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Limited Entry Revolution: Improving Cemented Liner Completions with Advanced Ball-Drop Technology
Oil and gas producers have seen a dramatic boost in production from horizontal wells in unconventional reservoirs over the last decade. In a low-priced oil and gas market, operators must find a way to pair the higher well performance with improved operational efficiency to reduce well costs. This paper explains several challenges faced by operators today and the completion solutions that can help drive down costs in an effort to make wells more profitable.>
- Date
- 4/13/2016

The Must-Have Cost Savings Tool for 2016
With commodity prices, demand for O&G-related products and services, and other cost-driving forces at record lows, those who systematically take advantage of market movements can drive large, sustainable cost reductions. Through the use of cost modeling and should-cost analysis (explained in greater detail below), we’ve seen E&P, midstream, and downstream Oil and Gas companies consistently drive an incremental 5% -20% savings in supplier negotiations through the recent downturn.>
- Date
- 2/17/2016

Operational Performance in the Oil and Gas Industry through Asset Integrity Management
Process safety and asset integrity is very often enshrined in corporate integrity systems and operating procedures supported by operating safety audits that have been in place for a long time to meet regulations and try to ensure no failures occur. Often considered a necessary overhead, consider for a second whether in your company asset integrity is more than a series of inspection tasks, corrosion analyses, and equipment monitoring tasks. Is your asset integrity management program helping you deliver world-class operational performance? Going beyond the concept of “Fitness-for-Service,” asset integrity management is a business-critical process that should help identify and shape opportunities for operational excellence – improving safety and optimizing you capital and operational spend. This paper explains how a reliability centered approach to maintenance and asset performance management can help you develop and implement world-class operational performance through asset integrity management.>
- Date
- 12/1/2015

Security Measures Industrial Hackers Hope You Ignore: An overview for oil and gas industry executives on assessing and mitigating industrial network security risks
Oil and gas industry executives must stay informed of cyber security threats for two reasons: (1) the energy sector is by far hackers’ #1 target, says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and (2) a cyber attack on their own facilities can potentially have serious impacts on operations and profitability as well as grave consequences for the life safety of personnel and nearby communities. This paper provides an executive level briefing of today’s top cyber threats, plus an overview of a layered “defense-in-depth” strategy – an industry best practice.>
- Date
- 12/1/2015

Improving worker safety in the oilfield
Many customers are challenged by higher than desired worker injury rates and inefficiencies due to impractical and inflexible protection solutions. Injuries are expensive, time consuming and ultimately impact the company's bottom line. The numbers tell the full story. In recent information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were an estimated 8,500 nonfatal injuries and illnesses within activities supporting oil and gas extraction in 2011. Discover how an effective PPE program can optimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).>
- Date
- 10/30/2015
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