Upstream Benchmarking for Optimized Production & Asset Performance

Leverage the world’s largest database of operating costs, uptime reliability metrics, and technical key performance indicators (KPIs) across a wide range of oil and gas producing assets. Our proprietary database contains information from >5,000 offshore and onshore oil and gas fields in >40 countries.

This vast database is available to help you identify untapped production efficiency improvement savings through benchmarking and peer comparison of your production operations. In addition, we can help you identify targets and plan initiatives that will improve reliability and operating efficiency, close performance gaps with your peers, optimize operating costs and increase overall profits.

Solomon’s competitive performance assessment methodology for analyzing like-kind field-level asset performance is both rigorous and proven. The entire process is geared toward providing an actionable and effective management tool that helps identify potential cost savings by targeting performance gaps between actual performance and the performance of the industry’s leaders.

World’s largest databases of upstream, midstream, and downstream operating performance.

Normalization process and peer groups deliver meaningful KPIs and like-for-like comparisons.

Data is proprietary and unique,
not pulled from publicly available sources.

Subject matter experts with 25+ years’ industry experience develop practical insight and recommendations to enable your success.

STUDY AREAS

Onshore Study

Improve your performance using the world’s largest database of upstream performance data, metrics, and our deep insight. The Onshore Study utilizes Solomon’s proprietary methodology to compare the operational performance of onshore operators worldwide using a range of KPIs.

Permian Basin Study

Field-level production operations study identifies cost optimization, production efficiency, and GHG reduction opportunities. The Permian Basin Study goes beyond public data traditionally used to benchmark drilling and completions performance to highlight operational efficiency, cost reduction opportunities, and safety and environmental performance.

Thermal Oilsands Onshore Study Peer Group

Capture large, operational-cost savings and maximize operational uptime in your thermal oil sands project. Solomon’s Thermal Oil Sands Operations Performance Analysis (Thermal Oil Sands Study) can help you uncover key areas of underperformance in your operations.

Bakken Study

Identify production efficiency, cost reduction & well-work performance opportunities in your Williston Basin Bakken production operations.

Eagle Ford Shale Study

Field-level production operations study identifies cost optimization, production efficiency, and GHG reduction opportunities. The Eagle Ford Shale Study goes beyond public data traditionally used to benchmark drilling and completions performance to highlight operational efficiency, cost reduction opportunities, and safety and environmental performance.

Offshore Study

With 30+ years of upstream benchmarking experience and the world’s largest database of upstream performance data and metrics, Solomon knows what “good” looks like for any given type of operation. The Offshore Study assesses your performance against peers and identifies cost and production improvement opportunities. The study focuses on critical KPIs, including operating cost, cost drivers, production efficiency, and uptime reliability. Looking more closely at operational excellence creates opportunities for the long run. Solomon’s Offshore Study can illuminate these opportunities. We've benchmarked >5,000 offshore and onshore O&G fields in >40 countries.

UPCOMING WEBINAR

Key Strategies for North American Shale Operators to Reduce Downtime & Improve Profitability

WHEN: Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 11 AM CDT
LENGTH: 30 Minutes (20 min presentation, 10 min Q&A)

Register to attend our upcoming webinar, where upstream industry expert, John Caldwell, highlights strategies and metrics North American shale operators leverage to prioritize opportunities with the greatest economic impact. Whether you're looking to optimize your shale operations or make more impactful data-driven decisions, this webinar will help jumpstart your journey to sustainable success. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from top operators’ performance and stay ahead of the competition.

A Foundation for Effective Comparative Performance Analysis and Decision Support

DATA QUALITY, BENCHMARKING METHODOLOGY

We prioritize the integrity and confidentiality of participant-submitted data and rigorously review that data before benchmarking begins. Then, we employ our normalization process and benchmarking methodology to provide valuable and trusted peer group comparisons that deliver meaningful KPIs. Finally, our staff of senior consultants apply their deep industry experience to develop practical insight and recommendations to enable your success.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR METHODOLOGY