Edge

Large-Scale Well Telemetry System

A thousand-plus-well operation needed telemetry and measurement that could scale across new pads without a re-architecture each time. The answer was edge compute distributed to the field and orchestrated like modern infrastructure.

Role

Architect / lead

Sector

Upstream

Focus

Edge orchestration

Scope

1,000+ wells

The challenge

A fleet of this size makes manual, per-site configuration unsustainable and recovery slow when a node fails.

New pads come online constantly, so the system had to grow without bespoke setup every time.

The approach

Containerized field services and orchestrated them on lightweight Kubernetes at the edge.
Standardized polling and protocol handling so every site is configured the same way.
Built recovery and scaling into the platform so new pads join with minimal hands-on work.
Fed normalized telemetry into Ignition and the broader data layer.

The outcome

Uniform, recoverable deployments across the entire fleet.
New pads added quickly without re-engineering the system.
A measurement and telemetry backbone built to keep scaling.

Stack

K3sNode-REDModbusIgnitionDockerMQTT

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