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Automating Supply Chain Resilience – High on Your Digital Agenda?

Posted on February 11, 2017 by just2bruce | Leave a comment

Can we use software and analytics to help insure supply chain resilience? MIT and others are doing a lot of study in this area. and so are a lot of companies. This will be a growth area for software companies who come up with clever solutions that can be integrated with existing data and systems and which actually work. Entrepreneurs, start your engines!!

Here is the survey mentioned in the article: cse-2016-final-dsciwhitepaper-resilience

Source: Automating Supply Chain Resilience Should Be High on Your Digital Agenda

The Break Even Cost For Shale Oil

Posted on December 2, 2016 by just2bruce | Leave a comment

Some more recent data and an excellent explanation of why the break even cost for shale oil is a moving target. Especially useful is the description of the horizontal drilling technique.

This explains why US shale oil production did not go down like the Saudis thought it would when recently (2015) they tried to pump more oil to capture market share from the US and others as world prices fell. It turned out to be hard to drive out shale oil producers.

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