What Salos Sunesis does

Salos Sunesis is a privately held, Aberdeen-based oil and gas consultancy founded in 1996 that specialises in safe and efficient delivery of complex wells, particularly High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) and Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) operations. The firm combines deep drilling domain expertise — drawing on a team with 300+ years of combined experience including former drilling managers and superintendents from Shell, BP, Total and KCA Deutag — with a distinctive human factors methodology adapted from safety-critical aviation, applied directly inside the operational environment. Its service portfolio covers HPHT and MPD planning and delivery, safety culture and high reliability culture development, performance improvement, decommissioning support, and bespoke training and consultancy, supported by a suite of proprietary, trademarked tools including VALUEString™, VALUEstimator™, Well Ready™, SAFECrew™, COMP-Crew™, PACS, StartRight, and LEAD OpExcellence™. Technology delivery is anchored by an embedded partnership with Drilling Systems for high-fidelity simulation-based training, with the firm operating from Aberdeen (HQ, Charter Building) and a Houston office opened in November 2024 to serve the Americas.

Name

Salos Sunesis

Legal name

Salos Sunesis Limited

Website

https://salos-sunesis.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Salos Sunesis is an Aberdeen-based oil and gas consultancy delivering human factors, performance improvement, HPHT and MPD consulting, training, and wellsite coaching to operators and drilling contractors globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Oil and Gas Drilling Consulting

NAICS

Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations (213112), Drilling Oil and Gas Wells (213111)

SIC

Oil & Gas Field Services, Nec (1389), Oil & Gas Field Exploration Services (1382)

akta.pro primary industry

OFS Engineering, Construction & O&M (Field Development, Brownfield, Maintenance) (EUALABAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Subsea Services & Equipment (Subsea Trees, Umbilicals, Installation, IMR) (EUALABAI)

Keywords

• Oil and gas consulting
• HPHT drilling services
• Managed pressure drilling
• Well performance coaching
• Human factors training

Headquarters

HQ city

Aberdeen

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Consulting: Specialized consulting services including HPHT planning and delivery, MPD project management, safety culture development, and organizational performance improvement. Services are delivered by experienced specialists with extensive industry backgrounds.
2. Training Services: Customized training solutions tailored to specific rig and well requirements, delivered at client sites and company facilities. Training covers technical skills, leadership development, and human factors integration.
3. Well Site Coaching: On-site coaching, training and mentoring services deployed at well sites during operations to optimize performance and ensure safe well delivery.
4. Software Tools (VALUEString™ and VALUEstimator™): Data analytics programs that transform inspection reports and usage data into clear actionable insights for drillstring asset management.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Salos Sunesis provides specialist oil and gas consultancy services across the well life cycle, including HPHT and MPD planning and delivery, well site performance coaching, safety culture development, decommissioning support, and bespoke rig and well specific training. The firm combines aviation-derived human factors methodologies with drilling domain expertise, supported by proprietary tools such as VALUEString™ and VALUEstimator™ for drillstring asset management.

Product overview

Salos Sunesis is an oil and gas consulting firm offering a portfolio of specialist services centered on well delivery performance improvement. The core offerings include HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) Services, MPD (Managed Pressure Drilling) Services, Safety Services, Performance Improvement, Training & Consultancy, and Decommissioning Services. These are supported by proprietary tools including VALUEString™ and VALUEstimator™ for drillstring asset management, COMPCrew™ for performance measurement, SAFECrew™ for safety culture assessment, Well Ready™ for audit systems, PACS for project support, StartRight for start-up management, and LEAD OpExcellence™ for operational excellence. The company also offers Advanced Human Factors training integrating aviation methodologies with oil and gas operations. Salos Sunesis positions itself as delivering performance-focused solutions with coaching, training, and consulting across the well lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• High Reliability Culture™: Culture-building program focusing on behavioral safety and human factors
• LEAD OpExcellence™
• SAFECrew™
• Well Ready™
• VALUEString™
• VALUEstimator™
• COMP-Crew™
• PACS
• StartRight

