Oil and Gas Document Management

Using FileBound is all about sharing and tracking information in an authorized structured environment for the Oil and Gas Industry:

Are you looking for better ways to manage your information in a secure structured enviornment? FileBound does just that.

Resource Management is a core value in your current business environment. It’s also a daily practice of America’s oil and natural gas industry. FileBound ECM supports the world-wide recognition that you are a leader in the oil and gas industry that has responsiblity to invest in “Go Green” technologies.

At 40.4%, the effective income tax rate of the petroleum industry producers was both significantly higher than the statutory U.S. tax rate of 35% and the 26.6% effective rate of all U.S. manufacturing. FileBound ECM helps you to track, classify, store and retrieve tax and trade positions that affect your business.

Training and Certification Programs continue to serve a vital role in the global oil and natural gas industry. Every day, your industry relies on equipment, products and services approved by one of many certification programs. Now you can use FileBound ECM to not only track and renew existing certifications, but also to start new certifications.

Here are some of the items that FileBound can help you track:

  • ISO Registrations
  • Quality Manuals
  • Internal audit and management documents
  • Applications, reports and Quality Management System outputs
  • Procedural, control, responsibilities and facility layout documents
  • Corrective action communications
  • Compliance specification and adherence documentation

The development of consensus standards is one of the oldest and most successful programs in oil and energy. Beginning with its first standards in 1924, there are some 500 standards covering all segments of the oil and gas industry. Use FileBound ECM to track, documents and make available your individual adherences to each of the standards applicable to your business, is that type of management that will position your company for the future.

Federal lands and waters hold enough oil to fuel 65 million cars for 60 years, and enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for 160 years. The 2008 decision by Congress to lift the federal ban on development was the necessary first step in a long process to ensure resources are available for future generations. You will see the benefits of FileBound ECM to track leases, drilling contracts, core analysis reports, engineering data and production reports. Every aspect of your resource documentation can be tracked, classified, stored and retrieved from anywhere in the world.

Being that the energy field is wrought with regulation; store and track every supplier invoice, bill-of-lading, proof of purchase, receipt date, product specification guide, warranty and maintenance record for every piece of equipment you have in the field, world-wide. FileBound ECM allows the field operations managers to input documents directly into the system, then using a user name and password you have access to this information in real time.

The U.S. oil and natural gas industry has long operated globally, often in unstable regions overseas, often in remote locations within the US where security is an integral part of providing for the world’s energy needs. Because of our ability to support unlimited users with security specific log-in credentials, you can use FileBound to support a critical incident first responder with location-specific information and documentation that will help those that are helping you. FileBound supports this out of the box.

Conferences provide relevant and topical information on specific areas of interest for your business. Each year attendees (generally one per company, per conference, attends) learn about emerging trends, regulatory impacts, and updates to API Standards. Using FileBound ECM, you now can come back, scan the documents, scan the whitepapers, scan the presentations and make them widely available for your staff. FileBound is all about sharing information in an authorized structured environment.

Plug and Play

FileBound Express and FileBound On-Demand are Plug-and-play environments; both connect to any corporate network with an ethernet cable and are delivered through a Web-Based Interface

Out-of-the-box Pre-configured applications include:

  • A/P
  • A/R
  • Business Documents
  • Gen Office
  • HR
  • Legal Office
  • Standard Document Imaging
  • Custom Configuration ability

Disaster Recovery

FileBound makes it easy to create and maintain back-up copies of critical business documents thereby providing quick recovery in the event of a natural/electronic disaster/failure.

  • Automatic scheduled backups
  • Full Audit Trail and Reporting
  • Includes anything from 250,000 documents to a 250 million document storage license
    • Unlimited users
    • Unlimited projects

Multiple Data Formats

FileBound handles structured and unstructured data; unstructured information includes items such as faxes, photographs, XML components, video clips, podcasts, hand-written notes and e-mail messages.

  • FileBound On-Demand (Online)
  • FileBound On-Site (In-house)
  • FileBound Express (Appliance)  updated with "buy now" buttons