Sector
Oil & Gas
Industrial IT in oil and gas operates under safety standards most software professionals never meet. We delivered IT infrastructure across ATEX/IECEx-classified hazardous environments early in the consultancy's history, and the discipline still informs how we treat reliability today.
Sector context
Oil and gas facilities operate under ATEX and IECEx standards that classify environments by explosion risk and require intrinsically safe equipment, controlled procedures and rigorous audit. IT in those environments is not enterprise IT; it is industrial IT integrated with PLCs, HMIs, sensors and the safety case for a working facility. Cipherer's principal consultant spent three years delivering exactly this work for PTCS Ltd at the start of his career, and the operational discipline it demanded shaped everything since.
Track record
- PTCS Ltd
IT infrastructure across oil and gas facilities supported under ATEX/IECEx intrinsically safe standards. Windows Server environments administered including Active Directory, Group Policy, and backup/recovery; industrial systems (PLCs, HMIs, sensors) integrated in restricted hazardous zones. Deployment automation and configuration management delivered across distributed sites, with audit compliance and operational documentation maintained to meet safety requirements.
How we approach this sector
Safety-case as the operating envelope
In ATEX/IECEx environments the safety case is the constraint that defines everything else. Equipment selection, change management and operations all sit inside it.
Distributed-site operational discipline
Oil and gas IT spans facility sites that are physically remote and operationally critical. We delivered automation and configuration management that worked across that distribution under audit conditions.