IT for Oil and Gas

With the surge in demand for fossil fuels set to continue over the coming years, Oil and Gas companies face the challenge of meeting this growth, whilst ensuring they manage the expansion of their own businesses. IT systems play a crucial role in providing the platform for growth for any business, however with their heavy reliance on computing and communications for mission critical applications, Oil and Gas businesses have very specific demands.

Exceptionally functional and robust networks, often with offsite duplication, are required to provide 24x7x365 uptime for email services, databases and mission critical commercial systems; security and network intrusion protection to safeguard intellectual property whilst compliance on communication ensures regulatory requirements are met. Seismic processing requires the use of high performance computing platforms, generating large volumes of data which must be securely stored and backed up. With over 5 years’ experience in the oil and gas markets and a background providing IT services to major blue chip businesses, Pro Drive is the partner for Oil and Gas businesses. We partner with industry leading technology vendors to provide dependable, resilient, secure solutions and in particular understand the challenges of rapid expansion and can deliver scalable solutions to grow with you.

At Pro Drive we also recognise the need to work closely with our clients. It is core to our principles as a company to invest in our people both in talent acquisition and career development. This focus ensures that we deliver service excellence as well as technical excellence.

Our Services include:

• Infrastructure suport, business hours and 24x7x365
• Remote network monitoring
• Microsoft server infrastructure
• Server, application and desktop virtualisation
• Storage attached networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS)
• Database installation and administration
• Corporate email systems, archiving and compliance
• Unified communications and collaboration solutions
• Managed local and wide area networks, managed wireless
• Firewalls, intrusion prevention and remote access
• Datacentre, disk and tape based backup systems
• Standby datacentre sites and business continuity solutions