9.0 — September 2026

Getting in

• From the dashboard — Use the Operation icon in a project's Open with row.
• From the Designer — Select Open current view in operation mode in the camera toolbar. Operate opens with the same camera and at the same location.
• From a link — An operation URL can open directly into Operate.
• Licensed per account — Operation buttons only appear for accounts with the Operation module enabled.
• Integration access follows your role — Available integrations are configured per integration in Admin and according to the user's role.

Getting around

• One fixed layout — The 3D view uses a fixed toolbar and panel row. There is nothing to arrange, making instructions consistent between users.
• Panel row — One tab per panel and one panel open at a time. Panels include Documents, Time Series, Point Cloud Comparison and any integration tabs defined for the account.
• Flexible panel size — Drag the resize handle, maximise a panel over the view, restore it without losing the active tab, or close the panel while keeping its tab.
• Icons with tooltips — The toolbar uses icons rather than menus and text labels. Tooltips indicate the action and adapt to the current state.
• Contextual help — Help opens the documentation, including any help links configured for the deployment.

The 3D view

Search

Search replaces the Designer's trees and provides the main way to navigate Operate.

• Search everything at once — Search assets, connections, wells, layers, point clouds, shapes, annotations, metadata such as tag numbers and references, tags, and connected systems where integrations support search.
• Results as you type — Results are grouped by source, with each result identifying the system it came from.
• Narrow a noisy system — Use the All tab or filter by source and category.
• Visible on screen — Results already visible in the current view are identified and can be filtered.
• Act on a result — Select an object, focus the camera on it, open a document or perform source-specific actions.
• Panels follow the selection — Opening Documents or Time Series displays the content associated with the selected object.
• Integration search states — Model results appear immediately while connected integrations may continue searching.

System highlighting

• Highlight an entire system — Select equipment or a connection to highlight the connected path through the field while unrelated objects recede.
• Attachment, not proximity — System membership is determined by actual connections, not by objects being physically close together.
• Animate flow — Animate the highlighted connections to show the direction in which fluid travels.
• Completeness audit — Highlighting can expose incomplete connections. An unattached end stops the highlighted path.
• Non-destructive — Clearing the highlight restores the original view. Highlighting does not hide or modify objects.
• Hide and restore — Individual objects, whole classes, the infinite seabed and distant annotations can be hidden. Hidden items can be restored from the Hidden items list.

Documents

• Read in place — Select equipment and open the File Viewer panel. PDFs render page by page and images display inline. Other file types are available for download.
• Direct attachment or tag matching — Documents can either be attached directly to an object or associated through a shared tag.
• Clickable tags inside drawings — Tag text inside a document can be selectable. Clicking a tag number selects the matching object in the 3D view when it corresponds to a project tag.
• Revision management — The panel displays the current revision. A new revision uploaded in Admin propagates to every object referencing that document.
• Room to read — Maximise the panel when working with detailed drawings.

Time Series

• See what equipment is doing — Select equipment and open Time Series to display attached measurements such as pressure, temperature and flow rate.
• Plot and compare — Plot one series or overlay several series on the same chart and select the displayed period.
• Follows the selection — Selecting another piece of equipment reloads the available measurements automatically.
• The source owns the data — Values, units and sample rates come from the connected system. FieldTwin associates the series with the relevant object and displays it.

Integrations

• Another system in the panel row — Integration tabs display connected systems alongside the 3D view and show content for the current selection.
• Selection flows both ways — Selecting equipment updates the integration. Supported integrations can also select equipment back in FieldTwin.
• Global search — Integrations that support search return results directly into Operate's search.
• Pop out to a second screen — Integration tabs can open in their own browser windows while remaining connected to the same session and selection.
• Multiple pop-outs — Several integrations can be opened in separate windows at the same time.
• Scoped context — Integrations receive the current project, sub-project and selection context. Wider access is controlled per integration in Admin and by user role.

Point Cloud Comparison

Point Cloud Comparison shows how the seabed has changed between surveys.

Select two surveys, draw a boundary and compute the comparison to:

• Fade between surveys.
• Generate a difference map.
• Measure changes in volume and coverage.
• Cut a profile along a line.

The comparison uses the same jobs, rasters and calculations as the Designer. A result computed in one mode is visible in the other.

Because Operate does not have a create toolbar, the Point Cloud Comparison panel provides its own drawing tools for boundaries and profile lines.

What Operate deliberately will not do

• No editing — No placing, routing, drawing, importing or exporting.
• No property panel — Selecting an object shows what it is but does not allow it to be changed.
• No trees — No Project View, Asset Library, Tasks or Tag Explorer. Search replaces them.
• No dockable layout — Operate uses a fixed panel row.
• No view point creation — Users can open saved cameras, but view points must be created in the Designer.
• No document upload — Documents are uploaded and revised in Admin.
• No monitoring or alarms — Charts are not a monitoring system, and plotted data is not stored in the project.
• No write-back — Operate changes nothing in FieldTwin or connected systems. An integration may still allow changes within its own system.

Development record

Operate has one release, so there is no version-by-version release history before 9.0. The milestones below represent the development history leading to the first release.