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Recording of SPE Live episode on “Innovation in Hydraulic Fracturing” with a preview of the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition on 6-8 February 2024, being held in the Woodlands, Texas – USA is now available: 

We will retrace 2023 from the Hydraulic Fracturing Technical Section perspective and briefly introduce the following topics (to learn more, register to attend the 2024 HFTC)
• Stimulation and completion designs
• Diagnostic utilization
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Machine learning algorithms

A Q&A session will then follow with questions from the audience, answered by our guests.
Karen Olson, SPE Completions Technical Director, and Senior Completions Advisor at Well Data Labs
– Mike Mayerhofer, Director of Technology at Liberty Energy
Kyle Haustveit, Manager of Devon Energy Ventures

Moderated by: Peggy Rijken, Chapter Manager, Geomechanics in the Chevron Technology Center

Please join us for our upcoming SPE HyFTS February 2024 Webinar with Dan Dall’ Acqua,P.Eng., Principl Consultant at Noetic Engineering.

When: February 13th,2024 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpdeCqrTgqHtbfjM5Yf9QYgYnUTMC7ZlFu

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Unconventional resources continue to be considered as major cornerstones of today's energy economy delivery, even in the middle of an ongoing energy transition. Amid this transformative progress, an inconvenient complication that could potentially hinder the economic viability has begun to emerge and be experienced in multi-fractured horizontal wells: casing deformations limiting downhole accessibility. While not compromising well integrity, these deformations can occur prior to, during, or after the execution of fracturing operations and can impede subsequent planned hydraulic fracturing stages and potentially limit access to the well sections deeper than these restrictions.

This talk will provide an overview of much of the work published to-date on this subject, including reported statistics from various basins regarding casing deformation, deformation types, and discussion of strategies related to diagnostics, mitigation, and recovery. It will also highlight the ongoing work being done within the SPE Well Integrity Technical Section’s Casing Deformation Work Group and the envisioned way forward to achieving the Work Group’s mission of reducing the impact and increasing the understanding of casing deformations in these applications. 

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SPE HyFTS OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD 2023

Congratulations to Ashtiwi Bahri, Colorado School of Mines, Jiayue Chen, Texas A&M University, and Jhon Uribe-Patino, University of Alberta.

Three students will be recognized by the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technical Section (HyFTS) with an Outstanding Graduate Student Award for graduate students pursuing research in hydraulic fracturing related areas: 
 - Ashtiwi Bahri, Colorado School of Mines 
 - Jiayue Chen, Texas A&M University 
 - Jhon Uribe-Patino, University of Alberta
The students were selected for this award based on their respective resume, recommendation letter and summary of their technical contribution, that may have resulted in a conference presentation and/or a journal publication related to Hydraulic
Fracturing, which may encompass topics related to state-of-the-art and future needs. 
Recipients also must be an SPE member in good standing and a member of the SPE HyFTS. Recipients may only be recognized once with this award. Award certificates will be presented to the students at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition scheduled for 6-8 February 2024 in The Woodlands, TX.  Each student will also receive $500.


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