by Well Data Labs | Nov 29, 2017 | Data Science, Industry Insights
For many operators, it seems like the well is a baton handed off from the drilling team to the completions team to the production team. Each group has their own tools, their own questions, and their own ideas about what makes for a quality well. But at the end of the...
by Well Data Labs | Sep 7, 2017 | Completions, Data Science
Guest Post by Ky Kiefer We often design hydraulic fracturing treatments around historical success. We look to the successes (and failures) of “wildcatters” of the past and attempt to replicate treatment designs. Once we have a baseline treatment that tends...
by Well Data Labs | May 4, 2017 | Completions, Industry Insights
In today’s industry climate, operators are relying on large data sets more than ever to make intelligent design decisions when it comes to drilling and completing wells. The first step in making those decisions is establishing a detailed understanding of what...
by Well Data Labs | Aug 31, 2016 | Industry Insights
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...
by Well Data Labs | May 23, 2016 | Completions, Industry Insights
I’m not an engineer. I was headed that way during my first year of undergrad at Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, but I eventually yielded to the tempting promises of entrepreneurship proffered by the business school. Now, a decade later, I find myself leading...
