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\n URTeC 2025: Best of Papers<\/i>\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n Congratulations to the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) 2025 Best Paper Award Winners! Each year one highly ranked paper is selected from each technical program theme as a recognized outstanding contribution to the program. We would like to honor those winners for their participation. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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\n THEME 1 <\/div>\n
\n Operators\u2019 Forum: Case Studies Highlighting the Multidisciplinary Approach to Exploration, Appraisal, Pilot Tests, and Development <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Paul Spiecker <\/div>\n
\n ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company <\/div>\n
\n Development of a Novel, Patented Fracturing Technology Based on Low-Cost Petroleum Coke Light Weight Proppant from Lab-Scale Evaluation to Field-Scale Pilots: Case Studies in the Midland and Delaware Basins <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 02 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 2 <\/div>\n
\n Advanced Formation Evaluation <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Ezequiel Lombardo <\/div>\n
\n Chevron Argentina, Ltd. <\/div>\n
\n Innovative Approach for Estimating Organic and Inorganic Porosity in Organic Shale Reservoirs: A Case Study in the Vaca Muerta Formation <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 03 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 3 <\/div>\n
\n Geological Characterization and Evaluation Spanning the E&P Lifecycle <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Dillon Niederhutm <\/div>\n
\n Novi Labs <\/div>\n
\n Can Transfer Learning Be Used to Forecast Production in Frontier Basins? A Case Study from the Powder River Basin <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 04 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 4 <\/div>\n
\n Geophysical Reservoir Analysis <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Hansel Gonzalez <\/div>\n
\n Delft Inversion <\/div>\n
\n Insights on Uplift the Wave-Equation Based AVO Technology may have on Unconventional Reservoirs: A Vaca Muerta, Neuquen Basin, Argentina, Case Study <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 05 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 5 <\/div>\n
\n Geomechanics \u2013 The Intersection of Geoscience and Engineering <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Zhishuai Zhang <\/div>\n
\n Chevron U.S.A. Inc. <\/div>\n
\n InSAR Characterization of Fluid Movement and Fault Slip Near a Saltwater Disposal Site in the Permian Basin <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n THEME 6 <\/div>\n
\n Organic and Inorganic Geochemistry Including Fluid-Rock Interactions <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Tim Ruble <\/div>\n
\n Stratum Reservoir <\/div>\n
\n Total, Mobile, and Non-Producible Oil: A Game-Changing Geochemical Method for Optimum Perforation Interval Selection and EOR Strategies <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 07 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 7 <\/div>\n
\n Applications of Data Science <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Yuxing Ben <\/div>\n
\n Occidental <\/div>\n
\n Demystifying Child Well Degradation with Novel Feature Engineering I: Machine Learning Analysis for Child Well Degradation with One Parent Well in the Delaware Basin <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 08 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 8 <\/div>\n
\n Unlocking the Production and Recovery Potential <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Robin Singh <\/div>\n
\n The Dow Chemical Company <\/div>\n
\n Novel Foaming Formulations Development to Enable Gas Huff-n-Puff Field Pilots <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 09 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 9 <\/div>\n
\n Reserves Estimation and Production Forecasting <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Eric Bryan <\/div>\n
\n DeGolyer and MacNaughton <\/div>\n
\n A Diagnostic-Based Methodology to Analyze Multiphase Well Performance and Forecast Gas-Oil Ratio (GOR) or Condensate-Gas Ratio (CGR) <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n 10 <\/div>\n
\n THEME 10 <\/div>\n
\n Clean Energy Systems for Unconventionals <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Christopher Fredd <\/div>\n
\n Blue Angel Energy <\/div>\n
\n Advanced Tracer Interpretation at Utah FORGE Provides New Insights on Completion and Stimulation Challenges for Enhanced Geothermal Systems and Tight Formations <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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