Blockchain for Oil & Gas Trade: From Opaque to Unbreakable
Eliminate fraud, automate complex settlements, and achieve unprecedented transparency across
your entire hydrocarbon value chain.
We build enterprise-grade blockchain solutions that turn your operational risks into a
competitive advantage.
The High-Stakes World of Oil & Gas Demands Certainty
The oil and gas industry operates on a global scale with immense complexity, where a single transaction involves dozens of parties, legacy paperwork, and billions of dollars in assets. This complexity creates critical vulnerabilities: fraudulent bills of lading, costly settlement delays, opaque supply chains, and a constant battle with regulatory compliance. Traditional systems, built on siloed data and manual trust, are no longer sufficient. They introduce unacceptable levels of financial, operational, and counterparty risk. It's time for a foundational shift from probabilistic trust to mathematical certainty.
Why Errna for Blockchain in Oil & Gas?
Enterprise-Grade Security
We build on permissioned frameworks like Hyperledger Fabric, ensuring your sensitive trade data is only accessible to authorized parties through private channels and granular controls.
Seamless Legacy Integration
Our solutions don't require a "rip and replace" approach. We use robust APIs and middleware to integrate with your existing ETRM, ERP, and SCADA systems, minimizing disruption.
Consortium-Building Expertise
We don't just deliver code; we help you build the ecosystem. We provide governance frameworks and value propositions to successfully onboard your partners, from suppliers to financiers.
Deep Domain Knowledge
Our team understands the nuances of the oil and gas value chain, from upstream JVs to midstream logistics and downstream trade finance. We speak your language.
Smart Contract Mastery
We design and audit smart contracts that automate complex processes like settlements, royalty payments, and compliance checks, drastically reducing administrative overhead and errors.
Focus on Tangible ROI
Our methodology prioritizes pilot projects with clear, measurable outcomes. We prove the value and ROI of blockchain before scaling the solution across your enterprise.
Global Compliance Ready
We design solutions with global regulations in mind, building features for KYC/AML, OFAC screening, and ESG reporting directly into the platform's architecture.
End-to-End Partnership
From initial strategy and feasibility studies to development, deployment, and ongoing managed support, we serve as your long-term technology partner in digital transformation.
Verifiable Process Maturity
With CMMI Level 5 and ISO 27001 certifications, we deliver complex enterprise solutions with the highest standards of quality, security, and predictability.
Transforming Oil & Gas Operations: Our Blockchain Solutions
We offer a comprehensive suite of blockchain development services tailored to the specific, high-value use cases of the oil and gas industry. Our solutions are designed to deliver immediate impact on efficiency, security, and profitability.
Crude Oil & LNG Trade Finance Automation
Digitize and automate the entire trade finance lifecycle, from letters of credit to final settlement. Smart contracts execute payments automatically upon verification of key events (e.g., goods received, inspection passed), collapsing the settlement cycle.
- Reduce settlement times from weeks to hours, freeing up working capital.
- Eliminate discrepancies and disputes between financiers, buyers, and sellers.
- Lower transaction fees and administrative overhead associated with manual processes.
Bill of Lading (B/L) & Document Digitization
Create a single, immutable, and tamper-proof digital version of critical trade documents like the Bill of Lading, certificate of origin, and inspection reports. This eliminates the risk of fraud associated with paper-based documents.
- Prevent multi-billion dollar losses from fraudulent or duplicated Bills of Lading.
- Provide all stakeholders with real-time, permissioned access to verified documents.
- Accelerate customs clearance and reduce port delays.
Multi-Party Transaction Settlement
Streamline complex financial settlements involving multiple stakeholders like pipeline operators, storage facilities, shipping companies, and insurers. Smart contracts ensure that each party is paid accurately and on time based on predefined rules.
- Automate the distribution of funds in multi-leg journeys.
- Provide a transparent, real-time audit trail of all payments.
- Reduce the need for costly intermediaries and reconciliation processes.
Hydrocarbon Supply Chain Traceability
Establish an end-to-end, immutable record of every barrel of oil or cubic meter of gas, from the wellhead to the final customer. Track custody, quality metrics, and transportation milestones in real-time on a shared ledger.
- Gain unprecedented, real-time visibility into your entire supply chain.
- Instantly verify the origin and quality of hydrocarbons to prevent commingling and theft.
- Optimize logistics by identifying and resolving bottlenecks faster.
Downstream Inventory Management
Create a shared, real-time view of inventory levels across refineries, storage terminals, and distribution networks. This prevents stockouts, reduces carrying costs, and improves demand forecasting.
- Optimize inventory levels and reduce the cost of holding excess stock.
- Improve coordination between refining, storage, and retail operations.
- Automate replenishment orders through smart contracts when inventory hits a threshold.
