Oil India has launched a digital wellhead monitoring system with Kellton across 77 production wells and 46 well plinths.
The implementation contract was worth about USD $2.5 million, and the system was delivered in six months. The deployment brings production data from the wells onto Kellton's Optima Digital Oilfield Platform, an integrated digital oilfield system.
The project adds a new monitoring layer to field operations at India's second-largest national oil and gas company. According to the companies, it combines edge and cloud infrastructure to provide real-time visibility into production conditions across a dispersed set of assets.
The rollout includes 482 field devices, including 390 wireless and wired sensors and gauges, as well as telemetry gateways and solar-powered infrastructure. Emerson supplied the field instrumentation, while the cloud layer runs on Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
Field network
Oil and gas producers have increasingly adopted digital monitoring systems to collect operational data from remote assets, reduce manual checks and identify equipment issues earlier. In upstream operations, these systems can support production analysis, maintenance planning and centralised oversight of field performance.
For Oil India, the project is part of a broader push to modernise production operations. The state-backed energy producer operates under India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and has worked for more than six decades across exploration, development and production.
The monitoring platform is intended to provide a base for wider digital oilfield functions beyond wellhead data collection. Kellton said the software supports production analytics, predictive maintenance, workflow automation, asset lifecycle management and digital twin environments.
These functions reflect a broader trend in the energy sector, where operators are seeking to combine field instrumentation, communications systems and cloud software into a single operational view. The aim is to improve visibility over equipment status and production trends while giving operations teams faster access to data.
Oil India described the project in a statement marking the launch.
"As Oil India Limited continues to advance towards digital transformation and modernize production operations, partnering with organizations that bring both deep industry expertise and proven execution capabilities is critical. Kellton demonstrated a strong understanding of our operational requirements and successfully delivered a robust production monitoring platform within the scheduled timeline. The Optima platform has significantly enhanced visibility across our field operations, enabling more informed decision-making, enhanced operational efficiency, and greater performance transparency. Equally important, Optima provides a scalable and future-ready foundation to support our ongoing optimization and innovation initiatives. We greatly value this partnership with Kellton and appreciate their commitment, professionalism, and contribution in helping us accelerate our digital transformation journey," Oil India said.
Technology stack
Kellton is a technology consulting company with more than 2,000 staff across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, according to the company. It said the Optima platform has also been deployed with energy companies in India, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Peru and Ecuador.
Kellton's Energy Business Unit said the Oil India project was designed for upstream operating environments where operators need to collect and act on production data from multiple field locations.
"We are proud to partner with Oil India on this important milestone and support its vision of building smarter, more connected, and increasingly intelligent energy operations. Designed specifically for upstream oil and gas environments, Optima enables operators to unify field data, monitor production assets in real time, automate operational workflows, and generate predictive production insights through AI-driven analytics. By combining edge intelligence, cloud-native scalability, and centralized operational visibility, the platform helps energy enterprises improve production efficiency, accelerate decision-making, and build a scalable foundation for the future of intelligent oilfield operations," Palisetti said.