We are proud to introduce a new shaleism to the United States shale dictionary, hurdle, as in U.S. shale production is now facing increased hurdle rates. Hurdle(s) can be defined as oil prices, gas prices, domestic energy policy, steel tariffs, falling well productivity, increasing GOR and asso

It looks like the plot of production against gas/oil ratio is a useful predictive tool in the Permian Basin. Once drilling has largely stopped in a county, a rapid increase in the gas/oil ratio indicates that the oil production will start falling away. Does this relationship also hold true for the E

The chart above is based on data from Howard County, Texas. Its significance is that there was a clear break from a rising trend in oil production with a bounded gas/oil ratio to a new trend of straight-line decline in oil production rate combined with a more rapidly rising gas/oil ratio. The phy

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I try very hard to stay in my lane and make opinions related only to oil and gas in my country. Occasionally I will make a political statement that has to do with energy policy in my country. Its my country, and my industry; I've earned the right. I back my stuff up with raw data, from multiple so