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Directions to Brookhaven College (Building H)

Directions:

The main campus is between Midway Road and Marsh Lane and North of Alpha Road/Valley View Lane. If arriving from East of Midway Road, take 635W and exit Midway Road and travel North. About ½ mile north, turn left onto Alpha Road. There will be a sign for Brookhaven College on your right after a short distance. Turn right on McEwen or Oak depending on which street sign you look at. At the first stop sign, turn left on Windmill Circle (tennis courts on your left). Windmill Circle winds around the outside perimeter of the parking lots and buildings. Stay on Windmill Circle until Cottonwood. Turn right on Cottonwood into the parking lot, West 1 Parking. Building H is located at the top left of the parking lot as you turn onto Cottonwood. See the above maps for clarification.

If arriving from West of Midway Road. You can exit Marsh Lane and Turn North. Take a right and head East on Valley View Lane. From the map it appears you can take a left on South Hickory and enter the campus. Turn left on Windmill Circle and it should be a short distance to Cottonwood.

 


Date:  Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 11:30 AM

Cost:  $20 if SPE member paying electronically in advance, all others $25

Location:  Ellison Miles Institute, Brookhaven College (Map)

Speaker:  Dr. James Crafton - Past Distinguished Lecturer

Topic:  Modeling Flowback Behavior Or Flowback Equals “Slowback”

 

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Online credit card payment can be made at http://www.spedallas.org/luncheon.htm
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Abstract:

Clear evidence is becoming available that shows that ultimate gas well performance is extremely sensitive to the early time well production management, during the time often referred to as the “flowback”.  Early time production management in shale gas wells is even more critical than in so-called traditional tight gas reservoirs.  This production management problem is exacerbated by the plasticity of shale reservoirs, the need for extensive natural fracture swarms and the now common practice of multiple fracture stimulations of the long-reach laterals.  This paper examines three data sets from actual wells that show the adverse impact of excessive early time flow rates, shut-ins during the early time production and the orientation of the laterals.  Through numerical simulation and physical experiments, it becomes clear that the traditional performance metrics are at best misleading.

 Biography:

James Crafton is the founder of Performance Sciences, Inc. of Evergreen, Colorado.  He is graduated from the University of Missouri Rolla in 1965 with a Bachelor’s Degree of Professional Petroleum Engineer.  He earned a Master’s Degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1966 and a PH.D in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa in 1975.  As Chief Reservoir Engineer at Panhandle Eastern, he began the development of production data analysis in conjunction with pipeline and reservoir management.  At Colorado School of Mines, he developed the theoretical and visual basis for production data analysis, while teaching pressure transient theory for over ten years.  He discovered the “Fluid Conveyor” system for moving fluid, recognized be the U.S. Patent Office as a new process for fluid transport.  Dr. Crafton discovered and was granted the naming privilege for the Ricochet Formation and Unconformity, a major Gulf Coast geologic marker.  He has developed the theoretical and practical bases for the Reciprocal Productivity Index ™ technique has become a practical method used worldwide for the evaluation of producing oil, gas and coalbed methane.  Dr. Crafton is the Society of Petroleum Engineers Rocky Mountain Region recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Production Engineering Award for 2006.  He also received the Henry B. Matson Technical Achievement Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (Denver Section) in 1991.  Professional and honorary society affiliations include the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Sigma Xi Scientific Honorary Society and some others

 

 

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Date Speaker Name Speaker Affiliation Title/Topic Attendance
July 15, 2004 no meeting      
August 15, 2004 no meeting      
September 15, 2004 Robert Truman Baker Atlas  SEC Defined Reserves Booking 83
October 20, 2004 Mark McLane SPE Distinguished Lecture Reserve Overbooking- An Issue of Professional Ethics 84
November 17, 2004 Jeff Bolding Dyna Coil Case histories of Capillary lift enhances Gas production in 1000 wells 60
December 15, 2004 Doug Boone I H S Production optimization at the surface level 33
January 12, 2005 Giovanni Paccaloni ENI-Agip (SPE President) SPE Values, Mission Support Energy Sustainability 37
February 23, 2005 Gary Schein BJ Services SPE Distinguished Lecture The Application and Technology of Slickwater Fracturing 102
March 8, 2005 Morris Foster Pres. ExxonMoble North Texas Energy Council   55
April 5, 2005   HEES  Hydrocarbon development a global Challenge   425
May 18, 2005 Krishna Ravi Halliburton SPE Distinguished Lecture Cement Design and Placement for the life of the Well  
June 23, 2005 Steve Holditch TAMU Gas Hydrates  
July 20, 2005 Michael J. Economides University of Houston    
August 1, 2005 no meeting       
September 14, 2005 John Lee TAMU  SPE Distinguished Lecture Reserves from Unconventional Reservoirs  
October 26, 2005 Roger Schultz (Halliburton) "Advances in High Temperature Electronics"    
November 16, 2005 Lance Kinney (TBPE)             "Ethics and the Benefits of Professional Registration"    
December 12, 2005 Mark Johnson SPE Distinguished Lecturer 500 Sidetracks and Counting The Re-development of Alaska's north Slope via Coiled Tubing Drilling.  
January 18, 2006 Jeff Johnson (ExxonMobil) "Forces of Change in the Natural Gas Industry"    
February 15, 2006 Robert Meize SPE Distinguished Lecturer Lessons Leaned from Integrated Analysis of GOM Drilling Performance  

