Case study

Janus24™ real-time monitoring platform
Digitally enabling the oil and gas industry to operate safely
and comply with federal regulations
Abstract
In the moments following the Deepwater Horizon oil
rig disaster, the initial response teams were unable toeffectively troubleshoot the Blowout Preventer (BOP)
due to a lack of understanding of the final state of thecontrol system. This lack of knowledge greatly hindered

the teams from acting in the most critical moments.
On April 19, 2019, The Bureau of Safety andEnvironmental Enforcement (BSEE) mandated that any
oil rigs drilling in the Gulf of Mexico must actively monitor
the subsea BOP and control system in real-time.

Michael Fry, President and CEO of Deepwater Subsea LLC

In addition, the new regulations require that allcompanies must track, trend and report on equipment
failures, abnormalities and overall system health.
By utilizing the OSIsoft PI System™ and various solutions
from the OSIsoft Partner EcoSphere – including HxGN
SDx® Operations and j5 Operations ManagementSolutions – Deepwater Subsea LLC has developed theJanus24 real-time monitoring platform, an industry
first solution that combines real-time data, complianceverification inspections and asset lifecycle management
in a data ecosystem that allows oil and gas companies
and drilling contractors to operate safely and incompliance with federal regulations. This case study
highlights that implementing value-adding solutions fromthe OSIsoft Partner EcoSphere can positively impact
real oil and gas industry problems, for example helping
to decrease operational risk and increase regulatorycompliance.

Michael Fry’s background
Michael Fry is the President and CEO of Deepwater
Subsea LLC, based in Katy near Houston, Texas.
Michael has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas
industry, working across various disciplines and was thesupporting Subsea Superintendent for Transocean when
the Deepwater Horizon tragedy occurred. His experienceof the devastating impact that outdated processes
can have when it comes to operations, complianceand safety inspired him to found Deepwater Subsea in2015. Deepwater Subsea focuses on subsea operations,real-time monitoring, competency development andtraining with the aim to end preventable errors that

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Janus24 Real-time Monitoring Platform Case Studycause incidents through digital transformation andoperational excellence. Its industry-first Janus24 realtime monitoring platform combines information thatwas previously siloed on paper, spreadsheets, harddrives and other disconnected databases into a central
digital solution, which also allows the quick distributionof compliance reports to government regulators. Before
working in the oil and gas industry, Michael spent ten
years in the US Navy on nuclear submarines, working
with torpedoes, cruise missiles and weapons deliverysystems.

Deepwater Subsea LLC’s challenges
Deepwater Subsea was using inadequate and timeconsuming word processor documents and spreadsheets
for its human operations procedures. This made itdifficult when tracking and tracing data, whilst lowering
coordination, focus and operational productivity. Fry said
it was a “nightmare” looking for historical information,
especially when investigating that a specific inspection
was completed and who performed the inspection.
The auditability and proof of inspection activities
is extremely important to comply with government
regulations that were introduced after the Deepwater
Horizon tragedy. Related engineering information– including equipment user manuals and P&IDs – wasalso stored across different computer folders andnetworks and as a result essential documentation
was not quickly available when required during realtime inspection activities. The use of word processor
documents and spreadsheets made it difficult toensure information consistency and the recording of

