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The de Wardt Times
Monday, February 06, 2012
Lean Manufacturing in Oil and Gas Manufacturing
de Wardt and Company launched updated program for applying Lean Manufacturing in oil and gas supplier sector based on extensive experience in application over past 17 years. Program is scalable and adjustable; this is the only Lean Manufacturing program that incorporates oilfield expertise, extensive hands on experience and knowledge of the Toyota Production System
Well Manufacturing
John de Wardt presented overview of Well Manufacturing at Gulf Publishing Shale Conference in Houston August 24th. These insights from oilfield experience and Lean Manufacturing knowledge can be viewed at Well Manufacturing. It is the next step for Lean DrillingTM, a very successful proprietary program from de Wardt and Company.
Drilling Systems Automation
John de Wardt will present a paper titled "Drilling Systems Automation - a technology that is at a tipping point" at the International Petroleum Technology Conference in Bangkok, Thailand November 17th
Company Integration
de Wardt and Company coached integration of low volume job shop products into established organization through engineering development, materials classification and manufacturing workflow design.
Business Growth Opportunity
John de Wardt presented findings of an analysis of a board recommended growth opportunity to the board of a public company. This analysis and associated recommendations changed the perspective of the board. John has been invited to participate in further board meetings to provide industry insights.
Drilling Systems Automation
John de Wardt, in the role of Program Chairman for SPE Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section, has organized a Drilling Systems Automation panel session at SPE ATCE in Denver, Oct 30th; a series of exciting automation perspectives presentations at IADC / SPE Drilling conference San Diego March 5th 2012 and an SPE workshop on "Step Change in Drilling Systems Automation" mid 2012 in the USA.
Updated newsletter
John de Wardt has launched an updated delivery mechanism for his newsletter - simply request to be on this list at this site to receive regular updates by e-mail. Topics in first newsletter were "Business Process Distinction is Critical to Applying Correct Drivers for Operations Performance" and " Engineering Variances - How they affect Manufacturing and Construction".
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Testimonials
...substantial improvement in product delivery and resultant reductions of inventory. The catalyst for these new processes was the Strategic Planning workshop lead by John de Wardt.
His recent corporate strategy development work resulted in a set of strategic initiatives that are already beginning to deliver value only a few months into their implementation.
His insight into the oil and gas industry is invaluable, and his knowledge of best practice in manufacturing has added measurable value to several of our investments.
John’s emphasis on rigorous planning has resulted in tangible and measurable results in the area of drilling and completing wells. A true step-change.
John de Wardt provided us with a straight forward, hard driving, no nonsense approach to strategic planning that is still helping us define and achieve new business goals.
We have seen significant improvements in results and have adopted the principles in our planning and operations efforts.
Case Studies
Addax Achieves 77% Drop in Project NPT
Performance was poor as non productive time in the operation was over 30%. John de Wardt defined a project delivery process and got it to be accepted by all in the department. This process requires the application of a number of steps at all stages of the planning and execution processes with appropriates gates that check and sanction each step before the next stage is carried out. The application of this process had a dramatic impact on performance as non productive time dropped to about 11% the following year. By the second year non productive time was about 7% - a total reduction of non-productive time of 23%.
Mad Dog GOM Well sets the bench mark.
BP Mad Dog's first Deep Water Development well (4,600 ft water depth) in its pre - SPAR drilling phase achieved a planned TD of 21,330' using Diamond's Ocean Confidence 5th generation semi submersible rig in 21 days per 10,000 ft. The team exceeded the best of best performance in all well segments, except one, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. This S shaped well drilled through a thick salt section to faulting and a pressure regression below. BP utilized DE WARDT AND COMPANY to take them through the key process steps to achieve the organization alignment, focus on performance, plan enhancement and other attributes they were looking for.