An oil company employee can only attend so many trade shows, listen to so many papers, and read so many technical journals. He or she also has a full-time job finding efficient ways to produce reservoirs. And often the best available technology for a particular problem is not well-positioned on that person's radar screen. No single company has a corner on addressing the increasing complexity of well engineering today. The nature of the challenge requires close partnerships between operating companies and service companies to develop optimal technical solutions. Shell and Schlumberger provide a good example of the integration of in-house capabilities where the resulting partnership is greater than the sum of its parts. In two recent successes, a strong team of Schlumberger drilling and well placement experts worked closely with the Shell team to extract more reserves from mature fields.
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