The Intelligence Layer

The rule was simple: cost, schedule, quality — pick two.

A deepwater production facility generates somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million data points per day. Temperatures, pressures, flow rates, valve positions, compressor curves, separator levels, water cuts — every process…

Management of Change is, on paper, a straightforward concept: before you modify equipment, a procedure, or an organizational structure in a way that could affect process safety, you document the change, assess the hazard…

Decline curve analysis has been the industry-standard method for production forecasting since J.J. Arps published his treatment of empirical decline equations in 1945. The Arps model — exponential, hyperbolic, or harmoni…

Walk into the control room of any major energy asset — an FPSO in the Gulf of Mexico, a gas processing facility in West Texas, an offshore production platform in the North Sea, a compressor station on the Permian Basin —…