Colorado School of Mines Joint Session
2023-04-12 17:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | The Rose Theater, 1119 Washington Avenue, Golden, CO, 80401, United States
Host: SPE Colorado School of Mines Section x SPE Denver Section
Event: April 12, 2023 SPE Joint Session
Time: April 12, 2023 5:00 – 9:00pm
Location:
The Rose
1119 Washington Street
Golden, CO 80401
Speaker: CSM chapter
Topic: Brief coverage of how the industry had supported our student chapter and the Petrobowl team

Come join both The Colorado School of Mines and Denver Society of Petroleum Engineers Sections for the annual Joint Session! A fun student and industry professional mixer with drinks, food, and a Petrobowl competition with open entry. Come compete along side the nationally ranked CSM Petrobowlteam against your friends and colleagues.
Speaker Biography:
Josh Bock, CSM SPE President.
Graduating Senior from the Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Engineering Department. Active SPE and Petroleum Honors Society President, Edgar Mine Research Drilling Assistant, and Petroleum Engineering Student Ambassador.
Registration Link: Click HERE

Technical Happy Hour​ - Dapo Adejare - Production analysis and production forecasting in unconventional reservoirs using initial production data
2023-03-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Denver Earth Resources Library, 730 17th Street Suite B1, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
Host: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Denver Section
Event: March 21st, 2023 Technical Happy Hour​
Time: March 21st, 4-6 (HH begins at 4, Talk at 430, Social until 6)
Location: DERL
Sponsor: Revo Testing Technologies
Study Group Category: Completion
Speaker: Dapo Adejare, Reservoir Engineering Technical Advisor, Revo Testing Technologies
Title: Production analysis and production forecasting in unconventional reservoirs using initial production data
Abstract:
Two examples from the SPE data repository will be used to illustrate a method for forecasting production in unconventional reservoirs using initial production data (first 1-2 months of production).
Analysis of hourly initial production data indicates a flow regime sequence of sub-radial flow (slope <0.4), followed by a 1st boundary (slope ~1) and then sublinear flow (slope > 0.5) on Rate Normalized Pressure vs. Material Balance Time plots. These flow regime sequences are applied in a workflow to determine the fracture half-length, permeability, and the number of fractures which are then used in a model to forecast production.
Additional examples will show how this workflow is applied to evaluate completion effectiveness.
This presentation illustrates the significance of high frequency/high quality initial production data. The reservoir transients that indicate sub-radial flow and a unit slope preceding sublinear flow are often masked by lower resolution daily data and hourly data with measurement errors.
Bio:
Dapo Adejare is a Reservoir Engineering Technical Advisor with Revo Testing Technologies where he is helping to develop and apply new technologies for unconventional well performance evaluation. He holds a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Volunteer at the Denver Rescue Mission
2023-03-21 06:45 - 08:30, 2023-02-21 06:45 - 08:30 | Denver Rescue Mission, 2222 Lawrence St, Denver, CO, 80205, United States
Please help SPE Denver Section give back to the Denver Rescue Mission by serving breakfast at their Lawrence Street location.

Please arrive by 6:45 and plan to stay till 8:30

For more info Contact Nicolas Cosca at Nicolas.Cosca@hpinc.com

General Meeting - Luis E. Zerpa - Petroleum Engineering Opportunities for a Net-Zero Emissions Goal
2023-03-15 11:30 - 13:00 | Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Pl, Denver, CO, 80204
Host: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Denver Section

Event: March 15, 2023 General Meeting

Time: March 15, 2023 11:30am-1:00pm

REGISTRATION – Click HERE

Speaker: Luis E. Zerpa, Associate Professor (Colorado School of Mines)

Title: Petroleum Engineering Opportunities for a Net-Zero Emissions Goal

Presentation Abstract:
We are living critical times for the future of the petroleum industry. Perceived anthropogenic effects on climate, have promoted the demand from worldwide socio-political and economic forces for the management and mitigation of industrial carbon emissions. The petroleum industry is well posed to have important contributions in this space, considering the proven technical skills of the Petroleum Engineering disciplines (i.e., reservoir engineering, production, drilling, and completions). At Mines, in collaboration with students and other faculty, we have developed a diverse research program that is contributing with the petroleum industry transition to net zero emissions. In this presentation, I give a summary of our exciting research efforts that include projects on geothermal energy, gas hydrates in flow assurance and in nature, unconventional low permeability oil/gas reservoirs, and more recently on geological carbon sequestration.

