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We’re a long way away from achieving the goals, dreams and fantasies of the Internet of Things in the production oil patch. It’s not because of the lack of imagination or technology. The sensors and their collection/aggregation systems are not capable of providing the wealth of data needed for IoT to deliver. Upstream and downstream[…..]

Too many buyers either don’t know, or ignore, the dynamic phases of project development. They think it happens during the development of a product specification. The users, engineers and insider experts get together and create a detailed description of what they want. Surely there’s some debate, and perhaps argument, over this list of wants and desires.[…..]

Rig count is no longer the bellwether predictor it used to be. Seems these days the quick one-line assessment of anything complicated has infected analysis of the oil and gas industry. That comes to us in the form of the weekly rig count. One and two rig differences from week to week are immediately heralded[…..]

Cyber security in the Oil and Gas industry has to look a lot like safety. O&G companies have a much better grip on safety than on Cyber. That’s because most companies don’t treat Cyber like they do safety. Cyber has to be addressed top down and bottom both. The CEO has to be the driver;[…..]

Customers are always in search of a better solution, method, process or price. Most always they feel they know what’s available be it technology, technique or testimony. So to find better they need to find something different – what they did not know about before. When we look for stuff to buy we search for[…..]

How to handle a poor performer who has to go . . . Insure that any employee who fails to meet expectations is advised at the earliest opportunity what they failed or how they fell short Share your observation of shortcoming or failure with HR and if appropriate another manager Record your observations about performance[…..]

Drone technology has come alive nearly overnight. If you want a paradigm shifting view of how fast, controllable and video capable these new tools can be, watch this: http://tinyurl.com/z7tbob9 It’s a quick leap to realize that when applied to commercial use for inspection, observation and close up analysis – these tools will be transformational. How[…..]