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Schlumberger’s Gould: North American shale drilling techniques “sub-optimal”
Publication date: 09 September 2011
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Andrew Gould, the chairman and former chief executive of services company Schlumberger, said on Thursday that extraction techniques applied at unconventional shale resources in North America involve “tremendous resource and cost waste”, and there remains among operators a “lack of fundamental reservoir understanding of shale as a resource”.