When decisions are reviewed
Questions around wireline decisions often surface during the job.
What changes later is not whether questions exist, but how they are addressed.
Once operations are complete and pressure has shifted, the focus moves from resolving issues in real time to reviewing how decisions were made, under what conditions, and with what downstream consequences.
This page describes what remains available at that stage — when time has passed, people are no longer in the room, and decisions must stand on their own.
Authority of presence
Independent of vendor commercial interest.
Independent of operational execution ownership.
Consistent from planning through review.
RIGPRO’s authority comes from position, not presentation: we sit in the decision space where wireline outcomes are shaped, challenged, and later defended. That means we are not limited to observation; we carry responsibility for independent judgement and for the decision record that survives beyond the job.
Independence matters because wireline decisions are rarely evaluated only once. In longer campaigns, continuity allows recurring failure modes, recurring commercial leakage, and recurring decision patterns to be recognised and corrected without relying on institutional memory. In one-off work, the same positioning ensures the post-job account is not rewritten by hindsight, convenience, or vendor framing.
Operational record types
A continuous record exists of wireline time usage and operational efficiency as observed during execution. This record allows time-based discussions to be anchored in events rather than estimates, and reviewed without reliance on reconstructed timelines.
Observed departures from agreed programs, procedures, or operational intent are recorded as they occur. These observations exist independently of vendor reporting and are not conditional on whether an issue later escalates.
The operational state of wireline equipment and crew readiness is recorded at the time decisions are made, not retrospectively. This provides context for both performance outcomes and limitations encountered during execution.
Decisions and actions that diverge from the expected operational path are captured as part of the running record. This includes deviations driven by technical constraints, execution realities, or real-time judgement calls.
A record exists of key communications and escalation points related to wireline decisions. This establishes when information was available, how it moved, and where responsibility sat at the time.
Commercial defensibility
Wireline costs are reviewed against time, efficiency, and agreed performance thresholds. In many contracts, this directly affects bonus, malus, and final exposure.
Independent operational records allow those discussions to be tied to what actually occurred on the rig, including the conditions under which time was spent and decisions were made. This provides a factual basis for assessing efficiency, non-productive time, and deviations from plan.
When commercial positions are taken, they are grounded in a contemporaneous account of events rather than post-job reconstruction. That does not remove commercial disagreement, but it defines what can reasonably be argued and what cannot.
Chain-of-events integrity
Cause
Wireline outcomes are shaped by constraints that exist at the time: operational conditions, equipment state, timing pressure, and earlier decisions that cannot be unwound mid-job. When later reviews ignore those constraints, conclusions drift.
Observation
An independent view captures decisions and deviations as they occur, while the constraints are still present and before explanations begin to converge. This preserves timing and prevents gaps being filled with assumption.
Record
A contemporaneous record maintains continuity from early decisions to execution-time calls to post-job consequences. In campaigns, this continuity supports lessons learned by keeping repeat issues traceable as patterns; in one-off work, it prevents the job being reduced to competing versions of “what happened.”
What this prevents
When wireline decisions are supported by a complete and independent record, later reviews tend to stay anchored in what can be demonstrated rather than reconstructed.
This reduces the likelihood that decisions are judged without reference to the conditions under which they were made. It also limits the space for claims that cannot be substantiated, whether commercial or operational.
Because events, decisions, and constraints are already documented, post-job discussions are less dependent on vendor summaries or individual recollection. Internal reviews stay focused on resolution and learning, rather than attribution of fault.