Integrity
No gap between field, contract and portal.
Our values
Values you can see at 03:00 when two good people disagree.
VALUES, STRATEGY, PROGRESS
Guided by Values. Focused on the Future.
At Petroleum & Energy Surges, honesty, integrity, and respect guide the way we work. These principles shape our decisions, strengthen our relationships, and help us deliver responsibly for customers, colleagues, partners, and communities.
Our strategy is built around becoming a more integrated energy business—connecting production, development, services, and technology to provide agile, efficient, and sustainable solutions for changing energy needs.
We are focused on delivering energy that remains dependable and affordable while reducing environmental impact. This transformation is powered by skilled people, practical innovation, responsible resource use, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
By bringing our expertise and business capabilities together, we are building a stronger, more responsive organization prepared to create lasting value in the evolving energy landscape.
Our purpose is to help power progress through responsible energy solutions, strong partnerships, and values that never change.
OUR FOUNDATION
What Guides Our Direction
01
Respect
We value every person and create opportunities for people to contribute, develop, and progress regardless of background, identity, or perspective.
02
Honesty
We communicate openly, encourage people to speak up, and support those who raise concerns or choose to do what is right.
03
Integrity
We act ethically, follow our commitments, and make responsible decisions even when doing so requires difficult choices.
04
Sustainable Energy Growth
We are expanding our ability to deliver cleaner and more efficient energy solutions that support customers, communities, and long-term progress.
05
Diversification and Scale
We broaden our services and capabilities in carefully selected markets, creating an integrated offering that meets a wider range of customer needs.
06
Innovation and Partnership
We combine advanced technology, connected systems, and strategic partnerships to develop practical solutions and accelerate responsible progress.
With our values as a constant foundation, Petroleum & Energy Surges is evolving to deliver smarter energy solutions, stronger performance, and a more sustainable future.
OUR STRATEGY
People, Technology, Progress
Integrated solutions for reliable energy and a more sustainable tomorrow.
Building an agile energy business with purpose, responsibility, and vision.
How values are used
Integrity: the report matches the pit gain. Safety: a failed test is a stop, not a conversation about the date. Accountability: a named owner. Continuity: cleaner options without abandoning the electrons and molecules communities still need.
We write values into bridging documents as behaviours: who may stop work, who must escalate, who may not edit a number.
Values versus slogans
A slogan comforts a website. A value inconveniences a schedule. We keep the inconvenient ones.
Teaching the values
Inductions do not recite posters. They walk a failed-gate example: what happened, who stopped it, what the file looks like. New people should be able to copy the behaviour without copying a speech.
In practice
The people have to be able to use the values.
If a technician cannot invoke stop-work without a speech, the value is not deployed. It is framed.
Capability notes
What this work actually covers.
Safety
Hold-points and stop-work that outrank the schedule.
Accountability
Named people, written decisions, reviewable files.
Continuity
Reliability first. Lower intensity second. Headlines last.
Competence
Certificates on the frozen crew list, not in a drawer.
Silence is not loyalty
A blocked gate is reported. That is the job.
Operators ask
Straight answers before a briefing.
Are values part of appraisal?
Yes. Hiding a failed gate to protect a date is a competence failure.
What if a client pushes through a red gate?
We stop. We record. We escalate. We would rather lose the day than the barrier.
From the field
Photographs of the work, not stock theatre.
How energy companies actually work
Six facts every briefing should be able to say out loud.
A well is a system of barriers
Primary barrier is usually hydrostatic — the mud column. Secondary is mechanical — the BOP. If either is unproven, the bit does not turn.
Offshore and onshore fail differently
Offshore is weather, marine spread and the stack. Onshore is access, water, pads and neighbours. Do not copy a jack-up plan onto a land pad.
Hold-points are cheaper than incidents
A hold-point is a named gate with a criterion and an owner. ISO 45001 is the management-system language. A poster is not.
Transition is still a live-plant job
Solar on a producing location still needs isolations, lifting and SIMOPS. Reliability first. Intensity reduction second.
Records must match the steel
Investor administration uses the same idea as well control: nothing posts without evidence.
Communities are an operating condition
Roads, noise, local workforce and grievance routes belong in the mobilisation pack.
Safety as an operating condition
If a gate cannot stop the date, it is decoration.
P&ES treats competence, barriers, SIMOPS and return-to-service as hold-points. Digital tracking names who released the step. Stop-work is not insubordination.
The energy system
Four rooms one company must be fluent in.
Upstream
Molecules start in a wellbore
Exploration, appraisal and development are different jobs. The abandonment plan should be visible before the first joint.
Plant
Integrity is a life-of-asset problem
Inspection planning is production support, not a compliance tax.
Power
Electrons have a grid code
Interconnection and offtake decide whether a plant is an asset or a stranded slide.
People
Competence expires
Tickets have dates. A frozen crew list is a hold-point. A CV is a biography.
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