How Baker Energy Gets A Job Well Done

Baker Energy provides comprehensive total asset management solutions through its offices in Sheridan, Wyoming. These services include safety and environmental programs and permitting and regulatory services for the Coal Bed Methane (CBM) industry in Wyoming and Montana. Specifically, Baker Energy offers their CBM clients full service environmental compliance needs including performing inspections and monitoring permits on thousands of methane producing wells in the two state areas.

To maintain efficient operations and compliance with the Department of Environmental Quality and the EPA, CBM companies must continuously inspect the condition, and maintain leases, on these wells and their related features. To perform this task, inspectors called Environmental Compliance Technicians fill out inspection forms for each well and related features including generators, all oil storing containers, and storm water controls. Performing this job is now easier for the company since deploying a digital pen and paper solution.

"This is a great tool for regulatory purposes. The challenge for us in the past has been getting the data from the field into our database systems", said Shelly Adams, Environmental Specialist with Baker Energy. "Some Environmental Compliance Technicians are uncomfortable with computers. Besides, handheld computers don't always work well in our hazardous and rugged environments. Furthermore, it can be tedious to manually enter all the data from paper forms back at the office."

To answer the need, Baker Energy implemented AgTerra's WriteTrac solution. AgTerra provided Baker Energy with a complete solution from the digital pens to the paper forms that are used in the field.