Equipment & Asset Tracking
Track high-value equipment (like drill bits or pipeline components) across different sites and jurisdictions. Create an immutable record of an asset's maintenance history, ownership, and certification status.
- Reduce equipment theft and loss in complex operational environments.
- Ensure and prove that all equipment meets safety and certification standards.
- Streamline asset audits and transfers between business units or partners.
Joint Venture (JV) Accounting & Reconciliation
Automate the complex accounting and reconciliation processes between JV partners. The blockchain acts as a single source of truth for operational data and expenses, triggering cash calls and distributing profits via smart contracts.
- Drastically reduce the time and cost of JV audits and dispute resolution.
- Ensure transparent and real-time visibility into JV finances for all partners.
- Automate cash calls and profit distribution based on agreed-upon terms.
Automated Royalty & Mineral Rights Management
Create smart contracts that automatically calculate and distribute royalty payments to landowners and rights holders based on real-time production data. This ensures accuracy, timeliness, and transparency.
- Eliminate errors and delays in complex royalty calculations.
- Provide landowners with a transparent, auditable record of payments.
- Reduce administrative overhead and the risk of litigation.
Field Services & Contractor Management
Streamline the procurement, verification, and payment of oilfield services. Smart contracts can automatically release payments to contractors once work is verified on-chain via IoT sensors or digital signatures.
- Accelerate payments to contractors and improve partner relationships.
- Create an immutable record of work completed, preventing billing disputes.
- Ensure contractors meet all certification and compliance requirements before starting work.
Regulatory Compliance & Emissions Tracking (ESG)
Create a verifiable, auditable trail for regulatory reporting, from production volumes to environmental data. Track and tokenize carbon credits, providing an immutable record for ESG compliance and reporting.
- Automate and simplify the process of generating compliance reports for regulators.
- Provide irrefutable proof of ESG performance to investors and stakeholders.
- Create a transparent marketplace for trading tokenized carbon credits.
Sanctions & KYC/AML Compliance
Integrate KYC/AML checks and sanctions screening directly into the transaction process. The blockchain can prevent transactions with sanctioned entities or unverified parties from ever being executed.
- Automate compliance checks to reduce manual effort and human error.
- Create a permanent, auditable record of all due diligence performed.
- Reduce the risk of incurring massive fines for compliance violations.
Incident Reporting & Chain of Custody
Create a secure and immutable system for reporting operational incidents (e.g., spills, safety violations). The blockchain provides a timestamped, tamper-proof record that can be shared with regulators and insurers.
- Ensure the integrity and verifiability of all incident reports.
- Streamline the insurance claims process with trusted data.
- Demonstrate a commitment to safety and transparency to all stakeholders.
Tokenization of Oil & Gas Assets
Convert ownership stakes in physical assets like oil reserves, pipelines, or storage facilities into digital tokens. This fractionalizes ownership, increases liquidity, and opens up new avenues for investment and capital raising.
- Unlock capital by making illiquid, high-value assets tradable.
- Attract a wider pool of investors through fractional ownership.
- Streamline the process of transferring ownership and managing dividends.
Energy Commodity Trading Platforms
Develop decentralized platforms for the peer-to-peer trading of energy commodities. This reduces reliance on central intermediaries, lowers transaction costs, and provides a more transparent and efficient market.
- Reduce clearing and settlement fees by enabling direct P2P trading.
- Increase market transparency with a shared, real-time view of orders and trades.
- Enable 24/7 trading and near-instantaneous settlement.
Digital Identity for Counterparties
Create a secure, self-sovereign digital identity for all counterparties in your ecosystem. This simplifies the onboarding process and ensures that you are always dealing with verified, trusted entities.
- Streamline the counterparty onboarding and due diligence process.
- Reduce the risk of counterparty fraud and impersonation.
- Empower partners to control their own identity data securely.
Our Proven Implementation Blueprint
1. Discovery & Strategy Workshop
We begin by immersing ourselves in your specific operational challenges and strategic goals. Together, we identify the highest-impact use case and build a comprehensive business case with clear ROI projections.
2. Proof of Concept (PoC)
We rapidly develop a small-scale, functional prototype to validate the core technical assumptions and demonstrate the solution's viability to key stakeholders. This is a low-risk way to prove the technology works in your context.
3. Pilot Program Development
We build a minimum viable product (MVP) and deploy it in a controlled, real-world environment with a select group of partners. This phase focuses on gathering user feedback, refining the solution, and measuring initial performance metrics.
4. Enterprise Scaling & Integration
Upon successful pilot completion, we scale the solution across your organization. This includes full integration with legacy systems, comprehensive partner onboarding, and establishing the governance model for the new ecosystem.
5. Ongoing Support & Optimization
Our partnership doesn't end at launch. We provide continuous monitoring, maintenance, and support services to ensure the platform operates flawlessly and evolves with your business needs.
