SPE OKC December Workshop & Happy Hour

"Don't Stand So Close to Me" | Parent/Child Well Interactions & the Impact on Economics

Braden Bowie | Product Manager

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Abstract:

Understanding the impacts of parent / child relationships is fraught with difficulty and uncertainty... for both people and wellbores. This talk will focus on methods we can use to tune a depletion metric to include both produced volumes and decays with distance. We will then look at how the shape of the depletion function affects well performance, and the economic implications. The resutls are focused on the Midland basin, but the methods shown are applicable to all basins. Special focus is also on the impact of TVD differences between parent / child relationships, given our knowledge that frac barriers exist and can impdede fracture growth (and thus lessen the impact of depletion).

Biography:

Graduated from the University of Calgary in 2012, and worked for Apache on the Duvernay play optimizing development in the retrograde condensate window. Moved down to Houston in 2017, where I focused on RTA and machine learning for the Midland Basin. Main highlights were developing 'Numerical RTA", and applying machine learning to improve economic performance of our drilling program. In 2020 I was promoted to Reservoir Lead for Midland Basin, where we got to use the machine learning to optimize developments with a focus on looser well spacing and larger fracs. In July 2025 I joined Whitson, with the intent to build out WhitsonX, which is a tool to help optimize DSU's by including well spacing, depletion and economics all in one easy to use platform.