Searching for data on the website has just become a lot quicker and easier.

In response to demand from participants the website has now been improved to allow data searching across all years from 2000 onwards in one simple action.

This means that you can, for instance, search for ‘wells drilled in Nigeria with a land rig to Jurassic reservoirs and with a maximum angle between 45 and 60 degrees’ and view all wells that fit into this category drilled between 2000 and 2005. You can then also download this data in multi-year format.

At present the pre-2000 data continues to be available for viewing just in Excel format but this may be incorporated progressively into the searchable format if requested by participants at the annual meetings in November.

All entry to the Rushmore Reviews websites is now via our main marketing site at www.RushmoreReviews.com, see image below.

If you have been used to going directly to the data site you will find yourself at an unfamiliar ‘home page’ but you just need to go to the Login icon and enter your user name and password to access data.

We hope you will find this a significant improvement and welcome feedback and any ideas you may have for further enhancements to the website.

There are just 20 days left for you to make sure that your views are heard at the annual meetings of the participants of the Reviews on 10th and 11th November.

This is because all agenda items must be posted on our website forum by 24th October. Any item not posted by that date will not be considered at the meeting. This is to make sure that participants who cannot attend in person get the opportunity to register their views on the forum before the meetings take place.

Already posted on the forum are proposals concerning;

• providing your anonymised data to participants who cannot access your full data because they did not participate for the year in question
• setting up a well abandonment study
• what to do when a government prohibits provision of data
• restricting data access rights to Corporate Head Offices
• including riser and BOP set up times in ‘dry hole days’
• collecting dog-leg severity data
• … and many others.

If you have anything that you would like to see discussed concerning the Reviews please do go to the forum and post your item, or email me and I will post it on your behalf.

To access the forum please go to www.RushmoreReviews.com and log in using your user name and password and you will see the forum immediately after the confidentiality page.

The fourth annual ‘Best Practices in Benchmarking Drilling and Completions’ meeting will be held in the Marcliffe at Pitfodels Hotel, Aberdeen on the 8th and 9th November.

The keynote speaker, Dr. Robert Camp (pictured left), who has been dubbed 'the father of benchmarking' will help us establish what the drilling and completions business might learn from 20 years of performance improvement through benchmarking in the manufacturing and non-oil service sectors.

The annual meeting of the participants of the Drilling Performance Review will then be held on the 10th and the annual meeting of the participants of the Completions Performance Review and Completions Efficiency Review on the 11th at the same venue.

There will be a dinner held at Drumtochty Castle on the evening of the 9th and a champagne reception at the new offices of Rushmore Reviews on the evening of Monday 7th November.

All of these events are free of charge to participants of the Rushmore Reviews, please email Sarah for further details.