Multidisciplinary teams in exploration and production: Their value and future, Part 1, Concepts, definition and team successes

摘要

Tearns and teamwork are not new in the oil and gas business. In the 1950s through 1970s, teams were used in both large and medium-size companies for some large projects. Teams were used for projects such as lease sales, appraisal of large discoveries, and initiation of secondary recovery ventures. The proliferation of teams in the mid-1980s was in response to both financial and technological reasons. The low oil and gas prices in the mid-1980s through most of the 1990s dictated that companies lower costs and do more work with fewer people. At the same time, the explosion of new technology such as 3-D and 4-D seismic, reservoir simulation, and a host of drilling innovations created the need for technical staff from several geoscience and engineering disciplines to work together.