critical overlapping data. From the start of the job until
completion, unless the inspector or surveyor continuallysent back a copy of their report, there would be no way
to see the real-time status of their work. This was also
a problem because to comply as an ISO 9001 company,
it is essential that inspectors use the correct revisionsof documents, fill everything in correctly and ensure
full traceability and transparency. Documentation wasvery difficult to control, and as a result inspectors andsurveyors often used old revisions of documents during
their inspection activities. Unfortunately, there was noeasy way to find out if these old revisions were being useduntil after the job was complete, which was too late andmade it difficult to reach full regulatory compliance.
Deepwater Subsea continually observes drilling rigs
across the world, which are operated by a variety of oiland gas companies, and as a result Deepwater Subsea
is not the owner of the equipment being monitored.
Also, because a lot of this equipment being monitoredby Deepwater Subsea – such as Blowout Preventers(BOP) – is not easily accessible, it was difficult to reporton the true operating status of that equipment in realtime. The lack of a centralized asset lifecycle information
management system – which would link and organize
related data from disparate sources – led to further
documentation visibility gaps, which again meant it wasan arduous task finding crucial documents related to theequipment being monitored by Deepwater Subsea.
This important engineering information – such as
schematics and technical data – was held on various
computer networks and systems of record across thedifferent drilling rigs. No drilling rig is the same, and eachhas different data-recording requirements, so there wasa big problem managing these growing data silos. Thiswas especially so with the human operations procedures
being recorded on word processor documents andspreadsheets, alongside the related engineering
information being scattered across different
cross-company computer networks.

Most time was wasted clicking between different screens
to find crucial related information. For example, there
was no link to the PI System during inspection activities,
which meant that safety critical operations, engineeringand real-time data was disconnected. Downtime orsafety-critical events recorded by the PI System did
not reach inspectors immediately, which delayedinvestigations and any remedial actions.
As the PI System is its core technology for real-timemonitoring, Deepwater Subsea wanted a humanoperations procedures and engineering information
management solution provider with an establishedbidirectional interface to the PI System. With the everchanging regulations in the oil and gas industry and tocontinually maintain compliance standards, it was also
important for Deepwater Subsea to be able to create
and modify its operations and engineering software
applications and documents without heavy reliancefrom a third party. Deepwater Subsea had previously
tried to build its own digital checklist and humanoperations procedures software but became frustrated
by the growing vendor involvement and financial cost tocontinually design and modify this homegrown software,and as a result that solution became a problem and wasabandoned. Since being founded in 2015, Deepwater
Subsea has grown quickly, and is continually hiring
new staff in its real-time monitoring control room.
Because day-to-day information being recorded by thecontrol room and the field team was scattered acrossword processor documents, spreadsheets and various
computer networks, it was very difficult to train andtransfer knowledge to junior and new employees in astructured manner.
To solve these problems, get more out of its PI System
investment and become the market leader in real-timemonitoring for drilling rigs, Deepwater Subsea wantedto develop an industry-first solution, which powerfully
combined human operations procedures and engineering
information with the real-time and historical data
managed by the PI System.

How Hexagon and OSIsoft digitally enabled theindustry-leading Janus24 real-time monitoring platform
To connect their operations, engineering and real-timedata silos, Deepwater Subsea is utilizing the HxGN SDx
Operations and j5 Operations Management Solutions,which are both developed by Hexagon, who is also
providing additional value within the OSIsoft Partner
EcoSphere. The combination of human operations
procedures (j5 Operations Management Solutions),
engineering information and schematics (HxGN SDxOperations) with real-time and historical data (PISystem) has enabled the industry first Janus24 realtime monitoring platform developed by Deepwater
Subsea. This has been achieved in a relatively shorttime – especially in the typically slow-moving oil and gas
industry – providing quick-time-to-value. In April 2018,
representatives from Deepwater Subsea discovered
Hexagon solutions at OSIsoft PI World 2018 in San
Francisco. After more detailed discussions, a purchaseorder was sent in June 2018 from Deepwater Subsea tokick off the first phase of implementing j5 OperationsManagement Solutions. This implementation wascompleted in December 2018, about seven months
from first exposure. In June 2019, Deepwater Subsea
decided to purchase HxGN SDx Operations to enable its
personnel to record and view all the related operations,engineering and real-time data streaming in from various
drilling rigs on a single platform (and even on one screen
in PI Vision™). These major steps towards developing
and implementing comprehensive Digital Operational
Twins inside the Janus24 real-time monitoring platfrom
happened in less than two years after first exposure atOSIsoft PI World 2018.
Finding information now takes seconds instead of hours,
and Janus24 real-time monitoring platform control room
personnel and field inspectors are also coordinated,allowing them to be more focused and productive during
their day-to-day activities.

