Creating a Trusted Single Source of Truth for Oil Sands Operations

An Oil Sands operation was struggling to make effective use of its operational data. Multiple site‑level historians, inconsistent tag structures, and poor data quality made it difficult to trust the information being used for reliability and emissions reporting.

Key challenges included:

• Siloed historians across operations and maintenance teams
• Inconsistent and undocumented tag naming conventions
• Unvalidated and unreliable data feeding reports and analytics
• Limited confidence in data used for reliability analysis and emissions tracking

As reporting requirements increased, the lack of a reliable, centralized data foundation became a growing operational and business risk.

With a trusted data foundation in place, the customer gained a reliable single source of truth for both operations and maintenance teams.

Key outcomes included:

• Increased confidence in reliability and emissions reporting
• Improved alignment between operations, maintenance, and analytics teams
• Reduced time spent validating and reconciling data
• A scalable foundation to support future analytics and digital initiatives

Most importantly, the organization could rely on its data to support operational decisions, without compromising system stability or security.