You finish set-asides, access and title review, you call the operator, and they tell you every location is wrong and where to put them instead. Micah counts that as the outcome you want.

What you'll walk away with:

• Why the operator's geology beats a surface read every time
• What they'll catch about your roads before your rigs do
• How these conversations have changed in Texas in the last few years

Why it matters: The pads that survive are the ones the operator helped draw. Walking in expecting to redraw beats defending a layout built without the seismic.

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