NewsletterSeptember 2013

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Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2013Speaker: Dr. Muthukumarappan “Kumar” Ramurthy

Technology Manager, HalliburtonTopic: Surface Area vs Conductivity Type Fracture Treatments in Shale

Reservoirs - SPE 140169Place: The Denver Athletic Club

2nd Floor, 1325 Glenarm Place, 303-534-1211Time: 11:30 AMCost: $25.00 with reservations, $30.00 at the door (if space is available)ReservationDeadline: Noon, Monday, September 16, 2013

RSVP and PAY in ADVANCE on-line athttp://connect.spe.org/Denver/Home/ and click on “Register forthe General Meeting” or call 303-620-9080

AbstractHydraulic fracturing continues to be the primary mechanism to produce hydrocarbons out of thetight shale reservoirs. Ever since the success of Barnett shale program, operators are inclined topump similar large volume water fracture treatments with little or no proppants in their respectiveshale plays. This assumes that all shale plays are the same and react accordingly to large volumetreatments. The basic objective behind such treatments is to contact large surface area, which hasbeen very successful in the Barnett shale play. Such large volume treatments in other shale playsmay not be an optimized solution for the specific shale attributes and the response may lead touneconomical production results. Some shales based on their reservoir characteristics mightrequire a conductivity type fracture treatment. So, it is important to understand the characteristicsof these shales before deciding the stimulation treatments. In addition to core and log analysis ofthese shales, fluid sensitivity tests, Brinell hardness tests, unpropped fracture conductivity testsand more importantly a Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test (DFIT) can help define the guidelines forchoosing between a surface area and a conductivity type fracture treatment.Integrating the various data sources is important in arriving at these guidelines. The main objectiveof this paper is to provide these guidelines along with examples such that the costly trial and errorapproach for stimulating shales can be avoided. Examples from both oil and gas shales namely,the Gothic, Haynesville, Eagle Ford and Barnett shale plays in the USA are included in this work.

BiographyDr. Muthukumarappan “Kumar” Ramurthy is Halliburtonʼs TechnologyManager for the Rockies, West Coast and Alaska. He has more than 14 yearsof conventional and unconventional reservoir and stimulation engineeringexperience with Halliburton. He has authored several SPE papers and is a co-author of “Coalbed Methane-Principles and Practices” a CBM book that waspublished in 2008. Also as co-author, he taught the course “UnconventionalReservoir Stimulation: CBM and Shales” to the oil and gas industry in the USA,

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SPE Completions/Production

Study Group

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm (Bring a sack lunch)Speakers: Mike Mullen, Stimulation Petrophysics

Consulting,Milt Enderlin, Texas ChristianUniversity

Topic: Fracability Index – More Than JustCalculating Rock Properties

Place: Halliburton Energy ServicesCHASE Building1125 Seventeenth Street, Suite 1900Denver, CO 80202

RSVP: by Monday, September 16th toWendell SalasWendell.Salas@Halliburton.com

AbstractThe geometry and complexity of hydraulic fracturestimulation treatments is largely controlled by theheterogeneous and anisotropic nature of rocks.Conventional practice in designing fracture stimulationtreatments revolve around the parameters that can bechanged and considers the rock being stimulated ashomogenous and isotropic. Engineers can influence thefrac geometry to some degree by changing the pumpingrate, fluid viscosity and proppant loading. If the goal of afrac job is to get the fluid and proppant below the ground,most any formation can be fracʼd. The degree to which areservoir will generate complex fracture networks, breakinto fresh rock or create a simple bi-wing fracture can beinfluenced by the stimulation treatment job design. Thecreation of a complex fracture network is a function of thestimulation fluid rheology, rock properties and presenceand orientation of preexisting planes of weakness actingin the stress state of the reservoir.The index of brittleness or fracability is a term frequentlyused to describe formations that are likely to createcomplex fracture networks when fracture stimulated. In abroader view, fracability is much more than justcalculating mechanical rock properties. A new definition offracability, the Complex Fracability Index (CFI), proposedhere integrates the sedimentary fabric, stratigraphicproperties, mineral distribution and the presence andorientation of preexisting planes of weakness operating inthe present day stress state into a single metric. Thisapproach establishes a means to qualitatively orquantitatively determine the degree to which the rock willhave the ability to create a complex fracture network orjust a simple planer hydraulic fracture using the

