The Nile is a River in Egypt

In terms of the five stages of grief; there are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. People who have paid the costs of the bureaucrats inaction, those that have been laid off, are no doubt forced to be in the acceptance phase. The bureaucrats themselves, and most particularly the investors who have funded the bureaucrats nonsense for the past decade, are all in deep stages of denial. Talking to them is almost useless. They will fixate on an element of the discussion that is irrelevant and use that to wander away aimlessly from the conversation. Anything to get away from the facts on the ground. As I stated yesterday, there is a general consensus now that the overproduction by the producers is the source of the difficulties in the oil and gas industry. There are no boogie men. The point here is the Preliminary Specification with its price maker strategy is the solution to this problem. And that needs to be accepted, which happens to be the fifth and final phase of grief.

The good news in this discussion, from the point of view of People, Ideas & Objects, our user community and the service providers, is that we will soon move onto the anger phase. A lot of anger and grief will be expressed over the fact that trillions of dollars have been flushed unnecessarily by these bureaucrats inaction. This is why I hypothesis that bureaucrats will be hightailing it out of the industry faster than you can say, “but wait a minute!” The damage that’s been done affects everyone in the industry, except the bureaucrats, and everyone is going to be as mad as hell. It’s not an environment that I think any bureaucrat is going to want to be sitting around listening to, with the eventual outcome being they’re shown the door anyways. Why not just skip the whole process and leave now. The good part of this hypothesis is that there won’t be any mass layoffs because that would be redundant. If you're a bureaucrat, just get out of town before the sheriff finds you.

Denial is what humans use to soften the pain of the loss. In theory then we could be in denial for decades as there is no way out of the overproduction issues other than the Preliminary Specifications price maker strategy. This is a commercial environment, however and it is here that the resources of the industry have been taxed the heaviest. The cupboards are bare. The industry never had any working capital to speak of, even in its best days. It chose to deceive everyone with bloated balance sheets. The net effect of these bloated balance sheets is that the investors were subsidizing the energy consumers and the industry never really made any money. It was a money pit. A drain on the investment capital of the banks, junk bond markets and investors. Now, instead of having any resources to deal with the storm they’ve created, producers stand naked, frozen, directly in the tornado’s path. Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

Creative destruction is the term for this phenomenon. The destruction will be complete. From the industries ashes will be the Preliminary Specification, our user community and the service providers that you and I develop here in the next few years. It shouldn’t have to be this way, but that is the way that our capitalist system changes. Out with the old and in with the new. And you can be a critical part of that new industry. If for whatever reason you accept the changes that I have detailed here. Then consider yourself in a leadership position with respect to where the industry will be in the years to come. The opportunity to take that leadership position and strategically position yourself with a role in the development of the Preliminary Specification and formation of a service provider is the opportunity that is open to you today. Placing yourself in the structure of the industry for the next generation.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here. 

A Fundamental Betrayal...

...is what the bureaucrats have orchestrated upon the oil and gas industry and all of those that are involved within it. And they did so for the sole purpose of ensuring that their personal financial benefits were kept intact. After all of the lies, the screaming and pointing of fingers that it’s someone else’s fault. It is now clear to everyone that the North American producer, fueled by shale based reserves, have been overproducing oil and gas in the commodity markets. Do we now trust these bureaucrats to be the ones who will figure out what the real issue is? Do we therefore expect them to resolve the problem? No, our expectation is that the integrity and honesty that they have displayed in this process has been destroyed. It is obvious that they will destroy the industry before they face the reality that they are unwilling to deal with the problems that they are creating for themselves. They are personally conflicted. No one is going to give them the second chance.

