Energy | Owner/Operator
Verify the work. Prove it was done right. Walk into every audit, turnaround, and incident investigation with documentation that holds up.
Paper at the workface. Signatures at the end of a shift. A QC engineer retyping numbers the next morning. By the time an audit arrives, the record is three steps removed from the work that actually happened.
Cumulus was developed by Shell to improve productivity and prevent unplanned downtime at its own facilities and projects. The platform now runs across refineries, offshore platforms, and petrochemical facilities for operators who can’t afford to find out after the fact that the record and the work don’t match.
2+ hours
of paperwork eliminated per joint *Ocyan deployment, Camacari petrochemical facility
Near Zero
rework instances after Cumulus deployment *documented results from offshore platform construction program
100%
of connections verified and traceable, every joint, every shift
Documentation that doesn’t survive scrutiny
A paper record is a copy of a copy. The technician wrote it down. Someone else typed it. A third person filed it. Each step is a chance for the record to drift from what was actually done. In a regulatory investigation or insurance claim, that drift is exposure.
No real-time visibility during turnarounds
Shutdowns run on compressed schedules. Supervisors find out at the end of shift if something went wrong, by which time the work has advanced and the window to correct it cheaply has closed. There is no way to manage by exception when you can’t see the exception as it happens.
Contractor quality that varies by crew and shift
Your senior technicians know the procedures cold. The crew brought in for a turnaround may not. Without a system that enforces the right procedure at the right step regardless of who is holding the wrench, quality follows the person, not the standard.
Audit readiness that requires scrambling
When a regulatory agency, an insurance adjuster, or your own HSE team needs a complete work record, the answer should never be “let us pull that together.” Every connection, every torque value, every sign-off should be retrievable in seconds, not days.
Incident investigations with incomplete data
When something fails, the first question is whether the work was done to spec. If the answer lives in a binder somewhere, you are defending yourself with a weaker record than the one that was verified by the tools you trust.
Your technicians know how to do this work. The problem is a system that requires them to document it separately from doing it, creating a gap between what happened and what was written down.
Cumulus closes that gap at the source. The torque wrench reports the value the moment it’s applied. The test instrument reports the reading the moment the test is complete. The technician doesn’t write anything down because there’s nothing to write. The data is already in the system, timestamped, tool-linked, and tied to the workflow.
One platform. Real-time field verification. A complete, defensible record on every job.
Cumulus works with the tools your crews already use, including torque wrenches, megger testers, and pressure gauges. Technicians follow guided steps on a tablet at the station. The tools capture the data. Supervisors see production in real time.
The wrench reports the torque. The gauge reports the reading. Pass or fail, the data is recorded the moment the work is done. No paper. No retyping. No gap between the work and the record.
A contractor technician on day one of a turnaround follows the same guided steps as your most experienced field tech. The procedure is in the system, not in someone's head. Quality doesn't move with the person.
Every torque, every test, every sign-off, tied to every asset. When an auditor asks, the answer is ready. When an incident occurs, the data defends you.
Cumulus was developed by Shell to improve productivity and prevent unplanned downtime at its own facilities and projects. — built specifically for environments where a single bad connection could cost lives and hundreds of millions of dollars. The same platform has since been deployed by Ocyan at a major petrochemical complex in Brazil, by offshore platform construction programs, and by operators across refineries and industrial facilities globally.
99%
reduction in bolted joint leak rates using Cumulus
$400K
production increase at one mid-size chemical plant using Cumulus on just 20% of bolted connections
2+
hours of paperwork eliminated for every work completion
Cumulus was developed by Shell to improve productivity and prevent unplanned downtime at its own facilities and projects. The platform has been built around the realities of energy work from day one.
Cumulus integrates with project management and documentation systems through a flexible API.
Most users are up and running in under an hour, with full onboarding support provided.
Cumulus is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and uses industry-standard encryption and security protocols.
See how the wrench writes the record. Before the auditor asks for it.
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