Empowering Oilfield Professionals
AI in Oil & Gas: Efficiency, Not Headcount
Empowering Oilfield Professionals In operations, time is the one resource you can’t pump more of out of the ground. The oilfield runs on trust. Crews trust their instruments. Leaders trust their teams. Investors trust disciplined operations. That’s why the right way to talk about AI isn’t “fewer people.” It’s better use of the people you […]
16,000 Hours Back: Where Did the Time Go?
Empowering Oilfield Professionals In operations, time is the one resource you can’t pump more of out of the ground. You can’t buy it, lease it, or borrow it back. So when a digital transformation project gives you 16,000 labor hours back in a single year, you stop and ask the obvious question: where did the […]
How to Build an Oil & Gas Team from Scratch in 60 Days
Empowering Oilfield Professionals What Claude Thorpe Learned While Standing Up a 400-Well Operation When a private equity group handed Claude Thorpe the keys to a 400-well acquisition, he didn’t get a six-month runway.He got a handshake… and a deadline.The operation had to be stood up in 60 days. No excuses. No buffer.From land and drilling […]
The Under‑Managed Well Opportunity (Gulf Coast Edition)
Empowering Oilfield Professionals Measure what’s actually happening—and unlock the “boring” barrels There are fields that look tired on paper but are rich in potential. The gap isn’t geology; it’s management. Under‑measured wells hide avoidable loss in plain sight. What under‑management looks like No recent fluid‑level work and guesswork on drawdown. Backpressure and line constraints that […]
Two‑Track Growth: High‑Graded Prospects + Strategic Acquisitions
Empowering Oilfield Professionals Run “build” and “buy” together—without losing control of the culture When capital returns to the patch, the temptation is to choose: drill what you know, or buy what you can grow. The better answer is often both, managed with discipline so neither track dilutes focus.Why two tracks win• Resilience. Organic projects deliver […]
Build a Play‑Specific LLM: Practical AI for Field Decisions
Empowering Oilfield Professionals Decisions first. Models second. Data that your engineers can trust. AI doesn’t need to be a moonshot to matter. In upstream operations, the most useful models are narrow and local—trained on the history of a single play, completion style, and equipment set, then pointed at very specific choices engineers make every day.Design […]
Measure EUR in Months, Not Years
Empowering Oilfield Professionals Shorten the learning loop so capital compounds faster Some operators wait years to learn whether a design change really paid off.High performers don’t. They treat early-time data as a decision engine—tightening the loop between what we thought would happen and what the reservoir actually did.What Changes When the Loop ShrinksFaster truth. Decline […]
Close the Loop: From Geology Assumptions to Live Production Reality
Empowering Oilfield Professionals Close the Loop: From Geology Assumptions to Live Production RealityTurn type curves into a feedback system that gets smarter every monthType curves are a promise. The reservoir writes the truth. Closed‑loop management connects the two—continuously updating models withfresh production data and then adjusting operations so the field improves in real time.The closed‑loop […]
Real‑Time KPIs Beat Month‑Late Reports
Run the business on today’s truth: detect, decide, and repair before the loss piles upIf you wait 30–60 days to see what happened, you’re managing the past. High‑performing operators use daily trending and exception views to make small corrections fast—protecting uptime, margins, and safety. Three KPI lanes that matterReliability (MTBF/MTTR, exception counts): trend failures and […]
From Paper to Payable: What Changes When You Implement E‑Invoicing
How modern AP frees capital, shortens cycle time, and reduces exceptions AP backlogs don’t just frustrate accountants—they slow the field. Work pauses while invoices age. Vendors get nervous. Projects wait. E‑invoicing fixes the root cause: fragmented approvals and manual matching. What actually changesCycle time compresses. Touchless routing and digital approvals move invoices from days to […]
Integration as Advantage: Engineering → Accounting → Vendors (No Silos)
