Please stop talking about private cloud
I made a presentation at yesterday’s conference on Developments with the Digital Oilfield in London. The title of my talk, “Why private cloud is a cul-de-sac of doom”, was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and...
View ArticleThe costs of unreliable data
In a recent survey we carried out, (download the report here), we asked professionals involved in Hydrocarbon Accounting (HCA) how confident they were in their data. Around 65% said that they were “not...
View ArticleConferences and meaningless PowerPoint usage
An article on open source tools to “make your presentations pop” intrigued me initially, then bemused me, then annoyed me. Ignoring for a moment the desirability or otherwise of having presentations...
View ArticlePRODML and Energistics: Current Status
At our regular Hydrocarbon Allocation (HA) Forum in Aberdeen yesterday, we had a terrific “state of the union” presentation by Laurence Ormerod, Consultant and Project Manager for the PRODML standard....
View ArticleA Different Way
We run a cloud service for oil and gas. Our goal is to grow organically, and to grow profitability not staff numbers. We value a high degree of autonomy, and we operate entirely virtually. We’ve been...
View ArticleTransforming software for oil and gas
In my last post, I discussed the origins of our company, what motivated us, and the problems we were trying to address. I discussed our primary driver as the belief that it had to be possible “to do it...
View ArticleEnergySys is Moving to Amazon Web Services
Since we created our cloud service in 2009, one of the first in oil and gas and still the leader, we have built and managed our own infrastructure in multiple data centres in the UK. After a year of...
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