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SPE Permian Basin Section Meeting - March 14, 2018 - Dwayne Purvis

Midland Petroleum Club
March 14, 2018
11:30am to 1:00pm

Tickets $25 online, $30 at the door

"Practice of Decline Curve Analysis"

Abstract
The idea of fitting a straight line through a bunch of data points can seem deceptively simple, but decline curve analysis should be much more than a curve-fitting exercise. Though it is by far the most common of reserve determination methods, its theory is widely misunderstood and its implementation is often haphazard. Mr. Purvis will talk from his decades of experience about what makes for effective, efficient and insightful analysis of decline curves.

Bio
Dwayne Purvis, P.E. has spent over two decades in reservoir engineering and executive leadership as a consultant and operator. He has led or participated in hundreds of field studies and reserve analyses over dozens of basins in the United States and abroad, and he has participated in the sale or acquisition of projects valued from tens of thousands to billions of dollars.
Before starting his own consulting practice in 2015, he served Jetta Operating Company as Reservoir Engineering Manager and Reserves Manager. Prior roles include founder and Executive Vice President of consulting firm The Strickland Group and partner at Cawley, Gillespie & Associates.
Mr. Purvis has published on issues of reserves, risk analysis and shale reservoirs. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas, member of SPEE, AAPG, SEG and a 25-year member of SPE.