Staff & Facilities

Welling & Company consists of a small staff of highly skilled professionals supplemented by an experienced support staff. Our staff has experience in working for firms in several segments of the petroleum industry, including but not limited to oil & gas production, production equipment manufacturing, geophysical services, petroleum industry consulting, offshore equipment manufacturing, oilfield service, financial institutions and others.

Most of the work of the company is directed out of the Houston office. However, tabulation of survey results and some additional internal operations are handled from our Missouri office. The UK office handles much of the field interviewing for the Eastern Hemisphere as well as client contact with some of the UK and European clients.

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Who conducts the interviews?

Nearly all industrial and executive interviews are conducted by Welling & Company's in-house interviewing staff who are experienced in dealing with key decision-makers in various industries and are adept at not only establishing rapport with respondents quickly but in conducting accurate and complete interviews. A small portion of the interviewing on some projects is sub-contracted to a European firm which has been working with Welling & Company for over 15 years. These interviews are generally those requiring certain bi-lingual capabilities or are in countries where additional contacts or experience are useful. Interviewers are briefed in detail before every project to be certain the respondent pre-qualification and the interview are administered properly.

Who is interviewed and how is the sample selected?

Sample design is dependent upon the needs of the client and the focus of the survey. However, most of the samples are drawn from Welling & Company's database of decision makers (in the energy industry), consisting of approximately 40,000 names. In some cases, the client prefers to provide a list of customers or prospects which is either used to supplement the research firm's list or to be the only source of names (for example, if the survey were to be conducted among a specific group of customers or users). All design, planning, tabulation, report preparation, analysis and work with the interviews is handled in-house within the research firm and none of this is sub-contracted (except a small percentage of interviewing, as cited above).