GO Pal Emergency Management Services
October 26, 2016
Executive Summary
PTAC and GO Pal Emergency Management Services created an online market assessment survey/questionnaire to clearly identify the problem solution fit of mobile technologies in the petroleum emergency preparedness industry with the support of Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF).
On August 9, 2016, the survey was distributed to various emergency preparedness industry stakeholders, mainly consisting of oil and gas producers operating in Western Canada. Awareness of this study was provided via e-mail and through personal outreach to PTAC members and GO Pal’s industry contacts. Additional exposure efforts were made to external stakeholders via PTAC’s and GO Pal’s LinkedIn pages. We received 16 online survey responses, which included participation from major Canadian oil and gas producing companies. In addition, 9 post survey interviews were conducted with various industry stakeholders who provided further insight to the answers provided on the online questionnaire.
The Problem Solution Fit for GO Pal’s proposed development of a mobile Emergency Response Plan Mobile Enterprise Application System (ERP App) was assessed and confirmed the following pain points: costs can be reduced for physical copies of ERPs, document management can become more efficient, communications between field and corporate personnel can be improved, and poor accessibility to ERP manuals can become more easily accessible through the implementation of an ERP App.