Bir Singh has over 7 years of experience in upstream oil and gas real-time data management using OSIsoft PI products. He has implemented and provided operational support for several real-time data acquisition and analytics projects. His expertise includes designing, developing, and maintaining real-time production data systems that integrate data from sources like OPC, databases, and third-party applications. He is proficient in OSIsoft PI, Honeywell PHD Historian, and automation technologies and has experience automating manual processes and developing custom applications and calculations.

1. Bir Singh
Lead Consultant
Industry Specialization: Upstream Oil & Gas
Functional Expertise: Real-Time Data Management
Bir has 7+ years of IT&S work experience primarily in Upstream Oil & Gas Industry with focus on E&P Real-Time Data Management using OSISoft PI suite products,
Honeywell and OPC technologies. He is currently working for one of the Oil Major as a Team Lead and has successfully implemented, and provided operational support to
several Real-Time Data Management support and enhancement projects. His experience include designing, development, operational support and maintenance of real-time
data acquisition systems, asset based data analytics, data visualizations systems using standard product and custom windows & web applications, IT monitoring, event based
alarms notifications and integration of real time systems with enterprise systems..
Work Experience Highlights
 Extensive experience on OSI PI suite products in Oil and Gas Upstream areas which involve real time production data management. Managed physical and virtual PI
servers and its downstream consuming application for data analytics and data visualization like Operational Insight(ProcessNet), Hydrocarbon accounting, AF analytics,
Well Test, Morning Report etc. Experienced on real time production data enterprise integration technologies using PI Interfaces and PI connectors with third party
software to provide production data within or outside organizations involving OPC technologies, PI connectors like OLEDB, ODBC, PI Web Services and PI API/SDK
based batch/VB scripts. Also have experience in Honeywell PHD Historian products and its tools.
 Experience in PI systems solutions designs, support/administration and maintenance activities of PI server, PI AF server, PI ACE, PI Notification, PI Backups, PI AF
Analytics, PI AF Event Frames, PI Datalink, PI Processbook, PI API/SDK based custom application programming, PI IT Monitoring and PI Auditing, alarms and
notifications and worked on KPI development leveraging PI with third party products.
 Experience in automating various manual tasks and transforming excel based calculation into advanced PI performance equation calculations, AF Analytics, PI Totalizers
and PI ACE. Automated various business calculation modules into advanced PI based calculations like choke damage factor calculations, valve offline status days
calculations, umbilical flow blockage algorithm prediction, well/instrument downtime calculations etc.
 Worked on effort estimation, systems due diligence and assessment of production data flow from new gas wells fields to central PI, business processes, new wells
additions and data flow to SharePoint portal reports. Worked with various OPC client/server data access technologies like PI OPC, Kepware and Honeywell PHD OPC
server. Worked on various project documentation, perform checks and auditing, DR exercises, performance management, capacity management, problem management
and continuous service improvements following best processes of ITIL.
Certification
 Building PI System Assets and Analytics with PI AF (OSISoft)
 PI System Administration for IT Professionals (OSISoft)
Education
 Bachelors: B.E. Mechanical Engineering (First Class) from Army Institute of Technology, Pune University, Maharashtra, India