We build the structure that lets oil and gas service companies scale.
We work with founder-led oil and gas service companies, and with energy, pipeline, and mining companies, that want to improve operating performance across their asset intensive lifecycle: facility and wellsite work, surveying and locating, inspection, integrity, construction, compliance, transportation, environmental, maintenance and turnaround.
We look at how your company works now: who decides what, how the work actually gets done, and where it stalls. You get a short list of what to fix first, and we build those fixes with your team, so they can run them after we leave.
Gain clarityYou leave knowing where you stand.
Where our founder has worked
Oil and Gas Service Companies
Zedi Solutions (now part of Emerson)
Precision Drilling Corporation
Ridgeline Energy Services
AGAT Laboratories
Energy Producers
Nexen Inc. (now CNOOC Petroleum North America)
Cenovus Energy
MEG Energy
Pipelines
Plains Midstream Canada
Plains All American Pipeline
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Mining
Teck Resources
Luscar Coal
Recognize yourself
Owners of mid-sized service companies tell us the same five things.
Everything still runs through me. When I step away, decisions stop.
We fight the same fires over and over. Fixed in March, back by April.
We are winning work that we struggle to staff, and our best people are carrying it.
We grew fast and the way we work did not keep up. Every job gets done a different way.
The acquisition is proving harder to absorb than we planned.
If two or three of those five sound like your company, start with a Discovery chat.
Book a Discovery chatWhat we do about it
The Engagements
Discovery
A first conversation to work out whether what you are dealing with is structural, and where we would look first. Gain clarity.
Assessment
Four weeks for a single function, eight to twelve weeks for the whole company. It ends in a written report naming the three things to fix first. Know where you stand and what to do about it.
Build the playbook
Six to twelve months, working alongside your team to put the structure in place and write down how the work is actually done. Improve your business, see results.
Executive advisory
Ongoing support for owners and boards who want an outside read before they commit. Answers to hard questions before they are asked, and advice as the company grows.
Field notes
Read how this plays out inside other companies.
When governance lags behind the promotion
Read the field noteCorrective actions: closed and fixed are different measurements
Read the field noteWho we are
Promethus is a Calgary-based business improvement consulting practice built on twenty-seven years in oil and gas: twelve years inside service companies, then fifteen with major producers and midstream pipeline operators. Our founder designed and implemented operations management systems from inception and improved them over ten years at major midstream pipeline companies. We work side by side with your leaders and staff, so the improvements continue after our work together is complete.
Read the full background on the About page.
See our founder's experience on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/allangbuckingham