Mission Statement
With a combined 375 years of international experience in Oil and Gas Reservoir Management and associated technologies, we bring a unique depth of “Oilfield Wisdom” that can be a powerful asset to our clients. Most of our experience is with an international operating company & we provide expert level advice from that perspective. Our mission is to provide our clients high quality answers as efficiently as possible. We will not “stretch-out” a project to increase billing hours. We will act completely in our client’s best interest and provide honest and clear answers.
What we Offer
Our company associates are all senior professionals with solid operator and service company experience. We will review existing operations and make recommendations, including “road-maps” for the path to success. If the work requirements for a project exceed our manpower ability or experience, we can help select the additional resources if needed and help steer those sources of services to ensure the job is done right.
Technical Leadership
We have seen many notable successes as well as many disappointments. We know the critical details that will make the difference between success and failure, both operationally and organizationally. We have extensive experience internationally working with national staff in emerging countries and the unique challenges posed in this environment. We know the details that are critical to go from a glossy Powerpoint pitch to operational success.
While some companies produce long reports with vague recommendations, we know what an oil company needs, and our recommendations will always be clear and actionable.
Oilfield Optimization
We specialize in mid-life oilfields. Like people, the first 1/3 of life is easy with few worries, but the care that is received in the middle 1/3 dictates how the final 1/3 goes. We help understand subsurface connectivity, particularly water movement and potential for bypassed oil. We understand that high perm water fingering usually strands significant oil below water. We can help you plan for and mitigate this, to minimize the oil left behind.
We are highly experienced with acquisition and analysis of all types of subsurface diagnostics, starting with open hole petrophysics, core analysis and formation testers, then later life techniques of cased hole logging, pressure transient testing, interference testing, non-radioactive tracers, permanent downhole pressure gauges and fiber optic sensors.
We know how to use these diagnostics to calibrate a reservoir model and make sure it reflects reality. Anybody can history match a model to surface production because there are dozens of knobs to tweak – but are they the right ones? We’ve learned to use a wide variety of dynamic data to constrain reservoir models, and this “ground-truthing” greatly improves predictive accuracy and identify opportunities for reservoir optimization.
Data deficiencies and their impacts on reservoir understanding will be clearly communicated. We will make recommendations on bridging gaps in data.
Expert Interface with Third Party Contracts
The “Golden Hammer Syndrome” is prevalent in the oilfield – when you are selling hammers, every problem looks like a nail. But is this the right tool for the job? We know there are many ways to solve problems, and clearly outline the alternatives to you.
We have expert knowledge of all types of oilfield services and can help our clients work with an array of service contractors to make sure they are buying what is best for their oilfield. Don’t be over-sold on technology when a less expensive alternative will work just as well. We also have extensive expert level experience with all types of Petrotechnical Software applications. If software selection is part of your growth plan, we can help you make sure you get something that we know will work.
Software recommendations
We also have extensive experience with all types of Petrotechnical software applications. There are many options available for Petrotechnical software, but not all of them work well together. It’s increasingly hard to get unbiased software guidance from those who have products to sell. If software selection is part of your growth plan, we can help you make sure you get something that fits your needs.
Our recommendations are driven by what we know will work, and we receive no financial incentives from any software companies.
iFIELD APPLICATIONS
Digitizing your oilfield
Are you still using manual data entry? Is your data still only accessible by incomprehensible SCADA tags?
Is your data: never-ending? disorganized? hard to interpret? Can’t see the trends you need to see?
Our experts have proven track records of successful iField implementations. We know what works and what customers will use. We can ensure your data streams efficiently from sensors to data historian, and can construct user-friendly digital dashboards for display and interpretation.
We do not sell software or profit from what we recommend. We only recommend what we know works.