6/14/2006 - John Y. Jo, President, Turnkey E&P Corp.: "Casing Drilling" Abstract and Bio pending.

 7/19/2006 - Bob Perkins, Nexen Petroleum : "Aspen Field" Abstract and Bio pending.

 9/20/2006 - James Bostic  "Who's Rock Is It, Anyway?" - Legal issues involving drilling from offset locations

 10/18/2006- Dr. John Lee, Texas A&M, "Unconventional Resources"

 11/15/2006-Wesley Smith, Texas Board of Professional Engineers, Austin, TX Topic: "Ethics and the Benefits of Professional Registration"

 12/20/2006-Charlie Kinard - Southwestern Energy Topic: "Southwestern's Fayetteville Shale play "

 1/10/2007 Eve Sprunt, Former SPE President, Topic: "Pathways to Cleaner Energy"

 2/14/2007 -Tommy M. Warren, SPE Distinguished Lecturer, Director of Casing Drilling Research and Engineering, Tesco Corp.: "Drilling with Casing - What it Can and Can't Do for an Asset."

 3/14/2007 - Marina Voskanian, SPE Distinguished Lecturer, Chief of Planning and Development

 4/18/2007 - Brent W. Hale, W.M. Cobb and Associates.

Topic: Noise Abatement and Community Relations in the Barnett Shale.

 5/16/2007 - Phillip D. Patillo, SPE Distinguished Lecturer, Distinguished Advisor in Exploration and Production Technology, BP America: "Recent Advances in Complex Well Design."

 6/20/2007 - Ray Flumerfelt - Pioneer Natural Resources "Advanced Production Data Analysis Techniques for Evaluating Resource Plays – A Case Study of the Barnett Shale"

 7/18/07 - Speaker: "Barry Schneider - Denbury” Topic: "Denbury’s CO2 Tertiary Operations"

 August, 2007 -   No Meeting this month - summer vacation

Date Speaker Position Employer Title   Attendance
9/19/2007 Bill Ott * Independent Petroleum Consultant Well Completion Technology Selection and Design Criteria for Sand-Control Screens Completions 80
10/17/2007 David Leopold DFW Project Manager Chesapeake Drilling and Operating Wells at DFW Airport Operations 212
11/27/2007 Ken Arnold ** Sr. Executive Vice President AMEC Paragon Is it Possible to Look out for your Company's Best Interest and Still be Ethical? Ethics 122
12/19/2007 Bill Cobb SPEI President Cobb & Associates   SPE 60
1/16/2008 Don Hannegan ** Pressure Control Strategic Development Manager Weatherford Improving the Drillability of Hydraulically Challenged Prospects Drilling 50
2/6/2008 Ron Harrell * Chairman Emeritus Ryder-Scott Petroleum Reserves Estimates -- Where We Have Been, Where We Are, and Where We Appear to be Headed Reserves 96
3/19/2008 Mark Day Sr. Construction Eng Advisor Devon Existing platforms raised to increase storm clearance Facilities 64
4/16/2008 Ron Clarke   iii-Tec Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for actuation of downhole applications New technology 56
5/14/2008 Robert Hawkes * Team Leader of Reservoir Services BJ Services Co. Canada Pre-frac Reservoir Characterization from Perforation Inflow Diagnostic (PID) Testing: Measure Twice -- Frac Once Completions 76
6/18/2008 Pat Handren Sr. Operations Engineer Denbury Resources Successful Hybrid Slickwater Fracture Design Evolution -- an East Texas Cotton Valley Taylor Case History Completions 116
7/16/2008 Bryan Dotson Deliquification Project Leader BP America Production Co. Deliquifying Gas Wells for Full Depletion Production 100
8/20/2008 Steven Fipke Global Product Champion -- Multilateral Technology Halliburton / Sperry Drlg Services Multi-lateral, multi-zone well designs to maximize the recovery of unconventional reserves   

