Service/supply sector will be called on to do even more (December-2013)

The oil and gas business is at an unusual juncture in our history. We're faster and more efficient than ever in solving subsurface engineering problems, and our industry now has a decades-long inventory of known, productive drilling locations in the U.S. The U.S. recently passed Russia and Saudi Arabia as the top oil and natural gas producer in the world. Oil and natural gas supplies are not constrained by resources any longer, but, instead, by above-ground issues.