Long before surface locations are built and drilling rigs show up, oil and gas drilling engineers crunch reams of data when researching, planning and designing drilling programs. As drilling has become more sophisticated and expensive, operators and service providers have incorporated computerized predictive modeling to give their wells the best possible chance of success.  But as the...

Gathering intel on peer activity in a play isn’t new to the oil patch. Successful operators have been interested in off-setting well information for decades.But gathering this info is time consuming, tedious and often ends with an incomplete picture about why some drilling programs achieve better results than others.It doesn’t have to be this wayNL Fisher Supervision and Engineering...