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...
by Well Data Labs | May 11, 2016 | Completions, IT
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...
by Well Data Labs | Apr 19, 2016 | Completions, Data Science
Published over a month ago, I just had the opportunity to read a fantastic article by Anya Litvak of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and thought it was worth sharing. Titled “Shale companies turn to machines to crunch their drilling data,” Anya does a wonderful job of...
by Well Data Labs | Apr 18, 2016 | Completions, IT
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...
by Well Data Labs | Feb 17, 2016 | Completions, Industry Insights
It’s no secret that our industry has its swings. Layoffs and downsizing worries become a common watercooler refrain in lean times, and few are spared the stress that this causes. $30 oil has a tendency to separate the wheat from the chaff, and the effects aren’t...
by Well Data Labs | Jan 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
