Integration leads to optimization

摘要

Collaboration between the disciplines of geoscience, engineering, and real-time microseismic monitoring improves exploration success. In the slim-margin world of unconventional resource plays, optimization is critical. With operators investing roughly US $150 billion to drill and complete wells this year, according to "Drilling Contractor," operators face the realization that as many as one-quarter of their fracturing jobs will fail to meet performance objectives. This risk is an expensive lesson for an industry that prides itself on effective asset management.