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Experience

Black Sand Technology is a small group of oilfield professionals with 70+ years combined experience.  As we did in the field for 60+ years on the drilling side, we strive to deliver efficient, timely and safe solutions that maximize goals and ROI.  BST has decades of software development in the gaming, oilfield and medical fields, yielding a meaningful, solid, diverse and agile development team.

Experience

Working in the oilfield for many decades, we have seen the transition from brake handle rigs to current high spec connected rigs.  Even though the industry has evolved, we can still draw on the experience to benefit our clients.

The majority of the team possesses engineering degrees with the remainder have geology related degrees.  All have worked in the field for decades on the drilling side from MWD to WSS.  Cementing, hydraulic fracturing, and coil tubing a few of the other service lines we have worked in.

Geographic

We have worked offshore from the North Sea to Brazil and Alaska.

On land, we have worked from the UK to South America to Alaska and many basins in between.

Industries

We are not just limited to the oilfield.  What has been learned in other industries brings a broader and more effective perspective to drive solutions.  Successfully working in the software medical field demonstrates we can manage data privacy.  Our gaming experience involves precision timing, large volumes of data presented through multiple channels to many users on a limited bandwidth setup for years is difficult to match.

Expert consultation

We are not just coders.  We are not just field guys.  We are team that is of broad and possesses deep experience to not just sell a product, but instead strives to provide solutions.

Support

The oilfield is not 9-5 and neither should your be your IIOT partner.  Phones aren't shut down at 1701 on a Friday afternoon.  Our clients in other industries are often surprised getting support at 0100 on a Sunday, but you should not, as that is what IT solutions company in the oilfield should do.

Commitment

After sales and installation, our relationship doesn't stop.  Do not hesitate to contact us.

Our philosopy

Design Principles

IIOT is a wide, complex and ever evolving field that combines many disparate disciplines.

Are pure coders without hands on experience what you want?  Field work is demanding, intensive and indispensable experience.  However, those in the field may be able to solve problems but lack the ability to envision and conceptualize them into algorithms?  We do both well and bring context to solutions that others miss.

Simple elegance

Complex problems are best solved by keeping them simple and effective.  Our design goals is to break things down into individual nodes and solving them while still keeping things working effectively as a system.

Unique solutions

We aren't going to sell you hardware you don't need because it is what we sell or all we know.  Every situation is unique and our software solutions will reflects such.

Data security

Your data is your data and should stay that way.  Through our other projects involving HIPAA and GDPR, we only operate under the principle that your data privacy in paramount to the success, operating and continued growth of your organization.

Encryption

Our designs and software integrates industry standards and best practices from start to finish.

Noise

Too much meaningless data is counter productive as needd information will get lost in the noise.  Our solutions are designed and implemented to get you precise and actionable data.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth at remote sites can be challenging and limited.  Having worked remote for decades and living in a rural setting, our team knows how to design and compensate for less than ideal communication regimes.

Timely

Data should be collected in a manner that it is actionable, whether in real-time or historic.  Simple having a data point with no time does not allow it to be correlated to events.  You may have an event, but is it even actionable?

Software

Software is the glue that brings all the pieces of our systems together.  An idea needs to be implemented.  Without effective design, the pieces are just inert items.  Without effective coding, one will not have solutions.

Coding

The coding began with parents getting the kids an Apple II.  Where it is today, it just depends but consists of Python, PHP, Unity/C#, database optimization, backend work and system integration.

Limited resources

Our software for the medical field is on mobile devices and is graphics intensive.  IIOT provides many of the same challenges of high demand with limited bandwidth and computing resources.  Through the use of data analyzation and effective caching, needed data is provided in a timely manner through low bandwidth connections.

Multithreading

The core software for acquisition of data and subsequent operations is in Python.  To make the system operate as designed and expected in the field, it makes use of multiprocessing and multithreading.  It is vastly more difficult than single threaded Python, but is what is required to have a powerful and extensible system.

Consistent output

We have worked on the receiving end of data to parse and analyze during our time in the oilfield.  Data of poorly organized and changing format is not acceptable.  Data is meant to be collected and analyzed, not sanitized.

One time in particular sticks out where we were receiving CSV data.  The data had varying amount of column depending on the situation.  Headers were not at the start of the file, but randomly spread around the file.

Extensible and flexible

Well designed data acquisition systems should be able to collect and transmit data in varying formats and by needed means that match the situation.  The system has been designed from the start to operate in a distributed manner.  A sensor doesn't need to know where it is sending data nor does it need to know about other sensors.  Data transmission modules do not need to be concerned with other ones.  Through effective use of multiprocessing and distributed design, we can meet your needs.

Single threaded solutions

Poor and single threaded designs can cause side effects one has to experience.  We were tasked with importing and analyzing data from an engineer.  At the top of the hour the acquisition stopped and resumed after the file was uploaded to Dropbox.  We did not need to see the source code or talk to the coder to identify what had been done.

Consultants

Through our industry and gaming connections, we have access to a diverse and accomplished group of committed professionals.

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