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Inspection records are now easy to find, and there is aclear audit of when the inspection was completed andwho was involved, allowing excellent compliance withgovernment regulations that were introduced after theDeepwater Horizon tragedy. Engineering informationthat is related to the human operations procedures andthe PI Tags – including equipment user manuals, P&IDs
and other technical documentation – is now presented
efficiently on HxGN SDx Info Maps. The connected
Hexagon and OSIsoft solutions allow relevant real-timedata to reach inspectors as they work, and inspectors
can also write value added human procedural data backto the PI System.
The mutually beneficial link between the Hexagon andOSIsoft solutions allow Deepwater Subsea to achieve
ISO 9001 compliance because inspectors’ activities canbe monitored in real-time from start until completion.
Inspectors are now always using the correct revisions ofdocuments and recording data correctly, which ensures
full traceability and transparency. This documentation
revision control is now effectively managed by theHexagon solutions and the instances of inspectors
mistakenly using old revisions is a past problem.
This ensures that the documentation used by Deepwater
Subsea as part of its inspection activities is meetingcompliance when completed and is continually updated
in line with the ever-evolving government regulations,increasing the value and credibility of the Janus24 realtime monitoring platform.
Despite not being the owner, Deepwater Subsea can now
effectively analyze and see the operating status of theequipment being monitored in real time. This is becausewith HxGN SDx Operations they have a centralized asset
lifecycle information management system, which links
and organizes related data from disparate sources acrossthe drilling rigs they monitor. Trends from the PI System
can be viewed quickly by clicking on linked PI Tags whichappear within documents and records that relate to thatpart of the process (or even on 3D Models and Laser
Scans). Finding crucial engineering documentation
related to the equipment being monitored is simple withHxGN SDx Operations Info Maps.
Data silos have been reduced dramatically and muchtime has been saved because there is no more clicking
between different screens, folders and software
applications to find crucial related information. For
example, Equipment or PI Tags are now used as thecentral reference point in a HxGN SDx Operations InfoMap, which allows the quick viewing of all the humanoperations procedures, engineering documentation,
real-time data elements, 3D Models, Laser Scans andany other useful information related to that Equipment orPI Tag. Downtime or safety-critical events recorded andhighlighted by PI Event Frames™ now reach inspectors
immediately, speeding up investigations and any remedialactions.
With the ever-changing regulations in the oil and gas
industry, continually maintaining compliance standards
is crucial. Deepwater Subsea can now create and modify
its operations and engineering software applications anddocuments without heavy reliance from Hexagon.
For example, j5 Operations Management Software isdriven by j5 IndustraForm® Templates, and thej5 IndustraForm Designer allows Deepwater Subsea
to easily create and modify its human operations
procedures and documents – for use in both the desktop
control room and field mobile inspections – without
any major assistance from Hexagon using a familiar
spreadsheet-like configuration environment. This allowed
Deepwater Subsea to evolve the Janus24 real-timemonitoring platform without the problems experienced
when it tried to develop its own homegrown digital
checklist and human operations procedures softwarewith a third-party vendor who didn’t have the oil and gas
industry expertise of Hexagon. This ease of configuration
combined with the best practice knowledge of Hexagon
consultants allows Deepwater Subsea to benefit fromthe best of both the homegrown and experienced vendor
approaches.
Investment in Hexagon solutions has also made it easierto train and transfer knowledge from senior to junior andnew employees in a structured manner. Lessons learned
can be documented and associated to Equipment andPI Tags easily using HxGN SDx Operations Info Maps.
The human operations procedures managed by
j5 IndustraForm Templates can also be easily modified in
the j5 IndustraForm Designer to prevent future mistakes
and guide personnel through difficult procedures.
This ensures a culture of continuous improvement with
the Janus24 real-time monitoring platform.

