Transform your Oil & Gas Operations with Advanced Data & AI/ML Solutions
Energy never sleeps, and neither do we. From pilot to full deployment, we turn raw data into a strategic asset. By working within your tech stack, STX Next delivers pragmatic solutions that optimize your operations today and prepare your enterprise for the future.
Our Services
STX Next builds modern, secure data foundations tailored to your environment. Our solutions ensure trust, visibility, and scalability across predictive maintenance and compliance reporting.
1. Data Platform Engineering & Lakehouse Development
Modern, cloud-native lakehouse platforms built on AWS, Azure, Snowflake, or Databricks that unify SCADA, ERP, IoT, and production data into a single source of truth. Standardized schemas, automated quality checks, and scalable pipelines ensure clean, AI-ready data across your enterprise.
2. Predictive Maintenance Systems & Asset Reliability Engineering
Implement predictive maintenance solutions that analyze real-time sensor data, historical performance records, and operational context to detect anomalies early and prevent equipment failures.
Reduce unplanned downtime, extend equipment lifespan, and improve safety by delivering actionable alerts, recommended interventions, and integration with CMMS/EAM tools for seamless work order automation.
3. RAG Knowledge Automation Systems
Deliver secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that ingest large volumes of technical documentation – manuals, safety PDFs, procedures – and return accurate, cited answers instantly. These knowledge assistants reduce search time and support safer, faster operational decisions.
4. Custom Internal Applications for Maintenance & Operations
Build user-friendly, high-performance internal tools for maintenance planning, asset monitoring, risk analysis, and operational coordination. These applications streamline field and control-room workflows through advanced search, mapping, dynamic tables, and integration with existing systems.
5. Cloud Migration & System Modernization
Modernize outdated, tightly coupled software environments by migrating applications and data to secure, scalable Azure or AWS services. This reduces vendor lock-in, increases resilience, and enables faster innovation without operational disruption.
6. Generative AI & AI Agents
Implement industrial AI solutions – from predictive models to natural-language interfaces – that help engineers access, understand, and act on operational data faster. Agentic AI automates end-to-end workflows by reading logs, interpreting sensor data, triggering actions, and updating enterprise systems.
7. Real-time Analytics & Reporting
We turn raw operational and industrial telemetry into actionable insights through real-time dashboards, KPI monitoring, and automated compliance reporting. Our analytics foundations improve reliability, decision-making, and long-term performance forecasting.
8. Data Integration & Unification
Break down operational silos by integrating legacy and modern systems into a unified data ecosystem. Our integration layers and open-standard connectors eliminate inconsistencies, reduce manual reconciliation, and ensure reliable cross-domain insights.
Tech Stack for Unique Challenges in Oil & Gas
From dynamic scaling requirements, to real-time data processing needs, to compliance & regulatory alignment, we've got you covered.
Microsoft Azure
Snowflake
Databricks
AWS
Expertise in the Oil & Gas industry
Reducing unplanned downtime by 20% for a global plastics processing enterprise
An international plastics and refining company needed a scalable system to process vast amounts of IoT data. Using Azure Data Explorer, machine learning, and advanced visualizations, STX Next built application that unified real-time and historical data from compressors, pumps, and other assets into a single platform.
The platform now handles over 100 million telemetry records per day, boosting asset transparency, cutting infrastructure costs, and reducing unplanned downtime by 20%.
Plastics Manufacturing Company
Advancing knowledge retrieval with RAG chatbot
Thousands of policy PDFs were slowing down Linde’s global teams. To address this challenge, STX Next built a secure Azure-based multilingual RAG chatbot that ingests all documents and keeps its index automatically up to date.
Verified, source-cited answers now appear in seconds, replacing hours of manual searching. The solution scales easily with new content and protects sensitive data through secure Azure hosting.
Chemical Industry
1,000% Performance Boost and 40% Cost Optimization with Cloud Infrastructure
Hemiko, a UK-based district energy operator, faced major infrastructure issues that caused frequent application stalls, resource throttling, performance bottlenecks, and increased operational costs.
Our expert team conducted a deep system analysis of application–infrastructure interactions and optimized database configuration to increase baseline performance. As a result, Hemiko improved application performance by over 1,000% and reduced monthly cloud costs by 40%.
Chemical industry
Challenges we can help you with
The biggest barrier in Oil & Gas isn’t in the field. It’s in the disconnected systems behind it.
Data trapped in fragmented silos and inconsistent formats forces engineers to waste hours manually fixing spreadsheets. This lack of integrity leads to unreliable reporting and causes predictive models to fail due to poor data quality.
Cloud-native lakehouse platforms unify data into a single source of truth.
Built-in quality checks and standardized schemas for clean, consistent data without manual cleanup.
Pre-configured building blocks for ingestion, modeling, and dashboards deliver quick wins and ROI.
