Publications by MHA Staff
Leslie S. O'Connor, President
The Impact of Undersaturation on Coal Gas Economics, SPE 107731, presented at the 2007 SPE Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Technology Symposium, Denver, Colorado, U. S. A. 16-18 April 2007.
Seidle, John P., O’Connor, Leslie S., “Production Based Probabilistic Economics for Unconventional Gas”, SPE Paper #82024, 2003
Petrophysical Analysis of the Frontier Formation (Cretaceous), Whiskey Buttes Field, Lincoln County, Wyoming”, SPE Paper 38379, 1997
Remaining Production Potential of Tight Gas Sand Wells in a Reservoir Under Curtailment, GRI Atlas of Major Rocky Mountain Gas Reservoirs, 1993
Marketing Natural Gas from the Rocky Mountain Region, GRI Atlas of Major Rocky Mountain Gas Reservoirs, 1993
The Impact of Undersaturation on Coal Gas Economics, SPE Paper # 107731, 2007
Tim Hower, Chairman
Managing Water-Drive Gas Reservoirs, co-author of the textbook published by the Gas Research Institute, Chicago, Ill, 1993.
Gas Reservoir Management and Gas Reservoir Modeling, technical training manuals for Amoco Production Company, Houston, Texas, 1993.
Hower, T.L., Fugate, M.W., and Owens, R.W.: “Improved Performance in Aquifer Gas Storage Fields Through Reservoir Management”, paper SPE 26172 presented at the 1993 Gas Technology Symposium, 28-30 June, 1993, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Hower, T.L., and Owens, R.W.: “Reservoir Management of a Gulf Coast Water-Drive Gas Field”, presented at the 1992 International Gas Research Conference, 16-19 November, Orlando, Florida.
Hower, T.L., Lewis, D.R., and Owens, R.W.: “Recovery Optimization in a Multi-reservoir Offshore Gas Field with Water Influx”, paper SPE 24865 presented at the 1992 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 4-7 October, Washington, D.C.
Hower, T.L., and Decker, M.K.: “Identifying Recompletion Candidates in Stratified Gas Reservoirs”, presented at the 1992 Mid-Continent Gas Symposium, 13-14 April, Amarillo, Texas.
Hower, T.L. and Jones, R.E.: “Predicting Recovery of Gas Reservoirs Under Water-Drive Conditions”, paper SPE 22937 presented at the 1991 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 6-9 October, Dallas.
Hower, T.L.: “Using Depletion Ratios to Select and Evaluate Drilling Locations in Naturally Fractured Gas Reservoirs”, paper SPE 20758 presented at the 1990 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 23-26 September, New Orleans.
Hower, T.L.: “BOAST II: Features, Capabilities, and Some Modifications”, SPE Computer Applications, Jan.-Feb. 1990, pp. 27-29.
Hower, T.L. and Collins, R.E.: “Detecting Compartmentalization in Gas Reservoirs Through Production Performance”, paper SPE 19790 presented at the 1989 SPE Technical Conference and Exhibition, 8-11 October, San Antonio.
Hower, T.L., Parsons, A.R., and Klins, M.A.: “Laboratory Investigation of a Latex Polymer for Enhanced Oil Recovery”, presented at the Fourteenth ACS Akron Polymer Conference, 19-20 May, 1983, Akron, Ohio.
Hower, T.L.: “Coalbed Methane Reservoir Simulation: An Evolving Science” paper SPE 84424 presented at the 2003 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 5-8 October, Denver, Colorado.
Hower, T. L., Jones, J.E. and Harbridge, W.: “Development of the Wyodak Coalbed Methane Resource in the Powder River Basin”, paper SPE 84428 presented at the 2003 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 5-8 October, Denver, Colorado.
Joan Tilden, Vice President
SPE 59060. Fracture Characterization a Key Factor in Yates Steam Pilot Design and Implementation (Feb. 2000)
John P. Seidle, Vice President
The Impact of Undersaturation on Coal Gas Economics, SPE 107731, presented at the 2007 SPE Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Technology Symposium, Denver, Colorado, U. S. A. 16-18 April 2007.
Production Data Analysis of CBM Wells, SPE 107705, presented at the 2007 SPE Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Technology Symposium, Denver, Colorado, U. S. A. 16-18 April 2007.
Production Data Analysis of Single-Phase (Gas) CBM Wells, SPE 100313, presented at the Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, 15-17 May, 2006.
Production Based Probabilistic Economics for Unconventional Gas, SPE 82024, presented at the SPE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium, Dallas Texas, 5-8 April, 2003.
Coal Well Decline Behavior and Drainage Areas: Theory and Practice, SPE 75519, presented at the SPE Gas Technology Sypmosium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 30 April-2 May 2002.
Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost – Review of Selected Coalbed Methane Pilots in Coalbed Methane of North America II, Schwochow and Nuncio, eds., Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 2002.
Reservoir Engineering Aspects of CO2 Sequestration in Coals, SPE 59788, presented at the 2000 SPE/CERI Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 3-5 April 2000.
