Center for Upstream Benchmarking Excellence (CBE)
On its 25th Anniversary in
2007, Ziff Energy established a unique World "Center for Upstream Benchmarking
Excellence", to ensure that Ziff Energy studies are the best conceived
and executed for upstream operations.
The core group comprises a full time cadre of project managers & analysts,
mainly engineers with 5 to 15 years experience. It is supported by several
IT specialists, and a group of full-time senior operations engineers and
Associates, with 15 to 30+ years experience with a variety of leading operators
(Majors and Independents) in 60 countries around the world, and a leading
desktop publishing team.
The Ziff Energy Center for Benchmarking Excellence strives to be the top
upstream benchmarking group in the world through:
- considerable energy and technical experience of its staff, including specialty operations areas and drilling
- delivery of meaningful results with actionable recommendations
- consistency of methodology and quality of analysis
- detailed processes, with extensive internal and external quality control, and continuous improvement; received ISO 9001 certification
- proprietary electronic data gathering techniques, especially from ERP systems
- a comprehensive approach comparing “downtime” for specific asset types, to identify world class reliability performance
- innovation in developing 20+ "World Types" of oil & gas assets
- the number and geographic range of upstream benchmarking projects (170+ to date, far more than any other consulting firm)
- wide knowledge of operations in many countries (>60)
- the largest field operations database in the world (4,040+ fields from 36 countries); many fields have been tracked for a number of years
- rich content of its database contains costs, volumes, reliability and important field technical characteristics
- extensive 'Best Practices' for Operations
- Operations Excellence seminars for clients (latest, #4, held in Houston on October 13 & 14, 2010, attracted 50+ operators from 24 countries).