mechanical rock properties and the dip and orientation ofthe preexisting planes of weakness in the rock in themodern day stress state. The CFI methodology is notlimited to shale reservoirs. Examples from the BarnettShale and the tight sand in the Piceance Basin will bediscussed.BiographyMike Mullen is the president and founder of StimulationPetrophysics Consulting, LLC. He has over 36 years of oilfield wireline logging and formation evaluation experience.Starting in West Texas, his career path led him to NewMexico where he began working with tight gas sands andshale reservoirs in the San Juan Basin. While inFarmington, NM, he witnessed the birth of the coalbedmethane play and developed methods to evaluatecoalbed methane potential using wireline logs. Building onthis experience, he also developed methods to evaluateshale reservoirs using wireline logs. Since one keytechnology in all unconventional reservoirs is hydraulicfracture stimulation treatment, he worked on methods toimprove the estimation of the mechanical rock propertiesused in hydraulic fracture stimulation models and drillingdesign models.During his 25 year career with Halliburton, he integratedthese techniques for the analysis of conventional andunconventional reservoirs with a specific focus towardreservoir characterization and mechanical rock propertiesused in the stimulation treatment design from wirelinelogging measurements into a single petrophysical model.Mike lead a multi-disciplinary team to identify completionand stimulation “best practices” by conducting studiesintegrating petrophysics, stimulation techniques andproduction. Mike has been involved with over 20 technicalpapers on formation evaluation and one text book oncoalbed methane.After retiring from Halliburton in 2010, Mike has beeninvolved with unconventional reservoir evaluationthroughout Europe, South America and Australia.Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in ElectricalEngineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla, 1976,and is a registered professional petroleum engineer inNew Mexico and Colorado, USA

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Canada, India, Indonesia and Australia.He has served in several SPE technical committees andalso serves as a technical editor for the SPE Productionand Operations Journal. He received his Bachelor ofEngineering in Mechanical Engineering from India, M. S.in Petroleum Engineering from Mississippi StateUniversity and his doctorate in Petroleum Engineeringfrom the University of Wyoming.

SPE Reservoir Study Group

Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm

(Bring your own brown bag lunch)Speaker: Lon Stuebinger, Performance Sciences,Inc.Topic: Objective Analysis of Unconventional,

Horizontal WellsPlace: Halliburton – CHASE BUILDING

125 17th St. Suite 1900 Denver, CORSVP: by Monday, September 23 to

Deb Savimaki at dsavimaki@mhausa.comAbstract:It has been published that only 10 of 30 unconventionalresource plays in the US have emerged from pilots tofull development mode and that only 30% of those wellsare economic. This adds to the necessity of objectivelyanalyzing unconventional shale wells and continuouslyimproving performance. There are many variables likehorizontal length, fluid properties, proppant types,additives, cluster spacing, flowback procedures, loadwater recovery, and frac stages to consider. Reservesand reservoir parameters like net pay and porosity arehighly subjective. IP and 30-, 60-, 90-day cums seemobvious but are too simplistic. Which ones matter? Howdo you know whether a wellʼs performance isattributable to a better stimulation or a reservoir sweetspot? Does the stimulation have a bearing on that wellthat was never the same after a shut-in? Someoperators swear by the “soak”, but how can you be surewhen to use it? How do you optimize economics? Thispresentation will show you a reliable process developedby two time SPE distinguished lecturer, Dr. JamesCrafton.Biography:Lon Stuebinger of Performance Sciences, Inc., hasover 30 yearsʼ experience evaluating and managingunconventional and fractured reservoirs. He has tenpatents and has authored SPE & other technical papers.His passion is equipping others with his knowledge —including 13 trips to developing countries to teachindigenous trainers how to communicate safe water,sanitation & hygiene (WASH) practices that will giveimpoverished children a healthier, more prosperous life.

