You could try wine, failing that it might be possible to run the software in reactos. Would be cool to have reactos actually running in the energy sector. Especially if there's a big reactor going on.
Like others said ITT, a VM to remote in would be the best bet. Local admin can escalate to domain admin. One process as local admin is practically the same as plain local admin. And not just because MSIE is vulnerable.
A networked KVM solution could also work. There's various vendors for that and basically you just shelve a few spare boxes and have them run just the one thing you need. Make sure to have a firewall between the boxes and the rest of the network to isolate only required subnets from everything else.
Like others said ITT, a VM to remote in would be the best bet. Local admin can escalate to domain admin. One process as local admin is practically the same as plain local admin. And not just because MSIE is vulnerable.
A networked KVM solution could also work. There's various vendors for that and basically you just shelve a few spare boxes and have them run just the one thing you need. Make sure to have a firewall between the boxes and the rest of the network to isolate only required subnets from everything else.
Good luck.