There was an alternative in the marketplace that dealt specifically with the overproduction issue that is ever present today. Am I the only one who saw it. No of course not. But I am the only one that has spent the last 25 years working to resolve it. The bureaucrats giggled amongst themselves when I said that the value proposition of the Preliminary Specification was well into the trillions of dollars. Now as a result of their inaction they are responsible for the destruction of trillions of dollars of value. Real destruction of real money. Who’s giggling now. This has been a fundamental betrayal of all of the interests in the oil and gas industry. And a fundamental capitulation of the future of the industry. And the bureaucrats are solely responsible. I have consistently let it be known that I believe the bureaucrats were the problem in overcoming the adoption of the Preliminary Specification. It has been their history since I first published the use of the Joint Operating Committee as the key organizational construct of the innovative producer in August of 2003. They saw the writing on the wall then and they ran me out of town and shut me down. I have been unable to find work in oil and gas since then. Interesting isn’t it. All the work that I was doing just stopped and nothing new was ever offered. That is the price I have paid for trying to solve this problem. Please note as well that we enter our eleventh year of writing on this blog!

It’s down to us. The realization over the Christmas holidays that the overproduction of the North American producers is the problem is now widespread. Soon it will be generally understood that the only solution that exists is People, Ideas & Objects, the user community and our service providers. The bureaucrats, who have no integrity and we can’t trust, have always known what the problem was, as evidenced by their treatment of me. They had every opportunity to resolve it within their own organizations. Why is it that they didn’t resolve it on their own? Its because they can’t, won’t and will not ever change to the type of structure necessary to enable them to resolve it. It eliminates the bureaucrats from the industry.

It’s not only down to us but we have a lot of work to do. In the perfect world industry would have joined me in August of 2003 and began working towards the solution at that time. Then we could have avoided the decline in natural gas prices in 2010 and the decline in oil in 2014. A sum total of several trillion dollars in value. They also could have avoided the more than one trillion dollars in lost value in terms of the oil and gas producers lost market capitalization. But I’m afraid there will be much more. We have many years of work ahead of us. And this is why the bureaucrats were paid the big bucks, they were supposed to be aware of these things and avoid them. Now we’ll just avoid the bureaucrats.

So it is with regret that I stand here in 2016 and have to look at the destruction that is the oil and gas industry. It is something that I know I did everything I could to stop it. And we can resolve it in the mid to long term with the Preliminary Specification, the user community and our service providers. I suggest if you have similar feelings you join me in the user community and we rebuild the industry back to what it should have been before we were so fundamentally betrayed.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here. 

Year End Closing

Where we currently stand to in the oil and gas industry is far from where we need to be. The deterioration of the capacities and capabilities can be felt draining from the industry in the past six months. Things that should be getting done are not even on the list of things to do. This of course is the old business model working as it does. Let the industry deteriorate until such time as shortages are created and then we’ll move to rebuild what was lost with other people’s money, again. The only thing the producers have today are spectacularly large balance sheets. These represent the money from the last time they fleeced the investors. The actions of the investors in the past few years shows that they’ve caught on to the game, and they don’t like it. They might sit this round of financing out. And therefore the producers will decay even further as shale’s flush production continues to overwhelm the commodity markets price mechanisms. The only way out is for producers to select the Preliminary Specifications decentralized production models price maker strategy. That way an industry wide method of production allocation, based on the equitable and fair basis of profitability of each and every Joint Operating Committee, can be used to determine which property produces and which property remains shut-in.

Until this scenario plays out People, Ideas & Objects and our user community have work to do. The forces of creative destruction in the industry are well in play. We need to commence work now in order to offset the difficulties in the industry. As they depreciate we’ll rise to recover from their failures. Eventually taking over from the ashes of what will be left of the producer firms that exist today. That is how creative destruction has worked in the past and how I expect it to function here. There will be many producers that might make the transition, however picking the winners and losers is a sport that Las Vegas would be more interested in. Our job is to get moving and to make sure that society does not have any difficulty in sourcing their needs of oil and gas.

It will be a cold, literally, hard slap in the face to those alternative energy and climate change people. They will think that the decline in oil and gas is an opportunity to build more wind and solar. I am always amazed at the extent that people can convince themselves of such foolishness. Those who think that they can just switch to wind and solar are fresh out of the looney bin. The oil and gas industry produces so much energy, and so much of it is used in industrial purposes that it would take centuries for wind and solar to catch up, let alone take over. Ever see a chemical plant next to a hydro dam? And you won’t. Society is not hooked on oil and gas. Oil and gas is the blood that makes society run. Let's not kid ourselves into believing in myths and fairytales before it's too late. Your participation in our user community is the mitigating factor and the destruction of this myth.

