Houston-based technology company Xecta has expanded its partnership with global energy company Santos to scale the deployment of the Integrated Production System Model (IPSM) across the company’s assets in Eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea. The five-year agreement follows a successful rollout in the Cooper basin and will now extend to Santos’ Coal Seam Gas, and PNG operations.
Developed by Xecta, IPSM is the first solution of its kind to provide real-time, system-wide production optimization insights across the full production chain—from reservoir through wells and pipeline networks to the facility inlet. By continuously analyzing billions of telemetry data points and automating engineering workflows, the platform delivers insights that are impossible to replicate manually or with traditional tools.
The initial deployment in the Cooper basin—spanning more than 1,000 wells and 10 satellite facilities—has already driven a measurable uplift in production. The scale and success of this rollout earned global recognition: Santos was honored for upstream innovation at the 2024 Platts Global Energy Awards by S&P Global Commodity Insights, and Xecta was named a finalist for Commercial Technology of the Year.
In one of the harshest and most operationally complex environments in Australia, IPSM has supported Santos to modernize its surveillance and optimization workflows while significantly reducing the time and effort required from engineering teams.
“IPSM represents a fundamental shift in how production systems are understood and optimized,” said Sanjay Paranji, CEO of Xecta. “By combining domain physics with AI, IPSM enables a continuously calibrated view of field performance at scale—automating surveillance, surfacing optimization opportunities, and dramatically reducing manual effort in even the most complex environments.”
About Xecta Digital Labs
Xecta is a Houston-based technology company developing surveillance and optimization solutions for upstream oil and gas operators worldwide. Xecta’s digital technology solutions combine advances in AI with physics-based modeling to automate production surveillance, generate actionable optimization insights, and scale impact across the full production system.
