Energy Solutions’ Global Upstream Operations Benchmark will help you to identify and capture your highest value opportunities. Our extensive proprietary database includes more than 25 years of operations performance insights across a broad set of global upstream oil and gas assets, covering operating expenditures, production efficiency, deferments, safety & emissions performance.
Our Operational Efficiency capability combines industry expertise with performance benchmarks, diagnostic tools, and analytics, helping energy companies drive portfolio and business improvement.
Global Upstream Operations Benchmark
Improve safety, operations, cost, and emissions performance
How we help clients
Energy companies
Assessing and improving economic and operational performance by leveraging proprietary benchmarks and diagnostics
Joint venture partners
Providing increased operational performance transparency in partner-operated ventures and identifying underlying improvement levers
Investors
Providing independent diligence and de-risking of energy portfolio or asset processes
Governments and regulatory organizations
Delivering basin-level, regional, and global trends in cost, efficiency, safety, and environmental performance while enabling best-practice sharing
Our Capabilities
Performance benchmarking
Portfolio of global energy performance benchmarks across the entire value chain
Rapid diagnostics
Performance diagnostics enabling rapid assessment of portfolio or asset performance combining proprietary data and models with deep technical and commercial expertise
Performance management
Best-practice approach to energy performance management, combining performance models, cascading scorecards and key performance indicators, digital dashboards, and implementation tools
our benchmarks and diagnostics
Operations
Global oil and gas operations benchmark for onshore and offshore assets, covering operating expenditures, production efficiency, deferments, reliability, and HSSE
Emissions and Energy Efficiency
Baseline and target-setting greenhouse gas emissions performance at the portfolio and asset levels, drawing on a global proprietary data set covering over 50MT emissions from more than 150 assets
Cost Optimization Diagnostic
Rapid unit cost diagnostic combining our proprietary operations and cost models with industry and cost management expertise
Organization
Workforce benchmark contrasting organizational models, structure, and size of offshore, field and support organizations
Wells and Reservoir
Well intervention and recovery factor benchmark, including volume gains and protection, cost of delivery, and efficiency
Maintenance and Reliability
Cost, process efficiency, and effectiveness benchmark covering maintenance activity levels and equipment reliability for over 11 million hours of maintenance
Logistics
Offshore and onshore logistics, cost, and efficiency benchmark spanning aviation, marine, fleet, and supply base
Drilling and Completions
Well construction and drilling performance benchmark across efficiency metrics, including well construction speed and cost, nonproductive time (NPT), and invisible lost time (ILT)
Unconventionals
Benchmark of operating and capital expenditures covering drilling performance, completion intensity, production uptime, water management, and organization resource planning for unconventional oil and gas operations
LNG Operations
HSSE, production performance, operating and capital expenditures, and organization benchmark for liquefied natural gas (LNG) assets
Gas Plants and Processing
HSSE, production efficiency, operating expenditures, and maintenance benchmarks for gas plants and processing
Decommissioning
Benchmark of oil and gas asset decommissioning and plug and abandonment (P&A) for wells and topsides, incorporating normalized well cost and execution efficiency
Examples of our work
Our benchmarks have a global reach and broad peer set
Global production operations for a major oil and gas company
>$3 billion production uplift and cost optimization
Identified an opportunity that could deliver more than 250kboe/d to the global portfolio of a major upstream operator through our global production operations benchmark.
Assessed production uptime and deferments, operating cost, safety, and energy efficiency for all operated installations.
Deepwater operations portfolio for global oil and gas operator
>$1.2 billion improvement potential identified
Targeted value through a global operations benchmark focused on unit cost optimization and production potential for entire deepwater portfolio.
Assembled more than 100 recommendations and improvement levers at the asset level that were incorporated into the operator’s improvement program.
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