I will be taking the rest of the year off. I need to prepare for the early part of 2016. Producers will be once again preparing their annual reports for what has been a bad year in a dismal industry. They have no profitable operations anywhere. They have no financial resources and they are desperately short of cash. They need to show their investors and bankers, and most importantly their prospective investors and bankers, a plan on how they’ll turn this situation around. As we know they don’t have one and they’ll be unable to come up with anything in the next few months. What I suspect will happen is we will see the rats jump ship, so to speak. The bureaucrats will seek greener pastures knowing that the difficulties in oil and gas are beyond what they can resolve. After all that is their history and pedigree. Expect the announcements of retirements and resignations to begin once the bonuses have been distributed. That’s right bonuses. I am looking to return on January 11, 2016 and expect that posting may be light for the first four months of next year. This is crunch time for us. We must make this real. A decision has to be made to proceed with the development of the Preliminary Specification. I am looking to the investors and bankers that support the oil and gas producers to make that decision. So for now have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and will see you in 2016.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here. 

Users Wanted

Yesterday we went through some of the difficulties people may be faced with regarding the decision to participate in this user community. We understand that it’s not for everyone and we are looking for specific people who are able to make the difference in the new oil and gas industry. If you’ve made the decision to join the user community of People, Ideas & Objects, what’s next. Review of the application process can be found here. We know it’s extensive and will take some time and effort to complete. It is important for us to be able to make our decisions based on the best possible information available to us. Once you’re approved, this information will be available to all users across the community, and as a result, users will be able to find like minded people with similar experience to work with.

The second point we should concern ourselves with is that we are a technology oriented solution. From a specialization and division of labor point of view we are providing a new, sub-industry between the oil and gas and the Information Technology industries. Our user community is being drawn from the oil and gas industry and we have all had dealings with those who are in the Information Technology world. Sometimes it seems that they are speaking a different language and are on a different planet. The sub-industry we are creating needs to be able to understand oil and gas but also needs to understand the Information Technology industry at the level where they can effectively communicate with them on that planet. You won’t be writing or editing software code, but I can assure you that you will be reading it. You will also be leveraging your ideas and needs through the software developers of People, Ideas & Objects and members of the Information Technology community. They will be the tools that you use to provide the oil and gas producers with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations.

There is time, and I would suggest that everyone, whether through formal education or self study, be capable of achieving the above requirement in the Java and database environments. We are Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Fusion Application users as the base of the People, Ideas & Objects application. These are the technologies that will form much of the work that you will do. If you have avoided the technologies up until now, or have a strong aptitude in the Information Technology area, it doesn’t matter. Your key value to the oil and gas producer is the understanding of their business. Your creativity and capabilities in determining what and how you can do what you can do in the future, when you have a software development capability available at all times, will be so much more effective if you fully understand the technologies capabilities and limitations. There is much that we can deliver to the oil and gas producer in terms of value from an oil and gas point of view. And there is much that we can deliver to the oil and gas producer from a technology point of view. This can only be attained by having a “hybrid” user community that can bridge the two industries that we sit between.

I think that I am on record as stating that these technological requirements would be attained with six or seven university level courses in Java and database technologies. This would give you the level of understanding that would make you proficient in that world from the point of view of understanding the tools that will be at your disposal. Having the software development capabilities of People, Ideas & Objects and Oracle technologies at hand, with the user community vision, empowers you to achieve our success over each of the next 25 years. It is that time frame that we should consider that these systems will be under constant iterative development and will continue to evolve to provide the oil and gas industry with the ability to meet society's needs for energy.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here. 

