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A fixed offshore production platform at dusk in the North Sea, work lights on and a small flare burning.
Flare · 0.4 MMscf/dPilot only · on target
Compressor B · driftingAlert in ~2 days · WO raised
118 of 130 on boardCrew change 09:45
Operations platform for offshore assets

Ballast connects production, equipment, integrity, permits, drilling and people into a single live model of each platform, rig and FPSO.

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Kestrel AlphaLive
41.2kbbl/d
Production efficiency
91.6%
Open alerts
31 critical
Weather window
8 hcrane ops
Why it matters

Offshore rarely fails all at once. It drifts, quietly, until something trips.

27days

of unplanned downtime per offshore operator, every year.

Kimberlite for GE Digital, 2016
$38M

average yearly cost of that downtime. Up to $88M.

Kimberlite for GE Digital, 2016
35%

or more of offshore downtime comes from unplanned maintenance.

OEUK via Alvarez & Marsal, 2026
27%

of planned maintenance hours found to add no risk reduction.

Lloyd's Register, ONS 2026
Operations centre

Onshore and offshore, looking at the same screen.

The onshore control room and the offshore laptop run the same live model. Nothing is exported, so nothing goes stale.

A space-black laptop on a rugged black instrument console with knobs, toggles and teal indicator lights, showing the Ballast field command screen.
One asset modelTags, equipment, barriers, permits and people, linked.
Read-only by designConnects to what you run. Never writes to control systems.
Works at the edgeKeeps running offshore when the satellite link drops.
The digital twin

One model of the asset. Everything pinned to it.

Blender render · illustrative asset
Kestrel Alpha live
41.2kbbl/d
118/130 POB
31 crit
Inside the product

Seven screens your crews open every shift.

Live screens, not pictures. Point, click and drag inside the display, or open one full size.

A space-black laptop on a black steel table against a grey wall, showing the selected Ballast screen.
Modules

Six modules. Each fixes a problem crews already know by name.

Fleet & logistics

See the field, the vessels and the weather together.

Every asset and every movement around it, with go and no-go worked out per job, per hour.

  • ALive positions for platforms, vessels and flights.
  • BWeather windows checked against each job's limits.
  • CCargo and crew tied to the work that needs them.
5 h

lift window found for a critical spare before the swell built. Illustrative

Aerial view of a fixed platform at sea with a supply vessel approaching.
Production

Know where every barrel went.

The gap between potential and actual, split by cause and by hour.

  • ADeferment by cause: planned, unplanned, export, weather.
  • BEvery loss traceable to an asset, an event and an hour.
  • COne number for the morning call.
8%

of potential output lost to unplanned events across 190 Gulf of Mexico assets. JPT / Ziff Energy

Equipment health

Catch drift days before a trip.

Ballast projects when a drifting compressor or turbine will reach its alert band.

  • ATime to alert, not an alarm when it is too late.
  • BSimilar past failures matched from maintenance history.
  • COne tap to a work order, ranked by risk.
8 days

of warning before a compressor trip. Illustrative

Compression module · M05An engineer in orange coveralls checks a tablet beside a large gas compressor on an offshore platform.
Integrity & maintenance

Work the backlog by risk, not by age.

Each dot is an overdue job. Switch the ranking and watch what rises to the top.

  • ASafety-critical elements tracked against their standards.
  • BProduction impact weighed with consequence.
  • CLow-value work exposed as a candidate to remove.
27%

of planned hours cut across seven North Sea assets, about £15M. Lloyd's Register, ONS 2026

Thickness survey · jacket level 2A rope-access technician measures steel thickness on a platform's underside, above the sea.
Permits & people

Stop clashes before they reach the deck.

Every permit on one timeline, every person accounted for. Resolve the clash to see it clear.

  • ASIMOPS conflicts detected in space and time.
  • BLive headcount from tag readers, not a printed list.
  • CEvery change logged for audit.
0

clashes reaching the deck in the reference shift. Illustrative

Crew change · 09:45Offshore workers in survival suits cross a helideck after a helicopter lands.
Drilling

Find the time hiding in normal operations.

Each well against plan and the best offset. Drag the day to see what the rig was doing.

  • ALost time measured per crew and per connection.
  • BBest offset as the benchmark, not the plan.
  • CLive from WITSML, no manual reports.
$450k

day rate for a harsh-environment semisub in 2026. Transocean Q1 2026

Drill floor · ArdentTwo drill crew make a pipe connection on a wet drill floor at dusk, under the derrick.
Rotating equipment

The turbine, on the engineer's laptop.

Output, exhaust spread and bearing temperatures, with the same live readings the control room sees.

21.7 MWLive output, GT-A
18 °CExhaust spread
0Writes to control systems
A space-black laptop on a dark basalt rock plinth under blue rim light, showing the Ballast gas turbine screen.
Asset types

A ready model for every kind of offshore asset.

How it works

Live in weeks. Nothing ripped out.

01 · Connect

Connect what you already run

Read-only connectors to your historian, maintenance, permit and drilling systems.

AVEVA PISAP PMMaximoWITSMLOPC UA
02 · Model

Build the asset model

Tags, equipment, barriers and permits mapped onto a template for your asset type.

6 asset templatesYour tag names
03 · Operate

Operate from one picture

Modules, alerts and cited answers for crews offshore and engineers onshore.

WebControl room wallTablet
Ballast AI

Ask the asset. Check the answer.

Every statement is cited to the tag, work order or document it came from. No source, no answer.

  • AGrounded in your data, never the open web.
  • BRead-only. It drafts work orders. It never touches control.
  • CPermission-aware, per user.
Ask Kestrel AlphaGrounded in your asset data · read-only
Live
Ask about any tag, work order or permit
Security

Built for OT security teams.

It must survive a dropped satellite link, and it must never write to a control system.

Read-only by design

No write path to DCS or SIS. Zoned to IEC 62443 conduits.

Edge plus cloud

An edge node offshore, delta sync over VSAT or LEO.

Data residency

Choose the region for each asset's data.

Full audit trail

Every permit, override and AI answer logged.

IEC 62443 Designed forISO 27001 PlaceholderSOC 2 Type II PlaceholderSSO · SAML · SCIM
Brisa FPSO · fictional assetA large red-hulled FPSO at sea with a shuttle tanker on the horizon.
Customer story
"For the first time, the night shift and the onshore engineers looked at the same chart instead of arguing about whose numbers were right."

Offshore Installation Manager, Brisa FPSO Illustrative

−38%

tank-top deferment

13 h

compressor restart, down from 2 days

6 → 1

status reports

Book a demo

See it on your own asset.

We connect read-only to a sample of your data and walk your team through a real shift. About two weeks from kickoff.