Over the past several years, the global oil and gas industry has had to navigate very choppy waters; after a prolonged run of high and growing rig counts, mega-capital-expenditure projects, and plentiful capital to support investment, oil prices slid precipitously in 2014 and 2015. Within a matter of months, oil companies that had invested heavily […]
PhDsoft was invited to join in a study that has just been released: Technological Learning and Industrial Innovation – Working Paper Series. It was made by FGV EBAPE, a renowned Brazilian Institution. The objective was to answer two basic questions: To what extent and how have companies in the Brazilian oil and gas industry accumulated […]
BY JOHN CHAMBERS SAN JOSE – Around the world, people are demanding change. Recent electoral outcomes – perhaps most notably, the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States – have highlighted rising economic uncertainty. In this environment, it is imperative that leaders articulate and deliver on a clear […]
“Unplanned downtime continues to plague the oil and gas industry. The offshore sector, in particular, has been saddled with unnecessarily high costs and exposed to unnecessary risks as a result. This was made clear in a study by Kimberlite, an international oil and gas market research and analytics company, in Summer 2016. And the problem […]
“PhDsoft will grow in the current oil crisis because companies are searching for ways to reduce costs without raising risks, and that’s what we do”, predicted in the beginning of the year the CEO and founder of the company, Duperron Marangon. In fact, we know now, PhDsoft’s revenues are going to end 2016 in a 30% […]
Concluded in last June 1st, the Energy Perspectives 2016 – Long Term Macro and Market Outlook, from Statoil, begins with the following statement: “Global energy markets are in transition”. In fact, the 2008 crisis is not over yet and new technologies are promising to revolutionize the energy business, which also means lots of opportunities. This […]
“In addition to compliance with legislative and company requirements, there is also a significant business benefit from ensuring the integrity of the assets/facilities. Minimizing of productions losses, prevention of unplanned shutdowns and rationalization of the purchase and storage of spare parts are some of the benefits that can result from a well-managed and executed integrity […]
