Can your team trust and defend the gas numbers your SCADA environment produces?
Gas operations and measurement risk often hide inside gas day logic, EFM workflows, AGA processes, reporting, interfaces, and post-cutover workarounds.
Download the eBook to learn how senior SCADA and engineering leaders can build measurement integrity inside AVEVA Enterprise SCADA before audits, disputes, or modernization projects force the issue.
A practical guide for SCADA Directors, SCADA Managers, and Engineering Leaders responsible for gas pipeline operations.
A SCADA System Can Be Running and Still Carry Measurement Risk
Gas operations and measurement issues rarely announce themselves as outages. They show up as manual workarounds, slow dispute resolution, unclear gas day logic, EFM data uncertainty, reporting gaps, or numbers that only a few people know how to defend.
If operations, engineering, commercial, finance, and regulatory teams all rely on the same gas numbers, then gas measurement is not just a SCADA function. It is a business-critical system.
In this guide, you will learn how to:
Measurement systems rarely fail loudly.
They fail through uncertainty, rework, mistrust, and operational friction.
What You’ll Learn Inside the eBook
1. Why Gas Measurement Is More Than a SCADA Function
Gas measurement affects more than the control room. The guide explains how EFM data, AGA workflows, gas day logic, and reporting influence billing confidence, audit readiness, operational trust, and stakeholder credibility.
2. Where Measurement Risk Hides Before It Becomes Visible
Learn why risk often accumulates in application logic, interfaces, historical data, hourly uploads, reporting, and undocumented workarounds, even when the core SCADA platform appears stable.
3. What Good Looks Like in AVEVA Enterprise SCADA
See how high-performing operators approach gas operational apps, gas measurement apps, gas load forecasting, gas day configuration, documentation, commissioning, and hands-on training.
4. How to Reduce Cutover, Commissioning, and Sustainment Risk
The guide breaks down why commissioning, validation, and training must test connected workflows, not just screens, points, alarms, or isolated components.
1. Why Gas Measurement Is More Than a SCADA Function
Gas measurement affects more than the control room. The guide explains how EFM data, AGA workflows, gas day logic, and reporting influence billing confidence, audit readiness, operational trust, and stakeholder credibility.
2. Where Measurement Risk Hides Before It Becomes Visible
Learn why risk often accumulates in application logic, interfaces, historical data, hourly uploads, reporting, and undocumented workarounds, even when the core SCADA platform appears stable.
3. What Good Looks Like in AVEVA Enterprise SCADA
See how high-performing operators approach gas operational apps, gas measurement apps, gas load forecasting, gas day configuration, documentation, commissioning, and hands-on training.
4. How to Reduce Cutover, Commissioning, and Sustainment Risk
The guide breaks down why commissioning, validation, and training must test connected workflows, not just screens, points, alarms, or isolated components.
Grounded in Real SCADA Application Delivery
This guide reflects the practical realities of modernizing gas operations and measurement workflows inside complex OT environments. It is written for teams that need more than platform availability. They need applications, data flows, interfaces, reports, and operator workflows that can be trusted after go-live.
Dexcent supports industrial organizations across SCADA modernization, advanced applications, database migration, interface development, commissioning, training, and lifecycle support.
This guide addresses practical issues such as:
“A gas application environment should not depend on heroics. It should be designed, validated, documented, and supportable.”
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A practical technical guide for SCADA and engineering leaders. No inflated claims. No generic advice.
Is This Guide for You?
This eBook is written for leaders responsible for keeping gas pipeline operations reliable, measurable, and defensible as SCADA environments evolve.
It is especially relevant if you are responsible for:
If your team needs greater confidence in the gas numbers your business depends on, this guide is worth reading.
Frequently Asked Questions
This guide is written for SCADA Directors, SCADA Managers, Engineering Managers, and technical leaders responsible for gas pipeline operations, measurement workflows, and AVEVA Enterprise SCADA environments.
It is a practical thought-leadership guide. The focus is on helping you understand where gas operations and measurement risk accumulate, what good looks like, and how to think more clearly about modernization.
The guide is written specifically around AVEVA Enterprise SCADA, but many of the operational lessons apply to any gas pipeline environment where measurement integrity, application logic, reporting, and supportability matter.
It covers risks related to gas measurement workflows, EFM data, gas day logic, hourly uploads, AGA processes, reporting, interfaces, commissioning, cutover, operator trust, and lifecycle ownership.
You can read the guide at your own pace. If the issues reflect what you are seeing in your environment, you can request a practical conversation with a Dexcent expert to discuss where risk may be accumulating and what a reasonable next step could look like.
Uptime Is Only the Starting Point
If gas operations and measurement workflows require manual checks, tribal knowledge, unclear reporting logic, or post-cutover workarounds, system availability is not enough.
Download the eBook to learn how SCADA and engineering leaders can build greater measurement integrity inside AVEVA Enterprise SCADA.