Advanced reporting, live dashboards, and AI-ready pipelines, turning raw industrial data into predictive
Massive volumes of data remain difficult to utilize across the enterprise, slowing down decision-making as teams waste time searching for and re-keying information. Because traditional automation cannot handle unstructured inputs like PDFs or sensor data, critical capabilities like predictive maintenance are limited, directly driving up operational costs.
Natural language interfaces allow engineers and managers to ask questions directly of their data, and get accurate, cited answers instantly.
Autonomous AI agents read maintenance logs, cross-check against sensor data, trigger work orders, and update SAP, handling end-to-end workflows without manual intervention.
Smarter operations reduce downtime, speed up compliance reporting, unlock knowledge buried in endless files, and free engineers from repetitive data tasks so they can focus on operations and innovation.
Tightly coupled systems and proprietary technology lock companies into high fees and rigid vendors, where even minor changes trigger costly fire drills. Furthermore, aging control-room networks lack the modern security and resilience required to mitigate cyber risks.
The modern integration layer allows changes while avoiding operational disruption.
By replacing proprietary connectors with open standards, we cut license costs and accelerate new initiatives.
Data and application migration to Microsoft Azure, leveraging services such as Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric, and Databricks for scalable processing, analytics, and AI.
The result: a secure, future-ready software environment with no weak spots left to exploit.
Client
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We’re impressed with STX Next’s fantastic work ethic and support. They’ve helped us get over inevitable hurdles that we’ve faced during software delivery.
STX Next provides software development for our metering and billing platform.
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Your Partner for AI-Ready, Scalable Data Platforms and Software Solutions tailored for Oil & Gas
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They consistently delivered all items on schedule, demonstrating a high level of efficiency and commitment. Their team was notably responsive to our needs, ensuring that all project aspects were aligned with our requirements.
Moreover, they maintained a strong adherence to deadlines, which greatly contributed to the smooth execution and timely completion of our projects. Their professional approach in managing timelines and responsiveness was a key factor in the successful delivery of our objectives.
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FAQs
What are the benefits of data engineering and AI solutions in Oil & Gas?
Robust data platforms and AI solutions empower oil & gas companies to streamline operations across the entire value chain – from exploration and production to midstream logistics and downstream processing. These technologies enable real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, advanced data analytics, automation of workflows, asset performance optimization, and improved safety and compliance, helping reduce costs and improve decision-making.
What collaboration types do you offer?
We typically support flexible engagement models including:
- Project-based delivery – end-to-end execution of defined scopes.
- Team extension – integrate our experts directly into your engineering teams.
- Consulting & strategy – assessments, digital transformation roadmaps, and architectural guidance.
This ensures you get the right level of support for your project’s complexity, budget, and timeline.
What makes your Oil & Gas software engineering offering unique?
Our approach combines specialized tech skillset, proven industry expertise, and client-centric project governance. At STX Next, we prioritize quality so that you can be sure that your application is resilient to risks and future-ready. Through numerous oil and gas projects for mid-sized businesses and global enterprises, we’ve built battle-tested expertise and a deep understanding of how your industry operates. We treat our clients’ businesses as our own, with care and commitment. When working with us, you can be sure that all the decisions we make and the solutions we propose are made with your best interests in mind.
Why should I implement AI into my oil & gas business?
In a world obsessed with AI, skepticism is understandable, and believe us – we’re the last to chase mindless AI hype. While we recognize the technology’s enormous potential, we’re equally aware of its limitations. That’s why our AI solutions are built on strong data engineering foundations and a careful analysis of the real business value they deliver. For oil & gas industry, we see it's impact in areas such as predictive maintenance, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, task optimization, reducing manual work, and improving access to knowledge and data across the organization.
How does STX Next ensure compliance with regulations?
We prioritize compliance and have expertise in handling regulations like GDPR, AML, ISO, PSD2, and SEC among others, helping our clients mitigate regulatory challenges.
Why should I choose STX Next instead of a much larger software development company?
STX Next is small enough to provide you with a great amount of flexibility and agility, quickly adapting to changing project requirements. With fewer clients to manage we can give personalized attention to your project through collaboration with a close-knit development team. Working with us also gives you more cost-effective solutions. On the other hand, we’re big enough to handle even the most complex projects, can easily scale our teams up or down, and provide you with a comprehensive solution, handling the development from start to finish.
You’re more expensive than some of the companies on the market offering software development services. Why should I choose you?
We’re dedicated to delivering solutions of the highest quality that are always well-tested and rely on the latest technologies. Throughout the years, we have gathered the relevant experience to serve clients across all industries. What is more, we prioritize communication and customer support. STX Next takes all security measures to make your data safe and is aware of the compliance requirements lying on oil & gas solutions.
