Oil & Gas IT Services
Houston is the energy capital, and oil & gas IT is its own discipline — IT/OT segmentation, SCADA-aware monitoring, joint venture access controls, hurricane recovery, TSA pipeline directives, and cyber insurance underwriters who increasingly know what they are looking at.
At a glance
LayerLogix delivers managed IT and cybersecurity for upstream operators, midstream pipeline and gathering, and downstream petrochemical and refining across the Houston Energy Corridor, Permian Basin, Bay Area Houston, and Beaumont/Port Arthur.
We bring deep IT and security capability for the business side, real OT awareness on the operations side, and the engineering judgment to know which systems we should not touch — at a fraction of the cost of an oil & gas specialist consultancy.
Oil & gas IT · From the Energy Corridor to the pad
One network from the tower to the tank battery
Your team works from a tower off I-10 and on pads at the far edge of cell coverage. Here's how we link the two, wall off the control network and bring the readings home. Tap a lens, or let it play.
Before we start · One day, two worlds
A tower in Houston, a pad at the end of a lease road
Your day starts in two places. Lease operators head out on the route while the office off I-10 waits on yesterday's volumes for the morning meeting. In between sit a cell modem, a satellite dish and a SCADA host. Watch the day as it runs now, then once we've rebuilt it.
What LayerLogix does
- Inventory every site, link, laptop and control system you run
- Rank the gaps between HQ and the field by what they put at risk
- Fix what can stop production first, then work down the list
Step 1 · Remote site connectivity
When the cell tower drops, the pad stays on the line
Plenty of pads hang off a single cellular modem, so a tower outage or a cut line means no readings and no work orders until someone drives out. We put an SD-WAN edge at the site with cellular plus satellite backhaul, and it shifts traffic on its own. Take the tower down and compare.
What LayerLogix does
- Survey each site's links, coverage and backup options
- Install SD-WAN with cellular and satellite paths at remote sites
- Alert on failover so a dead link gets a ticket, not a surprise
Step 2 · IT/OT segmentation
Business IT on top, control systems sealed off below
Drillers case and cement a well so one zone doesn't bleed into the next. Your network needs the same idea: email and ERP up top, a buffer zone in the middle, SCADA and field controllers below. The one way down is a jump host that checks MFA and logs the session.
What LayerLogix does
- Map your zones and conduits using the ISA/IEC 62443 model
- Put a jump host with MFA and PAM on the path into OT
- Watch the boundary without touching the controllers behind it
Step 3 · Field devices
Each box on the pad named, with the right hands on it
A pad holds more computers than it looks: the RTU and PLC on the control skid, the radio, a camera, the crew's tablet in the truck. We list each one without poking the controllers, manage the laptops and tablets ourselves, and send control changes to your engineers or the OEM.
What LayerLogix does
- Build one device inventory across IT and OT at every site
- Patch, protect and require MFA on crew laptops and tablets
- Track OT firmware and flaws, and route changes to your controls team
Step 4 · Production data back to HQ
Production data comes home, through a one-way door
The morning report needs the field's numbers, but a VPN from the office into the SCADA host opens a door both ways. We copy historian data out to the buffer zone, encrypt it across the WAN and let HQ read the copy. Engineers get their trends; the office reads the data and doesn't write back.
What LayerLogix does
- Replicate historian data to a copy in the buffer zone
- Encrypt the links between the field and Houston
- Retire the old two-way paths from the office into SCADA
Step 5 · Hurricane season
The storm closes HQ. The field keeps reporting.
When a hurricane heads up the Gulf, the office off I-10 may close for days. We plan for it before the season: immutable backups kept away from the building, systems that fail over to a recovery site out of the storm's path, and a yearly tabletop drill so everyone knows their part.
What LayerLogix does
- Write a hurricane plan with recovery targets for each system
- Keep immutable backups and failover well away from the office
- Run a tabletop exercise with your team every year
Showing Before we start · One day, two worlds: A tower in Houston, a pad at the end of a lease road
What We Offer
Comprehensive solutions tailored for Houston-area businesses
IT/OT Segmentation & Convergence
We design and operate the segmentation between your enterprise IT environment and your operational technology (OT/ICS/SCADA) — the single most important architectural control in oil & gas cybersecurity. ISA/IEC 62443 zone-and-conduit models, jump host enforcement, and Privileged Access Management (PAM) for any user or process that crosses the boundary.
