Ep. 024 – The Control Room Reimagined – with Ryan Glover - Waterbridge

Ryan Glover is currently the director of Remote Operations at WaterBridge based in Houston Texas. he brings experience from previous roles held at Apache Corp, Marathon Oil and Oxy.

00:30 Introductions

01:00 Ryan’s Career Journey

05:50 The Genesis of the Waterbridge control room

08:20 Field culture and resistance to remote operations

10:00 Setting the tone with the vision of connected remote operations

11:30 Production control rooms – where do they fit in the organization?

13:30 Building trust with field teams and operations

14:45 Who is Waterbridge?

17:50 Incredible operations and control room growth at Waterbridge

19:30 The challenges of growth in remote operations

20:15 Scaling with technology

21:45 Control room challenges – high grading operators with technology

24:00 Growing and scaling simultaneously

25:00 Investing in your operators

27:45 Equipping controllers with the right technology tools

28:45 Preparing to leverage AI in the control room

30:30 Ignition as the platform of choice

34:30 New technologies to look for and utilize

35:30 Moving toward predictive

36:30 Top 3 pieces of advice for control room managers