# AI Agents for Energy & Field Operations > AI agents for oil and gas field operations: alarm triage, maintenance, permits, shift handover and emissions reports, with people approving in Microsoft Teams. Source: https://sidekickmachines.com/solutions/energy/ Energy & field operations ## AI agents for energy and field operations. Digital AI co-workers for oil and gas, from site to back office Sidekick agents take on whole field jobs: alarm triage, maintenance planning, permits, shift handover and emissions reporting. Each one joins your team in Microsoft Teams and brings decisions to a person. [Ask about a Test Drive](mailto:hello@sidekickmachines.com?subject=Agent%20Test%20Drive\&body=Hello%20Sidekick%2C%0A%0AWe%20would%20like%20to%20try%20an%20Agent%20Test%20Drive.%0A%0AJob%20we%20have%20in%20mind%3A%0A%0APeople%20who%20would%20work%20with%20it%3A%0A%0ADecisions%20that%20should%20stay%20with%20a%20person%3A%0A) See field jobs Example: a production monitor agent watches live readings, spots drift on a pump, opens a case with evidence, asks a supervisor whether to send a crew and keeps every step on record. Field jobs ### Field work, job by job. Examples of jobs we build agents for, from site work to joint venture billing. Each one links to its job card and to a Sidekick product it relies on. - #### Production monitor Alarm triage Watches live readings from sites and equipment day and night, spots drift early and opens a case with evidence attached. Your people decide: When to send a crew [Job card for Production monitor](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#production-monitor) [Product: Sidekick Connectors](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/connectors/) - #### Maintenance planner Maintenance planning Turns work requests into ready-to-run work orders, with parts, permits and crews lined up. Your people decide: Whether to take equipment out of service [Job card for Maintenance planner](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#maintenance-planner) [Product: Sidekick Gateway](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/gateway/) - #### Field service dispatcher Field service dispatch Assigns field jobs by skill, location and priority, and reworks routes when plans change. Your people decide: Overtime and after-hours call-outs [Job card for Field service dispatcher](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#field-service-dispatcher) [Product: Agent Studio](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/agent-studio/) - #### Shift handover coordinator Shift handover Writes each shift’s handover from logs, alarms and open work, so nothing falls between crews. Your people decide: Who owns each open risk [Job card for Shift handover coordinator](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#shift-handover-coordinator) [Product: Agent Studio](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/agent-studio/) - #### Permit coordinator Permit coordination Checks permit-to-work requests for missing isolations, clashing jobs and lapsed training before an approver sees them. Your people decide: Every permit [Job card for Permit coordinator](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#permit-coordinator) [Product: Sidekick Gateway](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/gateway/) - #### Reliability analyst Reliability analysis Digs into repeat failures, compares them with past investigations and drafts root-cause findings for review. Your people decide: Which fixes go ahead [Job card for Reliability analyst](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#reliability-analyst) [Product: Sidekick Connectors](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/connectors/) - #### Safety reporting coordinator Safety reporting Turns field reports into complete incident records, spots repeat patterns and tracks corrective actions to closure. Your people decide: Severity ratings and regulator notifications [Job card for Safety reporting coordinator](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#safety-reporting-coordinator) [Product: Agent Studio](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/agent-studio/) - #### Emissions reporting analyst Emissions reporting Gathers emissions and flaring data from every site, checks it for gaps and drafts regulatory reports. Your people decide: Final figures before filing [Job card for Emissions reporting analyst](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#emissions-reporting-analyst) [Product: Sidekick Connectors](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/connectors/) - #### Joint venture accountant Joint venture accounting Prepares partner billings, checks cost splits against each agreement and answers partner questions. Your people decide: How to settle disputed charges [Job card for Joint venture accountant](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/#joint-venture-accountant) [Product: Sidekick Gateway](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/gateway/) Agents that work as a team ### One pump alarm, start to finish. Field work crosses departments. Three agents and a shift supervisor share one job, and every step lands on record. 1. Operations agent: Triages an alarm 2. Maintenance agent: Plans a repair 3. Procurement agent: Checks parts 4. Shift supervisor: A person approves 5. Every agent: Work moves, on record [See full story on our Agents page](https://sidekickmachines.com/agents/) Why Sidekick ### What we bring to field work. - #### Based in Calgary Our team works from downtown Calgary, Alberta, a centre of Canada’s energy industry. Our agent examples start with field work. [Company: About Sidekick](https://sidekickmachines.com/about/) - #### Plant data, outbound only Sidekick Connectors work outbound only, so your plant network never opens up to cloud services. [Product: Sidekick Connectors](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/connectors/) - #### People keep sign-off Sensitive actions, such as a permit or a repair, wait for a person to approve that exact request. You can stop any agent at any time. [Product: Sidekick Gateway](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/gateway/) - #### Runs in your cloud Agents run in your cloud, where your data lives. With Sidekick Sovereign, every Sidekick product runs as your own private copy inside your own Microsoft Azure. [Product: Sidekick Sovereign](https://sidekickmachines.com/products/sovereign/) FAQ ### Questions, answered. #### Which field jobs can agents take on? Jobs your people do through systems, documents, email and chat: alarm triage, maintenance planning, field service dispatch, shift handover, permit checks, safety and emissions reporting, reliability analysis and joint venture accounting. Describe any job we left out, and we’ll build an agent for it. #### Can agents use our live plant data? Yes. Sidekick Connectors bring live data from historians, sensors, event streams and business applications into your lakehouse, ready for analytics and AI agents. AVEVA PI is one example source we connect. They work outbound only, so your plant network never opens up to cloud services. #### Who stays in control? Your people. Agents work in business systems, such as work orders, permits and reports, and leave equipment decisions to your crews. Sensitive actions wait for a person to approve that exact request, you can stop any agent at any time, and every step is on record. #### How do we start? With an Agent Test Drive: one digital AI co-worker takes on one field job in your Microsoft Teams for a set period. Fixed size, fixed price, agreed up front. Your people work with it on real tasks, then you decide: keep it, grow it or stop. Agent Test Drive ### Try one job, live in your Microsoft Teams. One digital AI co-worker, one job, a set period. Fixed size, fixed price, agreed up front. Your people work with it on real tasks, then you decide: keep it running with us, grow it or stop. What you get - Job description - Approval rules - Live in Microsoft Teams - Closing review [Ask about a Test Drive](mailto:hello@sidekickmachines.com?subject=Agent%20Test%20Drive\&body=Hello%20Sidekick%2C%0A%0AWe%20would%20like%20to%20try%20an%20Agent%20Test%20Drive.%0A%0AJob%20we%20have%20in%20mind%3A%0A%0APeople%20who%20would%20work%20with%20it%3A%0A%0ADecisions%20that%20should%20stay%20with%20a%20person%3A%0A) [What a Test Drive includes](https://sidekickmachines.com/pricing/#test-drive) Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Teams are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. AVEVA and PI are trademarks of AVEVA.