Wertek AI for oil & gas offshore

Market context

Mexico and several LatAm countries operate a significant fleet of offshore assets — production, compression, and injection platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, from both state-owned and private operators. What sets this environment apart from any onshore plant is the cost of getting there: every unplanned intervention means a helicopter or vessel, specialized crews, weather windows, and deferred production while the equipment is out of service. A failure that onshore is resolved in hours can, offshore, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars between logistics and barrels not produced. Add to this a strict safety regulation (in Mexico, ASEA) that requires documented maintenance and inspection programs. The result: few industries have a business case as direct for condition monitoring — knowing the real state of critical equipment before boarding the platform.

Sector pain points

Every unplanned trip costs a fortune. Mobilizing personnel and spare parts to a platform is among the most expensive logistics in the industry; a surprise failure forces paying that cost in emergency mode.
Deferred production. When a compression train or an injection pump without backup fails, production is deferred day after day until the intervention arrives.
The specialists are onshore. The vibration analyst or reliability engineer is rarely on the platform; diagnosis is done remotely, often with incomplete or outdated data.
Maintenance windows tied to logistics. Interventions must be grouped and planned weeks in advance; reaching that window without knowing which equipment really needs it wastes the trip.
Traditional monitoring systems expensive and closed. The sector's legacy solutions involve proprietary hardware and contracts that are only justified on the most critical machinery, leaving the rest of the platform without coverage.
Heavy documentation burden. The regulator and internal audits require evidence of maintenance programs, inspections, and tests — gathering it by hand consumes hours of scarce personnel.

The Wertek solution

Wertek AI applies to the offshore environment as a visibility and decision layer over rotating equipment and platform infrastructure — today as demonstrable applicability with the same modules available for onshore industrial plants:

Diagnostics and condition monitoring: continuous vibration and temperature monitoring on compression trains, pumps, and critical motors, with a health index and alerts with a lifecycle (onset, escalation, recovery) instead of loose alarms. On-demand diagnostics let the technician onboard capture and the onshore specialist review the same data, on the same asset.
CMMS and field service: work orders with photographic evidence, scheduled preventive maintenance (including periodic device testing), spare parts inventory, and intervention planning — key when each visit must bundle the maximum number of jobs.
Digital asset identity: every equipment on the platform with its full history accessible via QR/NFC, so crew rotation does not erase the asset's knowledge.
Energy: monitoring of the platform's power generation and distribution.

What Wertek does NOT do in this sector: Wertek does not manufacture or certify hardware for classified areas — instrumentation for explosive-atmosphere zones is selected per project with third-party hardware certified for the corresponding zone, and that certification belongs to the sensor manufacturer, not Wertek. Nor does Wertek replace machinery protection systems (vibration trip) or the process control system: it is a layer of monitoring, analysis, and management, not of control or functional safety.

Typical assets and sensors

The equipment where condition monitoring adds the most value on a platform:

Gas compression trains (turbine–gearbox–compressors): vibration at multiple points of the train (6–8 points typical) and temperature.
Water injection pumps: vibration on motor and pump and temperature — high-pressure equipment where cavitation and seal wear warn via vibration before failing.
Gas turbines (generation or mechanical drive): multi-point vibration and exhaust temperature as degradation indicators.
Platform power generation and distribution: electrical parameters, power quality, and imbalances.
Separators and process vessels: integration of process signals (pressure, process temperature) is evaluated per project ROADMAP.

Available modalities: continuous vibration with wireless sensors, on-demand vibration, ultrasound, and thermography captured by the personnel themselves, temperature, and energy. Hardware selection for each zone of the platform is defined per project, respecting the site's area classification.

Compliance and standards

ISO 14224 — the equipment taxonomy and reliability data standard born precisely in oil & gas: Wertek's equipment classification and failure modes are aligned to this standard, which makes it easier to speak the same language as the operator's reliability systems.
ISO 17359 / ISO 13374 — the platform's condition monitoring methodology (acquisition, processing, state assessment) follows the framework of these standards.
Evidence for the regulator and audits: the history per asset — measurements, work orders with evidence, executed inspections — makes it possible to demonstrate that the maintenance program is followed, with traceability of who did what and when. Wertek does not certify safety integrity levels (SIL) or replace functional-safety studies; it does help schedule and evidence periodic tests as preventive maintenance.
ISO 55001 (asset management): certification-support module ROADMAP.

Reference case

Reference case in progress — Wertek AI has not yet published an offshore case. The modules described are available today on the platform for equivalent equipment (motor–pump trains, compressors, power generation). Contact Wertek for a demo with your own assets. </content>