Powering informed
decisions

Why Performance Forum?

Since 1994, we have been leading collaboration and benchmarking amongst the offshore upstream energy sector. As the industry transitions to new energies and technologies, our scope expands to support our members.

Assists with early stage
concept screening

Screen early-stage concepts using real cost and schedule data from executed projects.

Optioneering undertaken quickly and effectively.

Quickly develop indicative project costs and schedules that have a solid basis and represent real-world performance.

Provides assurance at
decision-gates

Compare your planned cost and schedule with what has been achieved by your peers.

Provide assurance to management and other stakeholders that your proposals are realistic.

Project teams can approach decision-gates with confidence that their estimates and schedules are robust and withstand scrutiny.

Improve future performance
through close-out benchmarking

Highlight the lessons to be learned from your projects.

Identify where your projects have performed well so you can repeat that performance.

Identify where your performance has been weaker to avoid making the same mistakes again.

Workshops and
collaboration

The Performance Forum is member led. Together the members set the priorities and the programme.

Regional workshops, study groups, and member case studies allow experience and lessons learned to be shared between members.

To find out more, contact us.

Membership of Performance Forum is open to energy sector companies who commit to share their own project outturn cost and schedule data, in return for access to the collected experience of others.

Online interactive metrics tool

Members can access over 1200 cost, schedule, and project complexity metrics, reflecting the trend of industry performance.

Meetings, study groups and events

We hold webinars, workshops, and study groups where members can discuss and share with their peers in the industry.

Member led

We are led by our members who determine our scope of service and our annual programme of work..

To find out more about membership, contact us