It’s the New Year, a time for a fresh start. If you’re an E&P company, you may be looking for peer data by basin to use in assessing the competition. If you’re an investor, you may be wrestling with the size of the resource base the industry is building, and trying to pin down the cost level at which the supply can be brought to market.

Using data from thousands of wells, spread across hundreds of counties throughout 37 plays in the Lower 48 states, a recent research report from ...