SPE Denver General Meeting: May 2026

Host: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Denver Section

Event: May 2026 General Meeting

Time: Wednesday May 13th 11:30 am – 1 pm

Location: Rock Bottom Brewery (Mile High Pool Bar Room) 1001 16th St Mall Unit A-100,

Denver, CO 80265

Sponsor: Darkvision

General Meeting Category: Completions

Speaker: Adam McQueen, Sales Engineer, Darkvision

Title: From Perforations to Pads: A Holistic Approach to Frac Optimization

Abstract:

DarkVision has now imaged over half a million perforations across hundreds of operators

worldwide. What began as individual well diagnostics has grown into an aggregate dataset that

reveals how the industry executes completions at scale — and what gets missed when wells are

analyzed in isolation.

This presentation shares findings at two levels. At the well level, six operational KPIs — cluster

and plug depth control, phase orientation accuracy, perforated collar rates, plug performance,

and shot size variability — show how significantly performance varies from crew to crew and

operator to operator, and where the gap between design intent and downhole reality is costing

the most. At the pad level, integrating intra- and post-frac data across multi-well programs

exposes inter-well interactions and formation-driven variability that never appear in single-well

reports. A six-well case study from Reagan County, Texas brings both threads together.

Bio:

Adam McQueen grew up in the oil industry, spending his childhood mostly in Houston and

Scotland. With a chemical engineering degree from Georgia Tech, he spent nearly 15 years in

the pressure pumping world, working nearly every unconventional basin in the lower 48. After

spending over three years as an engineer for DynaEnergetics and Advanced Upstream, he

joined DarkVision in early 2024.

Adam brings his unique fracturing, perforating, and completion sleeve expertise to the world’s

most advanced downhole imaging and measurement technology. He works directly with

operators to turn high-resolution downhole data into actionable completion and well integrity

decisions. He is based in Denver, Colorado with his wife and two kids. In his free time, he loves

to travel and his been to over 55 countries