The document summarizes upcoming events for the SPE Permian Basin section in December 2018 and January 2019, including study group meetings, volunteer events, and section meetings. It also provides details on "Frac Month" scheduled for February 2019, which will host multiple events focused on hydraulic fracturing applications in the Permian Basin. Additionally, the document summarizes the chairman's remarks on current oil price fluctuations and challenges facing the industry, and promotes upcoming section meetings in January and February featuring speakers on horizontal well development and hydraulic fracturing topics.

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Publication of the SPE-PB Section http://connect.spe.org/PermianBasin/
Upcoming Meetings
and
Conferences
November 28th
C&O Meeting
December 2nd
YP Mission Agape
December 6th
YP Stem Gems
December 6th
YP Stem Gems
December 18th
YP Food for Kids
SPE Permian Basin Presents:
FRAC MONTH
February 2019
In February 2019, the Society of Petroleum Engineers Permian Basin Section and all
of its study groups will host a month long event focused on hydraulic fracturing,
with applications specifically for the Permian Basin. So far, events scheduled
include:
 February 7 – Completions & Operations Study Group – Lunch
 February 13 – Speaker Panel & Social Event – Evening
 February 21 – SPE Section Meeting – Lunch
 February TBD – Young Professionals Study Group – Lunch
Check back with the January Pipeline for additional events and information, and get
the word out!
January 2019 Section Meeting: https://Jan2019.bpt.me/
Date: January 16th, 2019
Speaker: L. STEPHEN MELZER
Topic: “The Horizontal Well San Andres ROZ Resource Play: Science, Completion Engineering and
Stimulation Lessons"

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CHAIRMAN’S CORNER
Flo Akintunji
SPE-PB Chairman 2018-2019
Ups and downs
As I write this, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is 28% below its October high. October and November saw
a piling on of different events that just proved to be too much of a headwind for oil prices- slowdown in global
economic growth; surge in OPEC production; stronger U.S. dollar; significant exemptions from the Iran sanctions;
rising U.S. production and inventory. So, where do we go from here? Well, I for one am very curious to see what
our friends at OPEC decide to do at their next general meeting on December 6. There’s been talk of the 15
member bloc taking off over 1 million barrels per day from the market. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. What
I do know is that we have seen this movie before. Back in 2014, the OPEC taps were turned wide open, and oil
prices collapsed. That was probably the biggest favor they could have done for us because it forced our industry to
become even more innovative, and efficient. We drilled longer laterals; increased sand concentration; cut down
drilling days; incorporated pad drilling and cube development; negotiated better rates with service companies;
and so on. In the Permian basin, we have surely shown that we can outlast almost any other region in the world in
a low oil price environment. By the way, in the October Newsletter, I discussed the 2019 forecast for an
unfavorably high differential (~$20/bbl) between Midland Crude and WTI. Well, in addition to the spread
narrowing, I was reminded recently that things could always be worse. Our Canadian counterparts producing the
oil sands recently saw the spread between Western Canadian Select and WTI jump to around $42/bbl after a
federal judge blocked the construction of TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL Pipeline being built to transport heavy
oil from Alberta to Nebraska. Ouch!
On a brighter note, there are some positive developments that arose in November. In the United
Kingdom, Cuadrilla Resources is currently fracing the first two onshore horizontal shale wells permitted in the
country. Admittedly they have a long way to go as they face strong resistance from environmentalists. In more
encouraging news, Proposition 112 was defeated in the Colorado midterms on November 6. It would have
increased the current minimum setback for oil and gas development from 500’ to 2500’ away from areas such as
homes, schools, and waterways. Per the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, this would have made
85% of nonfederal land in the state inaccessible to oil and gas development. We continue to face challenges, but I
am glad we have advocates in many areas working on our behalf to propel the industry to even greater heights.
However, I add this caveat- as the late great Ben Parker said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” We
need to continue to strive to do all we can to protect OUR environment, and ensure the safety of OUR people,
while engaging residents with the transparency and respect they deserve.
Finally, I am glad to report that we had our golf tournament on November 1. Beautiful Mother Nature was
kind to us, and the third time was the charm. To all the participants, sponsors, volunteers, and advertisers, I say a
mighty thank you! Our Section gave out $91,000 in scholarships last year partly because of successful events like
these. As the holiday season kicks off, we will take a break in December, and resume with our Section Meetings in
January. Lastly, Frac Month makes a return in February 2019. All our study group and section meetings will center
on hydraulic fracturing, and we will also have speakers from the Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference.
Please join me in recognizing and appreciating Occidental Petroleum for sponsoring Frac Month for the second
year in a row!
Akinfolami “Flo” Akintunji
2018-2019 SPE Permian Basin Chairman
Unitex Oil & Gas, LLC

