New well productivity levels have increased steadily across the major shale gas and tight oil
basins of North America since large-scale development began a decade ago. These gains …

In recent years, geologists and petroleum engineers have struggled to clearly identify the
mechanisms that drive productivity in horizontal, hydraulically-fractured oil wells producing …

We estimated oil supply from hydraulically fractured horizontal wells completed in North
Dakota from March 2015 through May 2019. We modeled impacts on production of price …

We formulate a model of shale oil development that identifies how much of the US resource
base is likely to be economically viable at various price levels, and what share of potential …

Using a large dataset of well-level natural gas production from Wyoming, we evaluate the
respective roles played by market signals and geological characteristics in natural gas …

This paper identifies the drivers of the phenomenal growth in productivity in hydraulically
fractured horizontal oil wells producing from the middle member of the Bakken Formation in …

We often link increasing productivity in resource extraction to innovation in how firms extract.
Yet resource quality-where firms extract-is a key driver of productivity. Using a structural …

This study quantifies the amount of habitat fragmentation experienced since the introduction
of hydraulic fracturing in the Bakken region of North Dakota, using the Little Missouri …

Power purchase agreements (PPAs) are contracts that have become popular among private
firms attempting to meet voluntarily adopted climate goals. Using data from the US EIA and …

We propose a new way to estimate the supply curve of remaining shale oil reserves in the
US Our method applies the principle of “successive sampling without replacement” to derive …