Short Course

SC-06 Fluid Compatibility Mini-Workshop (SPE)

Sunday, 8 June 2025, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.  |  Houston, Texas

Course Content

Compatibility of fracturing fluids with injection water, commingled chemicals and formation mineralogy is a key driver of well performance that is challenging and specific. What if improving your frac fluid compatibility could substantially accelerate your reserves recovery or even increase your EUR?

Completion engineers are overloaded — tasked with the assessment of frac fluid chemical formulations, the substitution of chemicals due to supply chain disruptions, the oversight of the completion process, the procurement of service providers, and all while staying within the AFE. This workshop will provide practical lessons learned from the lab and field, delivered by experts from both sides of the border. It is tailored to the interests of completions, exploitation, reservoir, and production engineers alike. Participants will exit with a solid understanding of fluid chemistry, the chemical selection process, and how to manage fluid variability — often a critical factor in production optimization. Registrants will also be better equipped to engage in future fluid chemistry discussions with their pumping companies; talks essential to optimizing their frac fluid "cocktail." The presenters are looking forward to candidly sharing their best practices and of course the common pitfalls and costly mistakes caused by incompatibility that they have encountered in their careers.

This interactive mini-workshop is moderated by John Thompson, President, SAGA Wisdom.

Why Attend:

Enhance well performance and maximize recovery in this one-day workshop designed for completions, exploitation, reservoir, and production engineers. Learn from industry experts about the crucial aspects of frac fluid compatibility with injection water, chemicals, and formation mineralogy. Gain practical insights to effectively assess and adapt chemical formulations amidst supply chain disruptions and engage confidently with service providers to optimize your frac fluid "cocktail."

Disciplines: Completions | Production and Operations | Reservoir

Learning Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Instructors

John Thompson is the President and Co-Founder of SAGA Wisdom (sagawisdom.com), a tech start-up focused on digitally transforming education for energy industry professionals. Over the past 15 years, John is better known as a reservoir engineer and instructor of Rate Transient Analysis (RTA) specializing in unconventional reservoirs. From that experience, he has analyzed production data from thousands of hydraulically fractured wells, spanning most major tight and ultra-tight plays in the U.S., Canada, and Argentina, and publishing 20 authored or co-authored SPE papers. His work has focused on production forecasting, stimulation effectiveness evaluation, well spacing and completions optimization, and diagnosing untapped well performance potential

Kimberley MacEwen President, Roughneck Chemical Consulting, is Canadian born and raised, currently living in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. She received a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Western Ontario. For more than 20 years, she has worked on the manufacturing (Baze Chemicals, Ingevity, SNF, and Innospec Oilfield Services) side of drilling, production, completion, and EOR chemistries. In 2021, Kimberley opened Roughneck Chemical Consulting to help E&P companies develop chemical programs, for their assets, based on the chemistry needed (chosen by lithology, makedown waters, etc.) and not a trade name.

Roberta Wasylishen is the President of Fluid Intelligence, a team of passionate water chemistry technical experts supporting resource development within oil & gas, geothermal and critical mineral mining sectors. Roberta and her team are recognized by industry for collecting quality field-level data, conducting on-site and laboratory testing, implementing customized design of experiments, evaluating technologies from benchtop through to field execution, providing independent third-party assessment of chemistries and technologies, liaising with vendors on behalf of clients, and advising cross functional business units to achieve continuous improvement. Roberta’s 23 years of industry experience, technical expertise, and strong business acumen bring a sensible perspective to industry challenges.

Stuart Kinnear is the Co-Founder and CEO of Interface Fluidics. Interface specializes in the measurement of properties and interactions of reservoir fluids. Utilizing microfluidic technology, High Pressure High Temperature fluid analysis is made faster and more repeatably than traditional tools allow.

Jennifer Adams received a B.Sc. (Geology), a M.Sc. (Hydrogeology), and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Geochemistry, then co-founded an oil/gas geochemical service company, Gushor, in 2006 specializing in heavy oil fluid properties and geochemistry. In 2009, she joined ConocoPhillips to support domestic and international exploration/production activities as a Geochemist/Basin Modeler. Since 2016, Jennifer has worked for Stratum Reservoir as a Petroleum System Analyst performing unconventional resource fluid evaluation, production allocation, water chemistry studies and exploration geochemistry projects.

Fees:

Pricing:

TBD
Fee Includes:   Continental breakfast, lunch, handouts

Attendee Limit:

40 people

Educational Credits:

.8 CEU

8 PDH

Venue

George R. Brown Convention Center

1001 Avenida De Las Americas

Houston, Texas 77010

United States

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