Are unconventional well performance gains starting to slow down? In this episode of The Novi AI Roundup, we explore whether the steady improvements in shale productivity over the past decade are reaching their limits. Drawing from the URTeC 2021 paper “Are Unconventional Well Performance Gains Exhausted?”, we analyze how factors like longer laterals, larger completion designs, and development intensity have driven year-over-year production improvements, and what machine learning reveals about the future trajectory of well performance across major U.S. unconventional plays.This podcast episode is based on the technical paper “Are Unconventional Well Performance Gains Exhausted?”, authors: T. Cross, J. Chaplin, K. Sathaye, A. Cui. Download the full paper here.