Speaker Robert Barba
Bob spent 10 years with Schlumberger as an open hole field engineer, sales engineer, and product development manager. While at Schlumberger he was the US product champion for the FracHite and Quantifrac products that integrated wireline, testing, and pumping inputs to optimize hydraulic fracture treatments. Since then he has spent …
Bob spent 10 years with Schlumberger as an open hole field engineer, sales engineer, and product development manager. While at Schlumberger he was the US product champion for the FracHite and Quantifrac products that integrated wireline, testing, and pumping inputs to optimize hydraulic fracture treatments. Since then he has spent 20 years consulting to over 200 companies on petrophysics and completion optimization. He served as a SPE Distinguished Lecturer on integrating petrophysics with the hydraulic fracture treatment optimization process. He has focused on the integration of petrophysics with completion designs in a variety of reservoirs in North America, conducting numerous field studies for operators evaluating the "completion efficiency" of over 1500 wells and providing "best practices" recommendations based on the study results (SPE 90483). He has been responsible for the petrophysical analysis of 35 major fields worldwide as part of integrated reservoir characterization studies identifying remaining mobile oil and gas. He has authored 33 technical papers on the integration of petrophysics with completion designs, horizontal wells, and reservoir characterization projects. Bob was a pioneer in the characterization of the Wolfberry with three SPE and two SWPSC papers on optimizing fracture treatments in the Spraberry/Dean/Wolfcamp in the late 1980’s and early 90’s. Bob has a BS from the US Naval Academy and MBA from the University of Florida. He is also a member of the SPE, SPWLA, AAPG, and Petroleum Society of the Canadian CIM.
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