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SPE Workshop: Well Completions for Unconventional Resource Development Optimization and Parent-Child Interaction
14–16 April 2025 | Salt Lake City, Utah

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SPE Workshop: Well Completions for Unconventional Resource Development Optimization and Parent-Child Interaction
14–16 April 2025 | Salt Lake City, Utah

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0700
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    60 mins
0800
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    10 mins
0810
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    20 mins
0830
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Tom Blasingame, Texas A&M University; Brendan Elliott, Devon and Amit Singh, Chevron

    Over the past decade, numerous aspects of completions design have been rigorously investigated, revealing the intricate interplay between frac crew capabilities, pump rates, perforation architecture, job size, and well spacing. This session will delve into the latest insights and advancements from leading operators, focusing on treatment design concepts and the most current field execution trends. Attendees can expect an insightful experience, featuring innovative, cutting-edge field trials and learnings that are applicable to a broad audience.

    Trends That Have Made Us Awesome
    Leen Weijers, SVP Engineering, Liberty Energy

    Craft Frac’ing the Cube 
    Nick Vessels, Senior Completions Engineer, Ovintiv 

    Plan, Design, and Execute
    Fred Sexton, Advising Completions Engineer, Devon 

1000
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    45 mins
1045
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Trevor Ingle, Devon and Matt Jones, OXY

    This session will provide a comprehensive overview of the cutting edge tools and techniques currently being used to help operators understand and optimize their hydraulic fracturing designs and field development strategies.

    Can Tracers Get You From A→B?
    Dugan Hughes, Senior Reservoir Engineer; Zeke Boles, Reservoir Engineering Advisor, Ovintiv

    Go Design the Largest Permanent Fiber Pad in North America…Just Don’t Screw it Up!
    Patrick Miller, Manager, Reservoir Engineering, PETRONAS Energy Canada Ltd.

1215
  1. Grand Ballroom C
    90 mins
1345
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Craig Cipolla, Hess and Joe Frantz, ResFrac

    The session will feature case histories of completion evaluation and optimization in the Rockies, including advanced measurement technologies and integrated studies.

    Sand Production in the Bakken: Characterization, Modeling and Mitigation
    Michael McKimmy, Stimulation Engineer – Bakken Subsurface, Hess

    Practical Applications of Child Well Strategies in the Williston Basin
    Kate Elliott, Resource Development Engineer, Continental Resources

    Treatment Design, Drainage, and Well Performance in the Bakken
    John Lassek, Sr Completions Advisor, Hess

1515
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    45 mins
1600
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Lucas Bazan, Bazan Consulting; Leen Weijers, Liberty; Buddy Woodroof, ProTechnics

    This first session of facilitated audience participation is to explore a variety of topics that are directly or indirectly related with the workshop theme. The session chairs will pose several general questions to the audience and encourage participation from as many people as possible to obtain a holistic industry view.

1730
  1. Trofi-North-Patio
    90 mins
0700
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    60 mins
0800
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Joe Frantz, ResFrac; Josh Jackson, Expand Energy

    This session will offer in-depth discussions on the latest advancements, best practices, and case studies pertaining to well completions and parent-child interactions, providing attendees with the knowledge and strategies needed to maximize productivity and efficiency in the Appalachia and Haynesville basins.

    Integrating Drilling, Real Time and Post-Frac Erosional Data for Completion Design and Depletion/Problem Stage Assessments
    Sam Weiman, Senior Reservoir Data Engineer, EQT Production

    What Interference Tests Tell Us About Productivity Drivers in the Haynesville
    Garrett Fowler, Chief Operating Officer, ResFrac

    Frac Geometry Control: Enhancing Bossier Well Efficiency and Mitigating FDI in Haynesville
    Natalie Naeve, Haynesville Completions Manager, BPX Energy and Tien Do, Founder and CEO, InDZone Consulting

0930
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    45 mins
1015
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Dave Cramer, ConocoPhillips and Karen Olson, Well Data Labs

    This Regional Session will review diagnostic pilots and development strategies for the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk. Operator case studies will highlight collaborative work covering complex fracture characterization, refrac completion design, approaches to leverage well interference diagnostics, and a lookback on advanced trajectory wellbores.

    Eagle Ford Frac Hit Characterization and Mitigation
    Yougshe Liu, Reservoir Engineer, ConocoPhillips

    How Old are Your Parents? Stimulation Impacts from Parent Child Relationships in the Austin Chalk
    Robert Hurt, Completions Advisor, Magnolia Oil & Gas

    Remediation of Polymer Damage in Parent Wells Caused by Frac Hits
    Dan Hill, Regents' Professor and Noble Chair of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University

1145
  1. Grand Ballroom C
    90 mins
1315
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Chris Haubrich, ARC Resources Ltd. And Patrick Miller, PETRONAS Energy Canada Ltd.

    Drawing on new innovations and case studies from Canadian unconventional plays like the Montney and Duvernay, this session offers valuable insights and data-driven strategies to enhance profitability in well completions and managing parent-child interactions.

    Improving Montney Completions in a Structurally Complex Area
    Matthew White, Senior Geophysicist, NuVista Energy

    DFIT-FBA in Action: Accelerating Reservoir Characterization
    Luisa Porras, Completions Engineer, Birchcliff Energy

    Multiple Diagnostics Applied to Integrated Modeling In the Montney: Testing Diagnostic Observations and Design Scenarios
    Michelle Johnston, Senior Reservoir Engineer, ARC Resources

1445
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    45 mins
1530
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Lucas Bazan, Bazan Consulting; Leen Weijers, Liberty; Buddy Woodroof, ProTechnics

    This second session of facilitated audience participation is to dive more deeply into topics that have been of great interest to workshop participants over the last two days. The session chairs will pose specific questions to the audience and encourage participation from as many people as possible.

1800
  1. Lake Effect Cocktail Bar
    240 mins

    DARKVISION

0700
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    60 mins
0800
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Kyle Haustveit, Devon; Trevor Ingle, Devon; and Andrew Tucker, Apache

    Getting the well spacing and frac size right will still not fully optimize the recovery of the section. Recovery is often determined by how we draw the well down, relative permeability effects, wellbore trajectory, and frac hit damage. This session will go through different techniques on how to further our oil recovery in multiple reservoirs.

    Dissolution & Deliverability: How to Quantify Acidizing Success in Well Repair
    Kim MacEwen, CEO Roughneck Chemical Consulting; Chemical Consultant for Devon

    From Planning to Flowback – Optimization of Oil Recovery in the MidCon
    Scott Baker, Senior Reservoir Engineer, Validus

    Condensate Yield Optimization in Action
    Braden Bowie, Reservoir Engineer – Senior Advisor, Apache

0930
  1. Grand Ballroom Foyer
    45 mins
1015
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    90 mins

    Session Chairs: Dave Cannon, Diamondback

    Continued expansion of target intervals in the Permian stacked resource emphasizes the need for close monitoring of wellbore interaction. Enhanced diagnostics and advanced computing assisted models are emerging tools to understand large scale codevelopment among vintage wells.

    Operational Timing Implications on a Multi-Pad Co-Development: Parts I & II
    Kelsey Call, Senior Staff Geologist; Dillon Custer, Senior Reservoir Engineer; Baosheng Liang, Reservoir Engineer Advisor, Diamondback

    Development Design of Midland Basin Edge Using Measurements and Modeling
    Raj Malpani, Subsurface Completions, ExxonMobil

1145
  1. Grand Ballroom AB
    15 mins