Agenda

Tuesday, April 11

07:00 - 08:00
08:00 - 08:10
08:10 - 08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Session 1: General Industry Trends Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Tom Blasingame, Texas A&M University; Lucas Bazan, Bazan Consulting, Inc.; Kyle Haustveit, Devon
Speaker(s) Leen Weijers, Liberty Services; Terry Palisch, Carbo Ceramics; Kyle Haustveit, Devon

The purpose of this session is to present an assessment of current industry trends, as well as emerging technical innovations that are likely to improve both the technical and economic metrics for well performance in unconventional reservoirs. Expected activity levels, transition of frac spreads, changes to data application and activities, and the value of real time applications are examples of topics that can be covered in this session. 

Presenter 1: Leen Weijers, Liberty Services

Presentation 1: Frac Industry Trends in $/BO and $/Mcf

Presenter 2: Terry Palisch, Carbo Ceramics

Presentation 2: Developing Technologies for the Future

Presenter 3: Kyle Haustveit, Devon

Presentation 3: The Energy Transformation from One Operator’s View

10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Session 2: Diagnostics Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Craig Cipolla, Hess; Felipe Silva, EQT
Speaker(s) Mark McClure, ResFrac; Mouin Almasoodi, Devon; Dave Cramer, ConocoPhillips

This session will focus on the application and use of diagnostic results. The core focus will demonstrate how diagnostic technology is being applied today for individual well completions, reservoir and pad level learnings, as well as how those learnings are utilized to make better decisions for future development. In addition new diagnotics technologies and their different applications will be showcased via case studies. 

Presenter 1: Mark McClure, ResFrac

Presentation 1: How Advanced Measurements Are Changing the Way We Model Hydraulic Fractures and Well Productivity

Presenter 2: Mouin Almasoodi, Devon

Presentation 2: Well Interference in Unconventional Reservoirs: Introducing Devon Quantification of Interference DQI

Presenter 3: Dave Cramer, ConocoPhillips

Presentation 3: Diagnostics for Determining Treatment Distribution Among Multiple Perforation Clusters

12:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Session 3: Rockies and Mid-Con Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Craig Cipolla, Hess; Bruce Darlington, Ovintiv
Speaker(s) Mike McKimmy, Hess Corporation; Orlando Teran, Ovintiv; Will Hunter, Javelin

This Regional Session includes data-rich case studies by operators in the Williston, DJ, Powder River and Mid-Continent basins. This session will focus on case studies supported with data and diagnostics collected to justify current completions best practices by operators often in the presence of severe depletion. 

Presenter 1: Mike McKimmy, Hess Corporation

Presentation 1: Underground Laboratories in the Bakken: Lessons Learned

Presenter 2: Orlando Teran, Ovintiv

Presentation 2: Real-Time Completions Optimization Next to Parent Wells: The Final Frontier or a Journey in Progress?

Presenter 3: Kevin Pelton, Devon

Presentation 3: Investigation of Meramec and Woodford Co-Development Fracture Geometry and Sequencing using Multiple Diagnostics

15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Session 4: Facilitated Audience Participation Part I Maricopa Room
Moderator(s) Lucas Bazan, Bazan Consulting, Inc.; Leen Weijers, Liberty Oilfield Services; Buddy Woodroof, ProTechnics Div. of Core Lab

This facilitated discussion provides an opportunity for attendees to engage with their colleagues, program speakers and committee members on current topics, technical discussions, or industry challenges. The format includes interactive polling of the audience on industry topics of interest. During this session, the results of the poll will be revealed, compared with documented data and discussed among the attendees. This open format allows for either broader discussion outside the scope of presentations or more in-depth review of technical concepts. 

