I’ve been in the SharePoint world for many years, both as a consultant and as a client. In that time, I’ve had great opportunities to perform SharePoint development with organizations in the public and private...Read More
Do you have to jump from one system (or spreadsheet) to the next to see relationships between wells, rigs, and pads? Are you spending hours in your day creating and updating spreadsheets just so you can...Read More
The topic of “business social networking” came up recently on a call with an oil and gas client. The client – a mid-size midstream company – is interested in augmenting its enterprise content management (ECM)...Read More
Even if you are convinced that your organization needs some capability or improvement in master data or data governance, it’s not always easy to motivate an organization to take on a large project that seems...Read More
There are many ways to navigate volatility in a soft market. And as oil and gas consultants, we see upstream clients respond to market volatility in several ways. Some organizations “hunker down”, preserving cash, and...Read More
You may know that in addition to working at Stonebridge Consulting, I’m also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Professional Petroleum Data Management (PPDM) Association. As such, I wanted to remind of PPDM...Read More
Recently I was working on a variety of software and data projects for a client – a large independent operator with substantial US onshore assets – when I received a call from one of their...Read More
With the drop in oil prices, many of our oil and gas clients are understandably reexamining their capital budgets for 2015. While establishing the capital budget defines the plan for the year, individual drilling projects...Read More
The short answer is “yes”. When you consider why you should consider metric reporting as an important part of your oil and gas data management strategy, the answer is simple: Data management is hard. There...Read More
