When I started in the oilfield, engineering meant pencils, paper decline curves, and chasing data by hand. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was the only way.
The last twenty years changed everything. Half of all digitization has happened in that short span. Workflows that once dragged on for days now finish in hours, sometimes minutes. That’s not a minor upgrade, it’s a reset.
The digital methods aren’t just faster, they’re better. Cheaper. More consistent. They exposed that the old manual grind was slow and expensive.
Operators who see this are already changing how they run their businesses. They’re not treating digital as a side project. They’re making it the core.
The payoff is real. Lean, modern operators can post profits even when prices slump. Their competitors, stuck in old habits, can’t.
In my opinion, that’s the line between staying in the game and fading out.
Larry Brazile 
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