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SPE Permian Basin - Section Meeting - January 16 2019
Petroleum Club of Midland
Jan 16, 2019
11:30am to 1:00pm
Stephen Melzer
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
Bio - 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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LocationPetroleum Club of Midland (View)
501 W Wall St.,
Midland, TX 79701
United States
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