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January Events:
January 16 - SPE Section Meeting
January 22 - YP Section Meeting
February Frac Month Dates:
February 7 - Completions & Operations
Study Group, Lunch
February 13 - Speaker Panel & Social
Event, Evening
February 21 - SPE Section Meeting, Lunch
February TBD - Young Professionals Study
Group, Lunch

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SPE-PB Completions and Operations Study Group
November 29, 2018
Midland Petroleum Club
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
The Importance of the Water Group in the Operations Structure …
Water where does it fit?
Ben Warden, Water Management Supervisor
Diamondback Energy
Abstract: Water handling is a crucial portion of operations of unconventional completions and
production. To ensure and improve safety and cost control, an efficient organization is necessary. This
organization is comprised, in many companies, of drilling, completions, and water teams. An
organization’s efficiency is measured by delivering optimal safety and cost results with effective,
streamlined communication while maintaining accurate data both within and between its teams. This
presentation will cover details of one operator’s account in building and integrating a water handling team
toward a measured continuous improvement of its organization’s efficiency, safety, and lower costs.
Biography: Mr. Ben Warden is currently the Water Management Supervisor for Diamondback Energy.
He works with the completions, drilling and facilities groups to develop and provide water for operations.
He has worked water in the swamps of Louisiana during the Haynesville Shale boom and has been in the
Permian for the past five years. Mr. Warden has worked on the service side of the business with Select
Energy Services and has also worked on the operator side for ConocoPhillips prior to Diamondback. He
has been a part of many water treatment projects, new acquisition infrastructure buildouts, water sourcing
projects, and day to day water operations. Mr. Warden has a B.S. degree in Water Resource Management
and an M.S degree in Geography from Texas State University in San Marcos.
Online Registration - $30 ends 11/28/2018
Onsite Registration - $40 11/29/2018
Register at Brown Paper Tickets: https://bpt.me/3904696
If you prefer to register by phone, please call Cathy Harris at 972-768-8070
Sponsorships are still available
Next Meeting: February 7, 2019 –TBD

