It is not always possible for a focused engineer, team or department to consider other points of view in conjunction with their particular discipline: after all, Service Company personnel are trained to be focused and expert in one area – for example HPHT casing design, production tubing sizing, testing, drilling fluids, directional drilling etc to name but a few. Drilling Contractors too are typically forced to be focused upon one key thing: that of ever-improving time to do the job performance. And Operator personnel, as a result of yet another round of swathing cut-backs simply do not have the time to integrate effectively with other departments / disciplines within the same company, let alone with affiliated companies.

The result, then, is a project based on individual disciplines as opposed to a project based on integration.

Individuality proceeds typically at the expense of the project as a whole and is always found where there is no integrative engineering. Classic examples exist where reservoir, drilling, completion and production departments exist as separate departments and, through poor management structure, each department implicitly believes it knows best. However, integrative holistic viewpoints / ways of doing things prove the most successful in the end: ask any team and it’s holistic overview first and attention to detail second which proves to be the winner.

IDEAS has experienced the above first-hand as a result of either lack of in-house resources within a company, poor management, poor personnel or simply stubbornness.

We are able to provide integrative interface engineering to provide optimal solutions through our holistic overview approach to effective sub-surface engineering. We are totally independent and are without bias. And we are very cross-discipline experienced.