Motivators for Change

Motivator for Change

Why search for new technology, spend money, slow field development, and change current operating practices when drilling takes less than 3 months, and the sites are remediated?
 
Many environmentally sensitiver areas experience long term negative environmental impact in the form of habitat fractionation, soil and plant disruption, and waterway impairment caused by the unnecessarily large "footprint" of drilling operations.
 
The slides here are examples.