Insight
Wolfcamp high grading and the effects thereof
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Report summary
Retreating to the best shale acreage helps immensely when the chips are down. And that’s exactly what Wolfcamp operators did last year. Aggressive high grading allowed production metrics to perform quite well, considering severe investor pressure to right-size businesses. We’ve seen high grading play out before in other shale plays. If history repeats, what’s unfolding around Midland will reshuffle the regional cost stack. And new winners will emerge.
Table of contents
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Executive summary
- Evolving Midland Basin well performance
- Last year’s well results challenge the trend
- Midland high grading in four charts
- Illustrating the high grading impact elsewhere
- High grading is a ticking clock
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Midland Basin Wolfcamp B cumulative production
- Midland Basin Wolfcamp B b-factor trends
- Change in share of Bakken rig activity from Q3 2014 to Q2 2016 and average productivity
What's included
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