Oil and Gas
The damage prevention stakes are especially high for oil and gas companies. When protecting North America’s most critical infrastructure, leveraging the right tools and best practices is crucial. Whether it’s production, transmission, or delivery, the safety and protection of your assets, infrastructure, field staff, and the public are a primary focus.
KorTerra empowers oil and gas companies to comprehensively address their needs for risk mitigation, locate management, and regulatory compliance, while ensuring operational efficiency of their staff. Our extensive history of providing solutions for the oil and gas industry has resulted in an innate understanding of what you need to succeed relative to damage prevention.
Safety
Visibility
Efficiency
Safety
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Reduce risk and organizational costs associated with damages to underground facilities
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Prioritize the right tickets and avoid injuries by taking preemptive action at the right time on high risk locates
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Meet regulatory requirements with tools designed to ensure compliance
Visibility
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Strengthen your audit trail by capturing comprehensive visual locate evidence
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Track and manage communications with excavators to confirm the locate status prior to excavating
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Know when to intervene if risky excavators are on site
Efficiency
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Stay on schedule, reduce late locates, and strengthen productivity with KorTerra Field app
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Establish uniformity across your organization’s geographic footprint to ensure best practices are maintained
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Reduce overall costs and maximize profitability by addressing operational inefficiencies identified through enhanced data analysis
What are the leading oil and gas companies using to reduce incidents and maximize the effectiveness of their damage prevention teams?
Risk Management
With our comprehensive approach to risk management, KorTerra is the trusted partner of choice for leading oil and gas companies. We are committed to helping our clients reduce risk, enhance safety, and achieve regulatory compliance. Additionally, we are at the forefront of providing in-depth data analytics, further enhancing our capabilities. By leveraging our expertise, continuously-updated technologies, and tailored solutions, we empower organizations to navigate the complex landscape of the oil and gas industry with confidence and peace of mind.
Productivity Management
Our fully automated workflows streamline processes, ensuring consistency and efficiency in the field. By eliminating manual tasks and integrating data sources, our technology facilitates collaboration and communication across your organization. Standardized processes to minimize errors and maximize productivity. Real-time data analysis enables informed decision-making and proactive measures. With customizable solutions and comprehensive support, embrace automation to unlock your staff's full potential.
Locate Management
We understand the importance of a streamlined workflow and comprehensive visibility into facility details for accurate and timely locates. Our solutions enable your organization to optimize its workflow, ensuring efficient and effective operations. With our technology, you can seamlessly manage and track facility information, gaining real-time insights into the data. This enhanced visibility not only minimizes the risk of errors and delays but also enhances safety and compliance. Furthermore, we have expanded our offerings to include cutting-edge in-depth data analytics capabilities, amplifying the value we bring to your organization. Trust KorTerra to provide you with the tools and resources necessary to assure accurate, on-time locates and maintain operational excellence.
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West Texas Gas
KorTerra Advantage: Locate Management, Risk Management, and Productivity Management
West Texas Gas operates in natural gas distribution, transmission, gathering, and natural gas liquids transmission. They manage around 1,808 miles of natural gas pipelines across New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. With a dedicated team of over 50 field technicians, they handle approximately 23,000 locate tickets annually.
Challenge
Prior to working with KorTerra, West Texas Gas faced significant challenges with inconsistent documentation of damages and line locates, which often led to operational inefficiencies and increased the risk of utility damages. Without effective tracking and visualization tools, field crews struggled to accurately record completed locates, making it difficult to verify work and maintain accountability. This lack of documentation hindered communication between teams and created gaps in quality control, ultimately impacting the company’s ability to provide reliable service and ensure the safety of underground assets.
Solution
- Photo plotting functions enabled field crews to capture visual documentation of their work, ensuring accurate utility marking and providing a reliable record of completed tasks.
- Integrated GIS capabilities enhanced the visibility of all relevant assets in the area, facilitating better decision-making and improving the accuracy of line locates.
- Real-time ticket updates allowed field technicians to visualize tickets on a map, streamlining their workflows and reducing time spent searching for addresses.
Win #1
1,500 hours saved per year
Win #2
$41,000+ saved per year in gas
Win #3
Reduced to a .00113 damage ratio
Results
West Texas Gas's partnership with KorTerra has greatly advanced its damage prevention efforts and operational efficiency. By leveraging KorTerra’s innovative documentation tools and GIS capabilities, West Texas Gas has achieved higher accuracy in utility locating, enabling more precise and reliable service for their customers. This improved level of detail and visibility has reinforced their commitment to safety, streamlined operations, and strengthened customer satisfaction, ultimately positioning the company as a leader in safe, responsible utility management within the industry.