Denver SectionYoung Professionals

Lunch and LearnTopic: How is Multiphase Flow Design / Operation Different than Single Phase Flow? A brief Introduction to

Multiphase Flow and Flow AssuranceSpeaker: Elijah Kempton, Director of Engineering and Principal Consultant for Purple Mountain Technology GroupWhen: Wednesday, September 11th

11:30am-1:00pm, lunch will be providedWhere: Sanjel Office Suite

511 16th Street, Suite 300 (Entrance between Marloweʼs and Paramount Café on the north side of 16thStreet Mall)

RSVP: Anne Becker – abecker@petro-fs.com

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

http://connect.spe.org/Denver/Home/ and click on “young professionals” link.

SPEAKERS WANTED!!As a member of SPE, our monthly Lunch & Learns provide a wonderful venue to showcase “you” – your uniqueperspective, experiences, & relevant industry ideas – to a target audience ready to listen. Unlike other organizations thatuse these venues for company sales opportunities, our L&Lʼs offer a venue for networking and showcasing your expertise.Have an interest? A passion? Something to debate? We need you to help us grow and foster a continuous learningenvironment. As a YP-SPE chapter, this is the type of venue, opportunity and activity that helps form the foundation forcareer growth and industry recognition.Monthly Lunch-and-Learn sessions provide young professionals with a great opportunity to continue developingknowledge in the oil and gas / energy industry. Expertise is needed and welcomed to cover a variety of topics throughoutthe year, the second Wednesday of every month (September – May), 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM in downtown Denver.Sessions typically attract 30-40 professionals, ready to learn and ask questions.Do you have an area of interest you would like to present? Some suggested topics include:• “basics” of the industry (geology, land, regulatory, offshore, etc.) and how they relate to engineering departments ofvarying companies

• impacts of elections / government regulations on day-to-day business• financial impact of engineering activities on a company / how our work relates to the overall bottom line• debate / review of different product lines, production techniques, etc.• overview from an engineering at an operator on successes in a specific basin / geographic area• new technology that will change the industry and the way we do business

Interested? We look forward to talking with you!Please send along the Speaker Name / Contact Information and proposed topic, and we will touch base right away. Thanksfor your interest!Sincerely,Anne and KyleSPE – YP Denver Chapter, Technical Programs, Lunch & LearnsAnne Becker - abecker@petro-fs.com Kyle Barnoff - kyle.barnoff@nabors.com

2013 SPE TENNIS TOURNAMENTFriday, October 411:30 to 4:30 p.m.

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Includes: Court Fees, Lunch, Refreshments, Balls, Door Prizes, Awards

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Friday,    

October  4th  2013  9:00a.m.  

YOU  ARE  CORDIALLY  INVITED  TO  ATTEND  THE  6TH  ANNUAL  SPE  GOLF  TOURNAMENT  

Where:  Fossil  Trace  Golf  Course              3050  Illinois  St.                    Golden,  CO  80401  When:      Friday,  October  4th              Registration  and  Breakfast:  8:00am            Play  begins:  9:00am  RSVP:        csmspegolftournament@gmail.com  Cost:            $600  per  team  

Contact  Sara  Heskin  or  William  Stevenson  at  csmspegolftournament@  gmail.com  with  questions  

On  behalf  of   the  Colorado  School  of  Mines  SPE  chapter,  you  are   invited   to  attend  our   fall   fundraising   event.  The  golf   tournament   serves  as   a   great   chance   to  help  support  the  activities  SPE  holds  throughout  the  year.  This  year  funds  raised  from  the   tournament  will   go   towards   our   students   as   they   travel   to   New  Orleans   for  SPE’s  Annual  Technical  Conference  Exhibition.      

