One might assume that the importance of Decision Quality is a given in the oil and gas industry. The concept chosen in the assess and select phases can result in a great return, loss or missed opportunity; with the figures involved rarely below tens of millions, and...
Although Rockflow is a technical upstream consultancy, a number of our experts spend a significant amount of their time dealing with matters above the ground. Namely, this means working with people – and helping them to navigate disagreement through negotiation,...
Many independent companies in the oil and gas industry are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to assurance. They’re often listed, they have to show progress, and their agility is their competitive advantage. At the same time, a wrong decision on a major...
Since October 2023, we have had plenty to reflect on at Rockflow. We hosted a technical assurance event for upstream oil and gas professionals – perhaps you were there – and while we started by talking around quality decisions and the types of assurance you can use...
The foundation of any assessment rests on two elements: quality evidence, and a quality understanding of what that evidence reveals. The same is true of subsurface assessments, but the difficulty is that there is a limit to the hard evidence you can gather. When...
In an industry so driven by technology as oil and gas, new advances can have a major impact on how we work in our field. When it comes to matters like assurance, the trend today is to take advantage of computing power and create multi-million cell geological models,...