Why did resource plays replace wildcatting where someone’s gut feel was the major factor driving locations? Resource plays are data-driven, repeatable, and engineered to reduce risk. That shift didn’t happen by accident. It happened because some operators got disciplined about data, process, and learning from outcomes that overcame existing paradigms.
Some companies make acquisition, workover, and capital allocation decisions the same way they did thirty years ago: experience, instinct, and a quick back-of-the-napkin calc. That works until it doesn’t. The operators quietly outperforming their peers aren’t smarter. They’ve built a repeatable edge: standard playbooks that cover 80% of decisions before the meeting starts, minimum data requirements anchored to production, opex, and the price strip, and regular post-mortems that track decision making track records, not just whether the outcome was good. A good outcome from a bad process is just luck. Luck isn’t a strategy.
Avenirre is built around this kind of structured decision-making, putting the right economic data in front of the right people at the right cadence.
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Larry Brazile 
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