ExproSoft software makes safety in oil wells a priority

When the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April 2010, the United States interior department created a team of experts to review the incident. This group included only one non-US member - ExproSoft.

A global leader in oil well integrity software and analysis, ExproSoft works with more than 50 major oil and gas companies worldwide to provide database-driven well performance analytical products.

"We wouldn't like another Macondo incident," says managing director and founder Einar Molnes. "Our software tools and expert services guarantee safe oil and gas wells with high uptime."

ExproSoft offers an integrated software suite - the WellMaster Reliability Management System (WellMaster RMS) and the WellMaster Integrity Management System (WIMS). These two products started out from a joint industry project, which collects historical well-completion performance and reliability data from oil and gas companies.

Relying on more than 30,000 well years of experience data covering more than 5,000 oil and gas wells worldwide, WellMaster RMS contains an as-built inventory of all the completion equipment installed in the wells. Running this data alongside historical information on well failures and their causes provides accurate reliability data.

Monitoring the condition of the wells in real time, WIMS is a proactive tool that can prevent blowouts. Oil companies such as Statoil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, BHP Billiton, BG Group, Tullow Oil, Shell, Talisman Energy, Hess and Apache provide ExproSoft well data for collection and analysis.