The Smarter, Safer Connected Worker Platform for Oil and Gas
Poka, part of IFS, helps your frontline execute every permit and procedure to standard across every site and contractor. See why it’s a leading connected solution for the oil and gas market.
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The Challenges Oil and Gas Operators Face Today
The oil and gas industry is under pressure. Process-safety scrutiny is rising. A generation of operators is retiring. Critical information falls through the cracks between shifts and sites.
Heightened safety and regulatory scrutiny
OSHA PSM, API standards, COMAH, and internal MOC rules all require proof for every job. That proof must be documented, signed, and easy to trace. This applies to every LOTO, hot work, confined-space, and startup procedure. Many sites are remote or offshore, where connectivity is limited. On paper, one missed step on a permit-to-work or confined-space entry can cause a fatality, a regulatory event, or an outage that costs millions.
Asset and process complexity in harsh, remote environments
Equipment can fail. A process upset can happen at a remote platform or field site. When this happens, the team needs the right procedures, the right experts, and a documented response, fast. Connectivity is often limited. Complex assets and harsh environments raise the stakes for every abnormal event.
Ongoing workforce crisis and the Great Crew Change
Senior operators, console engineers, and turnaround leads are retiring. They take decades of process knowledge with them. If no one captures that knowledge, new and contract workers start from scratch. The procedures that kept units running safely risk being relearned the hard way.
Fragmented systems and limited frontline visibility
A field technician may need CMMS, DCS, permit-to-work, and paper logs to finish one job safely. Information falls through the gaps between these systems. Without one connected layer, leaders can't see what's happening across sites and contractor teams in time to act.
Collaborate More, Reduce Safety Incidents, and Improve Productivity
Poka, part of IFS, helps you improve operational efficiency across high-hazard, spread-out oil and gas sites. It brings your procedures, permits, training, communication, and operational data into one system.
Process safety you can prove
Workers complete every permit-to-work, LOTO, confined-space entry, and startup procedure in order. They sign and timestamp each one, even at remote sites. Oil and gas customers on Poka see up to 90% fewer safety incidents. Near-miss reporting rises sharply too.
The Great Crew Change, solved
Decades of console and turnaround know-how become clear digital instructions and troubleshoots. This happens before veterans retire. Every employee and contractor can use it when they need it. Customers retain workers 38% longer.
Reliability on high-value assets
Field operators log anomalies with context right away. The right technician arrives with prior shift history in hand. Refinery units and platforms recover faster. Bosch reported a 54% improvement in Mean Time Between Repair.
One connected layer for employees and contractors
Instead of juggling CMMS, DCS, permits, and paper logs, every worker uses one platform. IT and OT show up in one view across many sites.
Defensible PSM audit trail
Every permit, MOC, and check traces to a worker, asset, and shift. OSHA PSM, API, and COMAH evidence stays organized and ready for any audit or inspection.
Measurable productivity gains
A more effective, more independent workforce does more with less, even in a shaky market. Poka customers see 24% higher productivity on average.
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Poka Capabilities That Matter Most for Oil and Gas
Poka is one unified, connected platform. Each capability strengthens the others. Together, they build a culture of continuous improvement.
Process safety comes first. Poka sends permit-to-work, LOTO, hot work, and confined-space forms to field-hardened devices. Workers must sign off before work starts, even at remote sites. Poka builds your audit trail automatically.
Up to 90% fewer safety incidents | Defensible PSM, API, and COMAH audit trail
The Great Crew Change is taking decades of know-how with it, like how to troubleshoot a compressor or restart a unit after a trip. Poka captures that knowledge as digital troubleshoots tied to specific assets. Every employee and contractor can use it when they need it. Industrial AI turns legacy P&IDs and PSM manuals into structured instructions automatically.
On high-value assets, every hour of unplanned downtime can cost millions. Poka captures field anomalies with asset context. It gives technicians full prior-shift history before they arrive. This closes the lag between spotting a problem and fixing it. Bosch reported a 54% improvement in Mean Time Between Repair.
20 to 40% faster issue resolution | Full audit trail from report to resolution
Poka works as your oil and gas collaboration tool across wellsites, platforms, refineries, and terminals — not just the office. Employees and contractors are connected on one Factory Feed. It captures shift handovers in structured notes. Teams run tiered SQDCP meetings on Huddle Boards, with IT and OT in one view.
74% increase in frontline engagement | 40% reduction in shift handover incidents
Poka AI is built for regulated work. It answers operator questions using your own PSM documentation, MOC packages, and procedure library. It guides abnormal-event response step by step. The right procedure reaches the field fast, even with limited connectivity.
How Poka Turns Daily Work Into Continuous Improvement
The best oil and gas operations get safer and more reliable over time. Good systems make this possible. Every permit, every turnaround, and every resolved upset makes the next one better.
Poka creates that flywheel. Near-miss reporting climbs because forms are one click away in the field. Poka surfaces recurring issues by unit, asset, shift, or contractor. Every resolved abnormal event becomes a troubleshooting record the next crew can use. Each fix becomes the new standard across every site and contractor team.
Over time, process-safety performance improves. Reliability builds with each turnaround. The deep knowledge that would leave with the Great Crew Change stays in the platform instead. Your workforce becomes more effective and more independent. The gains flow straight to uptime and the bottom line, even in volatile markets.
Whether You Run the Line or the Plant, Poka Works for Your Team
You might run a refinery turnaround, manage reliability across a midstream network, or lead HSE at an LNG terminal. Either way, Poka adapts to the workflows your teams and contractors already use.
Give field operators and console engineers the latest approved procedure for every unit, startup, shutdown, and abnormal-event response. The AI Assistant guides complex sequences. Operators resolve common trips with fewer call-outs.
Real Results From Poka’s Top Customers
Soprema
Soprema: One click away from a safer plant
Soprema runs a heavy industrial plant with hot bitumen and real fire and chemical hazards. They made every safety form one click away. Reports on major injuries rose by 20%. Reports on near-misses rose by more than 20%. Forms and Tableau now work together for live safety data. It's the closest example we have to how oil and gas safety reporting could change.
Bosch
Bosch: Closing the operator-to-technician gap
Reliability on high-value assets depends on one thing: closing the gap. An operator spots a problem. A technician needs to arrive fast, with context. Bosch reported a 54% improvement in Mean Time Between Repair after using Poka. This result applies directly to refinery and platform reliability.
USG
USG: Converting decades of legacy content fast
Solving the Great Crew Change means turning existing knowledge into instructions fast. USG used Poka's Industrial AI to build 2,400 work instructions. They saved thousands of hours. Energy operators can use that same tool to capture PSM procedures and troubleshoots before veterans retire.
Go Deeper on Connected Work for Oil & Gas
Frequently Asked Questions
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Poka brings your JSAs, permits, training records, and shift handoffs into one place your crew already trusts.
- No more chasing paper permits or outdated binders
- No more wondering if the new hire actually completed LOTO training
- No more blind spots between what happened on shift and what leadership sees
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