In a recent feature in the Independent Petroleum Association of America’s (IPAA) Winter 2013 magazine covering oil technology, one of the key points highlighted is that although oil and gas companies are successfully searching for and implementing technology that will make hydraulic fracturing profitable in the long run, there is a significant gap between that and the oil and […]
SharePoint is an investment for your company. If you don’t think of it that way, consider the difference it can make for business collaboration, document management, compliance and more. A recent survey says that SharePoint is being utilized by 86.3% of companies with 5000 employees or more. But end user satisfaction is only about 50%. So where is […]
I’ve discussed in a previous post the impact that the oil and gas industry has on jobs in the United States. I took note this past week of an article in the Oil and Gas Financial Journal regarding the testimony of Daniel Yergin (author of The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World) to the US […]
It’s hard to miss evidence of oil and gas and the associated pipeline industry here in Houston. Driving down the highway yesterday, I saw a truck carrying a load of pipe bound for the field somewhere.
SharePoint’s ROI It’s not always straight forward, so make sure to check under the cushions on your couch! I hang my spurs in Houston, Texas and around here, people tend to love ‘one stop shopping’ for the sake of saving time and let’s face it MONEY. Our big super stores allow us to get in, […]
At Entrance, we’re excited about what 2013 brings for information technology in Oil and Gas, because we’re seeing the industry starting to really commit to and invest in data , information and knowledge strategies. Here’s a quick list of the top 5 energy technology trends for 2013.
I ran into this article a few weeks ago about Windows 8 tablets and the healthcare industry, where the author wrote about how, “Windows 8-based tablets might also have a very substantial role to play in healthcare. In fact, Windows 8 tablets might, in some cases, be even more appropriate to healthcare than iOS or Android […]
Operators in the Eagle Ford have had a rig count of over 250 rigs for more than a year, drilling faster and faster. But where is the pressure for that pace coming from? As shale activities turn from wildcatting to manufacturing-style drilling projects, both pace and scale of operations are increasing. Many operators are accountable for […]
The Houston Chronicle reported on Tuesday about the ongoing investigation into BP’s well blowout that caused an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. At the time of the spill, there was a lot of dispute between the government and BP about the amount of oil spilling from the Macondo well. During the […]
For many of the new clients we see coming in these days, one of their top questions is, “Can you build us a web portal?” There are a lot of good reasons why web portals are a big deal. For one thing they can bring any stakeholder, internally or externally, into the loop by making […]
Last week, I covered the pressing need for the oil and gas industry to start implementing data management to gain operational efficiencies and extract more value from all their assets. This week, I’d like to cover ways to go about implementing these ideals! Real-Time, Field and Tracking Data An exciting and growing aspect of business intelligence are […]
When we saw this news item we were excited to see the impact that shale has had on the local economies in South Texas. Noteworthy, however, is that law offices are listed among the next industries to feel the Eagle Ford boom due to all of the documentation that goes along with oil and gas […]
Kodak recently announced a scanning and workflow product that is based in Sharepoint 2010, called Info Activate Solution. According to their release, the product will help businesses with paper intensive operations quickly convert that paper to a digital format. And because the back end is based on Sharepoint, anyone already using the tool will be […]
Risks are a part of daily life in the oil and gas industry. And because they are many, varied and unpredictable, software product companies cannot keep up with industry needs. We specialize in creating custom business solutions that respond to changes impacting the Oil and Gas industry long before anyone else comes to the table. […]
Mike Walston, a Software Consultant at Entrance, has published a paper in the Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design (SCIE), describing a linear real time logic verification system that he developed while attending the University of Houston. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has invited him to speak at their Real Time Systems Symposium in South Korea, and Entrance will be sending him to the conference to represent our team as an expert in real time systems.
Our partnership will push the entire midstream forward in efficiency and safety compliance with strategic software. TG Mercer and Entrance have partnered to create SpreadBoss, a logistics support tool that allows thousands of joints of pipe to be tracked, providing customized inventory reports and creating a pipeline status history database. Not only does the software reduce […]
At a recent industry breakfast, a panel of speakers from Embridge, TerraFina, Plains All American, and the Bauer College of Business discussed their perspectives on both the boom and the coming challenges for the midstream sector. With the introduction of fracking and horizontal drilling, production has increased beyond the transportation infrastructure’s ability to move those […]
We’re proud to say that our Royalty Compliance project team has been given an award for their performance developing a critical system for one of our Upstream Oil and Gas clients. The complex system of lease jeopardy mitigation software has been a major company-wide strategic effort for our client. And our contribution has not only […]
It’s been a long journey, but today we delivered the Release Candidate 1 for the software modernization project we announced back in 2009. Our client, a pipeline supplier, now has new and improved software that assists purchasers of pipe in designing multiple segments at a time based on specifications that they enter. Compared to the […]
The right people must have the right tools to be productive. Custom software can be a tool that helps a business reduce the barriers for communication between departments and teams, encouraging collaboration. This results in better decisions and creates a technology multiplier to the human resources of the business, both of which increase productivity. Centralized […]