Oilfield Services Editing and Proofreading Services

The rig has moved on, the job went reasonably well, and now there is an invoice for four hundred thousand dollars that the operator's cost controller is disputing line by line. The only evidence of what happened is a set of daily reports and tickets written at four in the morning by a supervisor who had been awake for nineteen hours. Whatever those documents say is what occurred. Whatever they omit did not happen.

We edit what oilfield service companies produce — daily service reports and job tickets, scope of work and technical proposals, rate schedules and their definitions, standby, waiting and non-productive time definitions, end-of-well and job completion reports, equipment failure and non-conformance reports, HSE documentation and job safety analyses, tool and equipment specifications, service quality and performance reporting, call-off contract terms and pricing schedules, and correspondence around variations and disputed charges. Our editors work on the document that becomes the invoice.

The daily report and its ticket is the entire evidential basis of an oilfield services contract, and it fails on timing and cause. A report that records what was done without recording when it started, when it stopped and why it stopped leaves every hour of standby unsupported. We work through these so every activity carries its start and end time to the quarter hour, with the clock running continuously so gaps are visible rather than implied; so the reason for each interruption is stated in the terms the rate schedule uses, since "waiting on operator" and "waiting on weather" and "equipment failure" are charged differently and a report saying only "waiting" gets charged at whichever rate the reader prefers; so any instruction from the operator's representative is recorded with the name, the time and what was instructed, because verbal instructions on a rig floor are the origin of most disputed charges; so equipment problems are recorded honestly, given that a service company concealing a failure loses the argument about everything else once it emerges; so the signature is obtained at the time and its absence is noted with the reason; and so the rate schedule's definitions and the report's categories use identical words. Reports written this way get paid without a meeting.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including contracts, job records and commercial correspondence. We are editors rather than drilling, commercial or contract advisers, and we offer no view on entitlement, rates or technical matters. What we can do is make the report support the invoice that comes from it.