You know where the value is being lost.

North Sea assets are aging. Costs per barrel are rising. The margin between economic and uneconomic is thinning, and the teams running those assets are being asked to do more with less.

The expertise to close those gaps exists. Most operators don't have it embedded in the room where decisions get made.

The PACE contract is a gain-share arrangement: Sigma4 participates in the value delivered over a 3–5 year window, aligned to CoP. If the improvements don't materialise, we don't earn. If they do, the engagement is self-funding , fees are typically recovered within 12 months, often faster.

Four dimensions
of asset value.

Production gains that risk compromising integrity aren't gains. Cost cuts that defer safety-critical maintenance aren't savings. PACE keeps the complete picture in view, so the advice you get is coherent, not just technically correct.

From the
asset, not
the boardroom.

Short, occasional notes on what we're seeing across UKCS assets, regulatory shifts, engagement learnings, hires, and the rare bit of company news. No thought-leadership filler.

Built by the
team behind PI.

In 2006, Steve Wright co-founded Performance Improvements (PI). Over a decade it became "the AA of the North Sea", 120 people, working for most of the majors and independents, acquired by AMEC in 2009. Sigma4 was founded to do it again with PACE. Same standards, same culture. Plus a data tooling stack and contract model the sector hasn't seen before.