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Permalink Reply by Brian Powers on September 10, 2015 at 3:48am

williet-

I've seen confidentiality on well logs in many projects, specifically for the reason you stated- to protect a competitive position. Early in my career I was loosely associated with a deeper conventional oil play in SW Kansas. We knew that the operator had a big well simply by the number of crude oil transports that entered/exited the lease on a daily basis. We tried a variety of data trade offers (seismic data, drilling records, etc.) with the operator without success until the log hold period was up. Once we got copies the logs, we drilled a nice, naturally flowing well in an offset lease. Some of the prettiest green oil I ever saw

This is also sometimes done in wildcat drilling to slow down  the competition by not revealing what you found: "tombstone".

Brian

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