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SPE-PB January Section Meeting
January 16th, 2019
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Midland Petroleum Club
https://Jan2019.bpt.me/
L. STEPHEN MELZER
Texas A&M University: BS, Geological Engineering
Purdue University: MSE, Civil Engineering/Rock Mechanics
“The Horizontal Well San Andres ROZ Resource Play: Science,
Completion Engineering and Stimulation Lessons"
Abstract: Very quietly, and in the shadow of the Permian Basin Shale Plays, the horizontal San Andres
Play has grown to a level of 40,000 bopd from 450 wells in just 5 years. The play is located on the
Northwest Shelf and Central Basin Platform and has recently been deemed a resource play as a result of the
broad area with successful well results.
Much like its big sister play in the shales, it requires some special designs to land and stimulate the wells
properly. Lessons are still being learned about the completion designs. Unlike its shale analog, it is a
conventional reservoir with an unconventional (residual) oil. Type curves do not display the high initial
potentials witnessed in the shales but display a slower decline. Several classic reservoir profiles will be
shown along with their well landing intervals, evolving type curves, and hydrofrac designs. A brief
discussion of the revolutionary science of ROZs will be presented as an explanation of the recent resource
play classification
Biography: Mr. Melzer combines his thirty-plus years of technical experience working with both the
energy industry and government with an extensive familiarity with CO2 enhanced oil recovery, the
science, distribution and properties of residual oil zones (ROZs) and horizontal reservoir depressuring
projects. His research has revised the thinking of the reservoir intervals below the oil/water contacts and
laid the foundation for commercial projects using both horizontal well reservoir depressuring technologies
and enhanced oil recovery projects within the ROZs. This background involves advising U.S. and
International organizations on ROZs in their oil basins, EOR, horizontal well depressuring in both
conventional and unconventional reservoirs, and private clients on related business strategies. He assists
clients and regulators with evolving policies involving carbon dioxide (CO2) EOR and CCUS. He directs
the annual CO2 and ROZ Conference held for 24 years in Midland and also conducts reservoir
characterization, engineering, and project planning studies on oil and gas projects. His work has taken him
to China, Denmark, Lithuania, Canada, Abu Dhabi, Croatia, and Kuwait. For the past five years he has
coauthored key reports for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, U.S. Department of Energy, National
Petroleum Council and National Coal Council and consulted on a variety of projects which include the
many of the leading oil producers.

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4 Day CO2 EOR and ROZ School
January 29th to February 1st, 2019 / 8 AM to 5 PM / Tuesday to Friday
From the World Leaders in CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery & Residual Oil Exploitation via Horizontal Drilling
Instructors: L. Stephen Melzer, Melzer Consulting and APTA; Robert Trentham, Ph.D., UTPB and APTA;
Ron Wackowski, Wackowski Consulting & Chevron, Retired; Russell K. Hall, Petroleum Engineer, RK Hall
and Associates; David Vance; Mark Nicholas; Bryan Hargrove.
Jointly Sponsored by APTA and Midland College PPDC
Register Online at: https://mcce.midland.edu or call: 432-683-2832
Location: Midland College PPDC, 105 W. Illinois, Midland, Texas 79701
Fee: Instate = $2,000 / Out of state = $2,025
3.1 CEU’s and 31 PDH’s

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SPE Permian Basin Young Professionals Upcoming Events
No General Meeting or Happy Hour in December
Community Service Mission Agape:
Join SPE for our second #SPECares event of 2018 as we team up with Mission Agape to help pack food
bags for kids and families in the Midland/Odessa area! Mission
Agape is dedicated to addressing food insecurity in the Permian
Basin. We are asking that volunteers bring items to restock their food
pantry to help them make it through the holidays. Mission Agape is
also collecting toys for their Christmas Blessing program that runs
from November to mid-December. Visit www.missionagapewtx.org
for more information
Sunday, December 2nd |GCR Church of Christ, 3500 W Golf Course
Rd, Midland, TX 79703 | 2:00 - 3:30 pm
January General Meeting:
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | 11:30 am – 1 pm | PPDC, 105 W. Illinois Midland, TX 79701
Topic: Improving Reservoir Economics using 3D Geochemical Fingerprint Technology
Speaker: Faye Liu – CEO, RevoChem
Lunch Sponsored by RevoChem
STEM GEMS (Girls Exploring Math & Science):
Features a STEM Project Based Learning targeting 7th
& 8th
grade female students who
need support.
Thursdays: Nov. 29th / Dec. 6th / Dec. 13th| 4:20 – 5:20 pm | Goddard Junior High
(Midland)
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/spepbyp/
https://connect.spe.org/permianbasin -> About -> Young Professionals
Contact Us: SPEPermianYP@gmail.com
RSVP Details can be found on our LinkedIn page and SPE website.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/spepbyp/
Contact Us: SPEPermianYP@gmail.com