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Date Speaker Position Employer Title Area Attendance
9/8/2008 Tony Martin * International Stimulation Business Development Manager BJ Services Appropriate Hydraulic Fracturing Technologies for Mature Oil and Gas Formations Completions 94
10/15/2008 Michael Economides ** Author & Professor University of Houston From Soviet to Putin and Back, The Dominance of Energy in Today’s Russia Overview 96
11/19/2008 Mark McCaffrey ** President OilTracers LLC Allocation of Commingled Production using a Geochemical Technique:  An Inexpensive Tool for Production Monitoring Production 71
12/17/2008 Charles B. Pennington Engineering Specialist Texas Board of Professional Engineers Ethics Overview Overview 102
1/28/2009 Gary Schein ** Production Engineer Dale Resources Gas Shale Stimulation - What's Different? Completions 124
2/25/2009 Woody Sandlin Operations Engineer Chesapeake An Update on Chesapeake's Operations at DFW Airport Operations 178
3/18/2009 Bernard M. Piot * Cementing Project Manager Schlumberger Cements and Cementing: An Old Technique with a Future Drilling 70
4/22/2009 Stephen A. Holditch ** Professor and Department Head Texas A&M University Stimulation of Tight Gas Sands Worldwide Completions 129
5/20/2009 Douglas Miller CEO EXCO Resources Where is the Industry Headed? Overview 164
6/17/2009 Todd Brown Asset Manager EnCana Haynesville Shale Operations Operations 194
7/15/2009 John Lee ** Regents Professor Texas A&M University New Reserves Guidelines Reservoir 161
8/19/2009 Roy Knapp ** Retired Professor and SPE Regional Director University of Oklahoma Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery Reservoir 71
9/23/2009 Kamel Bennaceur * On Secondment to International Energy Agency Schlumberger Carbon Capture and Storage in the Global Energy Perspective Overview  
10/21/2009            
11/4/2009 Joseph Ayoub * Reservoir Engineering Domain Career Leader Schlumberger Realizing Full Potential of Hydraulic Fracturing – Damage Mechanisms and Mitigation Completions  
12/16/2009       Ethics Overview  
1/13/2010 Michael Vincent *   Insight Consulting Examining Our Assumptions – Have Oversimplifications Jeopardized Our Ability To Design Optimal Fracture Treatments?  Completions  
2/3/2010 Stuart Cox *   Marathon Oil Company Effects of Complex Reservoir Geometries and Completion Practices on Production Analysis in Tight Gas Reservoirs Reservoir  
3/24/2010            

 

 

 

 
 

SPE Dallas Section Reservations Policy for Meetings:

 

The SPE Dallas Section Board of Directors has adopted a procedure to help insure a quality experience for all our members and guests at our regular monthly meetings.  As always, reservations for our regular monthly meetings are encouraged, but not required.  Making a reservation allows the Program Chairman to anticipate the food and room requirements for that particular meeting.  If the Program Chairman orders more food than is required, the SPE Dallas Section could lose money.  Also, if too many members or guests forget to make reservations, and wish to attend the regular meeting, we can run out of food.  Therefore, the following procedure has been adopted:

 

If a member or guest has made a reservation and their name appears on the reservation list, they may proceed to the meeting room after checking in at the host table for processing.

 

If a member or guest has made a reservation but their name does not appear on the reservation list, it implies that the reservation was made too late for them to be included in the Program Chairman’s initial estimate of attendees.  Therefore, they are placed on the Standby List.

 

If a member or guest has not made a reservation and wishes to attend the meeting, they are placed on the Standby List.

 

At 5 minutes before the regular meeting, all reservations are cancelled except for the speaker and those who are in line at the host table.  We will ask all those members or guests who are in line at that time and who have NOT made reservations, to step to the side and form a new line so that they can be placed on the Standby List. 

 

Those members or guests who were placed on the Standby List, will be called on a first come – first served basis to be processed at the host table until the Program Chairman’s initial estimate has been reached.

 

Those members or guests who are not able to be processed will be able to attend the meeting but will not be able to eat.  They do not have to pay to attend.  We will do what we can to find some chairs for them so they can sit during the meeting. 

 


 
 
 

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