“Everyone at KorTerra is working toward a common goal of making the customer happy and making it work for them. Whether it is a level 1 support member or account manager, every person I have worked with has gone above and beyond.”
- Doug Beck, Damage Prevention and Public Awareness, West Texas Gas Co.
BHE GT&S
KorTerra Advantage: Locate Management, Risk Management, and Productivity Management
BHE GT&S is an interstate natural gas transmission and storage company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. An industry leader in liquefied natural gas solutions, BHE GT&S operates more than 5,500 miles of transmission line and 756 Bcf of underground storage capacity throughout the eastern United States.
Challenge
As an owner operator of high-pressure natural gas facilities throughout an expansive territory, damage prevention is crucial. BHE GT&S regularly performs aerial patrol of all owned facilities to strengthen damage prevention efforts. They sought a locate management solution that provided centralized visibility into this data as well as their public awareness communications. The need for aerial patrol ticket, audit support, and flight report integration required a unique and comprehensive approach.
Solution
- Single database for all aerial support tickets, flight reports, and ground locate records created a single source of truth for damage prevention across a multi-state organization
- Detailed mapping enables effective ticket screening and identification of high traffic areas
- Centralized database for public awareness efforts and ensuring compliance
- Efficiency gains resulting from automated routing of tickets
Win #1
0 pipeline damages in 2020
Win #2
Centralized database for locate, aerial patrol, and public awareness records
Win #3
Maximized effectiveness of public awareness program with over 125k mail pieces generated
Results
BHE GT&S has leveraged KorTerra to centralize all damage prevention efforts within a single database for flight reports, aerial support and ground locate tickets, and public outreach efforts. This has increased the efficiency of their teams and the actionability of their damage prevention data. Higher traffic areas are quickly identified and monitored accordingly. Public outreach efforts have been simplified with all stakeholder contact information accessible in one database, making the process of mailing 125,000-135,000 educational mailings possible and efficient. With KorTerra, BHE GT&S has strengthened and streamlined recordkeeping and effectively safeguarded facilities, while ensuring compliance.
"KorTerra has been instrumental in helping us to streamline processes and create efficiencies. Having all of our data stored in one reliable system has been incredibly beneficial."
- Rich Swiger, Senior Public Awareness Coordinator, BHE GT&S
Iron Horse Midstream
KorTerra Advantage: Locate Management and Productivity Management
Headquartered in Dallas, Iron Horse Midstream provides oil and gas producers with natural gas gathering and transmission, natural gas processing, condensate gathering, centralized compression facilities, condensate stabilization, vapor recovery, and natural gas treating. In addition to the Dallas headquarters, Iron Horse operates in the STACK/Merge/SCOOP with a field office in Mustang, Oklahoma.
Challenge
Damage prevention is an essential, high stakes priority for Iron Horse Midstream. Ensuring field safety and protection of assets while also maximizing the efficiency of field staff were among Iron Horse’s top objectives in looking for a ticket management system. Prior to implementation, field teams were dealing with highly manual processes resulting in significant costs and risk.
Solution
- Increased visibility into higher risk excavators and dig sites, ensuring the appropriate team members are onsite whenever necessary
- Established defined processes to support and demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements
- Elimination of outdated administrative processes that increased costs
- Reduced probability of human error and created an enhanced approach that resulted in optimized locator routes and territories
Win #1
75% of locate requests cleared in-house
Win #2
30 minutes saved per ticket cleared on average
Win #3
25-30% reduction in travel time
Results
Iron Horse Midstream has generated significant increases in safety and efficiency due to implementing KorTerra Locate and Productivity Management. Processes throughout the organization have been streamlined; both field and office staff have the tools required to operate at peak capacity. In addition to increasing efficiency, Iron Horse has strengthened the protection of underground assets and ensured regulatory compliance.
“The implementation of KorTerra has been instrumental in streamlining our ticket management processes, improving our communication and collaboration with external stakeholders, and enhancing our analytics and reporting. It has provided us with a comprehensive and user-friendly platform that has transformed the way we manage and execute our daily tasks.”
- Brandon Brashears, EHS & Regulatory Compliance Executive