Courage

A defining characteristic of People, Ideas & Objects user community is going to have to be its courage. This is not something that is usually expected in the domains of oil and gas administration and accounting. However what we are doing demands that we have the courage to overcome the difficulties that we face in the process of changing the industry to one that is dynamic, innovative, accountable and profitable. No one can think that this will be easy, it will be the most difficult work that most have undertaken in their careers. And it will not necessarily stop once we have developed and released our software into the marketplace. The user community is a long term solution to the bureaucracy and will be the replacement to that means of administrative and accounting capability. We can expect more than a few fights from the bureaucrats and a general lack of support from them as well.

When I speak of courage in this instance I would define it in its purest form as the “conscious self-sacrifice on behalf of something greater than one’s own self-interest.” Let's be clear, I am looking for leadership to be an element of the user community. Leaders who lack the courage to lead are not leaders. And there are other common virtues of courage other than leadership. These include honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility. I am setting a high standard in terms of the individuals who are members of the user community due to the role that they will undertake that is so critical to our success and the success of the oil and gas industry. Our demand for courage from our user community and service providers may be unique in the environment that the bureaucracy has created for itself. What I see in the bureaucracy is a group that is committed to being unaccountable and as self serving, who will do nothing other than for themselves. I have stood up to them and paid the price, we need to create a climate where accountability and virtue replace this unaccountable and self serving bureaucracy.

General William Tecumseh Sherman defined courage as “a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.” Many have expressed their concern about participation in the user community. Identifying the risks associated to them in joining our user community. Fear is what I am sure everyone is feeling regarding participation. It is an exciting project with significant downside risk to their medium to long term prospects of their careers. But that is the point, without fear there would be no need for courage. There will be many people in the user community who are committed to the success of this project, purely out of fear. If that fear is greater than your courage to approach the difficulties that we share in the future you should stop reading this blog and forget about participation. If however, your desire to resolve these difficulties in industry are greater than your fears than you should move to act on those feelings by joining our user community. It is said that “you can live with pain. You can live with embarrassment. Remorse is an awful companion.” Coulda, shoulda, woulda might be too much remorse to live with in the future. “Don’t let the sensation of fear convince you that you’re too weak to have courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.” John McCain

What I have done to mitigate your risk is to ensure that we have our budget funded in its entirety before we commence any software developments. This might be unreasonable, however. With a value proposition of $45.7 trillion over the next 25 years, and over $700 billion in the producer's market capitalization losses. If the producers can’t be compelled to save themselves by funding our developments in full, then there is no hope for them. Therefore there will be no financial risk for the members of the user community during our developments. We do not expect any of the user community participants will be engaged on a full time basis during any of our developments. Though we have costed the user community participants time at an average of $190 / hour.

There is much to do before we get to that time and the application process that we have established is rather onerous. We will detail these in tomorrow’s post and give you a better understanding of what might be opportune at this point in time.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here. 

Your Involvement

As members of People, Ideas & Objects user community you will be applying the understanding that you have gained from your years of experience in oil and gas to the development of the Preliminary Specification. What we have now is the overall vision of how the system will provide value for the dynamic, innovative, accountable and profitable oil and gas producer and industry. What we need to do is to fill in the details of what are required for the areas that you're familiar within the industry. What functionality and process management is necessary for you to undertake the types of work that are necessary and desired in your area. Understanding that we are not replicating the status quo but building a new industry and new producer for the 21st century based on the vision of the Preliminary Specification.

You will do this work with the People, Ideas & Objects software developers who will take your input and develop the software that you specify. This will be comprehensive, collaborative and iterative work that is done with the input of many users representing a diverse range of experience. It will be in this way that we can capture the exceptions that occur throughout the industry and deal with those through the software. Key to this development process is the work that will be undertaken by the service provider organizations that you establish. They are the organizations that you the users will be building in order to deliver the People, Ideas & Objects ERP software and your services to the producer firms. Each service provider will be dealing with a small subset of the overall Preliminary Specification and apply it across the industries data set. It is in this way that you will be able to apply the principles of specialization and the division of labor to the work that you are doing with the other users and our developers.

