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General Meeting: Guidance for Decision Quality for Multicompany Upstream Projects

ABSTRACT of Presentation

Regardless of oil price, large joint venture upstream projects have significantly underperformed on cost, schedule and production. Smaller upstream projects have not fared much better. While there are a number of good books that go into some detail on reasoning focused principally on project management, poor decision quality played a very significant role in the underperformance.

Therefore, a group of experienced subject matter experts (SME's) from across the oil & gas industry worked collaboratively to develop a joint technical report focused on good decision quality. Additional industry input was obtained from a discussion session at SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in September 2015. The resulting technical report provides practical advice on the application of decision quality principles, which apply during all phases of a project’s life cycle, including exploration, development, and operational phases.

The group of SME's focused on “decision quality” as defined by the Society of Decision Professionals (SDP) in terms of a Decision Makers’ Bill of Rights. The focus of this report is on gaining alignment as much as understanding differences of the participants regarding the opportunity, alternatives, information, values, trade-offs, logical analysis and commitment to action.

Both SPE and SDP sponsored this effort requiring numerous meetings of the SME's to get to agreement. Both SPE & SDP believe this technical report to contain very valuable information that should be shared broadly with our communities.

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Registration & Walk-ins

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Parking for this event

The TOTAL Plaza building (1201 Louisiana Street across from the Houston Hyatt Regency Hotel) is connected to the downtown Houston tunnel system. Using the tunnel system, those working downtown can walk to our meeting in air-conditioned comfort.

If you will drive to this meeting, the following summarizes available parking:

The image above shows how to access the valet parking area at the new location of the Petroleum Club. Enter from Milam Street and exit onto Louisiana Street. Parking fee for this valet parking is $15.

Surface parking lots are available to the south of the TOTAL Plaza building (between this building and the former EXXON Building), including one surface lot adjacent to the TOTAL Plaza Building - pay at meter (cost ~ $9). Other surface lots in the area cost $8 - $9 and they frequently are full by mid-morning.

Parking is also available in the Hyatt Regency Hotel parking garage across the street. Prices vary depending on time in the garage. Cost for 2 hours of parking is $9. Parking is also available via valet at the Louisiana Street entrance of the hotel. Cost is $10.

Location: PETROLEUM CLUB, 35th Floor, TOTAL Plaza Building
1201 LOUISIANA STREET
Houston , Texas 77002

Date: Oct. 13, 2016, 11:30 a.m. - Oct. 13, 2016, 1 p.m.