Top Oil Companies Increasingly Defined by Shale Innovation

U.S. shale plays may be creating a novel way to measure the new breed of top oil companies. The standard yardstick of worldwide barrels produced per day still evokes names of familiar global players such as Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP, as well as state-owned entities like Saudi Aramco and Petrobras. When gauged by innovation …

Surviving the Promises of Technology

Over the years, technology has played a heralded role in the oil and gas industry. It still does today. Pick up any trade publication and chances are you’ll find at least one well-worn tribute to its importance. Yet, the fixation on hi-tech hasn’t been without problems. It’s even been value-destroying at times. We’d argue the industry’s intractable struggle …

Integrated Oilfield Suppliers Plot Divergent Paths

As the oil and gas sector stirs with a hopeful sense of purpose, several of its largest and most influential suppliers are pursuing distinctly different strategies. It’s not just about which products and services will propel the industry forward. To some extent, the balance of power between providers and customers is at stake. On one end of the …

Top 10 Highest Rated Industry Suppliers

EnergyPoint publishes its independent customer satisfaction ratings and rankings of oilfield suppliers on an annual basis. These announcements reflect the best and most current information available for tracking the performance of oil and gas industry suppliers. While each year offers its own surprises as companies move up and down ranks, there is a small group …

FMC Technologies An Oil Equipment Company To Watch

FMC Technologies, a leading oil equipment company, consistently outranks its peer-group average in EnergyPoint Research’s customer satisfaction surveys. The company has grown into a dominant player over the years partly on the strength of a vigorous research and development program that began bearing fruit in time for today’s exuberant revival of subsea drilling and development. …

Schlumberger Adjusts Its Aim

As a capable giant in the oilfield, Schlumberger’s tentacles of services, manpower and ingenuity stretch into just about every major facet of exploration and production. Yet from the purview of customer satisfaction, the company can, in certain ways, appear surprisingly unremarkable.