Chemical inventory management software for Oil & Gas Production

What oilfield chemical management software has to do

A chemical inventory system answers one question: how much chemical is in the tank. A chemical management system for production operations has to answer four more: is the right amount being injected, is it working, what is it costing per barrel, and which vendor is performing. Prodesy is built around all five.

Chemical inventory management software built for oilfield production, not the lab

Most results for chemical inventory management software are built for a laboratory or an EHS department: safety data sheets, container barcodes, storeroom locations, OSHA and WHMIS reporting. That is the right tool for a research lab. It is the wrong tool for a production operation running continuous injection at two hundred wellheads across three fields.

Oilfield chemical inventory lives in tanks, not cabinets, and the questions are different: what is the level in each tank today, how fast is it falling, when does it run dry, which sites need a load this week, and did the delivery ticket match the volume that arrived. Prodesy answers those questions by site, by tank and by injection point, using data your operation already produces.

• Tank levels by site or by sensor. Levels come in from field staff in the mobile app or directly from tank monitors. Both routes land in the same record, so a site can start with manual readings and add telemetry later without changing the workflow.
• Delivery tickets reconciled to inventory. Every load is logged against the tank it filled. Level change plus delivery volume gives true usage, which exposes short deliveries, unlogged top-ups and leaking tanks that a reorder-point system never sees.
• Usage-based forecasting. Days-to-empty is calculated from the measured usage rate, not an assumed consumption figure, so forecasts tighten as readings accumulate.
• Central load board. Forecasts roll up to one dispatch view across sites and vendors. Loads are scheduled before run-out and after the previous delivery has been consumed, which is where most chemical trucking cost is wasted.

None of that requires a safety data sheet. If you need SDS management, hazard labelling or storeroom compliance, a lab inventory tool will serve you better. If you need oilfield chemical inventory and load board management that feeds directly into injection rates, lab results and cost per BOE, this is the category you are in.

What to check before you buy

Use these six questions to separate production-grade inventory software from lab tools with an oil and gas landing page.

1. Does it calculate injection rate from tank level change, or only record quantity on hand?
2. Can the same tank accept readings from a person one month and a sensor the next, with no re-setup?
3. Are delivery tickets reconciled to measured usage, so vendor invoices can be checked against actual consumption?
4. Does it forecast run-out per tank and schedule loads across sites, or leave dispatch to the vendor?
5. Can it allocate production volumes to each injection point so chemical cost is reported per barrel, not per invoice?
6. Does it hold lab results against the treatment point, so you can see whether the chemical you paid for did its job?

Prodesy was designed around all six. Lab and EHS inventory platforms typically answer yes to none of them, and spreadsheets answer yes only with a full-time analyst behind them.

From inventory to program performance

Inventory tells you the chemical left the tank. Only production data and lab results tell you whether it did anything. Prodesy imports production volumes and allocates them to each injection point (production data integration), then attaches the lab work that proves the treatment (lab analysis workflow). The result is a per-well record of target, actual, cost and outcome that neither a spreadsheet nor an inventory tool can produce. Compare the two approaches in spreadsheets vs chemical program software.