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
NOTE: Stonebridge Consulting helps oil and gas companies use Spotfire to improve their operational analysis. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you. Recently I was tasked with a Spotfire development...Read More
82% of crude and oil condensates in the United States have a break-even price of $60 or lower1. Companies can maximize their delta – the gap between break-even and sales price – by either increasing the...Read More
In today’s North America shale revolution, oil and gas companies are buying assets to expand their footprint in certain plays. For continuity of operations during the transition phase, companies typically find it least disruptive to...Read More
While geospatial analysis is a relatively new concept in business intelligence, its essential concepts are really not novel at all. It is simply analysis of data which has a geographical aspect. The data itself can...Read More
Self-Service Everything Over the last five or ten years it seems like everywhere I turn innovations in technology and a desire by corporations to manage the bottom line have conspired to “empower” me to serve...Read More
Recently the Database Services team upgraded a client from Oracle 8i to 11g via the import/export method. A few months later, we found that the system tablespace was filling up, and that 70%+ of the...Read More