Many independent companies in the oil and gas industry are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to assurance. They’re often listed, they have to show progress, and their agility is their competitive advantage. At the same time, a wrong decision on a major...
In an industry so driven by technology as oil and gas, new advances can have a major impact on how we work in our field. When it comes to matters like assurance, the trend today is to take advantage of computing power and create multi-million cell geological models,...
In any industry, established best practices are essential for ensuring predictability and mitigating risk. But for oil and gas companies, the layers of irresolvable residual uncertainty that come with every development mean that an over-reliance on set procedures can...
Over the last 30 years, the oil and gas industry has developed strong and flexible processes to drive efficient business performance and become innovative at developing new products. Once a company has made a discovery with an exploration well, what usually follows is...
How would you identify good quality assurance? Can you be certain the reviewers have considered everything they need to know? How would you be able to tell that you have what you need to proceed with confidence, when you’re potentially risking millions on an upstream...
