module works in conjunction with TestEngine and TestPlanner, providing cloud-based collaboration, version control, review and approval, and fully auditable records of activity. This eliminates the need to email spreadsheets and other documentation back and forth, ensuring streamlined communications.
The SureTec PressureTesting solution validates the integrity of critical well control equipment and well barrier elements through multi-dimensional layered algorithms. These algorithms provide objective pass/fail test results
Decline Analysis is the industry standard test validation method that was originally derived from circular chart recorders (CCRs). Basic digital alternatives to the CCRs utilize decline analysis and often tout it as being predictive, based on simple curve extrapolation. IPT Global recognized this as a major assurance opportunity and sought to develop algorithms that provide higher assurance and efficiency to test validation.
IPT Global leads the industry in advanced analytics and has developed additional algorithms to validate tests, based on an extensive test database. IPT Global’s proprietary algorithms allow us to push past industry standards for more assurance. These additional analyses add extra layers of validation, which improves accuracy and efficiency. Moreover, our algorithms offers critical time savings with each test potentially passing in as fast as seven minutes. From 2015 to 2022, TCLD has saved our customers over 11,000 hours of rig time. For increased assurance, IPT Global’s Trend Analysis can be used with any testing criteria to confirm the pressure ROC is continuously improving. SureTec PressureTesting can also simultaneously test casing with the BOP for additional time savings.
IPT Global’s testing algorithms provide the highest levels of efficiency and assurance to ensure well integrity. Our Inflow Testing criteria offers unmatched assurance by removing subjectivity in test interpretation. IPT Global also has developed the ability to execute up to four tests simultaneously. This capability is critical for high volume testing operations, such as during completions.
The PressureTesting modules Compliance Reporting and Performance Reporting generates test reports with all relevant information to the operation. Another PressureTesting exclusive requires any failed test attempts be fully documented for full transparency and to avoid unnecessary regulatory non-conformance. All reports are stored in the Cloud for easy access to relevant personnel. With comprehensive yet clear test results, these reports are essential in improving communications during operations and handover, as well as useful for regulatory bodies and any internal or external audits.
SureTec PressureTesting brings digital pressure testing, Cloud access, and IPT Global’s together in one solution, including multi-testing and inflow testing capabilities. Contact us today to learn how IPT Global can help solve your pressure testing needs.
IPT Global partnered with a major global operator to standardize and optimize fleet-wide BOP testing. This collaborative initiative resulted in over 33 days or 800 hours of deepwater rig time savings per annum for the customer. In addition to creating value through gained efficiencies, IPT Global continues to protect value for this client through enhanced assurance of well barrier integrity across their operations.
Prior to this fleet-wide initiative, the operator did not have a standard approach to BOP testing. Operations varied across regions using a combination of SureTec PressureTesting, circular chart recorders, and competitor digital chart solutions. This was an opportunity to ensure effective implementation of process safety policies and to drive efficiency across global operations.
IPT Global’s performance advisor partnered with the client’s teams to ensure accelerated learning by utilizing big data and analytics that made performance visible and transparent. Implementation of IPT Global’s PressureTesting solution fleetwide increased efficiencies in regions where inferior solutions were previously used. Adoption of one standardized digital solution allowed for consistent assurance practices to meet internal requirements, compliance with regulatory requirements, and remove sources of human error from operations.
During test design and planning, all test plans were created and optimized using PressureTesting’s TestPlanner module to ensure compliance and consistency with company policy and regulations. IPT Global’s SMEs generated and optimized test plans based on decades of experience across multiple global operators. A wholesale reduction of three to four test steps per test resulted in reduced component wear and tear, extending mean- time between failures while reducing maintenance and operational time and costs across the fleet.
In addition to test step reduction and optimization, deepwater projects that adopted the PressureTesting digital solution benefited from over 25% time savings per test with IPT Global’s advanced algorithms. Algorithms that are not only fast and efficient, but stringent and rigorous as well, providing industry-leading assurance that all leaks are detected early.
After global implementation of SureTec PressureTesting, all of the regional operations were fully documented in standardized reports and archived in IPT Global’s cloud-based collaboration hub. IPT Global’s performance advisor consulted with the client teams to define custom performance metrics and KPIs to track within PressureTesting. Once this information was transparent across the fleet, the team was able to identify opportunities for performance and process improvements and to share key learnings.
Through a collaborative and trusted partnership, the fleet-wide implementation of SureTec PressureTesting resulted in more than 800 hours, or 33 days, of critical path time savings per year for BOP testing. This was achieved through a global initiative to consult with IPT Global SMEs, who identified opportunities to reduce waste in test plans by eliminating steps; and by implementing the most efficient and robust digital solution for well barrier verification.
IPT Global’s performance advisor was able to provide a holistic perspective across the operations to share best practices, and identify accelerated learning opportunities that improved overall operational efficiency. Applying PressureTestingas a global digital solution was a critical step towards removing sources of human error from operations and to ensure that all regions were following standard practices and procedures.