Hurricanes Harvey and Irma caused a temporary halt in energy production, but oil and gas companies’ preparation has us quickly moving forward.

Information technology professionals are some of the best at recognizing system failures and understanding that if their server or network goes offline, business will come to a screeching halt. To mitigate this potential disruption, they create backups to the backups and look for ways to keep the systems running all while mitigating the downtime of the original systems.

Our energy infrastructure is not much different. We seek to have a 99.999% up time, the holy grail of uptime in the IT world, but force majeure sometimes comes into play. The recent hurricanes in Texas and Florida are proof things can happen at any time and that we need to be prepared.

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