Performance is a shared benefit

摘要

Shaving days from the drilling and completions time cycle is a worthy goal, but who gets to take the credit? Downhole tools are valued for their ability to lower costs and decrease the time it takes to get to first production. From the bit to the top drive and the fluids circulating through the annulus, each component shares the stake in both outperforming past results and overall failure. Today's drilling technology market is strong, and it boasts a wide variety of processes and tool suites that give operators more confidence. Work is done safely, with more efficiency, and everyone benefits when a job comes in under budget. But the question remains, "Who takes credit for improvements in efficiency?" As youths, my father and his younger brother used to pick cotton for extra money. He once told me that his brother had a knack for the activity. At the end of the day, no matter how hard he tried to out-pick him, my uncle always came to the scales with more cotton to trade. "I never could figure out how he did it, but he always beat me," he said.