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Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC (SCA) is an upstream service provider for the oil and gas industry that was founded in 1988, by Daniel J. Tearpock (deceased). We have carried in the ways he lead us by offering four primary services that include geoscience and engineering consulting, upstream projects and studies, training services, and direct hire recruitment. Our business focuses on Consulting and Recruitment of oil and gas related professionals and Training that is current, timely, effectively formatted and cost-efficient.

Hal Miller, current President of SCA, opines that oil and gas companies have long relied on their most experienced and successful technical experts to conduct peer reviews and ensure functional excellence. In some larger companies, function heads lead corporate departments staffed with technical advisors who serve on quality assurance teams. Working across organizational boundaries, these teams provide independent, global perspective, test the quality of interpretative work, review estimated resources and reserves, and cross-fertilize best practices.

During the recent downturn, and the resulting slowdown in the pace of exploration programs and sanctioning of major capital projects, the oil and gas industry has encouraged many of its most experienced technical experts in the engineering and geoscience disciplines to move into retirement. Deep knowledge and experience in key disciplines supplied by central technology expert groups are diminishing internally. Even the largest companies are experiencing key gaps in their functional disciplines due to the ongoing wave of retirements. With the inevitable return of a more stable price environment, companies restarting exploration programs and resurrecting dormant capital projects will understandably be reluctant to begin hiring experienced staff after having just downsized.

The remaining, highly capable but generally less experienced staff who will shoulder the responsibility of stepping up activity levels often lack experience in executing large and complex projects. The few enduring, highly experienced staff are already stretched thin, and are lacking the support of technical advisors with deep skills in specialty disciplines needed to conduct effective quality assurance. See our reasons to consider outside resources like SCA to provide quality assurance experts to fulfill this role.

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