Business Intelligence: What is Hadoop?
Hadoop: The New Face of Business Intelligence Big data has changed the way businesses handle their business intelligence initiatives, requiring them to capture, process, and analyze exponentially larger amounts of information. Traditional business intelligence tools like relational databases are no longer sufficient to handle the level of data businesses are experiencing. If businesses are going to take […]
What is Cushing?
What is Cushing? Cushing, Oklahoma, often referred as the “pipeline crossroads of the world“, is a major storage and trading terminal for crude oil.
Lease Compliance and Disparate Data
Lease Compliance and Resolution of Data Lease compliance issues in domestic shale have become critical to E&P asset protection. Lease jeopardy has grown into a major component of risk management of upstream resources. It demands a well-defined, cohesive data management strategy that creates business intelligence from disparate sources.
SharePoint Consulting: Workflow Strategy
SharePoint Consulting and Automation SharePoint consulting can be the time saver that your team has been looking for. Automation, what a wonderful thing! We have become very accustomed to the most mundane tasks taking care of themselves. Consider the washing machine, the dishwasher, cruise control, the thermostat in your house, and everyone’s favorite, automated phone […]
What is Acidizing?
What is Acidizing? Acidizing is a well stimulation or rehabilitation method that consists of pumping acid (usually hydrochloric acide HCl) into the well to dissolve all materials preventing the permeability of the formation.
Data Management: Measuring Quality
Data Management for Upstream In the world of data management, there are two factors that are important to account for: quality and access. Measuring data quality was the topic of a PPDM presentation by Jeremy Eade, a Subsurface Data Lead at BP. His approach to data management specifically surrounded the consistency of data surrounding wells.
What is a Well Spacing?
Well Spacing is a restriction on the number of wells that can be drilled on a given area.
SharePoint 2013 and Large Lookup Lists
SharePoint 2013 and an Unexpected Cost of Large Lookup Lists SharePoint 2013 can handle very large lists (given a very restrictive set of requirements). There is however one error that slipped through the cracks from the Microsoft SharePoint development team. When the total number of items in a list exceed 20,000 items (mileage may vary); […]
What is an Enhanced Oil Recovery?
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) also referred as improved, extended or tertiary oil recovery. It is a method for increasing the amount of oil that can be extracted from depleted or high viscosity oil fields.
Bad Oil and Gas Software: Key Concerns
Oil and gas software is an essential component for businesses in the energy industry. It allows them respond to problems more quickly, review historical data more easily and send reports to managers automatically. Oil and gas software also allows enables the implementation of a formal process for tracking production as opposed to the collection of […]
Custom Software: DIY Advantages and Disadvantages
Good Planning a Key Differentiator for Custom Software Custom software can be a great tool to match processes to your business. The recent proliferation of do-it-yourself tools makes this even easier because they allow people who aren’t professional programmers to create their own software.
Kemah Dinner Cruise: Q3 Celebration Extravaganza!
Software Consulting Team Celebrates Goals with a Cruise Goal setting is an important part of success for every company. Starting in 2013 the Entrance team now works towards a specific goal every quarter. The software consulting team far exceeded the Q3 goal that the leadership set. We celebrated this first big milestone by going on […]
Celebrating Ten Years of Great Custom Software
A Custom Software Extravaganza The Entrance team celebrated a decade of oil and gas custom software at the Petroleum Club on December 16th. A group of 200 honored guest and Entrance team members gathered together over drinks, dancing, and delicious food. The menu for the event included lobster bisque, mashed potato martini’s, prime rib, and […]
What is Air/Gas Lift?
What is Air/Gas Lift? Air/Gas Lift in the oil and gas industry is a technique of raising oil from the bottom of the well to the surface by injecting compressed air or gas into the fluid within the casing.
SharePoint Consulting: The Seven Deadly Sins of Productivity
SharePoint Consulting: The Key to Overcoming Common Time-Wasters Our Sharepoint consulting engagements give us a lot of insight into the obstacles that prevent employees from being as productive as they could be. This list contains the Seven Deadly Sins of Productivity that wecome across during our SharePoint consulting engagements. SharePoint is a powerful tool for overcoming time-wasters. […]
Entrance Custom Software Consultants See Doubled Growth in 2013
A Growing Team of Custom Software Consultants 2013 was a landmark year for the Entrance custom software team. Some of the business accomplishments included: Doubling headcount Increasing revenue by 50% Increasing work capacity by 50% Addition of several high profile Upstream clients Grew the already substantial footprint of oil and gas service company clients A […]
Custom Software: Four Moments of Truth
Moments of Truth for Custom Software During a recent leadership conference the Entrance team began brainstorming how to make our custom software consulting even better. The leadership team has since started an active conversation among our consultant team on this topic. One of the main points the speaker made was that every business has moments […]
Oil and Gas Software: IT is Adapting in a Brave New World
Oil and gas software helps support IT transformation into valued business partner It’s no secret that the exploration, drilling and production industry is not the same industry it once was, and oil and gas software can provide companies with the new capabilities they need to respond to the increasingly competitive environment around them. In a recent article […]
What is Air Drilling?
Air Drilling Air Drilling is the use of high volumes of low-pressure air as a substitute to drilling mud. How is it important to us? Air drilling is mainly used to reduce hydrostatic pressures in wellbore. Other benefits can be listed as follows: Lower cost and faster drilling: up to five times faster than drilling […]
Software Selection: Assessing Your Options on the Market
Software Selection and Available Product Offerings In this software selection series, I have covered how to assess the need for custom software in addition to business drivers. In this third post, I’d like to spend some time covering how to answer a specific question. What percentage of my needs are addressed by available product offerings? It can […]
