SiteCom: 20 years of development, built for what’s next

In oil and gas operations, every decision counts. For more than two decades, SiteCom has been the trusted digital backbone for well operations worldwide, driving insight, collaboration, and efficiency.

Kongsberg Digital’s long-term investment in SiteCom reflects a clear strategy: drilling, completions, interventions, workovers, and P&A will remain essential for years to come. Our role is to help manage risk, enable remote operations, and optimise upstream activities. SiteCom aligns with our wider portfolio – Kognitwin, K-Spice, and LedaFlow – sharing technologies such as Agentic AI and scalable infrastructure across domains.

From the start, SiteCom has been vendor-neutral and designed as a single source of truth for well operations data. More than a data store or visualisation layer, it delivers knowledge and learnings across the well lifecycle. Today, thousands of operations and workflows rely on SiteCom, unifying teams across disciplines, geographies, and time zones.

The power of SiteCom’s applications

SiteCom is not just software, but a robust platform that solves real operational challenges. Users range from specialists working intensively with data to occasional users tracking progress. Our latest applications, including SiteCom Live (replacing the legacy SiteCom Discovery), extend capabilities across planning, real-time decision making, remote collaboration, and lessons learnt.

SiteCom Live balances configuration with flexibility and expert with generalist needs. It empowers teams through:

• Standardisation: Consistent data presentation across teams reduces misinterpretation and configuration effort.
• Contextual awareness: Dashboards, automated KPIs, or historical views highlight what matters most.
• Collaboration: Built-in chat, annotations, reporting, and contextualised discussions enable better understanding of past decisions.
• Flexibility: Real-time and historical WITSML data visualised via plots, maps, tables, and more.
• Analytics: Built-in, user-developed, or third-party algorithms for insights ranging from ECD and MSE to stuck pipe avoidance.
• Applications: Beyond dashboards, tailored apps like KPI and Data Quality fast-track value by integrating data, workflows, and analytics.

Users benefit from SiteCom’s proven backend, industry standards, now paired with a more immediate, interactive experience.

Proven platform, purpose-built for integration

Trust is central to data-driven workflows. SiteCom was built as a resilient, scalable backend, capable of connecting diverse systems and stakeholders.

Key values include:

• Vendor neutrality: Data remains secure and under operator control while enabling third-party integration.
• Data aggregation: Reliable collection across rigs and providers with minimal latency.
• WITSML at scale: Full compliance, seamless v1.4.1.1–v2.1 conversion, and smooth adoption of new standards.
• Data governance: Robust access, quality, and traceability supported by the Global Mnemonics Hub.
• Historical access: Powerful search and replay capabilities to apply past lessons directly in planning.

Enabling AI by design

SiteCom is a foundation for AI, ML, and LLM solutions, designed to scale insights across organisations. Standardisation is critical, without it, administrative overhead grows faster than value.

SiteCom enables AI through:

• Standardising sensor names via Global Mnemonics.
• Data preprocessing for efficient algorithm deployment.
• Low-latency and historical data support at scale.
• APIs beyond WITSML for open integration.

Operators retain freedom to adopt AI at their own pace, experimenting, scaling, or moving toward autonomy, while keeping data secure. Current AI-powered use cases include stuck pipe prevention, ROP optimisation, SiteCom Copilot for natural language queries, and Agentic AI monitoring routines.

The road ahead

SiteCom will continue to scale with industry needs by:

• Supporting new standards without disrupting operations.
• Increasing data preprocessing scalability for AI adoption.
• Democratising insights by reducing administrative burden.
• Expanding tools such as SiteCom Copilot and third-party integrations.
• Enhancing workflows so users spend more time interpreting, not searching.

Whether securing data, enabling remote collaboration, learning from history, or optimising ongoing operations, SiteCom is well placed to support your goals. With decades of experience and strong industry partnerships, Kongsberg Digital is a trusted ally in continuous improvement.

With SiteCom Live, this power is more accessible than ever. And as AI, automation, and autonomy reshape upstream operations, SiteCom is already built for what’s next.