The problem
A modern production estate generates millions of tags. Wells, pads,
compression, gathering, tank batteries — every one of them instrumented,
every one of them producing history that somebody has to keep.
The systems of record built to hold that data were priced for a world
before storage was cheap. Cost rises in a straight line with tag count,
so the operators with the most data have the most reason to throw it
away — slower scan rates, tags left uncollected, retention shortened.
The estate that most needs its history is the one being priced into
deleting it, exactly as every analytics and AI plan depends on having
kept it.