sorry, but resting wells sounds too "renewable."

imo, a better explaination would be that in this highly heterogeneous reservoir, gravity segregation and imbibition account for the benifit of a shut-in.

aramco has claimed that their water displacement in ghawar is gravity stable. gravity stable displacement will result in a very good recovery of ooip, on the order of 65%. gravity is good, gravity is always there. gravity seems to be all but ignored in petroleum engineering lore.

how to fit this on a bumper sticker ?

I have a post on "coning" and the other problems of trying to speed up production, but it is a little ways off yet.

coning is a wellbore problem, i am talking about the displacement rate for the reservoir.