OneBridge Solutions, Inc., an Alberta, Canada-based subsidiary of OneSoft Solutions Inc., has entered into a technology license and joint development agreement with Phillips 66 to create a comprehensive pipeline integrity management software application. The initiative will migrate Phillips 66’s current pipeline data management system (“PT-DMS”) to a cloud-based software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) solution and integrate machine learning and other data science technologies into the application (“Integrity Management Solution” or “IMP”). IMP will be designed to integrate transparently with OneBridge’s Cognitive Integrity ManagementTM (“CIM”) solution and is targeted for use globally by oil and gas pipeline operators.

PT-DMS is a comprehensive, on-premise software solution developed by Phillips 66 as a tool to aid in its pipeline infrastructure management process. The software addresses numerous key functional areas including: assessment plan tracking; maintaining assessment attributes; integrity management process planning based on multiple tool technologies; planning and scheduling activities for internal engineers, field teams and tool vendors; analyses of data integrity in compliance with API 1163 regulations, general industry standards, internal company policies and priorities; anomaly worklist tracking that accommodates specific actions on a per anomaly basis; and all reporting associated with these functions. PT-DMS also addresses supporting functions including data ingestion tools; GPS and data maintenance utilities; workflows; job process queues; integrated security; and other peripheral features and functions that further supplement data management and tasks addressed by PT-DMS.

OneBridge will migrate PT-DMS onto Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform and Services to create IMP, which will be designed to integrate seamlessly with CIM. The company expects that CIM and IMP will provide compelling, comprehensive and cost-effective solutions for Tier 1 oil and gas pipeline operators that wish to accelerate their digital transformation, and also for Tier 2 and Tier 3 pipeline operators that typically engage outside consultants for integrity management services rather than allocate the significant resources required to internally develop complex software systems to manage their pipelines.

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