Oil and Gas Engineering Software and Services
Well Lifecycle Management Framework
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Overview
Upstream Professionals Inc. (UPI) is an oil and gas consulting company that provides upstream optimization services using a special "Framework” Methodology, oil and gas engineering software for example, to maximize operations efficiencies. The focus is to assess your Well Life Cycle Management (WLM) environment to identify processes that need improvement, evaluate your current IT infrastructure for completeness and effectiveness, and to prioritize key areas that need enhancement & performance improvement.
The Upstream Professionals WLM Framework is leveraged within operations to drive out inefficiencies & waste, to streamline operation processes, & provide immediate, accurate information for better decision-making. Optimization is achieved through business & IT assessments to align multi-disciplined teams, business processes and information flows resulting in an integrated platform conducive for collaboration amongst team members and applying best practices to maximize your investments in operations. The resulting environment becomes a trusted foundation for measuring performance achievements and quickly drilling down to problematic areas.
WLM Framework Deliverables
Upstream Operations Business Assessment
• Clearly understand your Objectives & Strategies
• Identify processes that need improvement
• Leverage Documenter to identify process flow
• Identify top KPIs and critical success factors
• Identify Reporting requirements to Support the Vision
• Identify and prioritize key areas for enhancement
• Determine requirements for Business Performance Achievements analysis
• Business Impact Analysis of proposed solutions
• Software implementation/development
• Skills and Knowledge Training
IT Environment Technical Assessment
• Evaluation of your current IT environment and goals while leveraging your existing systems
• Information & workflow completeness and efficiencies
• Ability to provide and manage immediate, accurate Well Life Cycle data
• Collaborative environment ability to support Multi-Disciplined Teams of skilled resources
• Missing functionalities – identify gaps
• Data Management requirements
• Identify the software platforms and interfaces requirements
We Differentiate Ourselves By:
• The knowledge, skills and years of experience of our people including; Petroleum Engineers, Senior IT Consultants, and Technicians
• Established record in the oil & gas industry understanding and transforming business processes, optimizing IT capabilities with operational requirements, & knowledge & skills transfer
• ROI and Goal oriented to enhance Management’s understanding of their Assets
Starts with a Vision
The success of the “Framework” implementation will depend on the “Visionary Leadership” of your organization. It is imperative to have Executive sponsorship at an early stage as business processes and responsibilities will change, but this new “enablement” will significantly increase the productivity of your people and resources.
UPI offers high impact services & solutions to oil and gas companies to optimize operations efficiencies and improve revenues & profits as a result. The UPI Framework approach improves collaboration and communications within an organization around operations, improves the visibility of key information elements to all departments, and provides expertise in company systems management, and internal / external reporting required.
The UPI Framework Methodology is designed to assess your company’s environment ability to efficiently and effectively manage and maximize your investments in your people, processes and technology. This approach is supported by additional UPI gas engineering software, oil products, and services designed to optimize your operational environment.
To continuously monitor, analyze and control performance achievements, UPI will leverage our WLM Framework methodology and oil and gas engineering software application to assess the gaps in your environments and customize solutions, while leveraging your existing
How It Works
The focus of our efforts is to understand your current business and IT environements, determine the gaps, and recommend solutions with the highest impact. The goal is to leverage your current systems and add value by streamlining your workflows, and adding high-impact functionality and clarity to your existing environment. The Framework has the flexibility to position your company to
adapt to change through future acquisitions and aggressive drilling.
The WLM Framework oil and gas engineering software solution consists of various components including: our proprietary BI data model, linked with PPDM to provide analytical and predictive analysis and reporting capabilities and drives dashboards, scorecards and other BI tools that support business performance management achievements.
The Framework application also leverages the UPI Documenter software application which provides documented process charting, including sub processes, resource assignments, and primary sources of key information elements.
The WLM Framework application provides a solid foundation for establishing benchmarks for operations and financial performance achievements and drives ancillary business performance monitoring, management and analysis and reporting capabilities. Some examples of these supportive capabilities include; dashboards, scorecards, exception based reporting and other high-impact performance tools.
To address the Big Crew Change challenge that confronts the whole industry, UP will design, develop and deliver training sessions to further develop and maintain a Professional level of operational systems, skills and knowledge.