When Vista Oil & Gas turned back on their new Vaca Muerta pad after the Great Coronavirus Shut-In, they were greeted with a pleasant surprise: the highest production the play had ever seen. Both the MDM-2063 and MDM-2061 wells produced over 2,000 bbl/d on average for the month, with peak daily rates breaching 3,000 boe/d. […]
Well Completions
The Changing Impact of Completions Through Time: URTeC Preview
“Upsizing completions increases production 37.5%*!!!” Sure, but when? Where that asterisk lands will have a huge impact on the returns of any completions decision. If it’s Peak Rate, that might shorten payback. If it’s EUR — now you might have a real valuable well. Machine learning models can be trained to predict a time series […]