Oil & gas IT support in Tulsa from a team that knows the field is not the office
Your business runs in two places at once: an office full of land, production, and accounting systems — and field locations at the end of a cell signal where the data actually comes from. When either side goes down, revenue reporting, payments, and decisions stall. You are in the energy business, not the IT business — and Tulsa has enough energy companies that your IT partner should already understand the difference.
What running your business looks like — and what gets in the way
The month has a rhythm — production comes in, revenue gets allocated, owners get paid, filings go out — and every beat of it depends on systems: the production and accounting platforms, the land system with every lease and division order, the GIS maps, the spreadsheets that glue them together, and the connections that bring field data back to the office. When the server slows during close, or the VPN to a field office drops, or a file share full of twenty years of well files goes missing, the month doesn’t wait. Reactive IT shows up after the outage and asks what SCADA means. That is not a conversation you should be having in Tulsa.
NSN Management works with Tulsa-metro energy companies as the IT team for the office side of the business — and a careful neighbor to the operational side. We keep the land, production, accounting, and GIS systems fast and monitored; build reliable, secure connectivity between the office, field offices, and yards; keep office IT properly separated from measurement and control systems, coordinating with your automation and measurement vendors at that boundary; and test the backups that protect decades of well files, leases, and title work. You run the assets; the systems stay handled.
What’s different about IT in an oil & gas company
General-purpose IT treats an operator like an office. The office is only half the company.
- The data is the asset — Leases, division orders, title opinions, well files, logs, and production history — much of it irreplaceable, some of it decades old, all of it the basis for payments and legal positions. It has to be organized, protected, backed up, and provably restorable.
- The field is far away and still has to report — Field offices, yards, and remote locations connect over whatever is available — fiber if you’re lucky, LTE or satellite if you’re not. Pumpers and field staff need tablets and laptops that work in a truck, and the data they capture has to land in the office systems reliably.
- Operations and IT must meet carefully — Measurement, telemetry, and control systems — SCADA and the equipment around it — are their own discipline with their own vendors. The federal guidance for pipeline and energy operators keeps saying the same thing: separate operational systems from office IT and control what crosses. We run the office side and hold that line, working with your automation vendor at the boundary.
- Energy is a target — Attackers go after energy companies for the same reasons they go after hospitals: pressure and headlines. Even when the target is only the office network, a ransomware event during close — or one that jumps toward operations — is a very bad month. MFA, endpoint detection and response, email security, and tested offline backups are table stakes here.
- The month-end close is sacred — Revenue allocation, owner payments, severance taxes, and regulatory filings run on a clock. Systems have to be fastest exactly when the load is highest, and maintenance has to be scheduled around the close — not during it.
The systems you run — and what we do with them
You keep the land, production, and accounting platforms you’ve chosen. We keep the servers, workstations, network, identity, connectivity, and backups underneath them fast, secure, and documented.
Office & back-office systems
- Land, production-accounting, and revenue platforms used by independent operators — hosted or on premises — with server and workstation support, vendor coordination, and upgrade planning
- GIS and mapping seats, reserves and economics tools, and the heavyweight Excel models the business actually runs on
- Decades of well files, leases, and title work — organized on shared storage with permissions, retention, and backups that treat them like the assets they are
- Microsoft 365 for the whole company: email, shared files, identity, and multi-factor authentication
Field connectivity & mobility
- Secure site-to-site connectivity between the office, field offices, and yards — fiber, LTE, or satellite, with failover where uptime matters
- Laptops, tablets, and phones for field staff — managed, encrypted, and replaceable without drama when one meets a pump jack
- Remote access that works from a truck at the edge of coverage — without opening the office network to the internet
- Wi-Fi and cabling for shops, yards, and metal buildings that eat consumer-grade equipment
Security, continuity & the OT boundary
- Office IT separated from measurement, telemetry, and control systems, with the boundary documented and controlled — in line with federal guidance for energy operators — coordinating with your automation and measurement vendors on their side
- Endpoint detection and response, email security, patching, and multi-factor authentication — the controls cyber-insurance carriers now ask about by name
- Backups with tested restores and recovery targets agreed in advance — land and accounting systems, well files, and Microsoft 365 — scheduled around the close
- Documentation of the environment and the vendor map, so nothing lives only in one person’s head
Three steps to IT you don’t have to think about
Book a Discovery Call
A focused conversation about your environment, risks, and priorities — no obligation, no hard sell.
Get a clear plan
You leave with practical next steps and timeline options for your environment — in plain language.
Work with a team that answers
Your people stay working, IT stays handled, and you hear from us before you have to ask.
What this looks like in practice
A representative engagement — details generalized to protect the client.
The situation
A Tulsa-based independent operator ran land and production accounting on an aging server, moved field data over a patchwork of consumer-grade connections, and kept twenty years of well files on a share with no tested backup. Month-end close meant crossed fingers, and nobody could say for sure what was on the network at the field offices.