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6th Annual Golf Tournament Registration

Dear SPE & CSM Community,

The Colorado School of Mines SPE Student chapter invites you to attend our 6th Annual golf tournament fundraiser to be hosted at Fossil Trace Golf Club in Golden, CO on Friday, the 4th of October 2013. Registration and Breakfast will begin at 8:00a.m. prior to the 9:00a.m. shotgun start. We invite industry professionals to register in teams of three. One CSM student will be added to each team. If you cannot fill a team of three, please register and we will fill the team for you. There will be a barbeque luncheon and awards ceremony following the tournament. If you are interested in sponsoring a hole please view the attached Hole Sponsorship Form. Additional donations, company logo items, and clubs/bags/balls are also welcomed. We look forward to your participation and appreciate your support.

Team Member Name Phone Number Email Company Polo Size

A CSM Student will be added to each group.

Each team will consist of four people, one being an assigned CSM student. If there is a particular CSM SPE student you wish to play with, please fill in their name (no additional information is necessary).

A Team Sponsorship will cost $600 per team, or $220 per person if individually registered.

RSVP By September 25th

Cash or check payment can be made on the day of the tournament or can be mailed to the address listed below. Make checks payable to CSM SPE.

PLEASE MAIL or EMAIL THIS APPLICATION TO:

Petroleum Engineering Department/SPE Marquez Hall #206

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Questions? Please contact:

Sara Heskin (281) 304-5355, CSM SPE Fundraising Co-Chair William Stevenson (919) 247-6520, CSM SPE Fundraising Co-Chair

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6th Annual Golf Tournament Hole Sponsorship Application

Dear SPE & CSM Community,

The Colorado School of Mines SPE Student chapter invites you to attend our 6th Annual golf tournament fundraiser to be hosted at Fossil Trace Golf Club in Golden, CO on Friday, the 4th of October 2013. Each year the Colorado School of Mines Student SPE Chapter provides opportunities for students to expand their knowledge of the petroleum industry and facilitates network-building relationships between students and industry professionals. Funds raised from this golf tournament help our chapter in many ways, including providing funds for Lunch-N-Learns and sponsoring students to attend SPE’s Annual Technical Conference. We appreciate your ongoing support.

Hole Sponsorship $500

Hole sponsorship will be recognized with a company banner located at the tee box of a hole.

Any additional donations are welcome. If you would like to donate prizes or sponsor something specific please email Sara Heskin at the tournament email provided below.

Please Request Hole Sponsorship By September 19th

Cash or check payment can be made on the day of the tournament or can be mailed to the address listed below. Make checks payable to CSM SPE.

MAIL or EMAIL THIS APPLICATION TO:

Petroleum Engineering Department/SPE Marquez Hall #206

1600 Arapahoe St. • Golden, CO 80401 csmspegolftournament@gmail.com

With questions, please contact

Sara Heskin (281) 304-5355, CSM SPE Fundraising Co-Chair William Stevenson (919) 247-6520, CSM SPE Fundraising Co-Chair

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Denver SectionSociety of Petroleum Engineers

Continuing Education Short Course Offering

Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) MethodsInstructor: Todd Hoffman, Ph.D., PE, Assistant Professor, Colorado School of MinesDate: Tuesday - Wednesday, October 8-9, 2013, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PMLocation: Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, 321 Seventeenth Street, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 297-31111.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded by SPE-Americas Office for this 2-day course.

Course DescriptionThe objective of Enhanced Oil Recovery is to learn the fundamentals and applications of EOR techniques. Several EOR methodswill be covered from the three main processes (thermal, miscible, and thermal). For each technique, participants will learn howto calculate injection requirements and estimate the reservoir response and recovery. Upon completing the course, participantswill understand when and where it is appropriate to use certain techniques. Field examples are used throughout the class toenhance understanding of the course material.

Course ContentOUTLINE

Who Should AttendThis course is for petroleum engineers who need knowledge in fundamental and practical aspects of enhanced oil recovery. Toget the most out of the class, participants should have a prior understanding of basic reservoir engineering principles.

