Upstream

Software Toolbox’s solutions empower real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and secure remote operations for wellhead optimization, injection control, facilities management, CO2 concentration & storage, artificial lift, and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Our solutions seamlessly integrate with SCADA, HMI, historians, and alarm/event monitoring systems, enabling efficient production surveillance and optimization, asset performance management, and drilling management. By facilitating secure data exchange and helping to provide contextualized insights, Software Toolbox solutions aid in enhancing operational efficiency, reducing downtime, and support proactive decision-making across upstream operations.

Midstream

Software Toolbox’s solutions enhance pipeline monitoring, leak detection, and flow measurement with secure, reliable data acquisition capabilities. Our solutions help Unified Operations Centers (UOC) by aggregating data from gas plants, tank farms, and transportation networks, improving visibility and control. With advanced protocol conversion and tools that empower AI and support cybersecurity efforts, we ensure safe, efficient data communication across your midstream infrastructure.

Downstream

Software Toolbox’s solutions facilitate refinery operations, custody transfer, and LNG management by supporting process control systems, emissions monitoring, and compliance reporting. Our solutions help to streamline operations monitoring, alarm aggregation, secure data transfers, and fiscal metering through advanced data integration, ensuring that downstream operations are efficient, accurate, and secure. By simplifying processes and enabling actionable insights, Software Toolbox solutions help enhance compliance and cost-effectiveness across the downstream sector.

Challenges

Reliable device communication in oil and gas operations depends on using software that supports standard and industry specific protocols, can handle the varying communications topologies, capacities, and performance found in the industry, and a supplier team with experience meeting the challenges. 

Solutions

TOP Server simplifies field device communications with extensive standard and oil & gas specific protocol support and pre-configured bundles, ensuring seamless integration, reliable operations, and streamlined data flow in the oil and gas industry.

Challenges

Supporting secure protocols like OPC UA, DNP3, MQTT, and REST that are emerging as replacements to device specific protocols is vital to prevent hacking but faces challenges with device compatibility, cost, and regulatory demands. 

Solutions

Software Toolbox’s solutions support secure communication protocols like OPC UA, DNP3, REST, & MQTT, facilitating safe data exchange and transmission to protect against unauthorized access and meet regulatory standards.

Challenges

Combining SCADA, ERP, measurement accounting, and cloud data into a common platform requires tools for accurate collection and contextualization. 

Solutions

OPC Router and  Cogent DataHub connect and integrate data from SCADA, ERP, and accounting systems into a unified platform, enabling comprehensive data management for accurate measurement and decision-making.

Challenges

Security concerns, communications architectures, and legacy systems hinder cloud adoption, keeping critical edge infrastructure—like field sensors, RTUs, and control systems—from delivering real-time insights.

Solutions

Cogent DataHub and OPC Router facilitate the integration of on-premises data with cloud platforms, addressing security concerns and enabling seamless data flow to support the industry's transition to cloud-based solutions.