The document provides information about upcoming SPE Permian Basin events in September 2018, including meetings, conferences, and presentations. It also summarizes a recent deployment of STORM refrac isolation packers by MorphPackers and Nine Energy Service for Chaparral Energy in Oklahoma to isolate the heel of a reservoir and return a well to oil production. The packers were successfully expanded inside a production insert string.

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Publication of the SPE-PB Section http://connect.spe.org/PermianBasin/
Upcoming Meetings
and
Conferences
September 4th
Energy4Me Event
September 5th-6th
Liquids Rich Conference
September 6th
C&O Meeting
September 7th
Golf Tournament
September 10th
SPE Section Meeting
September 11th
YP Meeting
September 17th
SIPES Meeting
September 27th
YP Happy Hour
Society of Petroleum Engineers
Distinguished Lecturer September 10th, 2018
Midland Petroleum Club
11:30am—1:00pm
Fluid Imbibition - Hydraulic Fracture
Flowback Dynamics
R.V. Hawkes
Cost is $25 online & $30 at the door. Register here:
https://sep2018.bpt.me
Abstract: Multi-stage unconventional hydraulic fracturing treatments require pumping
large volumes of water based fluids. As the industry continues to develop extremely low
permeability reservoirs increasingly larger water based fluid treatments are being pumped.
These large treatments also lead to varying flowback issues ranging from high to low load
fluid recoveries. In many cases, either by design or controlled by operational restrictions,
wells can undergo weeks or months of shut-in following these very large treatments. In
most cases, these shut-in wells have demonstrated significant upticks in production
resulting in some operators reporting an enhancement to hydrocarbon recovery. The
reasons for the low and inefficient water recovery after fracturing are only now being
understood. Some researchers believe that low water recovery is due to water retention
in secondary fractures or unstable displacement and gravity segregation in fractures.
Others believe the retained water in the reservoir can leak-off into the rock matrix due to
water imbibition. Yet, in many cases, there are no negligible effects on long term
productivity. The dynamics of shut-in time permits the imbibition process to evolve;
allowing water to move deeper into the water-wet/clay-rich formation. This results in
lower water saturation and a corresponding higher gas/oil relative permeability near the
fracture surface. In contrast, if the well is not shut-in, capillary forces are balanced by
viscous forces, thereby trapping water at much higher saturations around the fractures
and reducing hydrocarbon flow potential.
Biography: Robert graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada with a diploma in Petroleum Engineering Technology in 1979.
Robert has authored and co-authored over 20 papers and was co-Author, Chapter 3 “Gas
Well Testing and Evaluation” of the 2007 Modern Fracturing - Enhancing Natural Gas
Production, engineering text book. Robert’s role at Trican Well Service in Calgary is
Reservoir Engineering Advisor for their Geological and Reservoir Engineering Service
group. Robert has been the recipient of numerous awards and was a Distinguished
Lecturer with SPE in 2008. In 2011, Hawkes was the recipient of the SPE Canadian
“Reservoir Description and Dynamics” award and recently was recognized for his
achievement as the recipient of the 2016 Canadian “Completions Optimization and
Technology” award. Robert has served on a multitude of SPE workshops and conferences
and was the Program Committee Chairman for the 2013 Hydraulic Fracture Flowback
Workshop.

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CHAIRMAN’S CORNER
Flo Akintunji
SPE-PB Chairman 2018-2019
Bottlenecks & Frac Hits
We kicked off our fall schedule with a social event at the Petroleum Club on August 16th
. It was a fun evening of
visiting with old, and new colleagues. Many gathered again together on August 18th
for a young professionals
Habitat for Humanity volunteer event. September is also filled with events, especially in the next two weeks. Be
on the lookout for emails concerning them, and throughout this newsletter for more details. I have highlighted
some of them below:
 SPE Liquids-Rich Basins Conference - North America (9/5 – 9/6). Please register here: https://www.spe.org/
events/en/2018/conference/18lrbc/register-liquids-rich-basins-conference.html
 Completions &Operations Meeting (9/6) - Liz Percak-Dennet, Biota Technology, Inc. presenting on “Subsurface
DNA Diagnostics Aid Well Spacing Decision in the Permian.” Please RSVP here: https://
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3589702
 Section Meeting (9/10) - Robert Hawkes, DL presenting on “Fluid imbibition – Hydraulic fracture flowback
dynamics.” Please RSVP here: https://sep2018.bpt.me/
In addition to the aforementioned events coming up, I want to make special mention of two more. On September
4th
, the SPE-PB section is collaborating with University of Texas Permian Basin's (UTPB) STEM Academy and
Communities in Schools Permian Basin (CISPB) to kick off the new school year with energy education! We are
calling on you to help us educate 600 4th-12th graders. Don’t worry, the lesson plan and activities are prepared.
Just sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/g3WnY6pg1UOQbFsu2. Secondly, our 28th
Annual SPE Permian Basin Golf
Tournament is on September 7th
at Hogan Park. Proceeds from this tournament have historically been one of the
primary sources of funds for the Permian Basin SPE Scholarship fund. Please see more details inside the
newsletter, and I hope to see you there!
Finally, I came across two very insightful articles in the August 2018 Journal of Petroleum Technology. The first
discussed some of the bottlenecks in the Permian Basin including pipeline takeaway capacity, shortage of truck
drivers, and inadequate road infrastructure. All these insufficiencies contribute to the double digit spread
between Midland crude, and West Texas Intermediate. As we know, most of the 2 million bopd pipeline takeaway
capacity being built will not come online until the second half of 2019. Forecasts are signaling a low $20s/bbl
spread in the first half of 2019. Ouch! The second article discussed the increasing popularity of “cube
developments” in mitigating against frac hits. Driving down the road in the Permian Basin, we’ve seen the growing
number of large well pads with multiple rigs, and frac fleets. The goal of this highly organized assembly-line type
operation is to achieve the best frac in every well drilled. These two articles remind me of a line from the movie,
The Martian: “…You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem, and you solve the next one, and then the
next…” Admittedly, we are not talking about life and death here, but indulge my connection: professionals
working in the Permian Basin are solving one problem after the other, and as we continue solving problems, we
will remove the bottlenecks and increase well productivity.
Flo Akintunji
2018-2019 SPE Permian Basin Chairman
Unitex Oil & Gas, LLC

