Growing Canadian Pipelines Face Increasing Records Management Scrutiny
Sometimes it seems that Canada’s extensive network of pipelines is surpassed only by the regulations that govern it. Pipelines are being proposed to join the thousands of kilometers operating today to...
View ArticleDo you DIY?
I’m a big fan of doing things myself. Love that DIY network! I’ve installed my own laminate flooring and taken down a wall to expand my family room. I make my own soups from scratch and hand knit kid’s...
View ArticleUnconventional Drilling Drives Need for Improved Oil and Gas Records Management
As unconventional drilling increases in North America, so does a myriad of concerns having to do with critical title issues and legacy oil and gas records. Unconventional Drilling Causes Unconventional...
View ArticleCan Better Pipeline Management Influence Financial Performance?
In the first week of December, 2013, “tiny pipeline cracks” were reported in the massive Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan, operated by Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A), the largest oil and natural gas...
View ArticleThe Pipeline to RIM Outsourcing: How Oil and Gas Win by Outsourcing
Regulators continue to push pipeline records towards perfection, and a great Records Information Management (RIM) program is an important part of the equation. Two thousand and eleven was a turning...
View ArticleAt Oil and Gas Companies, Information Flows, Pools and Occasionally Gets Lost
Oil and gas are similar to information. Information flows, gets stored for later use, and profits are affected by its loss. And, oil and gas companies know how to move their products; they can track it...
View ArticleRIM and IT: A Two-Part Harmony for Oil and Gas
Voices singing in harmony create a richer, fuller sound, but when they’re out of synch the result can be disastrous. The same is true for your oil and gas records management program if RIM and IT don’t...
View ArticleReaching the Top: Making your Records Management Case to the C-Suite
Your top executives can influence behavior throughout the ranks—and, of course, they also inform your budget. So it makes great sense to get them on board with your records management plan. A key step...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act...
From activists, regulators and energy executives to interested individuals, pipeline safety is on everyone’s mind these days. Pipelines run across North America in just about every state and province,...
View ArticleDisaster Planning: Essential in the Oil & Gas Industry
Many factors contribute to making disaster an ever-present threat to companies in the oil and gas industry. Often, terrain and environment present heightened risks, as do the specialized equipment and...
View ArticleOil and Gas Records and Retiring Engineers
For the past several years, records and information management professionals in the oil and gas industry have wrestled with a significant issue: How to capture legacy subsurface and pipeline records...
View ArticleLet It Go: Parting With Legacy Oil and Gas Records
This year’s Oscar-winning song serves as some terrific advice: Oil and gas companies may want (and need) to preserve and mine some of their valuable legacy records and destroy what they no longer need....
View ArticleConsistent Compliance Practices in the Oil & Gas Industry
Consistent compliance practices in records and information management (RIM) are not easy for any organization to achieve. For oil and gas companies that conduct business across multiple states or...
View ArticleGeological Core Storage Facility Opening Soon
I’m excited to share that on April 1st, Iron Mountain will open its doors to our first geological core storage facility in the U.S., located in Houston, Texas. We have similar facilities in Canada, the...
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