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For standard operations, the right mindset is to always be prepared to invite inspection, not fear it, said David Burnham, President and CEO of CAVU International, at the 2019 IADC Drilling Onshore Conference & Exhibition in Houston on 16 May. He spoke about the tools he and other former military leaders use in coaching best practices to team leaders. Setting and communicating to a standard in all operations allows for greater team situational awareness, debrief and review. In this video, Mr Burnham speaks about the mentality of leaders to transmit leadership to crews with high turnover.

The right metrics can empower and provide accountability to teams striving to reach certain performance goals. Chesapeake Energy’s Fast Tool Box gives employees access to an integrated set of real-time drilling and business metrics, setting the company culture around this new, high-performance tool...

Royal Dutch Shell, through its subsidiary Shell Offshore (Shell), announced that production has started at the Shell-operated Appomattox floating production system months ahead of schedule, opening a new frontier in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico...

Underbalanced coiled-tubing drilling (UBCTD) offers operators a way to capture significant extra value out of known reserves and makes maximizing returns from declining fields a viable proposition...