Creating secure data in an oil and gas supply chain

A method for creating secure data related to oil and gas assets while traversing a supply chain, comprising:

• by each sensor from sensors provided along the supply chain, capturing data including volume of a product, standard information of the product from a product identifier and secure information from a marking, authenticating the marking, and adding encryption to the captured data creating thereby encrypted data, wherein the product is marked with the product identifier and the marking, wherein the captured data includes a unique tag reflecting a location of the product along the supply chain at a moment when the data is being captured;
• collecting and sending the encrypted data from the sensors by at least one repository system to a gateway, wherein the gateway provides a mechanism to transform the encrypted data received from the at least one repository system into a format that is further secured and which is compatible with a data integration system before used in a global management system or in an integrity management system, and further wherein data generated and created in the gateway are provided to the global management system or the integrity management system to create clustered events, and further the gateway verifies, before transforming the encrypted data received from the at least one repository system, that the encrypted data received from the at least one repository system are authentic data and have not been corrupted by external sou rces,
• wherein the product is oil or fuel transported via a pipeline or in tanks of a truck, and the marking is inside the product and comprises a chemical composition identifying the secure information,
• wherein the captured encrypted data relate to a specified event occurring in the supply chain,
• wherein the collected data from each sensor of the sensors is acquired several times for a predetermined period of time being not more than 30 seconds to obtain, for each sensor, a set of the collected data related to the product, and for each set of the collected data, the collected data from the set is verified as to whether the collected data from the set has essentially the same value, prior to being transferred to the gateway, wherein the data measured by each of the sensors is considered to be correct if the data measured by each of the sensors does not essentially change for the predetermined period of time, and if the collected data from the set is verified to have essentially the same value, the collected data from the set is verified to be correct.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to create secure data related to oil and gas assets while traversing a supply chain, the program when executed by a processor, comprising:

• by each sensor from sensors provided along the supply chain, capturing data including volume of a product, standard information of the product from a product identifier and secure information from a marking, authenticating the marking, and adding encryption to the captured data creating thereby encrypted data, wherein the product is marked with the product identifier and the marking, wherein the captured data includes a unique tag reflecting a location of the product along the supply chain at a moment when the data is being captured;
• collecting and sending the encrypted data from the sensors by at least one repository system to a gateway, wherein the gateway provides a mechanism to transform the encrypted data received from the at least one repository system into a format that is further secured and which is compatible with a data integration system before used in a global management system or in an integrity management system, and further wherein data generated and created in the gateway are provided to the global management system or the integrity management system to create clustered events, and further the gateway verifies, before transforming the encrypted data received from the at least one repository system, that the encrypted data received from the at least one repository system are authentic data and have not been corrupted by external sources,
• wherein the product is oil or fuel transported via a pipeline or in tanks of a truck, and the marking is inside the product and comprises a chemical composition identifying the secure information,
• wherein the captured encrypted data relate to a specified event occurring in the supply chain,
• wherein the collected data from each sensor of the sensors is acquired several times for a predetermined period of time being not more than 30 seconds to obtain, for each sensor, a set of the collected data related to the product, and for each set of the collected data, the collected data from the set is verified as to whether the collected data from the set has essentially the same value, prior to being transferred to the gateway, wherein the data measured by each of the sensors is considered to be correct if the data measured by each of the sensors does not essentially change for the predetermined period of time, and if the collected data from the set is verified to have essentially the same value, the collected data from the set is verified to be correct.