Secure Data Protocol for Oil and Gas Supply Chain Integrity
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Solution Overview
Problem
The oil and gas industry faces challenges in monitoring and responding to illegal activities, such as theft and tampering, due to a lack of coordinated communication and transparency across supply chain sectors, and existing systems are not compatible or homogenous, making it difficult to track and trace assets accurately.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for creating secure data using a repository system that collects information from secure observer devices and sends it to a gateway or data integration module within a Global Management System (GMS) or Integrity Management System (IMS), enabling the identification of tampering, diversion, adulteration, and fraud, while also facilitating secure tax reporting and reconciliation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple different solutions and technologies are used to assist in management across supply chain sectors, then functional capabilities are provided, but system compatibility and homogeneity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal data communication protocol that enables different monitoring devices, sensors, and management systems across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors to communicate through a common standard. This protocol layer abstracts the heterogeneity of underlying technologies while providing unified access to supply chain data, resolving the contradiction between supporting diverse functional capabilities and maintaining system compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized communication infrastructure and protocol specification as an intermediary layer between diverse supply chain management systems. This mediator translates and standardizes data exchanges between different technologies and sectors, enabling compatibility without requiring changes to the underlying diverse systems, thus maintaining both versatility and homogeneity.
2Loss of information
If data collection and monitoring are expanded across all supply chain sectors, then visibility and tracking capability are improved, but data security and vulnerability to illegal activities worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary security measures including data encryption, authentication protocols, and access control mechanisms built into the communication protocol before data exchanges occur. These pre-established security frameworks protect expanded data collection infrastructure from illegal activities such as theft, tampering, and corruption while enabling comprehensive supply chain visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes feedback mechanisms through the standardized communication protocol that enable real-time monitoring and verification of data integrity across the supply chain. This feedback loop allows detection of unauthorized access or data manipulation attempts, enabling timely responses to security threats while maintaining expanded data collection for visibility.
3Ease of operation
If fragmented events and incidents are monitored without coordinated communication, then local monitoring is maintained, but accountability and timely response deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges fragmented local monitoring systems across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors into a unified communication framework using the standardized protocol. This combination maintains the operational independence and local monitoring capabilities of each sector while integrating them into a coordinated whole that enables cross-sector accountability and timely response to incidents through shared visibility and standardized data exchange.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention generally relates to a system and method creating secure data in a gas and oil supply chain. The system creates secure data related to oil and gas assets while traversing an oil and gas supply chain. At least one repository system(s), which collects secure data generated by capturing information using a secure observer device, sends the secure data to a gateway which is a part of a global management system or an integrity management system to create clustered events. The disclosure also relates to a system and method for managing and controlling data between entities in an oil and gas asset supply chain, and in particular to an excise tax management system and method to identify and reconcile tax filings, production volumes and operational reports.