... of manpower, equipment, and other resources required to bring new production onstream. This paper reviews project execution planning and organization and project management policies and practices. Competitive bidding, preference for fixed-price contracts, ethical conduct, and fairness doctrine are cited...

...O.R. Harrison During the last ten years the use of computers has allowed high-quality instantaneous data gathering, and this, combined with the better use of manpower, has achieved in some instances the highest possible level of production, has provided a means for more efficient operation, and has...

... 1969 1 6 1969 1969. Society of Petroleum Engineers strategic planning and management Engineering drilling time Specialist drilling operation assistance communication application Engineer manpower Upstream Oil & Gas Task Force Engineering Drilling Cost evaluation...

... into three major categories - money, materials, and manpower. Petroleum engineers spend a large percentage of their professional time making the most of the first two. Employment and effective use of the third asset, manpower, is the primary concern not only of many company executives, but also of every...

... sufficient numbers of qualified petroleum engineers, outlines a plan for re-establishing the petroleum industry's competitive bargaining position in the engineering manpower market. The plan requires imagination and forceful action, but above all it calls for a most basic and much desired element-full...

...Harry W. Muni; Kenneth Dunn Summary An application of basic principles of industrial engineering to oilfield producing operations is described using a case study of Mobil Oil Co.'s San Ardo field in California. The objective of the study was to evaluate manpower utilization based on present methods...