Posted July 23, 2015
Holy Batman! As a Producer or EPC you are constantly tasked with providing daily drilling and other project reporting to let all constituents, including the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) folks, know what’s happening out in the field on each of your leases…right? You have to make sure the Authority…
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Posted June 25, 2015
Communication Breakdown, It’s Always The Same. There it is. Have you heard this before? Of course you have. We hear it all the time, mostly from our spouse, when we just aren’t telling her how we feel about Bruce Jenner becoming a woman or how one of the Kardashians…
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Posted May 21, 2015
It’s Not A Roll Of The Dice Any Longer! My role at Leadstone Group is to help energy services companies grow their business. With the current downturn in the oil industry, service companies are concerned now more than ever with controlling costs and increasing their market share. When it…
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Posted May 21, 2015
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…” Do you think buyers at operating companies sit around feeling bamboozled, because they don’t know what suppliers to use for an upcoming drilling or completions project? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Suppliers are probably the least of their worries considering there are over 15,000 energy…
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Posted April 21, 2015
The Right Ingredients Make A Big Difference When we are calling on new potential customers to join the Oilfield HUB online business community, we have a bit of an uphill battle to fight and more than a few myths to break. It doesn’t take long to realize many, if…
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Posted April 21, 2015
The Leader Of The Pack! It seems to be in our DNA. The reluctance to take the first step, to be the one to jump before anyone else, in essence, to be the leader. We exalt leaders because they are different. They stand out because they are willing to…
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Posted February 19, 2015
So what’s SCM? Supply Chain Manager, or better known to Operators and EPCs as the place they go in Oilfield HUB to initiate sourcing inquiries, dispatch bid requests and award authorized orders. The buck stops here! SCM is where producers, and their contracted EPCs, as well as the suppliers (aka…
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Posted January 21, 2015
It is vital for our energy services clients to understand how Operators and EPCs are using the HUB so each of them can leverage and gain the greatest possible advantage as these companies are managing their preferred vendors, projects and making their procurement decisions. In this 3rd post in this series…
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Posted December 15, 2014
Trials of Sourcing a Drilling Rig – Now! Obviously, a drilling rig is the quintessential starting point to begin to extract oil or gas from the earth, but how does this process really work from a selection standpoint? How do you know which company to choose to get the job…
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Posted December 12, 2014
When we are talking to energy services companies, sometimes we get asked which Operators and EPCs we are working with in Oilfield HUB. This subject just came up again in our sales wrap-up meeting we have every Friday afternoon to close out our week. Occasionally, leads we are nurturing ask…
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