Speaker Biography:
Luis Zerpa is an Associate Professor at the Petroleum Engineering Department of the Colorado School of Mines, and Director of the Center for Rock and Fluid Multiphysics. Luis received his degrees in Mechanical Engineering (BS and MS) from the University of Zulia (Venezuela) and PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. Luis previous experience working in industry includes the design of an industrial offshore chemical flooding pilot project for enhanced oil recovery. His research combines experimental and modeling evaluation of multiphysical properties of rocks, fluids, and their interactions with applications to petroleum reservoir engineering, flow assurance, geothermal, and CCUS.

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2023 YPE/SPE YP Ski Fast Energy Bash
2023-03-03 - 2023-03-05 | Keystone Resort, 100 Dercum Square, Keystone, Colorado, 80435
Welcome to the annual 2023 YPE –SPE YP Ski Fast Energy Convention co-hosted by YPE Denver and SPE International’s Denver Section! If you’re a ski or snowboard enthusiast and in the oil & gas, renewables, or the energy industry, you won’t want to miss this blast of an event! This year we’ll be taking over the slopes of Keystone on March 3rd-5th, with tons of skiing, food, drinks, fun, and great networking throughout the weekend!
We’ll have a ski bus traveling up on Friday from downtown Denver, with the Main Event Après Ski Party on Friday afternoon. Several other events and networking opportunities are planned for the remainder of the weekend, including a dinner party Saturday night and the now-famous shirtless closing run on Saturday – snow or shine!
Registration this year is a-la-carte. We hope you will stay the weekend and enjoy the slopes, great people, and all the exciting events. Plan to buy tickets for the days you’ll ski! We’ll be skiing Friday 3/3 and Saturday 3/4. The bus will be leaving late morning Sunday 3/5 returning to Denver. Feel free to attend any and all events, even if you don’t ski!
Questions? Contact YPE Ski Trip Chair, Maureen (maureen.evenson@gmail.com).
Registration Options
Weekend Bundle

Pre Sale: $620 (Valid until 10/31/2022)
Blue Run: $670 (Valid 11/1/2022 –12/31/2022)
Last Minute Guy: $720 (1/1/2023–3/1/2023)

Weekend bundle includes transportation, lodging (we have two townhouses and one mansion reserved), and all al la carte items. BUNDLES DO NOT INCLUDE LIFT TICKETS. Once you’ve registered, we will reach out with more details on lodging.
A la Carte

Friday Main Après: $65
Saturday Afternoon Après: $15
Saturday Night Dinner Party: $40
Bus Friday to Mountain: $40
Bus Sunday from Mountain: $40

Lift Tickets
Don’t forget your lift tickets! Single-day tickets are available for purchase on the Keystone website (https://www.keystoneresort.com/plan-your-trip/lift-access/tickets) or the Epic Pass website (https://www.epicpass.com). We recommend purchasing tickets as soon as possible for pre-season discounts.
Sponsorship Opportunities
We have plenty of opportunities, big and small, to sponsor! If you are interested in sponsoring this fantastic event, please visit our event Sponsorship page (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sponsorships-2023-spe-ype-ski-fast-energy-bash-tickets-441969702277). Questions? Contact Andrew Johnson at SPE YP (AJohnson23@slb.com; or Maureen Evenson at YPE (maureen.evenson@gmail.com; 612-759-8688).
We look forward to seeing you again this year for the 2023 YPE –SPE YP Ski Fast Energy Convention!!

