About Us
REN DATASIM is a Houston-based engineering and digital solutions company serving the oil, gas, and broader industry
REN DATASIM is a Houston-based engineering and digital solutions company serving the oil, gas, and broader industry
Our team didn't learn this industry from the outside. Our technical leaders are Subject Matter Experts who have built their careers inside the Chevron and BP Central Engineering and Technology Centers - designing, running, and troubleshooting the facilities we now build solutions for.
With an average of 40 years of experience on our team, there are few problems we have yet to encounter in this industry. We have served as owner's representatives on major capital projects, worked the full life cycle of production facilities - from FPSOs and gas plants to LNG, pipeline networks, and refineries - and architected the digital-twin and virtual-asset systems that are reshaping how these facilities run. We stay active in Industrial Technical Societies and Communities to stay up-to-date on the latest news, always searching for the best emerging technologies and not falling for transient fads.
Hands-on experience in engineering, design, service, and field operations
Problem-solving for large, integrated production and operation facilities
Owner-representative experience managing major capital projects (MCPs)
Life-cycle expertise across oil/gas production facilities - FPSOs, gas plants, LNG, pipeline networks, and refineries
Solution architecture for digital twin and virtual asset systems
development of real-time online production, processes, and pipeline operation tools
We combine proven, traditional engineering with state-of-the-art technology. New tools have to earn their place by introducing enhanced problem solving capabilities, not by being "new". This discipline is why clients trust us with details: we're a small team of engineers that invest in accomplishing all aspects to a challenge correctly, whether that means a decades-old method or an emerging one.
Our goal is to provide valuable experience and expertise for the design and development of:
Digital twin systems
Virtual sensor networks
Robotic application potentials
Green house emmision control networks
Online real-time performance solutions for a digitial-led virutal asset platform
REN DATASIM has partnered with First Genesis, Inc. to bring distributed ledger technology (DLT) into process simulation, using First Genesis's Xenese™ platform. This collaboration is the subject of a jointly filed U.S. patent application - "Oil and Gas Production and Distribution Blockchain Systems and Methods Implementing Same" (U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US 2025/0088376 A1, filed April 26, 2024, published March 13, 2025) - co-invented by REN DATASIM's Henry H. Ren and First Genesis's Ronald Watty, and jointly assigned to both companies. The application is currently pending before the USPTO.
This work is just one example of our focus on applying emerging technology only where it creates real, defensible value for clients.