Ryder Scott
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| Founded | 1937 |
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| Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
| Website | https://ryderscott.com |
Ryder Scott Co. LP is an energy consulting firm based in Houston, Texas, the United States.[1] Ryder Scott is one of the largest, oldest, and most respected reservoir-evaluation consulting firms in the industry. Ryder Scott evaluates oil and gas properties and independently certifies petroleum reserves quantities in the U.S. and internationally. The company provides high-quality services at reasonable costs to its clients.
Experience levels of Ryder Scott professionals average more than 20 years per person. Their professionals’ various educational, cultural, and work backgrounds blend together to create a diverse, yet cohesive, task-oriented team dynamic. Ryder Scott recruits the top talent in the industry, equips them with the necessary tools and direction to perform at the highest level, and lets their motivation carry projects through to successful conclusions.
In 2021, Ryder Scott launched its Sustainable Energy Sector. Ryder Scott has expanded its service offerings to include environmental compliance related consulting services, greenhouse gas emissions consulting services, and sustainable energy sources consulting services.
History
Ryder Scott began operations in Bradford, PA, in 1937. Formerly an oil producer in the early to mid 1930s, the later venture was the first engineering firm and research laboratory in the world devoted to solving waterflood problems. Harry M. Ryder and David Scott Jr. formed the partnership after being asked for technical assistance by producers who had noticed the success of Ryder Scott-engineered waterfloods in the Bradford Field.
The firm originated several techniques. Donald T. May, the first employee, pioneered chip-coring analysis to provide accurate petrophysical data from a single plug of sand. Ryder, an electrical engineer, developed selective shooting. That well-completion technique focused on selecting correctly sized and placed nitroglycerin shots to perforate and stimulate the producing formation.
The firm continued to implement the best techniques under total engineering control to slow the production decline in the Bradford area during the 1940s. Ryder Scott used selective plugging in water intakes. The firm recommended improvements in core acquisition, logging, completion practices, injection waters and pressures, well spacing, and oilfield equipment.
With the Bradford area's inevitable decline in the 1950s, Ryder Scott moved to Wichita Falls, TX, to design successful secondary recovery projects. In the late 1960s, Ryder Scott acquired Robert W. Harrison & Co., moved to Houston and transitioned from waterflood design to evaluation engineering.
Today, Ryder Scott bears little resemblance to the core-analysis laboratory of the 1930s.
However, the firm still retains the principles of its founders–that oil and gas projects be evaluated and engineered to the highest professional and ethical standards.
Services
Ryder Scott provides a complete range of professional engineering, geoscientific, and economic evaluation services. Included in these services are the following:
- Reserves Evaluation
- Reserves Audit
- Reserves Certification
- Integrated Field Development Studies
- Geoscience
- Enhanced Recovery Service
- Natural Gas Studies
- Reservoir Simulation
- Economic Services
- Expert Witness Testimony & Dispute Resolution
- Management Advisory Services
- Low-Carbon, Sustainable Energy Consulting
- Upstream and Midstream Integrated Services
Software
Locations
- Houston, TX
- Denver, CO
- Calgary, CA
References
- ^ Brett Handley, David M. Marshall, Craig Coon Principles of Engineering - 2011 "Ryder Scott Company, a consulting firm based in Houston, Texas"
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