SCADA & ICS Security
Asset inventory, vulnerability management, and threat monitoring for OT environments — without disrupting production. We work with the legacy systems that actually run wells, pipelines, separators, and refineries: Wonderware, OSIsoft PI, Rockwell, Honeywell, Yokogawa, Schneider. We do not pretend OT is the same as IT.
Remote Site Connectivity
SD-WAN, satellite backhaul, cellular failover, and secure remote access for drilling rigs, gathering systems, well pads, compressor stations, and remote terminals. Field operations need uptime when crews are 200 miles from the nearest cell tower.
Joint Venture & Vendor Access
Multi-party operations need secure, audited access for joint venture partners, royalty owners, regulators, and field service vendors. We deploy zero-trust access architecture with MFA, conditional access, and PAM-based application control so partner access never crosses into your core systems.
Hurricane & Disaster Recovery
Houston-specific business continuity planning for hurricane evacuation, refinery shutdown coordination, and post-event recovery. Documented RTO/RPO targets, immutable backup with NinjaRMM/Dropsuite, geographically diverse failover, and tested annual tabletop exercises.
Compliance & Insurance Readiness
Support for NERC CIP-adjacent operations, TSA pipeline security directives, API 1164 pipeline cybersecurity, OSHA documentation, and the cyber insurance questionnaires that energy underwriters now treat with increasing skepticism. We translate cybersecurity into the language your compliance and insurance partners speak.
Why Choose LayerLogix?
Serving businesses throughout the Greater Houston area including Houston, The Woodlands, Spring, Conroe, Sugar Land, Clear Lake, Beaumont, Midland, Odessa, San Antonio.
Stop Ransomware Before It Reaches Production
The Colonial Pipeline incident put oil & gas operators on the front page for the wrong reasons. Privileged Access Management (PAM) — application allowlisting and ringfencing — combined with rigorous IT/OT segmentation is the architecture that keeps ransomware off your business network and out of your control systems.
Lower Cyber Insurance Premiums
Energy sector cyber insurance has become dramatically harder and more expensive to acquire. Documented IT/OT segmentation, PAM deployment, MFA enforcement, and tested incident response routinely reduce premium quotes 15-30% on renewal — and unlock coverage limits that would otherwise be unavailable.
Joint Venture Confidence
JV partners and field service vendors need access without becoming attack vectors. Our zero-trust architecture lets you grant exactly the access needed, log everything, and revoke instantly. When a partner gets breached, you do not get breached with them.
Operational Uptime
Production downtime in oil & gas is measured in dollars per minute. Proactive monitoring, redundant connectivity, and tested failover keep your business systems running so production keeps flowing — through hurricanes, ransomware events, ISP outages, and human error.
A Real Energy-Sector MSP
Generic MSPs treat OT like IT and break things. Oil & gas-specialist consultancies cost 3-5x what we charge. We sit in the middle: deep IT and security capability for the business side, real OT awareness on the operations side, and the engineering judgment to know which systems we should not touch.
Our Process
Where a business breach can reach the pipeline
In oil & gas the threat model spans the front office and the field — and the worst case is a business compromise pivoting toward OT. We run enterprise-grade security on the business side, stay OT-aware at the boundary, and know which systems not to touch.
A compromised business endpoint pivots toward SCADA/ICS and production.
Hard IT/OT segmentation plus default-deny PAM so an office breach cannot reach the control network.
Pipeline operators must run a 24/7 coordinator and report incidents to CISA.
We staff the 24/7 cybersecurity coordinator function and incident reporting as a managed service.
Joint-venture partners and vendors need access without standing admin rights.
Just-in-time, application-scoped access through PAM — no shared admin, full audit trail.
Energy underwriters now demand documented MFA, EDR, PAM, and immutable backup.
The full control set packaged and documented — frequently cutting premiums 15–30% on renewal.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you understand the difference between IT and OT environments?▼
Can you support our Permian Basin field operations from Houston?▼
How does Privileged Access Management (PAM) help an oil & gas company?▼
Are you familiar with TSA pipeline security directives?▼
What about cyber insurance — energy underwriters are getting strict?▼
Can you support both upstream and downstream operations?▼
Ready to Get Started?
Contact LayerLogix today for a free consultation. We serve businesses throughout Houston, The Woodlands, Spring, and the surrounding Greater Houston area.