You would need to know the expected
decline curves of their wells.
Not exact matches
Amidst this backdrop, the 10 - year Treasury yield
declined while short term rates increased, causing further flattening
of the yield
curve.
With the exception
of the very front end
of the yield
curve, Canadian government bond yields
declined, as did spreads on investment grade corporate bonds.
If you follow global financial trends, you would have noted the continual (and recently accelerating)
decline in the slope
of the US yield
curve.
At the long end
of the yield
curve, sentiment began to improve noticeably a year ago, reflecting the
decline in the Budget deficit and the improvement in inflation.
I guess without «drugs» the age
curve is more
of a cliff than a gradual
decline.
After 1931 the Tory Party's share
of the vote
declined inexorably in what became virtually a mirror image
of the
curve of its ascent.
The rapid rise and subsequent
decline of this isotope is known as the bomb
curve.
At the far end
of the
curve are «elite controllers,» people whose immune system suppresses HIV below 50 copies per milliliter; their CD4 cells have not
declined, even a decade or more after initial infection.
Till now, climate modellers» forecasts
of future warming have resembled the famous bell
curve, with the most likely result
of doubling CO2 being a temperature increase
of about 3 °C, and with
declining probabilities on either side for a narrow range
of higher and lower temperature rises (see Graph).
They describe their new model
of the
decline curve in the paper «Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory,» published this week in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Using historical data from horizontal wells in the Barnett Shale formation in North Texas, Tad Patzek, professor and chair in the Department
of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering in the Cockrell School
of Engineering; Michael Marder, professor
of physics in the College
of Natural Sciences; and Frank Male, a graduate student in physics, used a simple physics theory to model the rate at which production from the wells
declines over time, known as the «
decline curve.»
The strength
of the pull exerted by a given object
declines in proportion to the square
of the distance from it, Newton told us, while Einstein explained gravity as the result
of massive objects
curving space - time.
Whatever the
curve downward, whether you
decline quicker, if you're bright for analytic ability — and the same is true
of processing speed; working memory is bright neutral, verbal bright bonus, processing speed and analytic bright tax.
«The occultation light
curve shows a structured
decline in intensity rather than a precipitous
decline indicative
of an atmosphere surrounding Pluto,» said Paul Delaney, a senior lecturer
of physics and astronomy at York University in Toronto.
One
of the advantages to salivary cortisol testing is the ability to obtain multiple samples in one day to be able to view a patient's cortisol
curve, in which cortisol peaks approximately one hour after waking and
declines throughout the day.
For example, a carbohydrate - rich meal in the evening was found to delay the circadian rhythm
of core body temperature and reduce nocturnal melatonin secretion.30 This is relevant, since sleep propensity and quality are highest near the
declining limb
of the core body temperature
curve when melatonin levels are increased.31, 32 Although body temperature and melatonin were not recorded in the current study, these effects would be consistent with an increase in SOL on night 5 and the association with nocturnal arousals observed here.
The forgetting
curve demonstrates the
decline of memory retention in time — how information is lost over a period when there is no attempt to retain it.
I come from the oil and gas business, and the
decline of my spouses book pub'd only on Amazon showed a
decline curve remarkably like those
of «depletion drive» reservoirs.
It would have taken spectacular sales to drive Apple's shipments so far ahead
of the
curve that the introduction
of a major - brand alternative to the iPad wouldn't impact Apple's market share no matter how many units Samsung shipped, so it's important not to read too much into the
decline.
Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer suggested that inflation may be about to increase while affirming his belief that the Phillips
Curve — the inverse relation between unemployment and inflation — is still is worth watching after six years
of declining unemployment and flat to falling inflation.
Flat Yield
Curve - This curve indicates the yields of bonds with different maturities are relatively constant, and is seen when interest rates are expected to decline moderately but offset by positive term pre
Curve - This
curve indicates the yields of bonds with different maturities are relatively constant, and is seen when interest rates are expected to decline moderately but offset by positive term pre
curve indicates the yields
of bonds with different maturities are relatively constant, and is seen when interest rates are expected to
decline moderately but offset by positive term premium.
But at the same time, steep price
declines have pushed yield ratios
of municipals to Treasuries to the highest levels ever recorded at every point
of the yield
curve.
The reason why an inverted yield
curve is predictive
of economic weakness is that long - term bond investors will settle for lower yields if they start to believe the economy will slow or
decline in the future.
We discuss lop sided matches, effects
of the SR bell
curve with a
declining player base, smurfs, and community toxicity.
Strikingly, both
curves show the post-1945 «dip», with the main difference residing in the deeper
decline of the SST
curve, and its more sudden drop.
The
curve for live coral cover in the Caribbean from the 1970s to the present is a straight downhill trend, showing a net
decline of between 50 percent and 75 percent
of the coral.