17:00 - 18:30

Wednesday, April 12

07:00 - 08:00
08:00 - 09:30
Session 5: Canada Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Patrick Miller, PETRONAS Energy Canada; Rob Zinselmeyer, ARC Resources
Speaker(s) Patrick Miller, PETRONAS Energy Canada Ltd.; Kirby Nicholson and Bob Bachman, Pressure Diagnostics Ltd.; Jaron Van Dijken, Crescent Point Energy

This Regional Session will explore how Canadian operators have continued to evolve development and completion design while managing parent-child interactions as Canada’s unconventional plays mature. 

Presenter 1: Patrick Miller, PETRONAS Energy Canada Ltd.

Presentation 1: Death by a Million Grid Cells - How to Radically Accelerate Well Spacing and Completion Design Decision Making in Unconventionals with Simple Tools

Presenter 2: Kirby Nicholson, Pressure Diagnostics Ltd.

Presentation 2: Montney Fracture Driven Interactions (FDI’s) – Determining Fracture Geometry/Cluster Efficiency in a Multi-Bench Play

Presenter 3: Jaron Van Dijken, Crescent Point Energy

Presentation 3: A Shot in the Dark: Predicting Parent-Child Production Impacts in the Duvernay

09:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:30
Session 6: Frac Protection Methods, Results, Decision Process Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Brendan Elliott, Devon; Amit Singh, Chevron
Speaker(s) Ken Day, BKV Corp; Sahil Malhotra, Chevron; Junjing Zhang, ConocoPhillips

In unconventional reservoirs industry has developed and implemented various frac protection methods to mitigate the negative impact of parent-child well interaction. This session will highlight the learnings and results of these methods, and the decision process for selection of economic and effective method. 

Presenter 1: Ken Day, BKV Corp

Presentation 1: Barnett New Well and Refrac Co-Development to Optimize Value

Presenter 2: Sahil Malhotra, Chevron

Presentation 2: Measuring and Mitigating Fracture Driven Interactions (FDIs) in the Vaca Muerta

Presenter 3: Junjing Zhang, ConocoPhillips

Presentation 3: How Far Are We from Real-time Frac Design Change? Learnings from Parent-child Wells Frac Data Analysis

11:30 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:30
Session 7: Treatment Design and Execution Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Josh Jackson, Chesapeake; Matt Jones, Oxy
Speaker(s) Trent Wien, OXY; Craig Cipolla, Hess; Price Stark, Halliburton

As the volume of downhole diagnostic data from numerous technologies has increased substantially in recent years, operators in unconventional plays have tried to leverage learnings in order to optimize completion strategies and develop these resources in the most effective and economically efficient manner possible. This session focuses on ever-evolving completion trends such as limited entry design, enhanced perforating techniques, improvements in plug technology, applications of diverter, simultaneous fracturing operations, and other relevant technologies. 

Presenter 1: Trent Wien, OXY

Presentation 1: Frac Uniformity and Stage Isolation Evaluation Using a Combination of Ultrasonic, DAS, and DTS Data

Presenter 2: Craig Cipolla, Hess

Presentation 2: TBD

Presenter 3: Price Stark, Halliburton

Presentation 3: Simul-Frac: The Fiber Frontier (A Compendium of Case Studies from Bakken, DJ, and Permian)

 

 

14:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Session 8: Eagle Ford & Austin Chalk Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Kyle Haustveit, Devon; Karen Olson, Well Data Labs
Speaker(s) Ryan Stage, SM Energy; Chris Ketter, Devon; Larcyn Carter and Riley Schultz, Chesapeake Energy

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.

Presenter 1: Ryan Stage, SM Energy

Presentation 1: Leveraging Pressure Interference to Optimize Development Strategy in the Austin Chalk

Presenter 2: Chris Ketter, Devon

Presentation 2: Understanding Fracture and Drainage Characteristics for Various Completion Designs in the Eagleford

Presenters 3: Larcyn Carter and Riley Schultz, Chesapeake Energy

Presentation 3: Maximizing Resource Value through Utilization of Advanced Trajectory Wellbores

16:30 - 18:00

Thursday, April 13

07:00 - 08:00
08:00 - 09:30
Session 9: Facilitated Audience Participation Part II Maricopa Room
Moderator(s) Lucas Bazan, Bazan Consulting, Inc.; Trevor Ingle, Devon; Leen Weijers, Liberty Oilfield Services

This second facilitated discussion will again provide an opportunity for attendees to engage with their colleagues, program speakers and committee members on the high interest topics that have developed over the previous two days of the workshop. As before, the format will include interactive polling of the audience but on a narrower scope focused on the near real-time topics of interest. This open format allows for broader discussion of the technical concepts discussed during the workshop. 

09:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:30
Session 10: Appalachia & Haynesville Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Joe Frantz, ResFrac; Felipe Silva, EQT
Speaker(s) Ashley Mercer, Chesapeake; Kevin Wutherich, Drill2Frac; Gabriel Pedigo, Seismos

This Regional Session will demonstrate the benefit of various diagnostic technologies and their appliciation to manage parent-child interactions in Appalachia and Haynesville. Presentations will cover case-histories, data interpretations, technology integration, lessons learned and best practices for operation and field development challenges. 

Presenter 1: Ashley Mercer, Chesapeake

Presentation 1: Integrated Diagnostics Focusing on Understanding Multi-Bench Infill and Co-Development in the NE PA Marcellus Shale

Presenter 2: Kevin Wutherich, Drill2Frac

Presentation 2: Applying Depletion Mapping of Infill Wells to Fracture Model Calibration

Presenter 3: Gabriel Pedigo, Seismos

Presentation 3: Quantifying the Impacts of Depletion, Far-field Diverter, and Perf Orientation in the Haynesville

11:30 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:30
Session 11: Permian Delaware Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Dave Cramer, ConocoPhillips; Brendan Elliott, Devon; Matt Jones, Oxy
Speaker(s) Timothy Hoang, OXY; Karan Dhuldhoya, ConocoPhillips; Trevor Ingle, Devon

The Delaware Basin continues to be one of the most active onshore US basins with prolific unconventional production. The multitude of stacked pay makes the development planning and long term acerage optimization a key issue for most operators. This Regional Session will review the latest insights into the complexity of the Delaware Basin, including completion design, well spacing, diagnostics, and will give insights to the most recent thinking in the space of optimization and value driven development decisions. 

Presenter 1: Timothy Hoang, OXY

Presentation 1: New Mexico Diagnostics: Synthesizing Multiple Indirect Reservoir Measurements

Presenter 2: Karan Dhuldhoya, ConocoPhillips

Presentation 2: To Reduce or Extend? That is the Question: A Tale of Stage Length Optimization in the Delaware Basin

Presenter 3: Trevor Ingle, Devon

Presentation 3: Automated Depletion Charachterization for Delaware Basin

14:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Session 12: Permian Midland Maricopa Room
Session Chairpersons Dave Cannon, Diamondback; Dave Cramer, ConocoPhillips; Andrew Tucker, Apache
Speaker(s) Hannah Chittenden, Diamondback Energy; Tim Benish, ExxonMobil; Cody Douglas, ConocoPhillips

This Regional Session will discuss operators’ best practices and strategy for multiple zone development in the Midland Basin. Presentations will include evolution of the development strategy such as formation stacking/spacing, pressure management to leverage full value from the multiple zones and operational challenges. Data interpretations, technology integration, and best practices for field development will be discussed. 

Presenter 1: Hannah Chittenden, Diamondback Energy

Presentation 1: Analysis of Geometry Drivers in Co-Developed Assets the Midland Basin

Presenter 2: Tim Benish, ExxonMobil

Presentation 2: Evaluation of Completion Designs and Fracture Heterogeneity Via an Instrumented Slant Monitor Well

Presenter 3: Cody Douglas, ConocoPhillips

Presentation 3: Correlating Surface and Downhole Perforation Entry Hole Measurements Leads to Development of Improved Perforating Systems

16:30 - 17:00