Oil + Gas
Everbridge for Oil and Gas:
Better Incident Response and Operational Efficiency
Improve your emergency response times, drive operational efficiency, and achieve unprecedented levels of employee accountability with Everbridge’s best-in-class incident notification technology.
Everbridge enables you to communicate more quickly, clearly, and efficiently through end-to-end automation of your incident notification procedures and the ability to reach responders, management, and employees via all contact methods, such as mobile phones, landlines, email, text messaging, instant messaging, pagers, and more. With years of experience serving the industry, the team at Everbridge understands your unique needs and has tailored solutions to address them.
How Everbridge Helps Oil and Gas Companies
- Improved security and life safety. Rapidly notify personnel of incidents at a facility, along a pipeline segment or in the surrounding areas without tying up critical resources. Tight integration with sensors, security alarms, sirens, loudspeakers, digital signs, and more ensure a pervasive, layered communication approach in an emergency to get the word out and keep personnel and assets safe.
- Increased employee accountability. Keep employees out of harm's way by rapidly notifying them about severe weather, fires, gas leaks, and other incidents. Interactive polling enables you to account for and report on the whereabouts and safety of employees.
- Faster incident response. Quickly and effectively issue emergency alerts, provide shelter-in-place or evacuation guidance, coordinate with internal and external teams and resources, and issue status updates throughout the duration of an incident.
- Communications compliance and reporting. Initiate immediate conference call briefings and alert key team members when regulatory and quality survey teams arrive on-site. Satisfy compliance and reporting requirements through automated notifications, real-time confirmations, and extensive audit trail reporting.
- Continuity of operations. Sustain critical communications internally and externally over prolonged periods to resolve and recover from the incident expeditiously.
- Better emergency management and resource deployment. Notify and assemble incident response teams more quickly using less resources. Survey responders for arrival times, effectively allocate work assignments in real-time, and more.
- Greater situational awareness. Provide ongoing status updates as an incident progresses and is resolved. Include emergency plans, incident-related images, after-action report templates, and other important documentation as message attachments. Intelligent reporting enables informed decision-making, post-incident analysis and trending, and compliance.
- Stronger collaboration within and outside the organization. Organize briefings with administrators, facility security, crisis response teams, and external law enforcement agencies throughout the course of an incident using on-the-fly conference calling. Communicate across a single facility or a geographic region. Coordinate resource-sharing efforts.
Emergency Response and Management
- Response team call-outs. Rapidly deploy facility fire departments or other first responders using targeted notifications that reach personnel wherever they may be.
- Process upset or unplanned releases. In a major operational interruption, provide additional personnel and emergency contractors with deployment instructions, issue status updates, and conduct on-the-fly conference calls.
- Control center management. When the pressure is on in the control center environment, provide an easy-to-use interface with simple, drop-down menus and built-in response paths, facilitating speed of response and greatly reducing the risk of human error.
- Geographic identification and dispatch of personnel. When events impact broad regions, use map-based messaging to target recipients. Personnel within the area are immediately dispatched, their responses logged, and the Everbridge real-time dashboard allows leadership to manage resources accordingly.
Life Safety and Physical Security
- Real-time employee accountability. Launch interactive polling notifications and immediately confirm the safety and whereabouts of employees, allowing management to keep the pulse of the entire organization, even in times of crisis.
- Alarm notifications. Integrate sensors, fire alarms, security systems, weather alerts, and more to instantaneously relay critical information to key personnel.
- Quiet alerts. In the event of unauthorized access to the physical plant or property, quickly and quietly notify facility personnel without alerting the intruder.
Legal and Regulatory Compliance
- Compliance with Qualified Individual (QI) requirements. Leverage Everbridge’s deep reporting capabilities for an auditable record of notifications to your response personnel.
- Streamlined testing for PHMSA and other agency mandates. Safely manage system tests across wide geographic regions in real-time, notifying targeted groups when conducting hydrotesting of pipelines, mock drills, or inspections.
- Reportable incident reduction. Rapidly deploy response personnel, dramatically impacting containment times and driving down the number of reportable incidents.
- Drills and mock surveys. Conduct unscheduled drills and exercises with control centers, work crews, and others to improve incident response times. Document team acknowledgement rates and meet regulatory testing requirements.
- Regulatory agency visits. Initiate emergency conference calls with executives and alert and assemble employees when regulatory agencies are on-site to test compliance with communication and other requirements.
- Reporting. Show evidence of regulatory compliance via automated communications with real-time confirmation data and full audit-trail reporting that includes a history of communications, delivery attempts, and acknowledgements from recipients.
Corporate Communications
- External communications. In a major crisis or incident impacting the public, instantly notify the corporate communications team, community relations representatives, and call center management to stay in front of the news media and control misinformation and rumors.
- Overtime and shift staffing. Satisfy procedural or Workers’ Union requirements while rapidly staffing overtime and other shifts without wasting valuable resources on phone trees.
Everbridge Screenshots
Easy message creation
Whether you need to notify people in a single facility or across the enterprise, Everbridge enables you to communicate in minutes with a simple, three-step process. In usability studies, untrained users are able to send a message in just over a minute.
Effortless data management
An emergency notification platform is only effective if it contains accurate, up-to-date employee information. Import and maintain updated employee contact information easily with the Everbridge Data Migration Wizard and automatic data uploads from your payroll/HR software via our APIs.
Automated communications
When control center and security personnel are your first-line responders, leverage guided communications driven by built-in logic based on your incident response plan. Your personnel simply select an incident type, severity, and location from dropdown menus and the appropriate notification is automatically generated and sent to a pre-defined list of recipients.
Pre-written messages and scenarios
Build scenarios and create messages in advance for anticipated situations or incidents such as natural disasters and unplanned releases for simple one-click sending. Set up one or multiple concurrent broadcast scenarios with pre-defined contact lists and messages for rapid response and recovery.
Real-time tracking, reporting, and regulatory compliance
Gain full visibility into system usage and broadcasts results. Everbridge assembles real-time broadcast data, displaying compiled results in a clear, easy-to-read dashboard for quick and informed decision-making. Robust ad-hoc reports enable you to perform post-incident analysis and review. Detailed broadcast reports provide an audit trail of incident communications for compliance and internal reporting.
Everbridge in Action
An integrated petroleum company uses Everbridge to keep personnel safe in crises
According to the emergency coordinator for one of Everbridge's petroleum clients, "We switched to Everbridge from a competing provider because Everbridge understood our specific needs and worked to meet them. Additionally, the simplicity of the QuickLaunch interface provides clarity during chaos for our security force working through the wee-hours of the night."
Learn More
- Download the Everbridge for the Oil + Gas Industry overview.
- Contact us to schedule a demonstration of the Everbridge incident notification system.
