A Toolpusher's First Week Reading Energy Dashboards

A new toolpusher arrives on a rig that just installed an energy dashboard. By the end of week one, they will either treat it as another screen to ignore or as a working tool. The difference is what happens in the first seven days.

A new toolpusher lands on a drillship in the Gulf and walks into the doghouse for his first handover. On the wall next to the mud report and the drilling mechanics screen is a new display — colored tiles representing crew energy state by department. The outgoing toolpusher gestures at it during handover. "The new system. OIM wants us reading it. Honestly, I check it maybe twice a day." The new toolpusher files the comment. For the first three shifts, the dashboard is background.