Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min · 5 segments
From the Oilfield Tailgate interview archive: Matthew Hill talks with Jennifer Miskimins at an SPE fracturing conference about internships, learning in the field and helping the next generation enter…
Globally, when we go out and drill a well, we're really only going to bring up about 10% of what we hope we could.
What do you think the possibilities are doubling that? And then how many years are we from that?
And I think actually coming back, that's one thing a lot of I think the general public has absolutely no idea is how minimal we actually produce and the easy stuff's gone, the hard stuff's available.
The legend upstairs, he's like, you know, we've probably got some of our biggest hurdles in our industry coming up.
We need smart young people to come in and actually help us out with this.
Globally, when we go out and drill a well, we're really only going to bring up about 10% of what we hope we could.
What do you think the possibilities are doubling that? And then how many years are we from that?
And I think actually coming back, that's one thing a lot of I think the general public has absolutely no idea is how minimal we actually produce and the easy stuff's gone, the hard stuff's available.
The legend upstairs, he's like, you know, we've probably got some of our biggest hurdles in our industry coming up.
We need smart young people to come in and actually help us out with this.
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