In addition to your competitive advantages of specialization and the division of labor, you will have process automation capabilities developed with your work with our developers, and innovation based on your expertise in either the administrative or accounting domain that your service provider organization operates in. These are the comprehensive competitive advantages that have not been available in the administrative and accounting domains of the producer firms. In the current oil and gas industry the producer has to acquire the capability to meet the requirement, and has no scope or scale in which to apply any of these competitive advantages. As a result, the administrative and accounting burden is taxing the producer organization to the level where they’re incapable of earning profits. These current administrative and accounting capabilities are being replicated within each oil and gas producer yet are unshareable to offset the costs. It is the application of these competitive advantages through the long term relationship that our users will have with our developers that will increase the service provider's profitability and reduce the administrative and accounting costs of the producers.

The quality of this service offering that the producer receives will be far greater than what is achieved today. The producers will be able to profit from the reorganization of the industry in two specific ways. First there will be an effective cost structure that is more consistent with the producers revenues. The service providers focus is, as with all parties associated with People, Ideas & Objects, to provide the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. Their focus will be on reducing the cost to the producer or enabling greater revenues being earned through business model changes. Secondly the ability to expand the output of the service providers will enable the industry to conduct a greater level of administrative and accounting throughput with the same level of resources. Specialization and the division of labor are the two elements of all economic growth. These attributes would provide substantial value, however, the service providers are also the reason that the producers are able to implement the price maker strategy of the decentralized production model. Enabling a whole new manner in which to operate the industry.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here. 

I Got It

Clearly my point has been made. Recent discussions have shown to me that there is a strong concurrence in the marketplace regarding the future of the oil and gas industry. I am preaching to the converted. It's therefore time to get down to business. We need to spend some time on our user communities development which is our key focus. Our user community is one of People, Ideas & Objects primary competitive advantages. For too long users have been provided with substandard ERP systems that they have had to accommodate. These systems have been rigid and unchanging over the course of their lifetime and the users have had to work around these systems in order to get their work done. What is needed in the dynamic, innovative, accountable and profitable oil and gas industry is a user community that has the power and control over the development of the software that they use.

This power and control is provided to the user community through our user community vision. It is comprehensive in that it details the sources and means in which the power and control to affect change is provided to the users. Management of the industry is taken from the bureaucrats and is handed to the user community. It is the membership of the user community that will determine what is required, and what is desired in the industry in terms of their systems functionality and process management, and most importantly the business model that the users have effective control over. So that if there is need for a change in the price maker strategy of the decentralized production model, everyone will know that they need to turn to the user community to have these changes made.

And I would expect that in short order the user community will become the driving force behind the changes in industry. That the dynamic elements of the industry will be as a result of the capabilities of the user community to foresee the issues and opportunities of the industry and implement solutions within a timely manner that provide the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. Whether that is a minor change in one of the minor processes of the material balance report or wholesale changes to the business model. Change is going to be the dynamic that we will be faced with in this industry over the next 25 years. Our ability and capabilities to deal with those changes needs to be inherent in the organizations that we are establishing today and that is the why we are focusing today on the development of the user community.

What we expect to see is that there will be approximately 3,000 members of our user community. Each will be responsible for a specific process or sub-process within the oil and gas industry and be solely responsible for it across the North American producers. Each user community member will be the principal, or partner with other user community members in a service provider organization that provides the People, Ideas & Objects software solution and associated services to the producer firms. Whether that is an accounting or administrative process would depend on the background of the individual and their contribution to our development. We will not be handing out service provider licenses to those who have not contributed to the development of the Preliminary Specification. Over the next number of years the user community will be needed to determine the detail of the system's functionality and process management and this will be the time when users will be earning their goodwill toward a service provider license.

The service providers will be replacing the current administrative and accounting resources that are resident within the producer firms. Within the decentralized production model, the producer is stripped down to the C class executives, earth science and engineering resources, land, legal and some support staff. Therefore the estimated $45 to $60 billion in G&A costs that are currently incurred by the producers would be shifted to become the revenues of the service providers. Members of the user community are also compensated directly on an hourly basis for their contributions to the development of the Preliminary Specification by People, Ideas & Objects. This is a significant business opportunity for those interested in the user community of the new oil and gas industry.

