Only at www.RushmoreReviews.com can you access this data provided directly by super-majors such as BP, Chevron, Eni, Shell and Total to the small independents such as Afren, Endeavour, Fairfield, Noreco and Sasol.

You can also access key comparative data on wells constructed by Addax, Anadarko, BG, BHP, Cairn, Centrica, ConocoPhillips, Det Norske, Devon, DONG, E.ON, EOG, GDF, Geodynamics, GSPC, Hess, Lundin, Maersk, Marathon, Mariner, Murphy, Nexen, Noble, Occidental, Petronas, Pioneer, Premier, Repsol-YPF, Roc Oil, Rocksource, Statoil, Talisman, TAQA, Tullow, Wintershall, Woodside and over 30 other Operators. For a full list please click here.

Over 180 Operating Companies in over 80 countries have provided data that you can now use for your planning, budgeting, target setting and performance management agenda.

This data includes all the key time metrics, it includes cost data, it includes the technical information you would want to know including a time-depth chart for every well, a detailed schematic diagram for every completion and a well status drawing for every permanent abandonment.

No other provider can offer you a global dataset which has been;

• Designed by Operators for Operators
• Provided directly by the Operator (not via a government or third party) who drilled / completed the well using standard metrics and definitions
• Then independently and extensively quality controlled with any discrepancies found being subsequently corrected by the Operator
• Then published on a website giving you instant access to around 35,000 wells and 8,000 completions
• With website analysis tools and charts as designed by Operators to make the usage of the data as quick and easy as possible
• With a well time estimation tool (REDD) derived using statistical analysis of thousands of wells
• And a truly global drilling difficultly index (RDI) allowing for normalisation of drilling performance and effective comparison of wells of similar difficulty

Please click here to view a video demonstration of the data and website. If you have a slow connection the video may not play smoothly, in which case please click "pause", wait a minute or so, then click "play" again and it should be fine.

A Happy New Year to you from all of us at the Rushmore Reviews.

I’m currently busy making arrangements to visit with current and potential participants in Houston in a few weeks’ time. Accompanied by Peter and Sean, our Senior Sales Associate, we are looking to expand our presence in the deepwater GOM as well as in the Americas region more widely.

I expect to be able to announce some significant additional deepwater GOM completions participants very soon. With an average spend of 50m USD and a P90 spend of 75m USD the potential value in high quality offset deepwater GOM completions data is very clear.

We are exhibiting at the New Orleans IADC/SPE Drilling Conference 2nd to 4th February (stand 426) and would be delighted to see you there. The following week we are running a DPR and CPR data input training course in Houston, courtesy of Murphy Oil who are hosting the event at their premises. If you would like us to visit with you whilst we are in New Orleans or Houston please do let me know.

In March we are travelling to Kuala Lumpur and Perth. We shall be exhibiting at the Australasian Oil and Gas Conference in Perth on 24th – 26th March. We would be delighted to see you at the conference or, if you would like us to visit with you, please do let me know.

It was my sad duty at the end of last year to say farewell to Beryl (pictured), our Senior Sales and Marketing Associate. We wish her the very best in her retirement. Is your company drilling into highly depleted, unconsolidated sandstone reservoirs with sealing faults? If so, please let us know, as a participant has asked for our help in identifying relevant offset data. We are continuing to expand and are looking to recruit a Data Operations Manager, IT staff and another Data Analyst.

If you were unable to attend, please do look at the presentations within the minutes as hyperlinked below. They provide some fascinating insights into developments being made by participants.

You can also access all the minutes and presentations, including those from previous years, from the "useful downloads" tab on the website Main Menu page. There are a number of exciting developments in the pipeline which should make 2010 a landmark year for the Rushmore Reviews. I'll be sure to keep you posted. Finally, a gentle reminder that the deadline for submission of all 2009 data is 15th February. Helen Rushmore

Centrica, who recently acquired Venture, are now providing data on all their UK Completions run to date in order to obtain the access to the completions data previously enjoyed by Venture.

ConocoPhillips have renewed their global participation in the Drilling Review from 2010 to 2014 which is expected to provide data from Australia, China, deepwater GOM, Indonesia, Norway, Malaysia, Vietnam and other countries. Conoco were a founder member in 1989 and Phillips first participated in 1994. "ConocoPhillips is committed to achieving and delivering top quartile drilling performance globally. Participation in the Drilling Performance Review has provided our technical staff with the high quality offset drilling data necessary to assist in well design and planning and establishing meaningful and challenging performance targets." Bruce G. Kitchel, P.E., Wells Performance Coordinator

Endeavour UK have renewed their participation in the Drilling Review from 2010 to 2012. "As a new and smaller Operator, the Reviews provide us with access to a dataset that would otherwise be difficult, costly and time consuming to obtain. This helps us to compete with the large Operators that have a lot of internal historical and partner data. It allows us to make plans and decisions based on a large volume of relevant and high quality data. The Rushmore website has developed hugely since I first used it many years ago and I am very pleased to renew our participation for the next three years" Steve Redgrave, Director Drilling Operations

We have now published our first four geothermal wells as a result of the first-time participation by Geodynamics Australia in the Drilling Review for 2000 to 2010.  

We are pleased to welcome another first-time participant, GSPC (Gujarat State Petroleum Corp) of India into the Drilling Review for 2004 to 2009.

Mariner have extended their deepwater GOM participation in the Drilling Review to 2010.

Sasol have contracted for global participation in the Drilling Review from 2008 to 2010. This will allow participants to access all Sasol’s global data from 2000 onwards including wells in Gabon and Mozambique.

We are pleased to welcome another new participant, Talisman Indonesia who have contracted in the Drilling Review from 2000 to 2009.

An interesting theme arose from the sessions on using Reviews data for well time estimating. A number of participants rely simply on Rushmore data to produce early well time estimates and then later do detailed engineering work using risk models and some also use probabilistic techniques. The output of these detailed exercises is then 'sense checked' against Rushmore data.

What has been surprising is that the initial estimates, based solely on benchmark data, have often been closer to the actual time than the 'engineered' estimates. In fact, one Operator reported that this had been the case for their portfolio of wells for the last four years in a row. It was suggested that because 'real life' data contains all risks it is likely to be more accurately predictive than any 'model' set of risks that could be applied to the well activities.

A lively workshop session ensued from Peter’s proposal that a campaign be started to stop using NPT as a measure of performance. While the attendees at the SPE forum in Cadiz earlier this year were all persuaded of the merits of this it is fair to say that, in the time available, there were still some unconvinced at this event. More details in the minutes of this meeting.

As well as these meetings we held a Scottish dinner with traditional fiddling and song at Drumtochty Castle. For some photographs of these events please click here.

Although an optional session is provided on website navigation and charting facilities this is not a course on how to analyse the data, but simply on how best to enter it into the data input workbooks.

IDS, Landmark and Peloton advertise automated Rushmore Reviews data extraction routines for DataNet, OpenWells and WellView. The use of these routines will reduce the time required for data submission.