RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:BTE today Yes I'm in the process of finding out what exactly that superior technology is. Shubham Garg is a petroleum engineer graduate from the Unuversity of Alberta with years of hands-on experience in completions and production. With regard to Peavine he said that Baytex was looking at drilling the wells with a new design of drilling fluids but did not elaborate. Knowing something about drilling fluids I imagine it would be some sort of solids-free polymer, brine system to limit the concentration of micro solids that create permeability barriers. Very expensive but if you can get 10% to 20% more boe out of a well by extending it's life and flowrate then well worth it.
When I say that I'm checking it out, I know some people in the drilling fluids business in Alberta that I messaged yesterday. But if it's a bte proprietory mud system nobody will talk much about it. I can't think of what other new technology might be involved except for production fluids and/or new reservoir modelling software that sets out optimum flowrates over time so as to get the most out of a well. I know that you can screw up wells if you flow them too fast. Or maybe new fracking techniques or all of the above.