Rockies Resource Rumble: Using Machine Learning to Determine if the DJ Can Compete with the Venerable Williston or the Upstart PRB As consolidation reshapes the landscape and E&Ps gear up… Read More »December General Meeting: Rockies Resource Rumble
Our spring Jack England Memorial Pass is on sale! By pre-registering for the Spring session (January, February, March and May General Meetings), you get a discount compared to if you… Read More »Spring Jack England Memorial Pass 2025
What's up with U-Laterals Discover how U-laterals are revolutionizing well economics in previously unreachable sections! With nearly 100 U-lateral wells drilled across major US basins, this presentation dives into the… Read More »SPE Denver January General Meeting
Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer 2024-25 Lecture Season ESG for Petroleum Engineers - Without the Hot Air (What the International Capital Markets Expect from the Oil & Gas Industry)… Read More »SPE Denver February General Meeting
The Future of EOR: Leveraging CO2 and Methane for Sustainable Oil Recovery Summary: This talk explores the future of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) by leveraging CO2 and Methane in carbonate nanopores.… Read More »SPE Denver March General Meeting
Title: Screenouts, Shutdowns, and Delays: Driving Operational Awareness in the Haynesville Through Smart Stage Categorization Abstract: Optimizing well performance while reducing costs remains a top priority for operators, yet traditional,… Read More »SPE Denver April General Meeting
Title: DJ Basin Play Fundamentals Enverus’ DJ Basin Play Fundamentals highlights key trends and changes across the DJ Basin over the past year. This talk will showcase operator-level inventory at… Read More »SPE Denver May General Meeting
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Abstract: Pressure drawdown management is one of the most critical, yet until recently underappreciated and not fully characterized, levers of shale production performance. While rapid drawdown can deliver short-term gains,… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: September 2025
Abstract: As the Oil and Gas industry continues its digital growth and transformation, the ability to harness data effectively is becoming a defining factor in operational efficiency and strategic… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: October 2025
General Meeting Category: Reservoir Speaker: Reidar Bratvold, Professor Emeritus, University of Stavanger Title: Persistent Bias in Probabilistic Production Forecasting and Simple Methods to Overcome It Abstract: The one key… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: November 2025
Abstract: Organic Oil Recovery is a tertiary oil recovery process that only stimulates certain resident microbes that already exist in your reservoir to release residual, bypassed and trapped oil —… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: December 2025
Event description Abstract: The fracturing fluids not only plays a pivotal role in near-wellbore stimulation, influencing proppant transport, and cluster efficiency, but is critical to minimizing formation damage… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: January 2026
Abstract: Operators developing Tier 3 acreage in the Williston Basin often face thin reservoirs, high water cut, H₂S generation, and low returns. This case study highlights a two- well pad in the Middle Bakken and Three Fork intervals where a tailored completions design was applied to control fracture height growth, enhance fracture complexity, and… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: February 2026
Title: Formation-Informed Performance: Closing the Loop Between Geology, Drilling, and Completions. Author: Erin Britton, Drilling Solutions Engineering Team Lead, CORVA Session Overview: As unconventional development programs mature, optimizing well performance requires tighter integration between geoscience, drilling, and completions teams. Yet zone placement decisions often overlook formation-level variability that directly impacts ROP, MSE, vibration, and overall drilling… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: March 2026
A View of the Private US Oil and Gas Market and Potential Implications for L48 Exploration 1. The private US oil and gas market is currently adequately capitalized but opportunity… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting April 2026
Description 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… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: May 2026
Title: "From Heel to Toe: Engineering Uniform EGS Injection" Abstract: EGS circulates cooler water through hydraulically connected horizontal wells, creating a subsurface heat exchanger. Ideally, the injection is… Read More »SPE Denver General Meeting: September 2026
Description Pre-register for the 2026 Fall General Meeting slate! After purchasing this pass, you will receive a code to use for the September, October, November and December registrations. Register… Read More »SPE Denver Section: Jack England Memorial Pass
Abstract:
Petroleum Engineers should have a basic grasp of climate science. While alarmists in the media have caused many of us to tune-out, the science can be quite interesting. This 30- minute presentation reviews the basic physics, some learnings from paleo reconstruction, recent temperature trends, and then teaches how engineers can make their own future warming calculations. You may be surprised how similar are projections between the scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other well-known scientists branded as skeptics. Often missing from the climate narrative is perspective on climate shift versus natural weather variability, for both temperature and storms. This presentation tries to frame this distinction for you so you can make up your own mind on urgency. The climate narrative will always be ubiquitous for the oil and gas business, so hopefully by having a grasp on the science we engineers can better influence the narrative, and quantitatively understand how our actions can be helpful.
Biography:
John Schopp, SPE, was Vice President at Encana for 15 years, and then Senior Advisor to private equity company Blackstone Group for 5 years before retiring in 2021. He is a lifetime weather enthusiast, and upon retirement found the time to read the 2400 page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as well as a number of books and technical articles on climate science. John penned the JPT article “Engineer Raises Climate Science Above the Din” in 2023 and recently taught an SPE Masterclass titled “Climate Science for Engineers”.
