Technical

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

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… 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

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”.