What are drill pipes?
Drill Pipes Drill pipes are steel hollows that serve as conduit for drilling fluids. They usually range between 3.5 inch to 5 inches in diameter while their length can go up to 30 or 33 feet.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Getting the Numbers Right
Merger and Acquisitions and Valuation Amassing the right data is paramount to being able to arrive at an accurate valuation during mergers and acquisitions. Without data, it is easy to make decisions based on inaccurate intelligence.
What is Shale Drilling?
Shale drilling Shale drilling is the extraction of hydrocarbons trapped in shale rock formations.
SharePoint Consulting for Upstream: The Benefits of Lists and Forms
Making the Most of Limited Resources with SharePoint Consulting In the last couple of blogs, I have discussed how Sharepoint consulting can help Upstream companies get more from their existing resources. This week, I’m going to cover the benefits of using forms and lists in Sharepoint. While years ago, one only needed a rig, a […]
Data Management for Oil and Gas: Getting Ahead in a Challenging Atmosphere
Data Management Options Data management involves handling data throughout its life cycle in addition to the infrastructure upon which it resides. The amount of data that oil and gas companies generate is continually growing, as is the infrastructure upon which that data resides.
Oil and Gas Software: Top Concerns from Merrick Users
Getting the Most from Oil and Gas Software A few weeks ago, several Entrance software consultants attended an event on oil and gas software, the Merrick MUG user conference. We’ve already covered this event in a blog post on knowing when to upgrade energy software.
Entrance Q3: Software Consulting Wrap-Up
Software Consultants in Oil & Gas As we look towards 2014, Entrance has spent Q3 preparing to grow as the market leader in oil and gas software. To that end, we created and followed through on a number of new initiatives that will help to grow and improve the company. Goals for our software consulting […]
Business Intelligence and Decision Making
Using Business Intelligence to Keep Pace The pace of our daily work life goes ever faster, and for many knowledge workers, business intelligence is a vital tool for keeping up. In particular, companies are finding that decisions they might have delayed for hours — or even days — a few short years ago must now […]
Glitch-Ridden Healthcare.gov: It pays to have a custom web development plan
Custom web development gone wrong NBC reported today that the custom web development project to create Healthcare.gov is many millions of dollars over budget. The website, which is intended by the government facilitate sign up for health care exchanges, has many bugs and appears to be unable to handle the necessary volume.
Custom Software Projects: Planning, Projection, and Agile Methodologies
Agile and Custom Software Starting a new custom software project is both exciting and daunting, both for the customer and the developer. I read a blog this week on Microsoft’s website that highlighted one of the most difficult parts: accurately estimating the scope of a project.
SharePoint for Upstream: Document Management
Making Document Management Easier with SharePoint This past month, I started a series on how SharePoint can be leveraged by the Upstream industry for better collaboration, time savings, and improved information flow. So far, I’ve covered how Upstream companies waste time looking for information in the wrong places, in addition to SharePoint dashboards.
Entrance Expansion: We Have Lift-Off!
A Beautiful Space for Our Growing Team This past week, Entrance was excited to complete the build-out of our expanded office space. We have rapidly grown in the past year, so this new space couldn’t have come any sooner.
Business Intelligence and ROI: Weighing the Business Value
ROI is King for Business Intelligence, or Is It? I came across this article on Search Business Analytics today called, “Bow Down to the IT Throne on all Business Intelligence Projects?” The author, Craig Stedman, shared some interesting thoughts on weighing ROI with other business priorities, such as usability or fit with requirements.
SharePoint Consulting for Oil & Gas Service: Dashboards
Transforming Workflows with SharePoint Consulting For many oil and gas service companies, the many moving pieces of daily operations can be smoothed with SharePoint consulting. One such Entrance client took advantage of this with a dashboard that tracks work throughout the entire lifecycle.
Oil & Gas Software: When it’s Time for an Upgrade
Oil & Gas Software with Merrick There comes a time in the life of any oil and gas software product when it’s time to consider modernization. Several Entrance employees attended Merrick’s user event, MUG, earlier this week.
Stand-Up Working: Entrance Gets Healthy!
Working Out While We Work! I came across on article today called, “Why Changing Your Desk Changes the Way You Work,” on Fast Company. It seemed like a great opportunity to share something new we’ve been trying at Entrance: stand-up desks!
The Data Management Business Case
Transforming the Numbers With Data Management Increasingly complicated data sets, like the influx of production data for oil and gas, can require more robust data management strategies than we’re accustomed to. Excel or other small ad-hoc databases just aren’t up to the job of complex data warehousing. In addition, these more primitive solutions don’t provide […]
Entrance Software Consultants Getting Ready for Techfest!
Our Software Consultants Speak About SharePoint 2013 We are excited to be a sponsor of TechFest again this year on September 28th. In addition, one of our software consultants, Theresa, will be presenting on the topic of “Who Moved My SharePoint (to 2013).”
Data Management Problem Solving: Data Entry
Data management in the Field Capturing information in the field can be a difficult data management problem due to lack of connectivity. The sheer volume of data and paper based processes can also be concerns.
Lease Compliance and Custom Software: Eliminating the Single Point of Failure
Onshore Drilling and Lease Compliance Does your company participate in onshore drilling? If so, you would probably agree that lease compliance is an ongoing issue. Onshore wells are smaller, so you have more of them, with the accompanying lease provisions that your company may or may not have a system for tracking.
