The Reserves Trap in Diligence: Why "AI" Type Curves Inflate the EUR You're Buying
When a private-equity fund or a capital partner buys an oil and gas asset, what they're really buying is a number: the estimated
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What PVT Actually Is — And How Getting It Wrong Quietly Breaks Everything Downstream
Ask a room of non-engineers what determines how much oil a field will produce and they'll say something about the size of the
Force-Fit vs Auto-Fit: Why "AI" Decline Curves Overstate Your Reserves
There is a specific, well-documented way to make an oil or gas well look more valuable than it is, and it hides inside one innocent-looking
A Day in the Life: The Reservoir Engineer
"Petroleum engineer" is one job title covering sub-disciplines that share a hallway and almost nothing else about their day. This is the one
A Day in the Life: The Reservoir Simulation Engineer
Reservoir engineering forecasts the asset. Reservoir simulation builds the physics model the forecast is argued against. They sound like the same job — outsiders, and plenty
Where Decline-Curve Analysis Fits — and Why We Built a Browser-Native Engine for It
Decline-curve analysis is the load-bearing first step of almost every reserves number. We rebuilt the hard part to run entirely in the browser — matching Equinor's open-source math to 0.02 ppm, with no server and no data upload.
The open-source reservoir engineering stack — reference architecture for the bottom of the market
Three modules, sharing a Postgres backbone: ingestion, model/forecast, reporting+audit. Buildable in 4-8 weeks on $40-80/month infrastructure. The open-source replacement for the enterprise reserves stack at the bottom of the market.
What super-majors actually built — Johan Sverdrup and SLB's agentic AI reservoir architecture
Two recent reference architectures from the published literature: Equinor's Johan Sverdrup digital twin and SLB+ONGC's 2025 agentic AI framework for large-scale well modeling. Both describe the same architectural pattern.
The reserves engineering gap — three workflow gaps the 2024-26 literature is calling out
Small E&P operators and family offices are running 2026 capital on 1990s workflows. The 2024-26 reservoir engineering literature has converged on the diagnosis: the gap is in workflow infrastructure, not algorithms.