-YPE Denver
-SPE Denver, Young Professionals
Register Here

SPE Regional Awards Nomination Deadline
2023-03-01 | CO
SPE Awards
SPE awards recognize members for their technical contributions, professional excellence, career achievement, service to colleagues, industry leadership, and public service.
International awards recognize individuals who make significant technical and professional contributions to the petroleum engineering profession and to the worldwide oil and gas industry. (Go to petrowiki.spe.org/Taxonomy to learn about technical taxonomy.)
Regional awards recognize members who contribute exceptional service and leadership within SPE, as well as making significant professional contributions within their technical disciplines at the SPE regional level.
International awards are presented during ATCE.
Regional awards are presented at local events.
Nominate a colleague here

SPE 43rd Annual Raquetball Winter Tournament
2023-02-24 12:30 - 15:00 | Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Pl, Denver, CO, 80204
Join us for an afternoon of fun, competition and socializing. All levels of play are welcome; typically there will be 4 different skill divisions, from novice through A/B.

When: FEBRUARY 24, 2023, 12:30 PM
Where: Denver Athletic Club (downtown)
What: Racquetball / Handball
• Cost to enter: $40.00 (all net proceeds go to the SPE scholarship fund). Includes after tourney banquet with drinks, appetizers, awards and door prizes.
• Information and registration available on the Denver SPE website, at: https://denverspe.org/
• For more information, e-mail tournament organizer (John) at: jarsenault@bayswater.us

Denver Metro Region Science and Engineering Fair - Volunteering Opportunity
2023-02-24 09:00 - 17:00 | CO
We are excited to announce that judge registration is now open for the 2023 CoorsTek Denver Metro Regional Science and Engineering Fair! Join SPE and other volunteers and show your enthusiasm and expertise to help our student researchers get the most out of their fair experience. Judges engage directly with students and their projects, asking questions, guiding discussions, and ultimately selecting the winners of the fair. Year over year, students report that the #1 reason they participate is the opportunity to meet and receive feedback from real live STEM professionals. Help us show students that This is what a scientist looks like!
The 2023 fair is scheduled as a two-day event, with judging taking place on Friday, February 24th. All judges must be available to participate in-person on February 24th from 9 am – 5 pm.
Contact SPE board member Nico Cosca (nicolas.cosca@hpinc.com) if you have any questions.

Denver Section Industry Advisory Committee
2023-02-22 09:00 - 09:30 | CO
The next Denver Section Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting will be held via Zoom from 0900-0930 on February 22, 2023. The Committee is comprised of key engineering and geoscience staff from service, midstream, and upstream energy industry companies with operations in the Rockies. The purpose of the IAC is to facilitate communication with and amongst companies and give them the opportunity to provide input directly to the Denver SPE Section Board on how the Section can best serve their Denver-based professional staff. Anyone not already on the Committee wishing to attend can contact John Benton (JHBenton@mines.edu) or Joe Dumesnil (JDumesnil@overlandoil.com) for more information.

February - Completions Technical Happy Hour
2023-02-21 16:00 - 18:00 | CO
Host: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Denver Section

Event: Tuesday February 21st, 2023 Technical Happy Hour

Time: February 21st, 2023 4-6 pm (HH at 4, Talk at 430, Social until 6)

Location: DERL

Sponsor: DynaEnergetics

Study Group Category: Completions

Speaker: Adam McQueen, Market Development Manager at DynaEnergietics

Title: Optimization of Perforation Efficiency in the Delaware Basin Through Perforating and Innovative Perforating Charge: A Case Study

Abstract:
This case study looked to identify a perforation design and a perforation charge that measurably increases Perforation Efficiency (PE) and reduces PE variability from stage to stage. Achieving these goals allows for more economic fracture surface area generation as well as more informed decisions toward frac design and full field development.
Primarily relying on industry-standard pre-fracture Step-Down Tests (SDT) to estimate number of perforation holes open, a variety of strategies and technologies were tested by altering perforation friction, orientation, entry hole diameter (EHD), perforations per cluster (PPC), and charge type. The trial was performed across multiple horizons in the Delaware Basin, consisting of over 4,500 stages from 193 wells across 13 horizons from the 1st Bone Spring Sand to the Wolfcamp C in Lea and Eddy Counties, New Mexico.
With the legacy perforation strategy and technology, the operator historically achieved a probability 50 (P50) using the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of 47% of perforations open pre-fracture. Utilizing eXtreme Limited Entry (XLE), 0 degree-oriented perforating, larger EHD, single perforation clusters, and a shaped charge which increases the reservoir contact area, the operator was able to increase the CDF P50 to 93% of perforations open pre-fracture.
This straightforward trial allowed the operator to meaningfully reduce the cost of operations while type curves were met or exceeded. Contributing to the success of this field trial was a clear and restricted design of the experiment in combination with a special shale-optimized perforating charge designed for greater near wellbore reservoir contact area.