Benefits and results
Deepwater Subsea has achieved a 70% savingsin productivity in human operations procedures,
documentation and the completion of inspections.
There has also been a 95% savings in time retrieving
and searching for quality evidence post inspection.
The inspectors now load findings directly into a digital
report which eliminates the need for additional filing ofreports and records. j5 IndustraForm Templates allow
Deepwater Subsea to consolidate all its word processor
documents and spreadsheets into a single enterprisesystem. It also provides a clear and simple approach,
avoiding third party assistance in adding and modifying
documentation and forms to meet specific oil and gas
industry requirements and changes.
There are now clear standardized processes for different
inspector’s management and completing of actions withconsistent formatting, structure, workflows and content
entry, leading to better ISO 9001 compliance. Hexagonand OSIsoft solutions are enabling greater transparency
which has improved Deepwater Subsea’s creditability inthe oil and gas industry. Janus24 real-time monitoring
platform customers can now also access their own
previously unstructured data easily with user accounts
provided by Deepwater Subsea. This gives customers
who are operating drilling rigs visibility and the ability
to interact with inspectors, something which they havenever had before in oil and gas industry.
Gone are the instances of inadequate shift handoverreports and forgetting what happened and when.
With the ability to search all the records with richtext, Deepwater Subsea can capture real lessons
learned moments and share them across the company.
Compliance documents and reports which need to beroutinely sent to government regulators like the Bureauof Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) can
now be completed and distributed in just a few minuteswith the Janus24 real-time monitoring platform. The
combined Hexagon and OSIsoft solutions allow the datarequired by these regulators to be collected in real-timeand populated into pre-defined structures, removing thetime-wasting process of gathering and rewriting the datafrom disparate sources.
With the Janus24 real-time monitoring platform,Deepwater Subsea has developed an industry-firstsolution which powerfully combines human operations
procedures and engineering information managed by
Hexagon with the real-time and historical data managed
by the PI System. The Janus24 real-time monitoring
platform has solved a multitude of problems that
Deepwater Subsea experienced working with inadequate
word processor documents, spreadsheets, siloed
engineering information and disconnected real-time
data. The Janus24 real-time monitoring platform has
also allowed Deepwater Subsea to get more out of their
PI System with Hexagon solutions and more out of theirHexagon solutions with the PI System.
In the late 20th century whilst performing
troubleshooting, repair and preventive maintenance onequipment during his time with the US Navy, Michael
Fry – the President and CEO of Deepwater Subsea– wished that siloed operations, engineering and realtime information could be seamlessly connected toincrease the efficiency of his day-to-day tasks. In thefast moving 21st century, value-adding solutions from
Hexagon, OSIsoft and other members of the OSIsoft
Partner EcoSphere are at last breaking down thesesilos. Deepwater Subsea has grasped the opportunity tobecome an early adopter of these breakthrough digitaltransformation initiatives in the oil and gas industry,
and is positively impacting the day-to-day compliance,efficiency and safety problems faced by its peers.
A 20th century dream, the Janus24 real-time monitoring
platform is a now a reality with proven results, andDeepwater Subsea is now geared up to become theglobal market leader in real-time monitoring fordrilling rigs.

The combined Hexagon and OSIsoft solutions are a major part of pushing ourbusiness to the next level. Before this combination we were pulling all the PI SystemTags to match what was on the P&IDs. We can now pull up the P&IDs in HxGN SDxOperations, click on a piece of equipment and have the trends from the PI Tags
appear on the same screen.
To me it’s completely game-changing to have all this information readily available
on one screen. This is the first time an end user can go to one place and get all theoperations, maintenance, engineering and process data they need to do their duties.
By having all this information readily available in a digital twin, I believe this is anindustry first for the oil and gas industry, where it has been difficult to monitor
remote assets and equipment in dangerous areas.”
Michael Fry
President and CEO, Deepwater Subsea LLC

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