Talks

PBS-SEPM hosts monthly luncheon meetings on the third Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at the Midland Center, corner of Wall and Main, in downtown Midland. Lunch starts at 11:30 am, meeting called to order at 12 noon. If you're lucky, we will serve banana pudding for dessert!

September 21, 2010

Title: Boom to Bust to Boom: How Current Completion and Stimulation Practices have Brought Previously Bypassed Shales to Life (Thin shale Intervals with low porosity and low permeability have historically been unattractive as completion candidates. Horizontal drilling coupled with innovative completion strategies have allowed the industry to successfully connect with these formations. Optimization of fracturing fluids and treatments has enabled the industry to interconnect the wellbore with natural fracture systems. Microseismic analysis has been utilized to optimize the process. As a result more than 20 fracs are routinely created in extended horizontal wellbores. This presentation will examine how this process has been applied in the Bakken Shale of the Williston Basin. The impact of this development will be discussed along with it's potential in other similar formations.)

Speaker: Don Purvis, Rocky Mountain Region Technical Manager for BJ Services Bio

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If you plan on attending a talk, please make a reservation. Here's how:

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