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SPE OKC December Monthly Luncheon - Distinguished Lecturer

Come and join your fellow industry professionals at the December Monthly Luncheon. The Monthly luncheon should be very informative as SPE's Distinguished Lecturer will discuss when geosciences meet engineering! Overview When "Geo" Meets "Mechanics" When "Geo" Meets "Mechanics" Gang Han (Distinguished Lecturer) Aramco Americas Abstract: The value of geomechanics manifests when “Geo” (geosciences) meet “Mechanics” (engineering). This talk demonstrates the value of geomechanics through integrated field cases at different scales: basin, reservoir, well, and core. From deepwater Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Middle East, to US unconventional fields, geomechanics studies, coupled with geology and geophysics inputs, mitigate drilling risk, optimize completion, improve recovery, while reduce cost and minimize environmental impact. In the case of hydraulic fracturing, geomechanics becomes an enabler for efficient development of underground resources including hydrocarbon, geothermal, and critical minerals. It helps optimize completion designs, reduce formation breakdown pressure, maximize Stimulated Reservoir Volume (SRV), and improve cost-efficiency. Biography: Dr. Han is a co-founder and co-chair of the International Geomechanics Conference (IGS), jointly organized by ten professional societies including SPE. He is the 2021-2023 President of American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) and the founder of ARMA Hydraulic Fracturing Community, representing 340 international organizations and more than 1000 members. With 25+ years of industry experience and over 60 publications, he applies geomechanics to exploration, drilling, completion, stimulation, production, and reservoir engineering in conventional and unconventional reservoirs. He is a leading author of a multi-industry book, Drilling in Extreme Environments - Penetration and Sampling on Earth and Other Planets.

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SPE OKC December Workshop & Happy Hour

"Don't Stand So Close to Me" | Parent/Child Well Interactions & the Impact on Economics Braden Bowie | Product Manager Whitson Abstract: Understanding the impacts of parent / child relationships is fraught with difficulty and uncertainty... for both people and wellbores. This talk will focus on methods we can use to tune a depletion metric to include both produced volumes and decays with distance. We will then look at how the shape of the depletion function affects well performance, and the economic implications. The results are focused on the Midland basin, but the methods shown are applicable to all basins. Special focus is also on the impact of TVD differences between parent / child relationships, given our knowledge that frac barriers exist and can impede fracture growth (and thus lessen the impact of depletion). Biography: Graduated from the University of Calgary in 2012, and worked for Apache on the Duvernay play optimizing development in the retrograde condensate window. Moved down to Houston in 2017, where I focused on RTA and machine learning for the Midland Basin. Main highlights were developing 'Numerical RTA", and applying machine learning to improve economic performance of our drilling program. In 2020 I was promoted to Reservoir Lead for Midland Basin, where we got to use the machine learning to optimize developments with a focus on looser well spacing and larger fracs. In July 2025 I joined Whitson, with the intent to build out WhitsonX, which is a tool to help optimize DSU's by including well spacing, depletion and economics all in one easy to use platform.

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