I just finished a (realtime systems programming) job at an oil services company. I wouldn't expect a lot of progress in shale tech, especially at present natura

I just finished a (realtime systems programming) job at an oil services company. I wouldn't expect a lot of progress in shale tech, especially at present natural gas and oil prices. The oil industry in general has a very skewed vision of what "technology" means. It tends to mean PLC programming, and PLCs are a really weird, small market. It tends to mean systems integration of a rather crude order.