Severalfirmshaveorganised "familyweeks" duringwhichemployeesmustgetpermission to workpast 7pm, butmostcontinue tosqueezeevery lastdropofproductivity from their staff.
These smaller firms hung on to plots, sometimes for decades, trying successions of innovative techniques to squeeze out everylastdrop of hydrocarbons and in the process becoming extremely familiar with the geology of their fields.