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Dave Meats
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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...
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Oasis Petroleum Inc.

Oasis Petroleum is an independent exploration and production company focused on the acquisition and development of onshore, unconventional oil and natural gas resources. The company's subsidiaries, Oasis Petroleum North America LLC and Oasis Petroleum Permian LLC conduct the company's exploration and production activities and own its proved and unproved oil and natural gas properties located in the North Dakota and Montana regions of the Williston Basin and the Texas region of the Delaware Basin, respectively. The company operates a midstream services business through its subsidiary, OMS Holdings LLC. The company also operates a well services business through its subsidiary, Oasis Well Services LLC.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Dave Meats

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