Power BI for
Drilling Operations.
Drilling operations don't have a reporting problem. They have a data infrastructure problem. Power BI can only be as good as what's behind it — and when what's behind it is manual exports, inconsistent vendor data, and spreadsheet intermediaries, no amount of dashboard design fixes the underlying problem.
PRUiM builds the data layer that makes drilling Power BI work correctly — a normalized, unified operational database connected directly to your vendor systems, with KPI logic designed at the data layer so reports are fast, consistent, and always current.
Why drilling dashboards
fail at the data layer.
Reporting takes hours of manual work
Most drilling operations run their reporting through a chain of manual steps — export from Pason, export from WellSeeker, pull data from Oasis, reconcile in Excel, paste into a Power BI template, review and distribute. The process takes hours. By the time the report reaches leadership, the data is already stale.
Every system tells a different story
When Pason shows one number and WellSeeker shows another, operations managers don't know which to trust. Inconsistent data across systems forces manual cross-checking before any report can be published — and erodes confidence in the reporting infrastructure itself.
Power BI connected to the wrong data source
Most drilling Power BI implementations connect directly to vendor exports, spreadsheets, or poorly structured databases. The reports look right until the underlying data changes — a vendor schema update, a renamed well, a new rig added to the fleet — and then they break silently or produce wrong numbers.
No live operational visibility
Scheduled refreshes and manual exports mean dashboards always reflect the past. For operational decisions — rig performance, dysfunction alerts, job progress — data that's hours old isn't operational visibility. It's historical reporting dressed up as a dashboard.
The data infrastructure
Power BI actually needs.
Live data layer behind Power BI
Power BI connected to a normalized operational database — not to vendor exports or spreadsheets. Pason, TOTCO, WellSeeker, and Oasis data flows continuously into a unified operational data layer that Power BI reads directly. Reports refresh from a single source of truth that's always current.
Cross-vendor data normalization
Before any report is built, the underlying data is normalized. Vendor-specific channel names, inconsistent well naming, and fragmented identifiers are resolved into a consistent operational schema. Power BI sees clean, consistent data — not the raw vendor complexity underneath.
Well identity resolution
Pason, TOTCO, WellSeeker, and Oasis all represent well identity differently. PRUiM resolves those differences into a canonical well model so every report — performance, cost, operational KPIs — references the same physical well consistently across all data sources.
Operational KPI design
Drilling KPIs — footage per day, connection time, flat time percentage, dysfunction classification — require domain knowledge to define correctly at the data layer, not just at the visualization layer. PRUiM designs KPI logic directly in the operational database so Power BI displays numbers that are computationally correct, not just visually convincing.
Automated reporting workflows
Daily, weekly, and shift reports that previously required manual assembly now refresh automatically. Scheduled Power BI reports distributed to operations leadership, field supervisors, and client contacts — without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
Principal-led architecture
Every engagement is handled directly at the principal level. No junior handoff, no account management layer. Direct ownership of data architecture, KPI design, and dashboard build from scoping through deployment.
Operational reporting
at production scale.
Principal architect of a production drilling telemetry platform for a leading directional drilling company — designed and built from the ground up as principal architect and technical lead. Power BI reporting connects directly to a normalized operational database ingesting live telemetry from WellSeeker, TOTCO, Pason, and Oasis — replacing manual export and reconciliation workflows with automated, always-current operational dashboards.
Today, the platform supports more than 1,900 wells, processes over 100 million telemetry records per day, and contains more than 2.4 billion historical records.
Tired of manual drilling reports
that are outdated before they ship?
Every engagement is handled at the principal level — direct ownership of data architecture, KPI design, and dashboard build. We work with a small number of clients at a time, by design.
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