Currently it is my opinion that we will be rebuilding the industry from the ashes of the destruction that is underway. Shale’s new dynamic on top of the bureaucracies muddling along strategy are toxic to the health of the industry. Continued inaction by the producers will eventually force the banks to take over. Providing an opportunity for the investors to purchase the oil and gas properties back from the banks. Then by using the Preliminary Specification, our users and the service providers will be able to manage the investors oil and gas properties profitably. Our appeal to the shareholders and investors of the oil and gas industry to rebuild the industry brick by brick, and stick by stick is the process that we need to keep our focus on. User community development is the first step in that process and one that we would be focused on if we had all our financial resources in hand. Therefore we are technically not wasting any development time by focusing on the development of the user community. So, what are you doing for the next 25 years? Take a look here to see if any of what we are doing interests you.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here. 

Third Friday Off

Thanksgiving!

A Leadership Crisis

People, Ideas & Objects continues to look for the future leaders of the oil and gas industry. Those leaders that the user community vision appeals to, and who would be interested in establishing a service provider organization in the new oil and gas industry. It is this new sub-industry of our users and service providers that we are establishing to provide our developers with the input to what systems they want and need in order to manage and lead their oil and gas clients. This new leadership will be the replacement to the current administrative and accounting resources of the producers. And particularly will be the leadership that is provided to deal with the issues and opportunities of the new oil and gas industry. Their leadership will be exercised through the business model that they have control over, through their involvement in the user community and the manner in which the user community has been established.

That is how we propose to deal with things in the future oil and gas industry. What we have today of course is a crisis of leadership. Muddling along has always been acceptable as the business model of the bureaucrats. Taking long stretches of time between profitable periods is what the industry has had to deal with, so they would say. That is certainly what you would need to say when their is no leadership involved. With the same production profile as last year. And the same production profile in natural gas as six years ago. What exactly are bureaucrats doing or going to do about the situation in the industry. Maybe a better question is what is going to happen to cause a leadership change?

Alternatives need to be proposed. Check. We have that in this community. A viable business model and community that only needs financial resources to proceed. What we do know as well is that bureaucrats never change. It is not within their DNA to be capable of the act. Our proposal will transform the industry into a dynamic, innovative, accountable and profitable industry. That is the basis of how we propose to lead the new oil and gas industry. With our value proposition being $45.7 trillion when fully valued over the next 25 years. You would think that bureaucrats who are in a financial crisis would act. It’s only in the oil and gas industry that you can propose to generate this much value and die of starvation.

Peggy Noonan was writing in the Wall Street Journal the other day about “Uncertain Leadership In Perilous Times.” And what caught my eye was the last part of this quotation.

Exactly what is needed now in terms of America’s defense, what is needed to deal with a possible parade of horribles? What might be needed down the road? There is a possible grim short term, and a possible grim long term. Who is thinking all this through? Are they getting the resources they need?

We saw the difficulties that the industry went through in the 1980’s and 1990’s as a result of low oil and gas prices. Systemic overproduction was a phenomenon that was not identified or addressed. It exacerbated the difficulties of the industry and could have been so easily rectified. A long and difficult period that devastated the financial condition of the industry, destroyed the investors confidence and ruined people’s lives who had invested their careers in oil and gas. I was fortunate to have never been laid off during that time, however, the people who remained were permanently changed into risk averse, timid souls. Not what the industry needed but probably the genesis of why the industry hasn’t taken any action. These timid souls have evolved to become the bureaucrats.

What I want to know is where are the resources that Peggy Noonan is stating “Are they getting the resources they need?” People, Ideas & Objects is running short and the transition to a viable going concern needs this support now. We have a job to do, one that has been clear to most people for almost a year now. And I think we can establish the fact that the bureaucrats will never do anything to support us. I am frustrated by the pace of this transition and my present inability to make this transition real.

The Preliminary Specification and user community provides the oil and gas producer with the most dynamic, innovative, profitable and successful means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here.