Spotlight On: Fracture ID

Identify Well-to-Well Variability with Fracture ID’s Drillbit Geomechanics™ The Well Data Labs ‘Spotlight On’ Series takes a look at the technology being deployed on pads across US shale plays.  Whether it’s a new service being rolled out by Big Blue or Big Red, or a...

The Refrac: Pumping New Life Into Shale

For as long as hydraulic fracturing, or fracing, has existed, the story goes the same way. A well is drilled, cased, completed, and put on production. And the story always ends the same way too – eventually the well runs dry. Companies move on to tap new wells because...

Bridging the IT Divide – Part 2

This is a series of guest posts by author and industry-insider Jim Crompton.  Crompton is an Energy Advisor for Rocky Mountain Innosphere and an independent consultant through Reflections Data Consulting LLC.   Getting to know IT I hope that I am catching you...

Bridging the IT Divide – Part 1

This is a series of guest posts by author and industry-insider Jim Crompton.  Crompton is an Energy Advisor for Rocky Mountain Innosphere and an independent consultant through Reflections Data Consulting LLC.     Houston, we have a problem! While it makes great...

Welcome and Hello

Here in the Well Data Labs office, we regularly talk about how we can build software that helps petroleum engineers be better at their jobs.  Our core goal with this blog is exactly the same – to give you, our reader, bite size pieces of quality content that can...