3) Judith Curry says she provided very critical comments for the new paper and
declined to be an author (the prime concern, and that
of William Connolley, being that
curve fitting alone is nowhere near sufficient for attribution).
I have not done a mathematical analysis
of this
curve, but it seems reasonable to point out that only the last two years suggest that the overall trend is anything but a straight line
decline.
The actual sea level
curves have been smoothed with an SSAtrend filter which has a full width
of 30 years, but since the weights
of the filter
decline away from the central point I cited the half - width — this is like citing an effective width for a Gaussian weighting
curve.
One merely calculates the least - squares linear - regression trend over successively longer periods to see whether the slope
of the trend progressively increases (as it must if the
curve is genuinely exponential) or whether, instead, it progressively
declines towards linearity (as it actually does).
In the long run none
of this matters if the goal is true sustainability because if you do sustainability and populaton peaks this century, the population emergency is averted and per capita consumption can rise on a
curve fitted to the population
decline.
Publication date: 1992-07-01 First published in: Journal
of Petroleum Science and Engineering Authors: B.J. Ayeni, R. Pilat Abstract: The oil industry has used
decline curve analysis with limited success in estimating crude oil reserves and in predicting future behavior
of oil and gas wells.
The green
curve in Figure 2 does not fall off because
of any
decline in actual temperature but because F3 is bending it down for the same reason it bends the orange
curve in Figure 3 down.
In other words ignoring the non-linear GHG efficacy
curve of CO2 and the rate
of anthropogenic deposition is just another attempt to hide a couple
of inconvenient
declines.
As Bryce points out, shale natural gas wells deplete at a very fast rate: «The new shale gas wells... have steep
decline curves, meaning that output from some wells may fall by 80 to 90 percent during the first year
of production.»
Between this email (22 Sep 1999) and the next draft sent out (Nov 1999, Fig. 2.25 Expert Review) two things happened: (a) the email referring to a «trick» to «hide the
decline» for the preparation
of report by the World Meteorological Organization was sent (Jones 0942777075.txt, «trick» is apparently referring to a splicing technique used by the L.A. [Dr Mann] in which non-paleo data were merged to massage away a cooling dip at the last decades
of the original Hockey Stick) and (b) the cooling portion
of Briffa's
curve had been truncated for the IPCC report (it is unclear as to who performed the truncation...)
Just every year gets tougher than the year before - but the negative compounding is at a rate
of about 5 % pa based on conventional reserve
decline curves.
Certainly the long term viability
of natural gas will be a function
of price as well as
decline curves, and it certainly isn't a real resource at $ 2.31 / Mcf (today's price).
Rutt: I think the heart
of the argument lies in the form
of the
decline curve, and how rapidly wells reach the point where they are unable to supply gas into a pipeline without a compressor.
Looking at the bottom
of the AR4 map, the graph for the entire globe shows a
declining and then basically flat blue
curve for natural forcings.
But again, profitability
of these gas plays will depend not just on
decline curve analysis but on natural gas prices as well.
It's presumptuous
of me, VTG, but your time might be better served wondering why a smaller percentage
of CO2 emissions is staying in the atmosphere each year, and pondering the implications
of that
declining curve.
The suggestion that recent warming is anthropogenic due to divergence from a simple 60/20 year
curve fit over a mere 100 years ignores prior divergence from both competing models
of distantly past temperature, one being a hockey stick that shows a slow
decline instead
of incline prior 1850 and the other showing two similar «non-cyclical» spikes in the Roman and medieval periods.
«Conversely, higher system loads on weekdays mitigate the midday
decline in net load and the impact
of the duck
curve.»
(http://blackjay.net/?p=335)(2) The «Bomb Test
Curve»
of declining 14C in the atmosphere indicates that CO2 has a half - time in the atmosphere
of only 10 years, not the hundreds
of years
of the Bern Model used in numerical climate models.
Monckton — quoted by Bickmore «One merely calculates the least - squares linear - regression trend over successively longer periods to see whether the slope
of the trend progressively increases (as it must if the
curve is genuinely exponential) or whether, instead, it progressively
declines towards linearity (as it actually does).»
If CO2 emissions was the prime driver
of the observed increase these variations would be seen on the CO2 concentration
curve especially the four year
decline which occurred after 1958 where it should have been detected by the consistant meaurements from Mauna Loa Observatory.
Assuming everything else is constant (which I don't like, given the huge changes is energy use and mix), a
decline in solar forcing
of.1 to.15 should have dropped your non-GHG forcing
curve by the same amount, n'est ce - pas?
The differences, which, in an exponential
curve, would
of course increase successively, in fact mostly
decline successively: 11, 10, 8, 6, 3, 4, 4, -1, and 4 ppmv / century respectively.