Success Stories: Real-World Impact
Automating Trade Finance for a Global LNG Exporter
Industry: Midstream / Energy Trading
Client Overview: A major player in the global Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) market, our client was struggling with a highly manual and paper-intensive trade finance process. Each shipment involved complex letters of credit, multiple banks, and weeks of processing time, which tied up significant working capital and introduced risks of human error and fraud.
Problem
The client's average settlement cycle for a single LNG cargo was over 30 days. This delay was primarily due to the physical movement of documents between exporters, importers, and multiple financial institutions, leading to high administrative costs, increased counterparty risk, and inefficient use of capital.
Key Challenges
- Lengthy and unpredictable settlement times.
- High risk of document fraud and discrepancies.
- Lack of real-time visibility into the status of payments.
- Excessive administrative overhead and banking fees.
Our Solution
We developed a permissioned blockchain platform based on Hyperledger Fabric to digitize and automate the entire trade finance workflow. The solution included:
- Creation of a digital, tamper-proof Bill of Lading and other key trade documents.
- Development of smart contracts that automatically triggered payment tranches upon verifiable events (e.g., vessel departure, cargo inspection, final delivery).
- A shared, permissioned ledger providing all parties (client, buyer, banks) with a single, real-time source of truth.
- Integration with existing financial systems via secure APIs for seamless fund transfers.
Creating an Immutable Supply Chain for a National Oil Company
Industry: Upstream / Integrated Oil & Gas
Client Overview: A state-owned National Oil Company (NOC) was facing significant challenges with theft, adulteration, and lack of visibility in its crude oil supply chain. Tracking millions of barrels from numerous wellheads through pipelines and to export terminals was a logistical nightmare, relying on siloed, easily manipulated data sources.
Problem
The client estimated losses of over $100 million annually due to theft and the commingling of different grades of crude. They lacked a reliable, real-time system to track the custody and quality of their product, making it difficult to pinpoint losses and hold parties accountable.
Key Challenges
- Inability to track crude oil batches in real-time.
- High incidence of product theft and diversion.
- Disputes with partners over volume and quality metrics.
- Difficulty proving provenance to international buyers.
Our Solution
We implemented a comprehensive hydrocarbon traceability solution using blockchain and IoT. The key components were:
- Integration with IoT sensors at wellheads, pipelines, and terminals to write real-time volume and quality data directly to the blockchain.
- Creation of a "digital twin" for each batch of crude oil, with a unique token representing its journey on the immutable ledger.
- A permissioned dashboard for the NOC, partners, and regulators to view the chain of custody in real-time.
- Smart contracts to automatically flag anomalies, such as unexpected volume drops between two checkpoints.
Streamlining JV Accounting for an Upstream Operator
Industry: Upstream Exploration & Production
Client Overview: An independent oil and gas operator with multiple joint venture partnerships was buried in administrative complexity. Their JV accounting process was manual, requiring a large team to reconcile operational expenses and manage cash calls, leading to frequent disputes and month-long delays in closing the books.
Problem
The lack of a shared, trusted data source meant that each JV partner maintained their own set of books. Reconciling these disparate ledgers was a time-consuming and error-prone process that eroded trust and delayed financial reporting.
Key Challenges
- Lengthy and expensive monthly reconciliation cycles.
- Frequent disputes over operational costs and capital expenditures.
- Lack of transparency into real-time JV financial status.
- Delayed cash calls and profit distributions.
Our Solution
We built a JV accounting platform on Corda, a DLT platform designed for regulated industries. The solution provided a single, shared ledger for all JV-related transactions.
- Direct integration with field data capture systems to post operational costs to the shared ledger in real-time.
- Smart contracts to automate the calculation of each partner's share of expenses and revenues based on the Joint Operating Agreement (JOA).
- An automated workflow for managing cash calls and distributing profits, with transactions settled directly on the platform.
- A transparent, auditable record of all financial activity, accessible to all permissioned partners.
Technology & Frameworks We Master
What Our Partners Say
"The level of domain expertise at Errna is exceptional. They didn't just understand the technology; they understood the complexities of our midstream business. This was critical to the project's success."
"We were skeptical about blockchain's maturity, but Errna's phased, pilot-first approach gave us the confidence to move forward. They delivered on every promise and proved the ROI before we committed to a full-scale rollout."
"Security was our number one concern. Errna's team built a fortress. Their understanding of permissioned ledgers, private data, and encryption is top-tier. We trust their platform with our most sensitive data."
"The smart contracts they developed for our royalty payments system are flawless. They have automated a process that used to take a team of five people a full week each month. It's a game-changer for our administrative efficiency."
"Onboarding our international partners was the challenge we feared most. Errna provided not just the tech but the strategic guidance to create a compelling value proposition for our entire ecosystem. Their support was invaluable."