About the InstructorTodd Hoffman is an Assistant Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. He teachesclasses on EOR, geostatistics and reservoir engineering. His research involves improved recovery for shale oil reservoirs, fracturereservoir modeling and ensuring data consistency while history matching. Todd received his B.S. in petroleum engineering fromMontana Tech and his M.S. and his Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.

RegistrationThe registration deadline is Friday September 27, 2013. The registration fee is $1,400 for members and $1,600 for nonmembersand is fully refundable until that date. For more details, contact Darien OʼBrien, P.E. at dgobrien@mines.edu or (303) 934-5979.Make your check payable to SPE Denver Section and mail to: Darien OʼBrien, 1632 South Lamar Street, Lakewood, Colorado80232-7038. Please include the course name, your FULL name (as you would like it to appear on the course completioncertificate), SPE member number (if applicable), Title, Company, e-mail address, postal address, phone and fax number. You mayalso register and pay on-line at http://connect.spe.org/denver/home/.

• Introduction and Fundamental Processes- EOR: What, Why and How?- Screening Criteria- Pore Scale Trapping/Displacement- Volumetric and Displacement Efficiencies- Mobilization of trapped/bypassed oil

• Miscible/Gas Injection Processes- Minimum miscibility determination- First contact miscible vs multi-contact miscible- CO2 / Hydrocarbon enriched gas- Optimizing WAG ratios

• Chemical Floods- Common chemicals and properties- Thermal stability / Adsorption- Polymer / Water viscosity- Surfactant / Reducing IFT- Alkali and ASP floods

• Thermal Recovery- Reservoir heating/heat transfer- Stream Drive / Cyclic Steam- In situ Combustion- SAGD

Denver SectionSociety of Petroleum Engineers

Continuing Education Short Course Offering

Analysis of Production Decline CurvesInstructor: S.W. Poston – Professor Emeritus – Texas A&M UniversityDate: Tuesday - Wednesday, November 19-20, 2013, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PMLocation: Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, 321 Seventeenth Street, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 297-31111.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded by SPE-Americas Office for this 2-day course.

Course DescriptionThis 2 day course covers the diagnosis of oil and gas performance curves in the context of normal decline curve analysis but alsowhen two or more fluids are present in the well stream. Type curves are discussed along with the application of the Fetkovichtype curve concept for transient and boundary dominated conditions. The advanced type curve approaches of both Blasingameand Poe are developed in order to calculate reservoir parameters when production is partially masked by transient flow.

Course ContentThe course covers not only the fundamentals of decline curve analysis but when these techniques should not be applied. Othertopics include:• The quadratic equation to determine OGIP• Differences between vertical and horizontal well flow properties• Curve fitting with a Fetkovich type curve program• The utility of multiple performance plots• Calculating relative permeability from water – oil ratio performance.

Who Should AttendEngineers and geologists but all types of personnel associated with oil and gas production operations. An easy to use Fetkovichprogram is included in the course material and practiced during the course presentation.

About the InstructorDr. S.W. Poston is professor emeritus retired from the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University and currentlylives in Houston, TX. He served on numerous committees, authored many technical papers and published books on“Overpressured Gas Reservoirs” and in 2010 with Dr. B.L Poe on “Analysis of Production Decline Curves” through the auspicesof the SPE. Operational stints were with Gulf Oil Exploration and Production Company in the Gulf of Mexico and west Africa.

RegistrationThe registration deadline is November 1, 2013. The registration fee is $1,400 for members and $1,600 for nonmembers and isfully refundable until that date. For more details, contact Darien OʼBrien, P.E. at dgobrien@mines.edu or (303) 934-5979. Makeyour check payable to SPE Denver Section and mail to: Darien OʼBrien, 1632 South Lamar Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80232-7038. Please include the course name, your FULL name (as you would like it to appear on the course completion certificate),SPE member number (if applicable), Title, Company, e-mail address, postal address, phone and fax number. You may alsoregister and pay on-line at http://connect.spe.org/denver/home/.

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