What we did
We replaced and sized the server for the land and accounting platforms, put monitored backups with tested restores in place for the systems and the well files, rebuilt connectivity to the field offices with business-grade equipment and failover, separated office IT from the measurement side and documented the boundary with the company’s automation vendor, and rolled out MFA and endpoint detection and response across office and field machines.
What changed
Close stopped being a gamble, field data lands reliably, the well files are provably restorable, and the office manager knows exactly what is on the network — in town and in the field.
What changes for you
- The close runs on time — Land, production, and accounting systems sized for month-end and maintained around it — not during it.
- The field stays connected — Business-grade, monitored links to field offices and yards, with failover where uptime matters.
- A boundary you can show — Office IT separated from operational systems, documented, and coordinated with your automation vendor — the way the federal guidance keeps asking.
- Recovery you have seen work — Well files, leases, and systems backed up with tested restores and recovery targets agreed in advance.
What reactive IT costs you
- A ransomware event during month-end close with no tested backup — owner payments and filings late, decades of well files at risk
- Field connectivity down and production data not landing — with nobody accountable for the link
- Office IT and operational systems on one flat network, one phishing click apart
- An aging server quietly slowing every allocation run and map load
- The one person who knows the systems — and the vendor phone numbers — leaving with nothing written down
Timely response
Issues get handled before they stall your team.
Truly local
Tulsa-owned and Tulsa-run since 2012; the people who answer your call live and work here, and they show up in person when it counts.
Regular communication
Regular meetings and monthly reporting — you always know where things stand.
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The services that matter most for your firm
Most clients get all of this inside one managed IT relationship. These are the pieces that carry the most weight for a business like yours.
Managed IT services
Help desk, monitoring, patching, and planning for office and field
Managed IT services →Cybersecurity services
MFA, endpoint detection and response, email security, and the IT/OT boundary held
Cybersecurity services →Backup & disaster recovery
Tested restores for land systems, well files, and Microsoft 365 — scheduled around the close
Backup & disaster recovery →Cloud computing services
Hosted platforms, Azure, and what should — and shouldn’t — leave the building
Cloud computing services →Business VoIP phone systems
One phone system across the office, field offices, and trucks
Business VoIP phone systems →Microsoft 365 management
Identity, MFA, and email security company-wide
Microsoft 365 management →Truly local: NSN Management is Tulsa-owned and Tulsa-run since 2012, with on-site support across the metro — see IT support in Tulsa and managed IT services in Tulsa, or how we work in Protect · Empower · Support.
Your questions, answered
Do you support SCADA and our measurement systems?
We stay on the right side of a line that matters: measurement, telemetry, and control systems belong to your automation and measurement vendors, and we don’t pretend otherwise. What we own is the office IT those systems border — the network design that keeps the two properly separated, the documented boundary between them, and the coordination with your automation vendor when something crosses it. That separation is exactly what federal guidance for energy operators calls for.
Do you support our land and production-accounting software?
We support the servers, workstations, network, and backups your land, production, and revenue platforms run on — hosted or on premises — and we coordinate directly with the software vendor when a problem is on their side, sitting on the call so your accounting team doesn’t have to. Tulsa-area operators run a range of platforms, and we work with what you have chosen rather than pushing a change.
Can you connect our field offices and yards?
Yes. We design and manage site-to-site connectivity over whatever the location supports — fiber, LTE, or satellite — with business-grade equipment, monitoring, and failover where uptime matters. Field data lands in the office systems reliably, remote access works from the edge of coverage, and when a link goes down, we know before you call.
What happens to our well files if we get hit by ransomware?
That is the question to ask before it happens. We put your well files, leases, title work, and systems on monitored backups with restores tested on a schedule and recovery targets agreed in advance — and we keep a copy attackers can’t reach. Combined with MFA, endpoint detection and response, and email security, most ransomware events become a short, documented interruption instead of a negotiation.
Month-end close is our busiest week. How do you work around it?
Deliberately. Maintenance, updates, and changes are scheduled around your close calendar, not during it, and the systems that carry allocation runs and owner payments are sized and watched for exactly that load. If something does break during close, it is handled as what it is — the most urgent thing in the company.
We’re a small operator. Is this overkill?
The pattern fits companies from a handful of people to a hundred. A ten-person operator still has irreplaceable well files, a close that has to run, owners to pay, and a target on its industry. The service is sized to the company — what stays the same is that the systems are monitored, the backups are tested, and one local team is accountable for the whole picture.
Do you support energy companies outside Tulsa?
Yes. NSN Management supports oil and gas companies across the Tulsa metro — including Broken Arrow, Jenks, Bixby, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, and Owasso — and builds the connectivity that reaches field locations beyond it. Office support is remote-first for speed, and on-site when a server room or a field office needs hands in the building.
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