Higher-Than-Expected Shale Declines Shouldn't Worry Investors
In a recent study, The Wall Street Journal showed that most shale wells are failing to live up to company expectations, stoking fear that firms will have to spend more to sustain their production. The implied result: lower profitability and perhaps higher crude prices. In our own analysis, we found that decline rates are not typically decreasing to the 6%-10% range that the industry expects and are actually trending closer to 15%. Therefore, our models--which previously incorporated terminal dec...Diamondback Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas. The company's activities are primarily focused on horizontal development of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations of the Midland Basin and the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations of the Delaware Basin, both of which are part of the larger Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico.
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