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Join Us Tuesday, May 9th, 6:30pm CT, In Williston RSVP Now
 
​​​​​​​​​​​"MEOR For Unconventionals - Moving The Needle By Starting Early "

Brian Price
Presented By:
Brian Price, Rockwater Energy Solutions

Tuesday, May 9, 2023
6:30pm CT Social; 7:00pm CT Dinner
Eleven Restaurant and Lounge at The Williston
408 1st Ave E, Williston, ND

Overview

MEOR is a technology that has been successfully applied to unconventional wells to increase recovery after an initial decline in production. This technology can be applied pre-decline to improve initial recovery rates and extend the time before decline occurs. This paper will discuss the methodology for employing MEOR sooner rather than later. 

Methods from SPE-209469-MS will be used in presenting this topic.  From this paper "Previous research and lab studies show that the rapid production rate decline from shale wells might be attributed to formation damage, that is caused by completion chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing. The large molecules remaining in reservoir after flow back plug flow path in micro fractures, to make those fractures not contribute to well production. This is permanent formation damage to reservoirs. Without effective treatment the decline curve of these wells need be corrected with smaller stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) as compared to theoretic model. Examples of the big organic molecules include gellants and hydrolyzed polyacrylamides (HPAM). With operators adopts slick-water for hydraulic fracturing, the formation damage issue improves but still far from totally solved [Walla et al. 2018; Bao et al. 2010;Havemann et al. 2015; Hu et al. 2018; Ma et al. 2017]" 

Results from field applications and lab assessments will be used to support the topic.

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Biography

Brian Price is Vice President of Science & Engineering for Rockwater Energy Solutions (soon to be Select Chemistry) based in Houston, Texas. Rockwater is a subsidiary of Select Energy Services. As a thought and solutions leader, Mr. Price has broad experience in chemistry related to oil and gas production, pipelines, flow assurance, completions, well stimulation, artificial lift, and EOR. He has worked with many operators globally to provide solutions required to efficiently and safely operate in the oil and gas industry. He and his team at Rockwater are responsible for Research & Development, Product Application Support, Analytical Services, Quality Control, and Engineering. Mr. Price has been in the oil and gas chemical industry since 1988 and studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. 

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