Integration as Advantage: Engineering → Accounting →Vendors (No Silos) Eliminate the “silo tax” and let the barrel tell one story from wellhead to revenueMost operators don’t suffer from a data shortage. They suffer from data drift—the same facts re‑typed in different systems by different teams until nothing quite matches. The cure isn’t another report; it’s […]
From Calculators to Cloud: Building the Automated Oil Company
From Calculators to Cloud: Building the Automated Oil Company Why visibility, repeatability, and trust now scale faster than headcountThere was a time when production ran on clipboards and end‑of‑monthemails. Teams did their best with partial truths and late reports. Then thetools caught up: secure cloud, low‑cost sensing, and integrated workflows thatfinally let operators see the […]
Small Oil and Gas Companies Need Data Management Strategies
Small Oil and Gas Companies Need Data Management Strategies Many small oil and gas companies (fewer than 500 wells) struggle along with little or no strategy to the manage the multiple points of data that come with operating oil and gas assets. Spreadsheets abound, and individual points of information come through scattered approaches. While this […]
Cut Costs & Increase Production (Creating a Well Life Cycle Framework)
Cut Costs & Increase Production (Creating a Well Life Cycle Framework)When Oil Prices are high ($90 and above), the activity conducted on wells is priority above efficiency, or overall effectiveness. But when prices come falling down as they have over the past year, there is a big push for cost-cutting measures and a scramble to […]
The Thing about Integration….
The Thing about Integration.... The downturn in oil and gas is the worst in 30 years, and oil companies are pressured to be more focused in every detail. Data collected from drilling and production has doubled in the last four years, and the internal struggle to bring all of this information together is a major […]
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Do You Want to Work for the Business — or Have the Business Work for You?
Do You Want to Work for the Business — or Have the Business Work for You? The Question That Reframes Growth, Burnout, and Control in Oil & GasAt some point in every founder’s journey, the business they built begins to feel like a cage.It starts with excitement — the first deal, the first hire, the […]
Vision vs. Execution: What Claude Thorp Tells Founders About the 5-Year Plan.
Vision vs. Execution: What Claude Thorp Tells Founders About the 5-Year Plan Why Your Strategy Doesn’t Need to Be Perfect — But It Does Need to ExistClaude Thorp has seen plenty of pitch decks.Most start the same way: vision statements, growth curves, capital projections. Big talk. Big numbers.But when Claude sits down with a founder […]
The Unseen Edge: Why Small Operators Win with the Right Partners
The Unseen Edge: Why Small Operators Win with the Right Partners How Strategic Partnerships Help Lean Oilfield Teams Outperform the GiantsIn oil and gas, scale often gets the headlines — but it’s leverage that wins the day.NTG and Claude Thorp as seen it up close: smaller operators, sometimes with fewer than 20 full-time employees, outperforming […]
The Energy Leader Who Never Wrote a Resume — Until He Had To!
The Energy Leader Who Never Wrote a Resume — Until He Had To! Legacy, Trust, and What It Really Means to Build a Career in Oil & GasThere was a time when trust moved faster than technology. When the next job came not through an application — but a phone call.Claude Thorp never needed a […]
If You Don’t Understand the Financials, You’re Already Behind.
If You Don’t Understand the Financials, You’re Already BehindWhy Technical Talent Needs to Learn the Language of MoneyWalk into any oil and gas operation and you’ll find engineers who can model a reservoir down to the last frac stage. You’ll find geologists who can read rock like a book. You’ll find production managers who know […]
How to Build an Oil & Gas Team from Scratch in 60 Days
How to Build an Oil & Gas Team from Scratch in 60 DaysWhat NTG and Claude Thorp Learned While Standing Up a 400-Well OperationWhen a private equity group handed NTG the keys to a 400-well acquisition, he didn’t get a six-month runway.He got a handshake… and a deadline.The operation had to be stood up in […]
You Can’t Run Full Speed Without Trust
Do You Want to Work for the Business — or Have the Business Work for You?The Question That Reframes Growth, Burnout, and Control in Oil & GasAt some point in every founder’s journey, the business they built begins to feel like a cage.It starts with excitement — the first deal, the first hire, the first […]