There is little doubt that unconventional shale plays have gained a lot of interest in the last few years. While the Keystone State boasts the historical Drake well, generally considered the first successful oil well drilled, the state’s oil industry has remained flat for decades. Since Terry Engelder’s estimate of reserves in the Marcellus in early 2008 Pennsylvania has seen significant interest from the industry. Earlier...
Have you ever wanted to multiply or divide the values of two corresponding cells between arrays? Ever wanted to write one line of code instead of a for-loop? Well now you can. Matlab has special operators to perform multiplication, division and powers between the...
As the saying goes, “In a day of work, the best programmers delete more lines of code than they write.” Condensing code usually decreases the run time of a program. Generally, the most time can be saved in the lines of code which are called...
I recently built a computer model for the Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) equation of state in Mathwork’s Matlab. The final program required thousands of iterations of the EOS, so I was interested in optimizing the program to decrease run time. Before optimizing a piece of code, we must have...
By Kyle Barnoff When an acquaintance learns about my study of Petroleum Engineering I am usually showered with questions, compliments or jeers. More often I experience the latter, but one topic comes up most frequently. Where does oil come from? Seems like a simple...