Products and services

• HPHT Services End-to-end High Pressure High Temperature drilling consultancy covering the full planning and delivery life cycle, including operational readiness audits, DWOP and HAZID facilitation, well control documentation, and on-site coaching for oil and gas operators.
• MPD Services Managed Pressure Drilling consultancy including suitability screening, project management, vendor auditing, readiness reviews, procedural optimization, competence auditing, and well site coaching for MPD service companies and operators.
• Safety Services Building High Reliability Culture through coaching and mentoring of behavioral change, safety culture assessment, and behavioral threat and error tools for operators and contractors.
• Performance Improvement Performance improvement engagements using proprietary tools and techniques to heighten performance delivery and maximize client ROI on drilling operations.
• Training & Consultancy Customized rig and well specific training and consultancy covering HPHT, MPD, leadership development, and human factors, delivered on client sites, at the Aberdeen facility, or virtually.
• Decommissioning Services Comprehensive decommissioning services leveraging well delivery expertise, the LEAD OpExcellence™ methodology, and SAFECrew™ safety culture support for safe, efficient, and compliant project execution.
• VALUEString™ Software program for managing, assessing, and planning the lifecycle of drillstring assets by turning inspection reports and usage data into actionable insights for asset valuation.
• VALUEstimator™ Software program enabling operators and drilling contractors to estimate end-of-project costs before final invoices, improving budgeting accuracy through predictive insights on drillstring component wear.
• Advanced Human Factors Training Human factors training combining aviation industry methodologies with well cycle performance expertise, integrating human performance into operational environments using immersive simulator technology.

Quantifiable outcome

• 70+ challenging HPHT wells successfully delivered worldwide
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Enhancing Excellence (Sister Company)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 June 2026Enhancing Excellence is a sister company of Salos Sunesis focused on industrial safety and human factors. Grant Wallace, Managing Director of Salos Sunesis, serves as Chairman of Enhancing Excellence. The companies collaborate on cognitive monitoring technology investments and shared expertise in human factors for high-risk industries.
• Step Change in SafetycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership with Step Change in Safety to develop and deliver a new two-day Safety Leadership Development Course designed for Site Managers and Supervisors in high-hazard environments. Salos also presents at Step Change HF Breakfast meetings and contributes to industry safety initiatives.
• Drilling SystemscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Drilling Systems (simulation technology provider) for operational performance training using high fidelity simulations. Joint SPE presentations on Advanced Human Performance Techniques and state-of-the-art digital twin simulation software for wellsite training.
• PETRONAScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint SPE presentations with PETRONAS on operational performance training demonstrating results achieved through unique coaching and training methodology using Drilling Systems simulation technology for challenging well projects.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Hot Engineering: Austria-headquartered specialist training and consultancy focused on HPHT, deepwater and advanced drilling engineering. Highly comparable to Salos Sunesis in niche HPHT/MPD training and engineering services to IOCs and drilling contractors.
• Axis Well Technology: UK-based consultancy providing specialist HPHT, well engineering and operational support services. Closely comparable niche, customer base (North Sea and global IOCs), and service offering to Salos Sunesis.
• Lee Energy / Acclaro: Aberdeen-based oil and gas consultancy offering well engineering, HPHT and operational support services. Highly comparable in geography, customer segment and technical specialism to Salos Sunesis.
• PetroSkills (part of Global Oil & Gas Skills): Global oil and gas training company delivering technical and operational competency programmes for upstream professionals. Comparable to Salos Sunesis in customised drilling and wellsite training for IOCs and service companies, though at much larger scale.
• Maersk Training: Provider of offshore safety, simulation-based and human factors training for the energy sector. Directly comparable to Salos Sunesis in immersive simulator-based training, safety culture and well control competence development.

Broad incumbents

• AGR (Aker Solutions): Well engineering and drilling consultancy acquired by Aker Solutions, serving IOCs with HPHT, well planning and field development services. Overlaps with Salos Sunesis in HPHT and well delivery consulting, but operates at much greater scale and breadth.
• OPITO: UK-based oil and gas skills standards body setting training frameworks and accreditations adopted globally. Overlaps with Salos Sunesis in defining and validating the human factors and well control training market in which Salos operates.
• RPS Group (Tetra Tech): Large oil and gas consultancy (now part of Tetra Tech) providing subsurface, drilling, well engineering, HSE and decommissioning services. Overlaps with Salos Sunesis in drilling and well delivery consulting and decommissioning support, at significantly greater scale and breadth.
• Expro: Global energy services company providing well testing, intervention and integrity services with adjacent performance and human factors capabilities. Overlaps with Salos Sunesis in wellsite operations support and safety culture / human factors integration for complex wells.

Emerging players

• Cegal: Digital and domain-data specialist serving oil and gas operators with software for drilling optimisation, asset management and digital twins. Comparable to Salos Sunesis' VALUEString™/VALUEstimator™ ambition of turning drilling and asset data into actionable software-enabled insights.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights8 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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