Industries: energy, oil and gas, and utilities

Your crews’ field experience, captured and put to work.

From rigs and refineries to pipelines and substations, Visor gives every crew real-time guidance, flags hazards early, and turns every job into intelligence you can act on.
NERC CIPAPI RPISO 55001OSHA PSM
A smiling lineworker wearing Visor glasses at an open relay panel inside a substation
Switching procedures, permits, and inspection records in one flow.Transmission

The cost of the gap

When a site goes down, the clock is expensive.

The cost of running critical infrastructure on knowledge that lives in retiring heads.

$500k/hr

Downtime, per hour

One hour of unplanned downtime in oil and gas costs about half a million dollars, more than double the 2019 figure.

Source: Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime

$38M/yr

Lost offshore, per operator

The average offshore operator loses $38M a year to unplanned downtime; the worst performers exceed $88M.

Source: Kimberlite / GE Oil & Gas, 2016

76%

Report a skills gap

Energy and utilities employers reporting a talent or skills gap in their existing workforce.

Source: ManpowerGroup, 2024

20/100k

Lineworker fatality rate

Powerline installers suffer roughly 20 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers, nearly six times the all-worker average.

Source: BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries

The work

Remote sites. High stakes. One live picture.

At the site, crews get step-by-step guidance for switching orders, permits to work, valve line-ups, isolations and cable splices. Visor confirms each step and records it as it happens. Missing PPE and hazardous conditions are flagged while there is still time to act.

In the control room, sensor feeds, equipment data and crew inputs come together in one live view. You see what is happening at every site, not what someone wrote down hours later.

Across the company, a fix on one platform teaches every other platform. When your veterans retire, what they know stays on every job.

Compliance

Audit evidence, produced as the work is done.

Visor supports NERC CIP, API RP, ISO 55001 asset management and OSHA PSM with inspection records, permit-to-work documentation and complete audit trails, created at the point of work, not rebuilt weeks later.

Case study

Switching orders and permit compliance

The challenge

Switching, isolation and lockout are where a missed step does the most damage. These procedures usually live on paper, get signed after the fact, and are rebuilt for auditors weeks later.

With Visor

Visor Capture keeps one controlled version of every switching order across all substations. Visor Guide moves operators step by step and only releases the next step once the last one is confirmed. Permits, timestamps and operator IDs are recorded as the work happens.

Representative results

98%

First-pass procedure adherence

−70%

Audit preparation time

0

Uncontrolled procedure copies

Common questions

How does Visor help oil and gas companies with an aging workforce?

Visor captures what experienced field workers know, from manuals, records and watching them work, and puts it in front of every crew in real time. Newer workers follow a veteran’s sequence without a veteran on site, and that knowledge stays when people retire.

Does Visor support NERC CIP and OSHA PSM compliance?

Yes. Visor creates inspection records, permit-to-work documentation and audit trails as work is done, supporting NERC CIP, API RP, ISO 55001 and OSHA PSM requirements.

Can Visor work at remote sites?

Visor runs AutoAlign’s models on site, close to the work, on smart glasses, tablets and phones.

Where do operators usually start?

With the assets that carry the most risk: typically switching and isolation, permits to work, or a recurring equipment fault.

Get started

See Visor across your operation.

Upstream, midstream, downstream or distribution. Tell us which assets carry the most risk, and we will start there.

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