The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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i dont think they can blame their situation on 23 wells although the thought processes involved in their bad experiment are certainly related to their larger problem. There's no excuse for doing what they did and being surprised by the result. They must've had dozens of people making decisions who paid no attention to the plethora of empirical observations of closely spaced wells. I suspect that they thought that they could control the interactions better than they could but it sounds like their sequence of experiments was done completely backwards, i.e. moving from aggressive to conservative spacing.