Empowering Oilfield Professionals
From Weeks to Hours: What Big Pharma Figured Out That Oil and Gas Still Hasn’t
A pharmaceutical plant solved their validation problem in the nineties. We're still stacking paper on desks.
The Hidden Cost of Disorganized Drilling
Why a spreadsheet that needs a full-time keeper is not actually a schedule
Don’t Outsource Your Thinking
Alex Economides on Why the AI Answer Is Usually the Average Answer
The Starting Line
How a Christian camp shirt and a Bible study became a forty-five year partnership and two software companies
Edge to Enterprise: Why the Best Decisions Happen at the Wellhead, Not the Home Office
By the time the data gets to headquarters, the moment is already gone.
When the Asset Isn’t Tired, the Eyes Are
The Thompson Field Story, and What Happens When You Actually Read the Log
Operating Where You Can’t Drive to the Lease
What Happens When Geography, Politics, or a Roadblock Stands Between You and Your Wells
Biting Off More Than You Could Chew
Why the Builders Worth Betting On Are the Ones Who Said Yes Before They Knew How
When the Walls Close In, God Is Still Building
Three Men Who Should Have Quit — and What Happened When They Didn’t
What Gets Passed Down
How Three Generations of Oilfield Wisdom Shaped One Career — and What It Means for the Next
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Fix Data at the Source
Why the fastest path to better decisions isn’t a smarter dashboard. It’s a simpler clipboard.
The Evolution of a Career: From the Hand to the Palm
The hardware changed completely. The thing that actually makes it work never did.
Carrots Move Iron. Sticks Don’t.
What the 45Q Credit Teaches About Why Industries Actually Change
The Intake Decides the Exhaust
Why Alex Economides Stopped Trying to Clean Up the Mess and Started Preventing It
The Trust Factor in Technology: Why Nobody Writes You Into the Deal Until You’ve Earned the Desk
In the oilfield, the sale that matters most is the one that happens before you ever show a product.
The Right Purity Is the One That Pays
Why Engineering for the Wrong Spec Is How Good Companies Burn Good Money
The Lumpy Start: What a Kid Wiring Gas Turbines Can Teach You About Where Leaders Come From
The careers that look the most impressive at the end almost never look impressive at the beginning.
Beyond the Drawing: How One Decision on a Shop Floor Built a Global Career
The moment Eric Fidler stopped following instructions and started understanding what he was building
The Inquisitive Engineer: When Fixing One Well Breaks the One Next to It
The most expensive problems in the oilfield don't live inside the equipment. They live in the space between it.
The Data Trust Gap: Why Reams of Information Still Can’t Replace a Stack of Paper
The problem in oil and gas has never been the amount of data. It's whether anyone believes it.
AI in Oil and Gas: Do More with Less, Not Less with Fewer
Why the companies getting AI right in the oilfield aren’t replacing their people. They’re finally giving them the tools to keep up.
16,000 Hours Back: Where Did the Time Go?
How one company stopped bleeding time into spreadsheets and started getting it back where it belongs.
How to Build an Oil & Gas Team from Scratch in 60 Days
What Happens When a Two-Person Company Buys 400 Wells and the Clock Starts Ticking
The Under‑Managed Well Opportunity (Gulf Coast Edition)
There Are Barrels Sitting in the Ground That Nobody Is Even Looking For
Two‑Track Growth: High‑Graded Prospects + Strategic Acquisitions
What Happens When Capital Returns and You’ve Been Stacking Opportunities for Six Years
Build a Play‑Specific LLM: Practical AI for Field Decisions
Why the Smartest AI in Oil and Gas Won’t Come from Silicon Valley
Measure EUR in Months, Not Years
The Fastest Way to Multiply Capital Is to Prove What Works Before the Budget Cycle Ends
Close the Loop: From Geology Assumptions to Live Production Reality
Every Well You Drill Is Built on a Guess. The Question Is How Fast You Replace That Guess with the Truth.
Real‑Time KPIs Beat Month‑Late Reports
You Can’t Fix What Happened Sixty Days Ago. But You Can Fix What’s Happening Right Now.
From Paper to Payable: What Changes When You Implement E‑Invoicing
An 80 to 90 Percent Reduction in Invoice Work Isn’t a Projection. It’s What Happens When the Vendor Chain Is Connected.
Integration as Advantage: Engineering → Accounting → Vendors (No Silos)
When Every Function in Your Company Speaks the Same Language, the Whole Operation Changes
From Calculators to Cloud: Building the Automated Oil Company
Forty-Two Years of Upstream Experience, and We’re Finally at the Point Where All of It Connects
Small Oil and Gas Companies Need Data Management Strategies
Many small oil and gas companies (fewer than 500 wells) struggle...
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.
Operator Streamlines, Unifies Data Management Using Avocet and OFM Software,
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Maximizing Production with Intelligent Gas Lift Optimization: A Success Story from an Asian NOC
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Do You Want to Work for the Business — or Have the Business Work for You?
The Question That Changes How Founders Think About Growth, Control, and What They’re Actually Building
Vision vs. Execution: What Outlasts the Founder
Why the Best Oil and Gas Companies Are Built to Run Without the Person Who Started Them
The Unseen Edge: Why Small Operators Win with the Right Partners
The Unseen Edge: Why Small […]
The Energy Leader Who Never Wrote a Resume — Until He Had To!
What Happens When Your Whole Career Runs on Trust, and Then the Rules Change
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