Case Study: Oil and Gas Company achieves optimized production and cost efficiency with TIBCO Software (Spotfire)

Oil and Gas Company Develops Cost Efficiency, Optimized Production

An oil and gas operator facing low prices needed to squeeze more efficiency from fewer people and far more assets. The company was drowning in high-frequency data—ten years of second-by-second records meant hundreds of millions of rows—and users were wasting time on manual Excel workflows because databases were too slow and data loads weren’t automated. Without fast, repeatable answers they couldn’t optimize production, evaluate acquisitions, or avoid costly delays.

The team integrated Hadoop with TIBCO Spotfire to deliver automatically updated, live data dashboards that engineers, economists, and geologists all use in the same environment. Analyses that once took hours or days now take minutes, internal Spotfire users grew from about 2 to 200, and the company estimates a 5–10% production increase from algorithmic optimizations—all achieved with no new capital spend while saving users hours each day and enabling faster, better decisions.