If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it. Thank you, Peter Drucker. October is the month to get ready for annual performance reviews. I wholeheartedly recommend evaluating the staff throughout the year with informal walkthroughs, supportive emails, and verbal or written corrective coaching to improve performance. The annual review should never be a surprise to […]
Taking Flight
The mention of aerial imagery usually brings visions of drones, and that is certainly a big part of the mix. Additionally, companies like Ft. Worth-based Prius Intelli are using manned, fixed-wing flights to quickly cover wider areas and collect more data than is afforded by just visual images. With regulators clamping down on greenhouse gas […]
How to Optimize Production Strategies for US Basins
Q&A: Customizing Optimal Production Strategies for US Basins The US land market is vast and complex, with hundreds of operators looking to overcome operational challenges as margins grow ever-tighter. Schlumberger’s Chad Peterson, Managing Director for US Land, and Oritsegbubemi Bafor, Division Manager of Digital & Integration for US Land, explain how Optimized E&P Solutions give […]
The Pursuit of Power
Power. Producing power is what the energy industry is all about. And power is what feeds the energy industry, primes its pumps, lifts its resources, and keeps drillstrings and driveshafts turning to the right. Portability. Portability is what energy producers are all about. It’s a pick-up-and-go industry. Nothing stays still for long. Other industries have […]
The Value of a Mentor
Greetings and salutations! Over the last 25 years, I have found that safety is a profession that is not necessarily inspired by the lure of large monetary gains. Although it can be an incredibly fulfilling and rewarding profession, the job description is unique due to the concept of making a living by proving that one […]
Two Kinds of Green
“It’s not easy being green,” Kermit the Frog famously said, and many oil and gas producers feel the same way about ESG and the growing number of environmental regulations. ESG is short for “Environmental, Social, and Governance”—three non-financial factors that investors increasingly take into consideration when investing in companies, including energy companies. And it’s not […]
Insurance Benefits are Key to Employee Attraction and Retention
The number one problem in the Permian Basin is recruiting and retaining quality employees. Benefits, including health and supplemental insurance and retirement offerings, are vital to solving the problem. By this time, I hope most of my readers have selected an online, full-service human resource management system (HRIS) to service the organization from job inception […]
Faster, Better, More Accurately
As AI helps E&Ps make sense of the torrent of data coming from today’s oil field, there are two areas in which SparkCognition SVP Energy and Sustainability Phillippe Hervé finds extremely significant. One is in drilling optimization, “Which is very, very possible, and we do it with excellent results,” he says. Drilling faster, better, and […]
OPINION: Energy at the Crossroads
By Jesse Mullins Will ESG win the day and welcome O&G into the Climate Change fold, converting O&G’s leadership into the Green Movement’s biggest cheerleaders? Or is the Energy Transition slipping a gear as the country barrels toward 2024… or 2030… or 2050… or whatever target date means most to the faithful. We opine. The words you […]
Q&A: Helping Operators to Optimize Production from Complex Shale Reservoirs
For shale operators, midstream companies, and gathering network or saltwater distribution network owners, it can be difficult to uncover how to get the most production and overcome operational challenges in the field. Schlumberger’s Serdar Atmaca, Business Development Manager – Digital Ops Solutions, and Nicolas Gomez Bustamante, Principal Production Engineer – Digital Ops Solutions, explain how […]
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