BITT

An Overview of "Brief Interactive Technology Transfer™"

Signa's BITT method is designed to maximize the efficiency of technology transfer and to accelerate its application in the field. Under the conventional approach, an operator hires one or more consultants that specialize in a particular new technology. These consultants perform design engineering and supervise field operations. Although the project may be executed quickly and efficiently, at the end of the day the operator has not built any lasting intellectual assets or skills. More than likely, the consultants will have to be called in again on the next project. The problem with this approach is that the time, money and energy spent yields only temporary gains.

Alternatively, the operator can send their personnel to generalized industry schools where they can be exposed to a great deal of information very quickly. Unfortunately, without immediate application of the new technology, a large portion of the information gleaned from the school will be lost within a few weeks. In general, with typical schools, the operator invests a significant amount of time and money but has to wait months, or even years, for these efforts to bear fruit in the form of projects that produce increased revenues.

BITT Elements

Signa Engineering's BITT method combines four time-honored elements of information transfer:

  1. High-quality classroom instruction designed specifically for your students.
  2. Field trips to inspect actual equipment and operations in progress.
  3. One-on-one mentoring by senior specialists in their respective fields of interest.
  4. Hands-on application of the new technologies immediately following the training regime.

In the "hands-on" phase, Signa wraps up the technology transfer with a brief, intensive prospect development session that we believe makes BITT the most effective technology transfer process in the industry. Prior to the training, Signa's senior specialists will review client data at the client's locations and assist the selected student design team members in locating likely prospects for the application of the subject technologies. Several prime candidates for application of the new technologies of interest will be selected at that time. After all the training has been completed, Signa's senior specialists will facilitate student design teams in preparing a preliminary development plan for the candidate prospects. The final deliverable of the BITT process is a preliminary development plan for each of the candidates of interest with rough economics and documentation that the teams can use to finalize the projects on their own.

Multi-disciplinary Student Teams

Signa's "multi-disciplinary student team" approach is another unique aspect of the BITT method. These teams, depending on client needs, may be comprised of one or more geologists, reservoir engineers, drilling engineers and production/completion engineers. These individuals should be hand-selected by the client based on experience and education. Each student team, up to a maximum of four teams, will train together and, ultimately, will create an actual engineering design for the application of the subject technologies. By combining the training, education and perspective of each discipline, the student design team members will produce a superior prospect development plan. In addition the students will have an opportunity to learn from each other during the process.

Ongoing Support

With Signa's optional BITT Support Service we will be there to assist when our client takes the next step from preliminary planning to finalizing the design and initiating field operations. Under this program, Signa's training team continues to answer questions, perform requested research, and perform engineering review of designs after the students have returned home to finalize their projects.

Signa's training team will be available via phone, fax, email, and the internet. As part of this service Signa will provide updates to student manuals. Once the project moves into the implementation phase, Signa can also provide experienced field supervision personnel to oversee and monitor field operations.