Seidle, J. P. “A Modified p/Z Method for Coal Wells, SPE 55605, presented at the 1999 SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Gillette, Wyoming, 15-18 May 1999.
Technology for CBM Recovery from Deep Coal Beds – I. Primary Recovery and I I. Enhanced Recovery by Nitrogen Injection, papers presented at the Workshop on Coalbed Methane Recovery and Prospects for a Hydrogen Economy, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, Beijing, China, 18-19 January 1999.
The Southern Boundary of the San Juan Basin Coalbed Methane High-Production Fairway, New Mexico, Proceedings of the 1997 International Coalbed Methane Symposium, 1997.
Characterization of Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery Injection Wells, SPE 38861, presented at the 1997 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, 5-8 October, 1997.
Experimental Measurement of Coal Matrix Shrinkage Due to Gas Desorption and Implications for Cleat Permeability Increases, SPE 30010, presented at the International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, Beijing, PR China, 14-17 November, 1995.
Pressure Falloff Testing of Enhanced Coalbed Methane Pilot Injection Wells, SPE 30731, presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, 22-25 October, 1995.
Use of Vogel’s Inflow Performance Relation for Coal Wells, SPE 26201, presented at the SPE Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, 28-30 June, 1993.
Geologic controls on the occurrence of methane in coal beds of the Pennsylvanian Hartshorne Formation, Arkoma basin, Oklahoma (abs.): AAPG Bulletin, v. 77, no. 9 (September), p. 1574. Paper presented at AAPG Midcontinent Section Meeting, Amarillo, Texas, October 10-12, 1993.
Gas Sorption on Coal and Measurement of Gas Content, Chapter 9 in Hydrocarbons from Coal, AAPG Studies in Geology #38, edited by B.E. Law and D.D. Rice, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1993.
Openhole Cavity Completions in Coalbed Methane Wells in the San Juan Basin, SPE 24906, presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers 67th Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Washington, D.C, October 4-7, 1992.
Application of Matchstick Geometry to Stress Dependent Permeability in Coals, SPE 24361, presented at the SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Casper, Wyoming, May 18-21, 1992.
A Numerical Study of Coalbed Dewatering, SPE 24358, presented at the SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Casper, Wyoming, May 18-21, 1992.
Review of Research Efforts in Coalbed Methane Recovery, SPE 23025, presented at the SPE Asia-Pacific Conference, Perth, Australia, 4-7 November, 1991.
Measurement of Stress-Dependent Permeability in Coal and Its Influence on Coalbed Methane Production, In Situ, 16(3), 183-202 (1992). Originally presented as paper 9142 at the 1991 Coalbed Methane Symposium, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, May 13-16, 1991.
Pressure Falloff Tests of New Coal Wells, SPE 21809, presented at the SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting and Low- Permeability Reservoirs Symposium, Denver, Colorado, April 15-17, 1991.
Long-Term Gas Deliverability of a Dewatered Coalbed, Journal of Petroleum Technology, June 1993, p. 564. Originally presented as SPE 21488 at the SPE Gas Technology Symposium, Houston, Texas, January 23-25, 1991.
Use of Conventional Reservoir Models for Coalbed Methane Simulation, paper CIM/SPE 90-118, presented at the International Technical Meeting hosted by the Petroleum Society of CIM and the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Calgary, Alberta, 10-13 June, 1990.
Greg Hueni, Associate
Co-author of Bergeson Reservoir Evaluation Manuals.
"Interpretation of Buildup Data Obtained from MHF Wells in Northern Germany". Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE 11605, December 1985.
Comparison of Measured and Predicted Pressure Drops in Tubing for High-Water-Cut Gas Wells", Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, September 1984.
The Gavilan Field: Inverse Rate Sensitivity in Dual Porosity Reservoirs", Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE 20774, September 1990.
Stan Kleinsteiber, Vice President
Agarwal, R.G., Gardner, D.C., Kleinsteiber S.W., and Fussell, D.D.: “Analyzing Well Production Data By Use of Combined Type Curve and Decline Curve Analysis Concepts”, Journal of Petroleum Technology, SPE 49222, October 1998, pp. 76-77.
Kleinsteiber, S.W.: “The Wertz Tensleep CO2 Flood: Design and Initial Performance”, Journal of Petroleum Technology, SPE 18067, May 1990, pp. 630-636.
Kleinsteiber, S.W., Wendschlag, D.D., and Calvin, J.W.: “A Study for Development of a Plan of Depletion in a Rich Gas Condensate Reservoir: Anschutz Ranch East Unit, Summit County, Utah, Uinta County Wyoming”, paper SPE 12042 presented at the 1983 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 5-8, San Francisco.
Steve Struna, Director
“In-situ Combustion in the Lower Hospah Formation, McKinley Co., New Mexico:” SPE Reservoir Engineering paper SPE 14917, March 1989
Dan Simpson, Engineer
“Net Present Value Probability Distributions From Decline Curve Reserve Estimates.”, SPE 30044 D. E. Simpson, C. H. Huffman and R. S. Thompson.