"Working with Errna felt like a true partnership. Their communication was proactive, their project management was transparent, and they were always flexible in accommodating our evolving requirements. A truly professional team."
Flexible Engagement for Your Needs
Dedicated Development Team
An entire team of blockchain experts, project managers, and QA engineers works as a seamless extension of your in-house team, giving you maximum control and flexibility.
- Ideal for long-term, complex projects.
- Total control over project roadmap and priorities.
- Deep integration with your company culture.
Fixed-Price Model
Perfect for projects with well-defined scopes and requirements, like a Proof of Concept or a specific smart contract audit. We provide a detailed proposal with a fixed price and timeline, ensuring budget predictability.
- Clear, upfront costs and deliverables.
- Minimized financial risk for you.
- Best for well-specified, smaller-scale projects.
Time & Materials Model
Best suited for projects where the scope is dynamic and requirements may evolve. You pay for the hours worked, providing the agility to adapt and iterate as the project progresses.
- Maximum flexibility for agile development.
- Ability to adjust scope and features on the fly.
- Transparent reporting on time and resources used.
Meet Your Blockchain Strategists
Kuldeep K.
Founder & CEO - Enterprise Growth Solutions, Ph.D.
Amit A.
Founder & COO - Enterprise Technology Solutions, Ph.D.
Abhishek P.
Founder & CFO - Enterprise Architecture Solutions, Ph.D.
Joseph A.
Expert Cybersecurity & Distributed Systems Engineering
Akeel Q.
Manager, Certified Cloud & AI/ML Specialist
Prachi D.
Manager, Certified Cloud, IoT & AI Solutions Expert
Future-Proofing Your Operations: The Convergence of AI, IoT & Blockchain
While blockchain provides a secure and transparent foundation, its true power is unlocked when combined with other transformative technologies. The future of the digital oilfield lies in this convergence.
We are at the forefront of integrating AI and IoT with our blockchain solutions to create intelligent, autonomous systems. Imagine a supply chain where IoT sensors not only write data to the blockchain but also feed it to AI models that predict maintenance needs, optimize pipeline flow, and automate trading decisions based on real-time market data. This is the next frontier, and we are building it today.
Explore AI & Blockchain SynergyFrequently Asked Questions
Is blockchain technology mature enough for mission-critical oil and gas operations?
Absolutely. We don't use experimental public blockchains. We build on enterprise-grade, permissioned blockchain frameworks like Hyperledger Fabric and Corda, which are specifically designed for high-performance, secure, and scalable corporate use. These platforms have been proven in production environments across finance, supply chain, and other demanding industries. Our pilot-first approach also ensures we prove the technology's value and stability in your specific environment before a full-scale rollout.
How do you handle data privacy with multiple competing companies on one platform?
This is a critical design consideration. We use features inherent to permissioned blockchains, such as "private data collections" or "channels." This means that while all parties are on the same network, a transaction's details are only shared with the specific participants involved. For example, the buyer, seller, and their respective banks can see the financial details of a trade, but a competing seller on the same network cannot. It combines the benefits of a shared ledger with the data privacy of a private database.
What is the typical timeline for implementing a blockchain solution?
The timeline varies depending on the complexity of the use case, but we follow a phased approach:
- Discovery & Strategy: 2-4 weeks
- Proof of Concept (PoC): 6-8 weeks
- Pilot Program (MVP): 3-5 months
- Full Enterprise Rollout: 6-12+ months
How difficult is it to get all our supply chain partners to adopt the new system?
Partner adoption is one of the most critical success factors, which is why we offer consortium-building expertise. The key is to create a clear and compelling value proposition for every participant. For suppliers, it's faster payments. For shippers, it's reduced paperwork. For financiers, it's lower risk. We help you design the governance model and onboarding process to make adoption as seamless as possible, demonstrating to each partner how the shared platform benefits their own bottom line.
Can blockchain integrate with our existing ERP and ETRM systems?
Yes, seamless integration is a core part of our methodology. Our blockchain solutions are designed to act as a secure data and transaction layer that communicates with your existing systems of record. We build robust APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and middleware that allow your ERP, ETRM (Energy Trading and Risk Management), and other legacy systems to read from and write to the blockchain, ensuring data consistency across your entire IT landscape without requiring a costly overhaul of your current infrastructure.
What kind of ROI can we realistically expect from a blockchain implementation?
The ROI comes from multiple areas and varies by use case. Key drivers include:
- Operational Efficiency: Reduced administrative overhead from automating manual processes like reconciliation and compliance reporting.
- Working Capital Optimization: Faster settlement cycles in trade finance free up capital that was previously tied up for weeks.
- Risk & Fraud Reduction: Eliminating losses from fraudulent documents (like Bills of Lading) and reducing product theft in the supply chain.
- Dispute Resolution: Drastically cutting the time and legal costs associated with resolving disputes between partners.
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