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Unconventional Basins: Completion Trends and Production Diagnostic Methods

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Course Credit: 0.15 CEU, 1.5 PDH

Tuesday, January 24, 2024 | 11:00AM – 12:00PM CT

This webinar will highlight trends of the most important completion parameters from 2018 to 2023 in major unconventional basins along with correlations to well- and section-based production. Additionally, determination of reservoir & completion properties from production response diagnostics will be presented.

This webinar is a collaboration between SPE, IOGGC, and EDF. All content contained within this webinar is copyrighted by Mike Mayerhofer and Steve Schubarth and its use and/or reproduction outside the portal requires express permission from Mike Mayerhofer and Steve Schubarth.

This webinar will be moderated by Elena Melchert.

This webinar is free to SPE Members.

         

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    This webinar will highlight trends of the most important completion parameters from 2018 to 2023 in major unconventional basins along with correlations to well- and section-based production. Additionally, determination of reservoir & completion properties from production response diagnostics will be presented This webinar is a collaboration between SPE, IOGGC, and EDF. All content contained within this webinar is copyrighted by Mike Mayerhofer and Steve Schubarth and its use and/or reproduction outside the portal requires express permission from Mike Mayerhofer and Steve Schubarth.    

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Earn credits by completing this course0.15 CEU credit1.5 PDH credits

Speakers

Elena MelchertModeratorMs. Melchert is a petroleum engineer with over 40 years’ experience in the upstream oil and gas sector including: commercial production operations, research and development, and domestic and international policy development. She is the former Department of Energy’s (DOE) Director for Upstream Oil and Gas Research. She began her career with “boots in the field” in Bakersfield, CA before moving to Washington, DC where she managed the multi- million-dollar research program in oil and gas exploration and production. Additional assignments included working at the White House supporting the Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Task Force as part of the Energy Policy Development Group –under President George W. Bush; U.S. Coordinator for Natural Gas in the Western Hemisphere – Western Hemispheric Energy Initiative under President Bill Clinton; National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling under President Barack Obama; and Transforming Produced Water from a Waste to a Resource - Water Security Grand Challenge under President Trump. She authored Chapter 2 of the textbook titled Solid-Liquid Separation Technologies: Application for Produced Water, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, which was released April 18, 2022 and is available from Amazon. She has presented on various topics and published papers at various SPE Offshore Technology Conference, Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, and Annual Technology Conference and Exhibition. She completed the course of studies at the Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA; Executive Certificate in International Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC; Master of Science Candidate in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California; course of studies under the Women’s Executive Leadership Program in Washington, DC; and Bachelor of Science in soil science at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Having retired from DOE in 2021, Ms. Melchert continues her involvement in the oil and gas and subsurface sector as a podcast host of Oil and Gas Upstream, speaker, author, and consultant as President of Energy Consulting LLC.
Mike MayerhoferMike Mayerhofer is the Director of Technology at Liberty Energy. He leads a team of engineers providing big data analytics and engineering solutions to optimize fracture completions in unconventional shale and tight oil & gas plays. Previously he worked as the Director of the Fracturing Center of Excellence at Pinnacle a Halliburton Company, and held various engineering positions at Pinnacle Technologies and Union Pacific Resources. He has worked on various SPE committees and is the recipient of the 2009 SPE Gulf Coast North America Region Completion Optimization & Technology Award. In 2022 he was named SPE Distinguished Member. Mike has a Doctorate in Petroleum Engineering from Mining University Leoben in Austria.
Steve SchubarthStephen Schubarth has been working in the industry for over 40 years. His primary focus during this time has been the design, implementation and evaluation of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas wells. He has authored/coauthored over 30 publications focused on this topic. Steve is currently has his own consulting company, Schubarth Inc and is successfully working to improve completion and well spacing economics in Unconventional Reservoirs. He has BS & MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from TAMU and has been a member of SPE since 1977.