TMI / OIL AND GAS
TMI works with niche oil and gas operators to capture field knowledge, connect operational systems, clarify technical value, and build stronger paths to growth.
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WHY THIS IS EXPENSIVE
Energy service companies sell expertise that took decades to build and record it on a ticket written on a tailgate. The job gets done properly; what gets captured is a signature, a few line items and whatever the hand on site thought to write down.
That gap shows up twice. It shows up in the thirty to sixty days between work performed and money collected, and it shows up when a customer, an auditor or a buyer asks a question the company can only answer by phoning the person who was there.
A field ticket that is written on site, driven to an office, re-keyed, queried by the customer and corrected is not a billing problem. It is a capture problem, and every day it adds is working capital the company is lending its customers for free.
What separates a good operator from an average one is accumulated judgment about this formation, this tool, this customer. Almost none of it is written down, almost all of it is held by people with thirty years in, and a fair number of them are close to leaving.
JSAs, inspections, certifications and training records exist, scattered across trucks, binders and email. When a customer audit or an incident requires producing them quickly, the cost of not being able to is out of all proportion to the cost of fixing it.
None of this is about drilling, pumping or any part of the technical work. It is about whether the company can prove, bill and transfer what it already does well.
WHERE COMPANIES GET HELD BACK
What recurs across service companies in this market, from a dozen hands to several hundred.
WHAT WE LEARN ON SITE
WHAT TMI CAN BUILD
Field reality and office reality are rarely the same document. An operator inside the company →
THE $5,000 AUDIT, READ THROUGH THIS TRADE
The audit is the same instrument in every company: ten areas, ten points each, scored against a written rubric. What changes is what we go looking for. In an energy services company it looks like this.
What the audit is, and what you get → Put a number on two of these yourself first →
THE FIRST BUILD
Job detail, hours, equipment, consumables and signature captured on site, offline, by someone who is not going to fight the interface, and arriving in the office the same day.
Offline is not a feature here, it is the requirement — anything that assumes signal on a lease road will be abandoned in a fortnight. Done properly this is usually the single largest change to working capital available to a service company.
Procedures, tool selection, failure modes and the customer-specific judgment that separates your people from a competitor's, captured from the hands who hold it.
This is the work owners most often delay and most often regret delaying. It is far cheaper while the person is still employed and running jobs than it is to reconstruct from records after they have gone.
What is out, where, with whom, on what, and what has been performed but not yet invoiced — in one place rather than across a whiteboard, a phone and somebody's memory.
The dispatch gain is immediate and obvious. The less obvious one is that unbilled work becomes visible, and in most companies that number is considerably larger than anyone in the office expects.
THE TEST
Without making a call, in under a minute:
The last one is the question this market should be asking loudest, and asks least.
HOW WE START
Technical judgment, customer-specific procedure and the real state of the field usually live in a handful of long-serving people. We start by finding out which ones, and what the company loses when they are not reachable.
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No. The expertise is the company and it stays with the people who built it. TMI learns from them and builds the systems, records and visibility around what they know.
By assuming that is true until proven otherwise. Anything built for the field has to work offline, take less time than paper, and give the person filling it in something back. If it fails any of those, it will be worked around, and we would rather find that out in design than after launch.
Only if the audit says so. Plenty of companies have a perfectly good ticketing product that is not connected to accounting, which is a different and much cheaper problem than a replacement.
It is built for service companies and niche operators rather than for majors. If the company has crews, equipment, customers and more than one system, the constraints described on this page will be familiar.
As records that have to be retrievable rather than merely complete. TMI does not write your safety programme or act as a compliance advisor; we make sure the documents your programme produces can be produced on demand.
It changes the timing more than the content. The quiet periods are when knowledge capture and systems work actually get done, and the busy periods are when not having done it costs the most.
You do. The roadmap is yours outright after the audit, and anything built afterwards is written so another firm could maintain it. TMI does not take equity in the companies it works with.
No. Private client information never moves between clients. If you want a mutual NDA in place before we speak, say so when you book and we will sign one first.
The audit is $5,000, in person or by phone, and you leave with the Intelligent Company Roadmap. The call you book from this page is the free Fit Call before it, which carries no obligation to buy anything.
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