Cultural Change is Necessary

摘要

However, while the technology is widely accepted as being sound by most in the oil and gas industries, adoption hasn't followed at a similar rate despite its advantages, which includes employing less inspectors in the field. ―As the expectation for fewer failures became greater and greater, the response was to hire more inspectors to gather and document data. It was very inefficient, it was hard to find inspectors and it was hard to know what had been done," said Roy Whitt, vice president, value realization at Meridium Inc., an asset performance management solutions provider.