The Digital Oilfield is the buzzword of the oil industry in these early years of the 21st century.Data swiftly flows to databases, moves around the world at the speed of light and can be exchanged seamlessly between all stakeholders. From time to time, for good housekeeping, data is cleansed. Many people are involved in these intermediate or final steps.But, who cares about the real sources of oilfield data, seismic profiles, wirelines and LWD logs, drilling data and core measurements? This book expresses the real concerns about input data. It explains the inherent weaknesses of the oilfield data acquisition processes and gives recommendations on how to improve them. This quest goes through the paths of uncertainty management and elucidates the important role of the field engineers.

Quality is an issue of central importance in the NHS and yet, despite a considerable number of initiatives, programmes and organisations that have focussed on improving quality in the NHS over recent years, there is no comprehensive, reliable balanced and rigorous account of the strengths and weaknesses in healthcare delivery. This book provides ......

This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality. This is a task, in our view, that is urgent in times of ‘post-truth’ politics and the rise of ‘fake news’. In this sense, the quest to produce ‘quality’ news, which seems to require incorporating statistics and engaging with data, as laudable and straightforward as it sounds, is instead far more problematic and complex than what is often accounted for.

Proceedings of the 1990 Triennial Conference, held in San Francisco, California, September 23-27, 1990. Sponsored by ASCE; cosponsored by Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), United Kingdom; Canadian Society for Civil Engineers (CSCE); Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust); Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE); Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI); Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand (IPENZ). This collection contains eight papers discussing the views of civil engineers on responsibility and liability in the quest for quality in civil engineering projects. Topics include: definition of quality, responsibility and liability; traditional roles of the owner, designer, and constructor; quality impacts of evolving systems to plan, design, build, and operate projects; and role of the legal system.