For each discipline, there are generally at least a minimum of 20+ peer reviewers. 
There is no fixed quota/commitment of work for each reviewer.
If one reviewer is not available, the next on the list is offered the project.
We realize that each reviewer will not be able to work full time nor wants to work full time.
Therefore, the work is AD-HOC with no commitments.
Most of our reviewers are senior members of the O&G community, who are retired or independent consultants, this flexibility, is very important to them.

 

Peer Reviewers must be retired, or independent consultants or employed by an education institution.
If the reviewers are working for any other O&G related company, a NDA between the employer of the reviewer and Peer-Reviewers.org must be signed.
We rarely allow a reviewer currently working for ANY O&G company to perform peer reviewing work for us. (2%). We do make some exception when we believe the reviewer has a undisputed integrity and character.
Generally, its not possible to have a reviewer currently working for an O&G company to be totally independent or influenced by the client.
This is the "PEER REVIEW BY CONSULTING COMPANIES SYNDROME". 
As a consulting company or client, you are always influenced by the client and possible future work, consequently, a consulting company performing a peer review will be inherently biased.

 

Many reviewers have specific requirements regarding their identity disclosure to the client.
As this is a strict "double blind review', The client has no information as to the identity of the reviewer and the reviewer does not have information regarding the client.

An mutually agreed NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) is signed between  the client and peer-reviewers.org
An identical NDA is signed between peer-reviewers.org and the reviewers for each project.
All references to the client and location is removed by the client from their project documents.
All references to the reviewer will be removed from the reviewers CV
We are strict with this procedure for three reasons:
**Protection of client sensitive information,
**client influence over the peer reviewers 
**and reviewers bias to the client in view of future work.

 

Once the client proposes a peer review project, they will choose the number and disciplines of the peer reviewers based on their needs. We will provide the reviewers CV's that has been brushed clean of any identifying information of the peer reviewers. (verified by the reviewer)
The client will be selecting the reviewers based solely on the experience provided by the CV's
To the Client:
We always recommend at a minimum three reviewers per project.
We also will only provide reviewers that have NEVER worked in the clients organization.

 

Peer reviewers perform their own basic engineering checks for each project they evaluate.
Please note, this is important, we are peer reviewers , NOT consultants.
It is your extensive experience, opinions and recommendations that the client needs. If the client requires additional engineering checks, this will be an additional cost for time and software.
All engineering should have been performed by the client or their consulting companies prior to the peer review. The reviewers can request the client to provide more engineering results for further evaluation.

 

Peer reviewer will be compensated once the client as approved the certificate of project completion.
This means the work is complete and no further questions of the review is required.
Payment is 45 days from the receipt of certificate of completion.

Compensation schedule
Pricing is per peer reviewer, and is a flat fee per project.
These are NET to the reviewer, we do not take out taxes because of the short duration of work and the remote application of the work. (This is for peer reviewing services, not consulting work!!)

500 $USD, Mini Project or single program review
1000 $USD, Emergency response review
1500 $USD, for a small project
3000 $USD, for a large project review (Surface review)
4000 $USD, for a large project review (Deep dive)

O&G personnel that provides information on a possible peer review project,
will be given 5% project value (Referral bonus), once the client approves the contract.

 

The reviewer can perform the project as quick as he/she sees fit, as long as its within the project allocated time frame.
The 1st project to a new client is free.
The time spent by the reviewer will not be more than 24 hrs. It is considered a tiny project. We offer this to provide the client a suitable avenue to evaluate the peer reviewers.

 

All work review work will ONLY be performed via remote operations.
All documentation will be electronic and communications via email/whatapp/skype or MSteams.

 

In the peer reviewers team, one reviewer will be selected as the Lead Reviewer. The lead reviewer will be tasked with providing clarity and direction to the other project reviewers.

 

Our peer reviewers are the experts in their respective fields, that will provide advice, knowledge, their experience, recommendations and alternate options to evaluate the problem presented, they will not perform the detailed engineering, ie, we are not a consulting company.

 

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The reviewer will provide the draft and final review electronically. The template will be provided.
If the client requires a final video peer review, this will be an additional fee paid to the reviewer.

 

Basic Peer-Review workflow