When something goes wrong, the official cause is rarely the real one.

AssureIQ runs independent investigations into high-consequence failures in upstream oil and gas, then delivers the recovery roadmap that holds up at board level. No frameworks gathering dust. The real cause, and the work to fix it.

What we do

We are called when the stakes are high and the answer has to be right.

Three things, done at a level only a quarter-century inside the industry's hardest operations can deliver. Everything else supports these.

01 / INVESTIGATE

Independent investigation

An incident, a failure, a contract bleeding NPT. We run the investigation that surfaces what actually happened, not the convenient answer. Governance, decision-making under pressure, execution, equipment readiness. We follow it wherever it goes.

02 / RECOVER

Performance recovery

We turn findings into a roadmap your board will adopt and your crews will run. Recovery on live operations, capability built into your team, the playbook documented. The goal is an organisation that no longer needs us.

03 / TESTIFY

Expert witness & dispute support

When the cause is contested, in arbitration, litigation, or with an insurer, we provide independent technical investigation and testimony. Findings that are defensible, plainly stated, and hold up under questioning.

The method

How a high-consequence investigation actually runs.

01

Scope, confidentially

A direct conversation about what failed and what you need to be certain of. Confidential, and at no cost. We tell you honestly whether we are the right call.

02

Get to the site and the record

The official version lives in documents. The real one lives on site, in the decisions, and in what crews actually do. We go to both.

03

Find the real cause

Systemic root cause analysis that stops at the truth, not the first answer that is convenient for everyone in the room.

04

Deliver the roadmap

A structured recovery plan, scoped against the outcome you need, with references attached. We stay as long as it takes to make it stick.

Selected engagements

What that looks like on a real operation.

Anonymised snapshots of recent work. Full case studies and references available under NDA.

US Gulf · OperatorRefs under NDA

A major operational failure on an offshore asset, and a board that needed the truth.

Led a high-stakes systemic investigation that surfaced the governance and execution drivers behind the failure, then delivered an executive transformation roadmap adopted at board level.

Stated causeEquipment failure
Actual causeLeadership alignment & decision-making under pressure
Roadmap adopted at board level
Middle East · OFSNDA

Coiled tubing operation bleeding NPT into a flagship contract.

Process redesign across crew rotations, equipment readiness protocols, and pre-job planning. Operational rhythm reset in 90 days, securing $100M+ in follow-on contracts.

95% NPT reduction
Global · IntegrationNDA

Operational integrity workstream on a $14BN acquisition.

Led the integrity workstream across 23,000 employees, multiple product lines, and a portfolio spanning six continents. Delivered on plan.

23,000 people integrated
UAE · Market entryNDA

A contractor that needed to prove it was ready for the UAE market.

Built a bespoke governance, risk, and compliance framework specific to the market they were entering, giving leadership an honest picture of where they stood and a path to close the gaps before a client or auditor found them.

Framework adopted pre-tender
Multi-region · QHSENDA

A QHSE system that read well on paper and failed on site.

Rebuilt the management system across all product lines and closed the gap between the documented system and what crews actually ran. Now rated Best in Class by client auditors.

50 → 98% audit compliance

The principal

Twenty-five years on the tools, the floor, and the board deck.

Anthony Baxter, Founder of AssureIQ

If you have ever spent three days on a rig with NPT bleeding through every shift change, you understand why this work matters. The numbers come from getting that right.

Anthony Baxter
Founder & Principal · AssureIQ

Anthony spent 24 years inside SLB, rising from field engineer in Denmark to Division Operations Integrity Manager, leading global QHSE and operational integrity for a $1.4BN production-systems portfolio of 2,000 staff across six regions. Along the way he ran completions and production-systems operations across more than 20 countries on six continents, for NOCs, IOCs, and the world's largest oilfield service companies.

He founded AssureIQ in 2025 for one reason: he kept seeing the same pattern. The official cause of a failure was rarely the real one, and most firms stopped at the convenient answer. AssureIQ exists to do the investigation and recovery work properly.

Capacity

Principal-led. A bench behind it.

Every engagement is led personally. You are not handed to a junior team. For scale, we draw on a vetted network of SLB-grade practitioners, so you get senior judgment on the problem and the hands to deliver the program. Engagements range from a focused four-week assessment to a multi-month transformation or interim leadership, always scoped against the outcome you need.

Full scope

Inside an engagement, we also handle the rest.

These support the investigation and the recovery. They are capabilities we bring to bear, not the reason you call us.

Audit & readinessQHSE and management-system assessments, ISO-aligned audits, pre-audit readiness, pre-tender due diligence.
Management systemsISO-aligned system design and rollout, process standardisation, document-control architecture, training programs.
Risk & HSERisk frameworks, safety-culture transformation, incident-reduction programs, crisis-management planning.
Integration & transformationPost-acquisition integration, change management, operational due diligence, performance benchmarking.
Interim leadershipFractional operations executive, turnaround leadership, project-based operational leadership on retainer.
Supply-chain assuranceVendor qualification, supply-chain integrity reviews, independent qualification of your vendor pool.

Start here

Tell us what has gone wrong.

Or what you need to be sure of before a client or auditor finds it. The first conversation is confidential and at no cost, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people to call.

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