FAQ
Questions integrity teams ask us.
Straight answers on getting started, schematics, the monthly review, the method, your data and where regulators fit — the same answers you would get from our engineers on a call.
Getting started
Before you send us anything.
“Excel works.”
It does — until the person who maintains it is away, or someone asks how a status was decided. Import your existing workbook, review the column mapping and row-level checks, and see every difference against your own figures before you commit. Your team can keep exporting to Excel whenever it wants.
What is Demo Petroleum?
A fictional operator created for the walkthrough. Every screenshot on this site comes from that fictional tenant; no real operator’s data is shown anywhere, and no real operator is named as a user.
Who builds BarrierLedger?
Front End Engineering Consultancy (FEEC), an independent upstream and midstream engineering consultancy. The engineers who write the integrity method profiles also build the product and deliver the engineering services alongside it.
How do we start?
Book a demo and we will walk through the platform on the fictional tenant, then agree the next step: a fixed-fee register health check, a pilot on your own wells, or a subscription. Hosting, permissions and data-processing terms are agreed before any of your data is onboarded.
The platform
How the platform works.
“Our wells are unusual.”
The method for each well type is written down and versioned, and your integrity policy sets the bands, cadences and tolerances within it. Every assessment records the profile and settings versions it used, so unusual wells are a configuration conversation, not a code change.
Can BarrierLedger draw our well schematics?
Yes. Enter or paste the deviation survey, casing, liner and tubing strings, cement tops and completion equipment, and the platform draws the schematic for vertical, deviated, horizontal and multilateral wells, with the barrier envelopes overlaid. Schematics export as SVG or PNG, and missing inputs are flagged rather than guessed.
Does it run our monthly integrity review?
Yes. The review walks every well in scope, every overdue test, every open action and every override awaiting approval. Once approved, the period locks; a later change is a restatement with its own reason and approval. The monthly review pack is generated from the locked record.
Which well types can be assessed?
Each well type — producer, injector or disposal well — is assessed against a method profile written for that type, and one profile never serves another, so a result is never carried across types.
Where does the MAWOP or MAP value come from?
Each monitored annulus carries its own MAWOP/MAP value as master data with its source, date and reference, imported with your register or entered directly. Readings are assessed against that value and the bands in your method profile.
What happens when a well cannot be bled to zero?
Sustained casing pressure has its own exception path in the method. The platform records the applicable flag and outcome against the annulus, using the criteria set in your tenant policy, and the case stays visible in the monthly review until it is resolved.
Data and regulators
Where your data lives, and where regulators fit.
“Is our data safe?”
Each operator is a separate tenant, isolated by PostgreSQL row-level security. Customer data is held in production only — never in the demo or staging environments — on the shared cloud, on dedicated hosting managed by FEEC, or inside your own infrastructure. A Data Processing Agreement is signed before any data moves.
How does our data get in?
Upload a CSV or Excel workbook, or paste surveys and tallies straight into the wellbore editor. Columns are mapped, every row is validated, and the reconciliation shows the differences against your register before valid data is committed. The onboarding wizard walks a new tenant through the first import.
“What about regulators?”
BarrierLedger keeps the operator’s register, test records, reviews and assessment history, and produces in-house integrity reports from them. It does not file anything with a regulator or certify compliance; submissions and official well records remain the operator’s responsibility. The regulations page summarises what each regime asks, with its public sources.
Still unanswered?
Send the question through the enquiry form and it reaches the engineering team directly.
Want the detail?
The methodology page covers how a profile works, and the regulations page sets out what each regime asks for and the public document behind each statement.
Want the numbers?
Plan, hosting and service pricing is on the pricing page, with a builder that turns your well count into a first-year total.
Let's talk
Ask us something specific.
Give us one well, one annulus and one awkward reading. That is usually enough to show whether the platform fits the way you work.