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SPE in September 2018
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2 3 4
Energy4Me Event
UTPB STEM
9am—4pm
5
SPE Liquids Rich
Conference
Begins
6
C&O Meeting
Midland Petroleum
Club
530pm
7
SPE Golf
Tournament
Hogan Park
8
9 10
SPE Section
Meeting
Petroleum Club
1130am-1pm
11
YP Meeting
PPDC
11:30am—1pm
12 13 14 15
16 17
SIPES Meeting
Midland Country
Club
11:30 am
18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27
YP Happy Hour
5:30pm-7:30pm
28 29
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Society of Petroleum Engineers
Distinguished Lecturer October 15th, 2018
Midland Petroleum Club
11:30am—1:00pm
Well Collision Avoidance, The Way Forward
Steve Sawaryn
Consultant
Cost is $25 online & $30 at the door. Register here:
https://oct2018.bpt.me/
Abstract:
The consequences of an unplanned intersection with an existing well can range from financial loss to a
catastrophic blow-out and loss of life. The process of well collision avoidance involves rules that determine
the allowable well separation, the management of the associated directional planning and surveying
activities and assurance and verification. The adoption of a particular minimum allowable separation rule,
no matter how conservative, does not ensure an acceptably low probability of collision. Many other factors
contribute, such as the level of compliance by office and rig personnel with collision avoidance procedures,
and the completeness and correctness of the directional database. All these factors are connected.
This is not a new subject, but current guidance is disparate, company specific and occasionally
contradictory. As a result, the guidance can be difficult to understand and implement. Standardisation is
required. This standardisation has been the goal of the SPE Wellbore Positioning Technical Section
(WPTS). The resulting recommendations are a culmination of the work and consensus of industry experts
from both operators and service companies. The effects of a standardised separation rule and attendant
practices are far reaching. They influence slot separations, trajectories, drilling practices, surveying
programme and well shut-in, with commercial as well as HSE implications.
Although collisions are rare, investigation of 19 anonymous collision events suggests they occur more
frequently than formal accounts would lead us to believe. Common themes across these events can be
identified and these lead to a conclusion that all such collisions are avoidable.
Biography:
Steve Sawaryn is an independent drilling engineering consultant specializing in drilling systems. During
the previous 35 years he held a variety of national and international posts in BP’s Drilling Engineering
Division in drilling operations, consultancy and projects. He is also a chartered engineer and fellow of the
British Computer Soc. Sawaryn holds PhD and M.A. degrees from Cambridge U. He has authored more
than 35 SPE papers and has served on a number of SPE committees. He received the 2010 SPE North-Sea
Region Technical Award for Drilling Engineering and now chairs the SPE Wellbore Positioning Technical
Section Collision Avoidance sub-committee.

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SPE-PB Completions and Operations Study Group
September 6, 2018
Midland Petroleum Club
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Subsurface DNA Diagnostics Aid Well Spacing Decision in the
Permian
Liz Percak-Dennett, Technology Director,
Biota Technology, Inc
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3589702
Abstract:
Biota Technology mission is to deploy DNA sequencing to maximize reservoir economics. The application of DNA sequencing
in the oil and gas industry provides operators with a non-invasive, high-resolution data source to track subsurface fluid move-
ment by examining subsurface DNA originating from microbial communities within the subsurface. To date, the technology
has been applied on over 300 wells in the Permian Basin resulting in over 8500 analyzed samples and 250,000 unique subsur-
face DNA markers. Deployment of this technology has resulted in increased reservoir understanding including monitoring of
drainage heights and well:well communication over time. In this presentation Dr. Liz Percak-Dennett, Technology Director at
Biota Technology will speak to Subsurface DNA Diagnostics basics, field workflow, data analysis, and provide several case
studies of practical applications in U.S. shale.
Bio:
As the Technology Director at Biota Technology, Liz Percak-Dennett is accountable for the delivery of all technical projects to
unconventional and offshore customers. In this role, she delivers customer value through a broad skill set in geology, microbi-
ology, geochemistry, and oilfield operations. Prior to Biota, Liz worked as a geologist for Hess Corporation in the Bakken and
offshore Guyana teams. Liz holds a BS in geology from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MS and PhD in geoscience
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she researched geomicrobiology in subsurface environments on modern
and ancient Earth as part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

