HUB ORM – Benefit #3: Spelling in the Field. Seriously!

Who would have thought that the spelling of vendor company names and products/services could turn into an actual benefit of using Leadstone’s HUB ORM plug-in for Oilfield HUB.  Let me tell you why this is valuable for any company to consider!

Referring to vendor names using the same spelling, means over time you can group all their service work over many wells in a single list.  The same goes for products.  If everyone referred to a 400 Barrel Tank in the same way, you could compare prices, service and response time over many wells.  The validation process where you approve invoices is made much easier when we all use the same language.

All oil and gas field reporting systems, whether a SaaS product like our Operations Report Manager tools or simple spreadsheets, rely on vendor company names and products being entered correctly to maintain some level of consistency between the field and head office operations, as well as, continuity between several different projects.  This is massively difficult to achieve when considering the number of different employees and contractors responsible for entering this data  for construction, drilling and completion projects.

Just when you think you’ve got the latest contractor up to speed with your reporting tools, you hire a new field supervisor on contract to oversee the drilling and/or completion of your next well.  And you’re back to square one because this individual is left to his own devices, experience and rolodex to enter this critical information in the field.  While he has the best intentions of entering the data correctly, he has no real reference point or easy means to get it entered correctly the first time.  He also really doesn’t understand the value of consistent data nor does this likely even cross his mind.

Safe to say, many of these field operations personnel, look at the daily reporting aspect of their job something akin to going to the dentist for a root canal.  They know they need to do it, and will suffer the consequences if they don’t.  They would much rather focus their attention and time on well site activities versus pounding the keyboard entering repetitive data that, in his mind, is of little value to his job, and the success of the well he has been hired to supervise.

While field supervisors will never get away from having to enter critical and accurate information for daily activities for things like drilling operations, mud usage and so on, there is a better way to rid him of having to enter administrative supplier and product data in HUB ORM.  Why, because HUB ORM leverages the power of the Oilfield HUB online business community database for real time access to vendor managed product and supplier information.  He doesn’t have to enter it, because it is already there in the Oilfield HUB database for him to select each time, and every time.  And he knows it’s correct and current, because his vendors are managing their own data in the HUB.  He just has to pull it up and select it.  It is so easy!

HUB ORM also has some nifty tools so this data can easily be copied from one project to another.   Set it up once, and you’re off to the races.  New wells and projects can be created in a matter of minutes.  If you need to add additional or different suppliers to the next project, they too can be easily selected from the vast datastore of vendor and product data in Oilfield HUB.  And if you don’t like how you supplier lists a product or service, in HUB ORM you’re able to create your own private product listings for use on current and all future projects.

So is spelling important.  Sure it is!

Let your field supervisor concentrate on what you’re paying him big bucks to do at the well site, and leave the spelling and routine administrative tasks to HUB ORM.

November 6, 2014

 

Bob Morrell Vice-President Operations Leadstone Group Inc.

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