Asset Value Management Services, LLC 
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ESEquipment spread across fields, plants and offices
Energy companies run IT in places most vendors never see: remote field offices, offshore support bases, refineries, pipeline control centers and corporate towers in Houston. Hardware is refreshed on different schedules at each site, and retired units often sit in storage rooms long after their last use, still holding seismic interpretations, well and production data, engineering drawings and credentials for operational networks.
Every one of those devices is a potential disclosure. A single unaccounted laptop or switch can expose proprietary reservoir models or details of industrial control networks. The answer is a disposition program that reaches every location, records each serial number, erases or destroys every drive to a recognized standard, and gives your IT, security and compliance teams a report they can stand behind.
Regulations to plan for
NERC CIP-011 (Information Protection)
For registered entities in the bulk electric system, requires documented methods to prevent unauthorized retrieval of BES Cyber System Information from cyber assets before they are reused or disposed of.
AVM sanitizes media with WipeOS to NIST SP 800-88 and physically destroys drives that cannot be erased, with serial-level records to support your evidence.
Texas Business & Commerce Code §72.004
Requires a business disposing of records that contain customers' personal identifying information to shred, erase or otherwise modify them so the information is unreadable or undecipherable.
Every data-bearing device is certified erased or physically destroyed, and the result is recorded per line item in your client portal.
Texas Business & Commerce Code §521.052
Requires businesses to implement reasonable procedures to protect sensitive personal information and to destroy customer records containing it, when they are not to be retained, by making them unreadable.
Documented chain of custody, a secure quarantine area and wipe verification records support your reasonable-procedures program.
Summaries for planning only, not legal advice. Confirm obligations with your counsel.
How AVM helps
- Multi-site pickupCoordinated collection from field offices, plants and corporate sites across the US, Canada and Latin America.
- Serial-level auditMake, model and serial recorded in our database and cross-referenced against your manifest.
- Certified data erasureWipeOS erasure to NIST SP 800-88 and DoD 5220.22-M, with physical destruction when a drive cannot be wiped.
- De-brandingCompany logos and asset tags removed before any equipment is remarketed.
- Data center clean-outsRack, server and network decommissioning, including white-glove server moves.
- Value recoveryAVM purchases equipment with after-market value to offset the cost of your refresh.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. AVM coordinates full-service pickup, dock-to-dock transport, drop-off or self-ship options, so equipment from field offices, plants and remote facilities can enter the same documented process as your Houston headquarters.