Andrew Capper is Vice President of Industrial Digital Transformation at Dexcent, helping industrial organizations improve data-driven decision-making by optimizing the data journey, reuniting siloed information, and delivering a trustworthy version of the truth.
With more than 25 years of experience, he is known as a results-driven leader who delivers on commitments and tackles complex information management challenges with a practical, human-centric approach. His work spans digital transformation strategy and roadmaps, governance, digital maturity assessments, and performance measurement through clear KPIs and metrics. Andrew is a NAIT graduate with training in Instrumentation Engineering Technology and Security Systems, and he brings a strong focus on safer, more effective operations from data producers through to data consumers
Nader Asgharinia, PMP, P.Eng., is Vice President of Enterprise SCADA & Advanced Applications at Dexcent, leading the delivery of complex, mission-critical solutions with a clear focus on client experience and operational excellence. With more than 30 years in business execution and over 25 years managing multi-million-dollar programs for mission-critical and SCADA systems, he brings a pragmatic, delivery-at-scale approach to every engagement. Nader is recognized for building high-performing teams, driving disciplined portfolio execution, and delivering measurable business outcomes, including significant growth in program portfolios and team capacity over time. He holds a B.Sc.(Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Type in the UK, a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, completed Georgetown University’s Director’s Program, is a Professional Engineer in Alberta, and a Project Management Professional.
Tobias (Gerrit) Nel, CISSP, CISM, is Vice President of OT Infrastructure and Cyber Security Services at Dexcent, leading the development and delivery of practical services and solutions that integrate, complement, or replace OT infrastructure and protect OT assets from cyber threats. He is known for building resilient security frameworks, governance processes, and integrated solutions that reduce risk and support compliance across diverse industries. Gerrit has over 40 years of relevant IT/OT experience and has built and delivered highly skilled and high-performance delivery teams. His strengths include Cyber Security roadmaps, security architecture, incident response, and alignment to standards such as IEC 62443, NIST, and NERC CIP. Furthermore, he has deep foundational technical experience in Networking and OT infrastructure systems architectures that he leverages in building and leading successful delivery teams. Gerrit holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Johannesburg and brings deep cross-sector experience supporting clients in oil and gas, mining, chemical, healthcare, financial, and government environments.
Jaydeep Deshpande, P.Eng., is a seasoned and decisive executive with over 25 years of experience driving operational excellence, profitability, and market growth in national and multinational organizations. As President, he is recognized for his strategic leadership, disciplined execution, and ability to lead organizations through change. Jaydeep is passionate about developing people, building strong leadership teams, and fostering a positive, performance-driven culture. His expertise spans strategic planning, business diversification, financial management, and organizational transformation, with a consistent focus on delivering growth-oriented, profitable results. He holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta, is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner and Project Management Professional (PMP), and has completed the CMA Accelerated Accounting Program, bringing deep financial and strategic insight to executive decision-making.
Karim Amarshi is Chair of Dexcent’s Board of Directors, providing governance leadership and strategic oversight to support the company’s long-term strategy and executive team. With nearly 40 years as an entrepreneur and owner-operator, he is recognized for building high-performance organizations and forging strategic alliances across Information Technology, government, health care, education, and energy. He is the former co-owner and Chief Executive Officer of one of Canada’s leading enterprise Information Technology solution providers, where he led the organization through three successful mergers and helped scale long-term client and vendor partnerships. Karim remains active across a diverse business portfolio, serving as a founding principal, officer, and advisor to organizations spanning Information Technology, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and real estate in Canada and internationally.
Yasmin Jivraj, FCIPS, I.S.P., is a Board Member at Dexcent, providing executive guidance and strategic oversight to support corporate management and long-term business direction. Over a 35-year career, she has held senior leadership roles across private, public, and non-profit organizations, with a track record of building operating foundations and driving profitable growth. Following a 15-year tenure as a co-owner and President of one of Canada’s leading strategic Information Technology solution providers, she expanded her governance leadership through active board service in post-secondary education and community-focused organizations. She is recognized for decisive, purpose-led leadership, clear communication, and deep expertise in technology, business models, and methodologies that help enterprise organizations advance digital transformation.
As Chief Executive Officer, Nadir is accountable for providing overall leadership and Dexcent’s Industrial operational performance. Nadir has been involved as an executive sponsor with Oil & Gas and Mining companies for over 35 years, and through the years has developed a strong working relationship with the Executive leadership team of many Fortune 500 companies.
Nadir is known for recognizing value and superior investment opportunities in the technology services sector. His pursuit of highly prospective technology companies around the world has resulted in numerous company start-ups. Prior to starting Dexcent, Nadir had led companies through highly profitable business transactions, including the merger of Atlas Systems Group with CompCanada (later renamed Acrodex) in 2000 and later as Chairman of the Board of Axcend Pvt – an engineering solutions provider – based in Bangalore, India from 2004 – 2014. Acrodex and Axcend were sold in 2015
