2023 Luncheon Speakers
January 18: Ligia Carolina Mayorga-Gonzales, Diversified Well Logging, LLC: "Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis as a Tool for Geochemical Characterization of the Bone Spring Formation in the Delaware Basin"
February 9: Annual Meeting and Dinner: 6:00 PM Midland Country Club (no luncheon meeting this month)
March 15: Dr. Sebastien Mannia, Acoustic Wells, Inc.: "Using Novel Technologies and AI to Understand Downhole Well Conditions"
April 19: Dr. Christopher M. Smith, Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy: "Identifying Pay Zones and Understanding Petroleum Systems in Petrophysically "Difficult to Interpret" Plays by Analyzing Volatiles from Cuttings and Core with Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy"
May 17: Kelsey Call & Dylan Wiemer, Diamondback Energy: "Flow or No Flow: How Geological Influences Effect Wellbore Designs In Over-Pressured Injection Intervals"
June 21: Richard Brantley, University Lands: "History of the Santa Rita #1"
July 19: Steve Robichaud, Echelon Exploration & Production Co., "Permian Basin Brine Mining"
Aug 16: Tuba Firincioglu, Ph.D., NITEC LLC: "Success and Failure Factors for Cyclic Gas Injection in Unconventional Reservoirs"
Sept 20: Donald Muth, Oakmont Minerals: Where is All of This Gas Going to Come From? Expect a Natural Gas Price "Break-Out" in Mid-2023"
Oct 18: David Brannan, CrownQuest Operating: "An Unconventional Approach to a Difficult-to-Develop Target: Application of Geomechanics and Clay Speciated Workflow to Successfully Drill the Wolfcamp D Formation in the Midland Basin"
Nov 15: Dr. Bob Lindsay, Lindsay Consulting, LLC: "Middle East Super Giant Oil Field Discoveries: A Peak Into the World's Largest Reservoir - The Ghawar Arab 'D' Reservoir"
December: No Meeting
Luncheon meetings are at 11:15 am on the third Wednesday of the month (except February and December) in the Midland Country club ballroom. Guests are welcome ($30.00 lunch cost payable at door - Cash Only).