and gas industry founded 1993 headquarters aberdeen scotland area served global key people peter rushmore managing director helen rushmore sales and marketing director products shale performance review spr drilling performance review dpr completions performance review cpr abandonment performance review apr interventions performance review ipr drilling difficulty index rdi well time estimation tool redd number of employees 25 website rushmorereviews.com an image from the 25th anniversary meetings held in aberdeen in november 2013 . the rushmore reviews is a company based in aberdeen scotland that collects analyzes and publishes offset well data for participating operators in the oil industry . the content of their extensive global database is exclusively available to review participants who are then able to use the shared data to benchmark their own performance against others in the industry . contents 1 history 2 growth of the reviews 3 ihs acquisition 4 participant website tools 5 countries included in the reviews 6 a selection of participating operators 7 external links 8 references history edit the reviews began in 1993 when a group of oil operators led by bp outsourced the production of the data collection and analysis project they had been conducting since 1988 to the rushmore reviews . 1 this was a joint venture between two independent companies rushmore associates ltd founded by peter and helen rushmore and the sigma consultancy founded by tim stapenhurst and wife pat . they shared offices and provided data to participants through a web based portal . the sigma consultancy was purchased from the stapenhursts on april 30 2010 by peter and helen rushmore leaving the rushmores the sole owners of the rushmore reviews . participants meet annually in aberdeen scotland to discuss and agree any changes to the data being shared and the rules under which it is shared . the 2013 annual meetings hosted by both helen and peter rushmore marked 25 years of the reviews and 20 years since the outsourcing to rushmore reviews . 2 growth of the reviews edit initially in 1989 the reviews consisted of twelve operators who agreed a process for sharing offset drilling data for the first time . a standard set of metrics and definitions were employed by all twelve and quality control was added to ensure the data was sufficiently reliable to be of real use to them . this became known as the drilling performance review dpr . 3 until 1993 the dpr was managed by the operators themselves . however this was not a core activity for them and it was agreed that the dpr would be outsourced to rushmore reviews who worked to increase the scope of the reviews as requested by the existing participants . eventually the dpr grew to hold data for more than 50 000 wells . 4 the participants meet annually in aberdeen to consider the reviews and discuss agree upon any revisions they require for the following year ensuring that the reviews continue to evolve and grow . 1994 saw the establishment of the completions performance review cpr now containing information and schematics on the completion of over 12 000 offset wells in over 60 countries . following an increasing number of well abandonments 5 demand grew among participants for the abandonment performance review apr which began in 2008 . the apr contains data for over 300 permanently abandoned wells mainly situated in europe . in 2011 the interventions performance review ipr was initiated after new products and services available in the industry 6 7 increased the productivity of interventions for some participants of other reviews yet there was no performance benchmarking available in this area . the shale performance review spr starting in 2012 contains information on the drilling completion and frac ing of offset multi stage frac ed wells . the spr dataset includes multiple reservoir types such as shale sandstone carbonate siltstone limestone and others . over 7000 wells drilled since 2011 are included covering canada usa argentina australia china colombia jordan indonesia poland and sweden . in an increasingly competitive industry benchmarking has grown popular amongst oil and gas operators 8 explaining why participation in the rushmore reviews has grown steadily . the dataset contains a large amount of offset well data encompassing drilling completions shale interventions and abandonments . as of 2013 the reviews contain data for over 50 000 wells from conventional hydrocarbon to shale and coal seam gas wells . over 100 countries feature in the reviews and the vast majority of operating companies have made contributions . 9 from 2012 rushmore reviews now hold a second set of annual meetings in houston texas for participants in the shale performance review which continues to grow rapidly with the notable addition of chesapeake energy to the review in 2014 ; 10 the second largest natural gas producer in the united states . 11 ihs acquisition edit on the 5th of february 2015 denver based ihs acquired rushmore reviews . 12 participant website tools edit participants of the reviews are provided with secure website access in order to view offset well data . the data is searchable and can be filtered by the user . the data may also be downloaded in excel format . additionally there are a range of analytical tools available to study the data . these include performance metrics p10 p25 p50 p75 p90 min mean max etc. as well as the facility to draw a range of different chart types . amongst the collection of tools the rushmore drilling index rdi and rushmore estimated drilling data redd both designed and owned by the company are particularly noteworthy . designed as objective tools for well planning they index the difficulty and indicate the amount of time a planned well is likely to take to drill to target depth . countries included in the reviews edit below an illustration showing the global coverage of the reviews in the darker colour . albania algeria angola argentina australia austria azerbaijan bahrain bangladesh benin bolivia brazil brunei cambodia cameroon canada chile china colombia republic of the congo democratic republic of the congo croatia cyprus denmark ecuador egypt equatorial guinea ethiopia falkland islands faroe islands france french guiana gabon germany ghana greece greenland guinea bissau india indonesia iran iraq ireland israel italy ivory coast jordan kazakhstan kenya liberia libya madagascar malaysia mauritania mexico morocco mozambique myanmar namibia netherlands new zealand niger nigeria norway oman pakistan palestine papua new guinea peru philippines poland qatar romania russia sakhalin island senegal sierra leone slovakia south africa south korea spain sri lanka sudan suriname sweden suriname syria tanzania thailand timor leste trinidad and tobago tunisia turkey turkmenistan united arab emirates abu dhabi uae dubai sharjah emirate uganda united kingdom united states venezuela vietnam yemen a selection of participating operators edit afren agiba eni anadarko apache arrow bapetco shell bayerngas bg bhp bp bp block 18 bp block 31 bp exploration bp tangguh burren eni cabinda gulf chevron cairn carigali petronas centrica cepsa chesapeake chevron chevron ambu chevron cico klo chevron mca chevron sjv chrysaor cnr conocophillips dana knoc det norske dong e.on endeavour eni eni gas land eni gas offshore eni north africa eni oil enquest eog equion fairfield faroe fcp eni gaz de france gupco bp hess ithaca jv gas statoil kosmos maersk marathon mubadala murphy nae eni nam shell naoc eni newfield nexen cnooc noble energy noreco oando occidental occidental mukhaizna occidental swl omv origin panamerican bp panamerican deep bp panamerican landlite bp panatlantic pdo shell perenco petrobel eni petrobras petrofac premier pttep qgc csg bg repsol repsol ypf repsol unar roc oil bohai sakhalin energy shell salym shell samson santos sasol shell snepco shell spdc shell statoil suncor talisman tengizchevroil chevron total tullow vico bp wintershall woodside external links edit oil voice renewals article e & p benchmarking for performance e & p benchmarking experts meet in aberdeen press release drilling difficulty index spe paper reference in dmi website oil voice petrobras joins scandoil statoil and others commit to rushmore reviews penn energy shale data celebration oil voice pttep joins oil voice 25 year celebrations penn energy article samson resources joins clear leader peter rushmore s npt article peloton s wellview and the rushmore review template rushmore reviews demo video energy pedia news chesapeake to share data references edit 2003 article . companies december 2013 newsletter . dpr history . company website . spe archives pdf . schumberger intervention services . baker hughes well interventions . us e & p benchmark study pdf . dmi drillers article . news rushmorereviews.com . chesapeake.com homepage . ihs press release . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rushmore reviews & oldid 735653292 categories companies established in 1993companies based in aberdeenanalyticsbusiness intelligence navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 august 2016 at 05 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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