Tony Elumelu's Heirs Energies has commissioned an Integrated Operations Monitoring Centre at its OML 17 asset in Rivers State, bringing together production data, security surveillance, facility performance and hydrocarbon evacuation monitoring into a single digital platform designed to sharpen decision-making and improve operational efficiency across one of Nigeria's largest onshore oilfields.
The centre, built in collaboration with Redtech, the technology company within the Heirs Holdings group, went live on June 29, 2026. It effectively serves as the digital nerve centre of the OML 17 Joint Venture, giving operators a unified real-time view of assets that previously required separate systems, separate teams and separate response chains to monitor and manage.
Osa Igiehon, Chief Executive Officer of Heirs Energies, said the centre represents the company's conviction that the next phase of upstream oil and gas productivity will be driven by data rather than headcount. The future of upstream operations will be driven by data, technology and intelligent decision-making. The Integrated Operations Monitoring Centre provides us with a real-time operational view of our assets, enabling quicker decisions, improved collaboration and enhanced operational efficiency, he said.