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SPE PB Young Professionals Community Service
Only the bravest of the SPE Permian Basin Young Professionals endured the frigid temperatures on the
morning of November 10th to contribute their skills towards building a Habitat 4 Humanity house. It was
quickly realized that their years of engineering education and oil industry experience yielded no
applicable skills for the situation, and they were relegated to learning how to caulk the exterior of a
house. Within no time, or more like a few hours, the brave volunteers became self-proclaimed experts in
sealing off a house from the elements, and gained a lifelong skill that even the combined decades of
education and engineering experience between the volunteers could never provide. It is worthwhile to
note that the Texas vs Tech matchup was the same day up in Lubbock, and while a Texas grad was
present, none from Tech could be found. Could that have been the deciding factor that ultimately gave
Texas the edge? We will never know, but this single data point suggests if you want your school to win
you better come out and volunteer with SPE. The SPE PB Young Professionals would like to thank Tyner
Energy for sponsoring this event with great food!

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PERMIAN
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2018-2019 SPE Permian Basin Board Members
SPE—PB Polos for Sale!
Durable, dry-fit material. Comfortable all year long! Comes in
men’s and women’s style in blue and red (and men’s black for
the YoPro version). Only $30 each, and all proceeds go to the
Young Professionals and scholarships. Cash and credit card
accepted. Look for these awesome items at our Section
Meetings and YoPro Meetings this year!
Position Member Company Member's Email
Chairman Flo Akintunji Unitex Oil & Gas LLC fakintunji@unitexoil.com
Vice-Chairman Alana Low Concho alow@concho.com
Treasurer Paul Brown Chevron PaulBrown@Chevron.com
Secretary Ayodeji Daramola Halliburton ayodeji.daramola@halliburton.com
Awards and Nominations Justin Bethancourt ConocoPhillips j.justin.bethancourt@conocophillips.com
Community Relations
Glen Fradenburg Alamo Pressure Pumping gf@fracing.com
Evan Graybill Chevron egraybill@chevron.com
PR & Advertising Boone Bajgier Anadarko Boone.Bajgier@anadarko.com
Pipeline Newsletter Michael Carey Saga Petroleum mcarey@sagapetroleum.com
Continuing Education Curtis Helms Jr. Midland College chelms@midland.edu
Golf Tournament
Coordinator
James Haest Silvertip Completion Services james.haest@silvertipcompletions.com.
Jeanette Reyes-Lara Endeavor Energy Resources jreyes@eeronline.com
Billea Karnes Concho bkarnes@concho.com
Internet Coordinator Prince Kwarteng Discovery Operating pkwarteng@discoveryoperating.com
Membership Eric Angelos Concho eangelos@concho.com
Programs
Robert Reyes Harmonia Petroleum robert.reyes@harmoniapetro.com
Yoshi Pradhan Endeaevor Energy Resources ypradhan.pge@utexas.edu
Scholarship Libby Einhorn Concho eeinhorn@concho.com
Study Group Liaison Aaron Hunter Concho ahunter@concho.com
Texas Tech Liaison Jay Young NCS Multistage jyoung@ncsmultistage.com
Young Professionals Fumi Balogun Liberty Oilfield Services fbalogun02@gmail.com
At Large
Billy Harris
Lodestone Oil & Gas
Consulting, LLC
lodestoneogc@outlook.com
Pete Schrenkel Vision Natural Resources pschrenkel@visionnatres.com
Past Chair Kyle Richter Oxy kyle_richter@oxy.com
CO2 Conference Bill Webb Bill Webb, Inc billwebbinc@suddenlink.net
Clayshoot Committee
Aaron Galt Schlumberger Agalt@slb.com
Jace Farmer Concho jfarmer@concho.com
Bob McKitrick NCS Multistage rmckitrick@ncsmultistage.com
Stephen Arnold ConocoPhillips stephen.m.arnold@conocophillips.com
Clayshoot Committee Members

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