Bio:
With a Chemical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, Adam McQueen journeyed across most of the lower 48 shale basins as a field engineer with Calfrac. He relocated to Denver in 2012 to join the fracturing technical & sales team at Sanjel. After leading technical sales for Keane in Denver starting in 2014, he became regional director of sales when Keane merged with C&J to form NexTier. Today, he’s at DynaEnergetics, bringing his fracturing expertise to the perforating game.
Outside of work, Adam enjoys time with his family: wife Val, daughter Nora, and son Benson. Adam and Val took a yearlong sabbatical in 2017 to travel the world before starting their family.

SPE International Award Nomination Deadline
2023-02-15 15:00 - 23:59 | CO

General Meeting - Karen Olson - Sealed Wellbore Pressure Monitoring and Calibrated Fracture Modeling
2023-02-15 11:30 - 13:00 | Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Pl, Denver, CO, 80204
Host: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Denver Section

Event: February 15, 2023 General Meeting

Time: February 15, 2023 11:30am-1:00pm

Speaker: Karen Olson, Senior Completions Advisor (Well Data Labs, Inc.) and SPE Completions Technical Director

Title: Sealed Wellbore Pressure Monitoring (SWPM) and Calibrated Fracture Modeling: The next step in Unconventional Completions Optimization (SPE 212367-MS)

Presentation Abstract:
Sealed Wellbore Pressure Monitoring (SWPM) has been utilized across North and South America Basins with over 16,000 stages monitored as of June 2022. Since May 2020, the analysis procedure has been automated using a cloud-based software platform designed to ingest, process, and analyze high-frequency hydraulic fracturing data (Iriarte et al., 2021). A real time option of SWPM was also developed to aid in real time fracturing decisions (Ramirez et al., 2022).
The latest development is the added capability of a fracture model that can automatically history match the volume to first responses (VFRs) determined from SWPM. This next level allows for the matching of the VFRs and the visualization of the resulting fracture geometries from a fully-coupled fracture propagation, reservoir, and geomechanics simulator. The simulator is capable of accounting for complex processes such as poroelastic stress changes from depletion, allowing for evaluation of complex interactions of fracture propagation and depletion. Insights gained from this process allows the operator to optimize their completion design faster and with fewer field trials.
This presentation focus is a case study of the DOE Eagle Ford refracturing project where a range of completion designs were trialed while monitoring offset SWPM and fiber optic strain. The resulting VFRs of the SWPM project were compared to the fiber data and then used to calibrate the fracture model.
Conclusions of the DOE project will show the optimum cluster spacing, cluster count and stage spacing as confirmed by the SWPM analysis and the fracture modeling.
Please register for the event here

Speaker Biography:
Karen Olson is a Senior Completions Advisor for Well Data Labs, Inc. Previously Karen was the Technology Director for Southwestern Energy Company.
Ms. Olson has been a Completion/Reservoir Engineer for almost 40 years, starting her career as a Frac Engineer for The Western Company of North America. She has also worked at Holditch and Associates, Mobil, and BP working Deepwater GOM, Onshore Unconventionals & Conventionals and the North Sea.
Karen has been active with SPE and is currently the SPE Completions Technical Director.
Karen holds a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from LSU and a MS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M. She has been honored as a Distinguished Alumni Graduate in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M and currently serves on the Texas A&M Petroleum Engineering Department Industry Advisory Board and the SPE Board of Directors.

2023 NASS Happy Hour
2023-02-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Maggiano’s, 500 16th St, Suite 150, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
RSVP:
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