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SPE Permian Basin Young Professionals Upcoming Events
SPE YP General Meeting/Luncheon:
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
11:30 am—1pm
Topic: The History & Progression of Coiled Tubing Applications in the Permian
Lunch Sponsored by Legend Energy Services
Visit SPE Permian Basin website for RSVP details. www.connect.spe.org/permianbasin
YP Happy Hour:
Thursday, September 27th, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Sponsored by Texas Pride Fuels
Visit SPE Permian Basin website for RSVP details. www.connect.spe.org/permianbasin
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/spepbyp/
Contact Us: SPEPermianYP@gmail.com

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Topic: “Horizontal Drilling in the Permian Basin – A Look at How We Got Here.”
Abstract: Horizontal drilling in the Permian Basin has become the main focus of drilling within the
basin. Horizontal wells are actively drilling for the Sprayberry and the Wolfcamp in the Midland Basin
and for the Bone Springs and the Wolfcamp in the Delaware Basin. The Permian Basin has also seen
horizontal wells drilled for several other zones. The talk will begin with the early horizontal wells and
bring you to present wells as well as discuss the DUC, (drilled uncompleted wells) and look at the most
active operators in the basin.
Upcoming SIPES Meeting
Bio: Mr. Party is CEO/President of Beryl Oil and Gas, LP and a General Partner in Cardinal Resources,
LLC and has been working in the Oil and Gas industry for 39 years. He graduated from the University of
Missouri-Rolla in 1978 with a BS degree in Geology/Geophysics and was awarded an Honorary
Professional Degree in 1994.He started his career with Cities Services working as a geophysicist he joined
Wagner & Brown in 1981 serving as Exploration Manager for 9 years before joining Reliance Energy in
November 2009. Mike served as Vice President of Exploration for Reliance Energy until Reliance Energy’s
main assets were sold to Concho Resources in October, 2016. Mike is an active member of local,
national, and international geological societies. Most notably, has served as the President of the
Southwest Section of the AAPG, Secretary of AAPG, President of the Division of Professional Affairs
within the AAPG and is the current President-Elect of AAPG and will be President 2019-2020. He also
served as President of the West Texas Geological Society and the Permian Basin Section of SEPM. Mike
was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni from the University of Missouri –Rolla and Honorary Life
membership from both the West Texas Geological Society and the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. He is a Certified Geologist within the State of Texas and is a Certified Petroleum Geologist
and Certified Petroleum Geophysicist by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
September 19th, 2018 11:30AM Midland Country Club Upstairs Ballroom
Guest Lunch Attendees Pay $20
SIPES always welcomes guests, and no reservations are required. Guest luncheon and program cost is
$30 to be paid to the treasurer at the meeting – cash or check only – no credit cards please!! There is
no charge for members. Reception begins at 11:15, Buffet lunch starts at 11:30 and the program begins
at noon.

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Thank You to Our Energy4Me Sponsors
Who Sponsored Our September 4th Energy4Me Event
Sponsoring Companies:
Volunteer Sponsors:
Individual Sponsors:
Joseph Castillo Jerymar Schmid

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STORM™ THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE MECHANICAL ISOLATION PACKER FOR REMEDIAL AND REFRAC APPLICATIONS IN THE
PERMIAN
MorphPackers and Nine Energy Service announce first deployment of STORM™ refrac isolation packers for Chaparral Energy
in Oklahoma.
MorphPackers Limited (“MorphPackers”) and Nine Energy Service, Inc. (“Nine”) announced jointly today that they have
deployed STORM™ refrac isolation packers within a production-insert string for Chaparral Energy in Oklahoma.
Due to excessive water production from the heel of the reservoir Chaparral Energy required mechanical isolation in their 4 ½”
open-hole production tubing to return the well to oil production. A 3 ½” flush joint production-insert string fitted with full ID
STORM™ isolation packers was successfully run to TD and the packers were expanded. The well was returned to oil
production on time & budget immediately afterwards.
The patented completion system utilizes expandable steel packers specializing in isolation and includes re-frac packers and
production anchors to maximize production within existing wells. The STORM™ refrac packer provides the maximum ID in
the market to provide the most effective system to instantly isolate and re-fracture stages thus extending the life of a well.
With no moving parts STORM™ packers are easy to deploy at a fraction of the cost of expandable liners, patches and
conventional straddle systems. STORM™ packers are compatible with standard plug & perf equipment
Check out our demo https://www.morphpackers.com/isolation-packers

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YP Service Event
SPE YP volunteered at Habitat for Humanity on Saturday August 18th. We would like to thank
the volunteers who came out and helped put up siding for a local home. We would also like to
thank Subsurface Innovation for sponsoring the food for this event!

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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
Tracer Diagnostics
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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