Reflections from the 20th BHGE Annual Meeting
io attended another great Baker Hughes, a GE company, (BHGE) Annual Meeting (AM) in Florence in January 2019. This year it’s the 20th […]
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Digitalisation, an evolution or revolution for E&P?
The SPE [1] Asia Pacific Digital Symposium last week was hosted in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and io’s John Ciccarelli (Senior Reservoir Consultant) was […]
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Associated gas – now it’s your turn to stand up and be counted!
Introduction
Since George H. Bussell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled specially […]
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Top 10 Barge LNG Benefits
Published in Petroleum Economists’ June 2018 issue and republished here with permission.
After many years of anticipation, Floating LNG has become a reality. […]
Part II : Gas monetisation, external economic and non-technical factors
Introduction In the first article on gas disposition [1], we looked at the challenges of the disposition of gas co-produced from stranded oil and small marginal pools. In this […]
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Collaboration & Innovation
Since the oil price crash of 2014 many in the industry have spoken about the need for collaboration to reduce costs, standardisation and […]
Petromall Insights April 2018 issue: io – developments “starting with the end in mind”
Published in Petromall Insights’ April issue and republished here with permission.
io consulting (io), established in 2015 […]
If technology is no longer the barrier to change, what is?
Introduction Even as the oil price creeps back up, circa $65/bbl at the time of writing [1], the oil & gas industry still exists in a “lower for longer” […]
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7 oil & gas jobs that will exist in the future
Over the coming decades, all industries will be transformed by converging technological trends that dramatically alter how companies do business. This will undoubtedly […]
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How agile is your project development process?
Introduction
Agile project management approaches, including flavours such as Scrum and Extreme Programming, have taken the software development world by storm. Proponents praise the flexibility and speed of the […]
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Impact of electric vehicles on oil demand – major disruptor or just part of the mix?
Introduction
The rapid rise of renewables; transition to gas as a cleaner fuel; and improved efficiency in energy conversion processes have all led to an increased traction, and significant […]
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Perfect match: Coupling facilities and subsurface simulation models
Throughout the past 10 years, the oil & gas industry has drilled offshore fields that lie in increasingly deeper water. As we go deeper, there is an inherent need […]
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Do you trust in collaboration enough to reap the rewards?
Collaboration vs Co-operation
Like many in the industry, io believes collaboration is critical to the success of projects, particularly in this lower for longer environment. However, the word collaborate […]
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Why has the industry turned its back on long distance subsea tiebacks?
The first decade of this century witnessed the successful completion of a number of field developments that featured long range tie-back to shore as the facilities solution, notably projects like […]
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