The Pulse of Unconventionals in 2021

Barry Hlidek is presently Engineering Advisor for Stim-Lab Inc., a Core Laboratories company, located in Duncan, Oklahoma. With 33 years’ experience in the oil well service industry, Barry’s areas of expertise include research and engineering for fracturing, cementing, acidizing, sand control, and coil tubing services. He has authored or co-authored numerous technical papers, a textbook on hydraulic fracturing, and holds three patents.  Barry has a B.S. in chemical and petroleum refining, and mineral economics, from the Colorado School of Mines.

Raj has worked on numerous integrated projects spanning from asset evaluations to full-field development in multiple active and upcoming unconventional reservoirs over the past 15 years. He holds an M. S. in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University. His interests include hydraulic fracture treatment design and evaluation, geomechanics, restimulation, time-lapse development optimization, production data analysis, reservoir simulation, asset evaluation, and field development planning. Malpani has published many articles and given several presentations and is actively involved in volunteering.

Scott Lapierre graduated with a BSc. in Geology from the University of South Alabama in 1995 and began his oil career working offshore as an LWD field engineer in the Deepwater GOM. In 2005 he joined ConocoPhillips and became a petrophysicist just a few years before the gas shale revolution erupted in 2006 and started working on interpretation techniques for quantifying and mapping the hydrocarbon content of shales.

In 2009 Scott moved to Pioneer Natural Resources to help lead their transition into liquids-rich shales where he further refined his hydrocarbon quantification and mapping techniques to include integration of source rock geochemistry into petrophysics. Additionally, his work on multiple core analyses process corrections further enabled key uncertainty reduction in Oil-in-Place (OIP) determinations.

After several exploration successes and one failure, Scott discovered a key limitation to the reservoir drive mechanism primarily responsible for oil recovery from shales, and in doing so, stumbled upon the ability to fundamentally pre-determine and map recovery factor absent of production data. Combining accurate OIP with maps of available recovery factor led to unique illuminations of Recoverable Oil-in-Place. After failing to gain interest in his discovery Scott resigned in 2014 and co-founded PCORE Exploration (I), a private equity-backed company focused on leasing and proving-up ‘core’ acreage in the Midland Basin.

After successfully divesting PCORE’s primary asset to Parsley Energy for $150MM in 2016, Scott has been consulting under the banner of Shale Specialists LLC where he uses his 8-year old “secret” to help operators determine optimal well spacing and completion intensity to maximize per-well, per-dollar, and per-acre recoveries

Baosheng Liang is reservoir engineering advisor in Mid-Continent Business Unit (MCBU), Chevron.  He leads a technical group for optimizing development strategy in all Permian shale and tight assets, including development sequence, landing, completions design and well spacing.  He is a technical leader in shale and tight integrated modeling, surveillance, and data analytics, bridging business decisions and technology development and deployment.  Liang holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.  He has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.  He has served in technical committee and session chairs for URTeC, SPE ATCE, LRBC, IOR, and RTA/PTA in Unconventional Reservoirs Workshop for over 10 years.

Senior Reservoir Engineer and Advisor with diverse technical expertise in reservoir simulation and modeling, proficient in the use of the major simulation software including INTERSECT, ECLIPSE, PETREL, CMG, IPM. Almost 10 years of experience in conventional and unconventional assets in well spacing, landing, depletion analysis, completion optimization, and EOR Frack Fluid Chemistry Optimization (FFCO) projects. Master and Bachelor of science in Petroleum Engineering both from University of Texas at Austin.  SME in hydraulic frack reservoir simulation with significant contributions to OC development through mentoring, training, participation in technical committees and publications.
Strong leadership behaviors and experience in leading cross-functional initiatives and driving alignment between multiple teams. Innovation in Capital Cost Reduction by identifying multiple Performance Improvement opportunities for well spacing and completion design optimization including with FFCO injection. 

Numerous industry and internal recognitions for technical contributions (SPE, URTeC, RM Excellent Awards, Team achievement Awards).