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Great Lakes Wellhead – Navigating complex environmental compliance challenges

Great Lakes Wellhead, Inc. (GLW) is a contractor serving the oil and gas industry with exploration and production (E&P), wellhead maintenance, gas storage, and wellhead disposal services. Around half of its business focuses on the gas and storage sector, while the other half caters to E&P projects. To aid in its highly regulated and potentially dangerous work in environmental compliance, Great Lakes Wellhead adopted Fulcrum data collection software in 2020.

The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration enacted new safety standards for underground natural gas storage facilities, leading to an extensive inspection requirement of around 17,000 wells across the United States. GLW’s adoption of Fulcrum data collection software has proved essential in fulfilling its clients’ additional environmental compliance inspection needs promptly, preventing potential penalties.

Fulcrum’s efficiency in visual inspections significantly reduced the time and effort required. It allowed GLW to swiftly conduct inspections, yielding uniformly accurate results and irrefutable location data to prove environmental compliance. In addition, Fulcrum data collection software also empowers GLW’s clients by providing them with valuable data and making them subject matter experts on their assets. This enables them to assess risks accurately and make informed decisions.

Despite the environmental compliance challenges posed by legacy wellheads and changing landscapes, Fulcrum’s automatic location data capture ensures precise geospatial information is available, independent of surface landmarks. Moreover, Fulcrum’s flexibility allows GLW to perform multiple inspections during a single site visit, optimizing resources and further reducing costs.

The future with Fulcrum

Looking ahead, GLW expects more stringent government regulations. This highlights the need for adopting technology like Fulcrum to stay ahead of environmental compliance requirements. As environmental standards evolve, innovative solutions such as Fulcrum will play a key role. They are essential for the oil and gas industry to navigate complex regulatory landscapes successfully. Thus, Fulcrum field inspection software has proven indispensable for GLW. It tackles environmental compliance challenges, provides clients with valuable data, and adapts to inspection demands.

For a detailed understanding of Fulcrum’s impact on GLW, download the case study below. It offers insights into how Fulcrum supports environmental compliance, empowers clients, and meets ongoing inspection needs.

“With Fulcrum, we know we have the technology capable of getting jobs done. It’s just that simple.”

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Two women performing wellhead inspection with Fulcrum helping them in navigating environmental compliance challenges

What is Fulcrum?

Organizations worldwide trust Fulcrum’s SaaS-based data collection platform to capture and share reliable information about field activities, much faster than paper or other digital solutions. Standardized, easily customized, and well-integrated data collection delivers improved clarity for decision-making and better productivity for lower costs.

Standardize data collection
Digitally transform your processes with a single platform that increases productivity, improves data quality across all use cases, and securely delivers real-time data.
Customize collection processes
Easily adapt to changing requirements with drag-and-drop app modification, full customization and extension capabilities, customizable reporting and alerting.
Streamline two-way integration
Expand the reach and usefulness of your data with best-in-class integration with Esri ArcGIS, real-time, two-way integration with any application, and built-in integration with email, SMS, and more.
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Jim Metz

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Fulcrum speeds things up. It was almost instantaneous. It allows accountability for people running the job to see what their guys are doing to make sure they’re adhering to safety policies.
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Aaron Vanover - catch more issues

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Daniel Stepner - easy to use, customer service

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Senior Consultant
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I have used many programs for field asset inspections. Fulcrum has been the easiest to set up, use in the field, and update. The service provided by the Fulcrum team has been top-rate.
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James Watts - safety once you close the loop from action to insight

James Watts

Director of Health and Safety
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Fulcrum helps us improve processes and make our work environment safer by streamlining inspections, surfacing inspection-related insights, and managing follow-up actions. Once you close the loop from action to insight to further action, the possibilities are limitless.
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Gavin Kelley - training period short, same data whether junior/senior collector

Gavin Kelley

Senior Software Developer
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It is so easy to use that our training period is greatly shortened. Data quality is very important to us so it can’t be overly complicated. We still get the same data quality regardless if it is a junior or senior data collector.
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