The drilling industry is built on lessons learned in the field. These lessons give great drillers the tribal ability to identify 5 feet of a screenable sand formation. Next, using that same tribal ability, they can hold an ounce of that formation in their hand and identify it as seven-slot screen. These lessons grow from experience, remembering that the last time drilling in this area and installing a 10 slot, the well pumped sand for an extra day during development.
We apply our tribal knowledge every day while discovering the unknown and extracting resources. But how can we apply our tribal knowledge with 21st-century expectations?