SPE Mid-Continent Section Luncheon - Wednesday, January 21, 2026

SPE Mid-Continent Section January Luncheon Presentation

Luncheon cost is $20.00 for Professionals, Retired, Unemployed, Graduate Students, and free for Undergraduate Students. Buy or reserve your tickets here. Payment by credit card is for advanced registrations ONLY, no credit cards will be accepted at the meeting, only check or cash accepted at the door with a reservation. Registration ends, Tuesday, January 20th at 12:00 p.m.

Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2026 — 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Tulsa Country Club

701 N Union Ave, Tulsa, OK 74127

Speakers: Hap Pinkerton and James Calvin

Topic: Practical Methods for Completing the SCOOP Woodford and Sycamore

Abstract:

The Anadarko Basin is one of the deepest basins in North America. It extends over 50,000 square miles from Central Oklahoma into both the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles as well as parts of Colorado and Kansas. The predominant hydrocarbon types are light oil, condensate, and natural gas. Approximately 14,000 horizontal wells have been completed since 2010, but the basin has been favorable for both vertical and horizontal completions. The basin can be divided into several sub areas which include the STACK and the SCOOP. Given the depths as well as the complex geology, major plays such as the Woodford Shale and the Mississippian (Sycamore Formation and Meramec Formation) present many challenges to completions.

On top of the geological challenges, Operators continue to be challenged with improving well economics by improving well production and simultaneously controlling or reducing costs.

Practical methodologies that help mitigate the subsurface challenges as well as help Operators meet their economic challenges will be discussed. These methods and their effectiveness are examined through a combination of conceptualization, field testing, lab testing, data analytics, statistics, and geomechanical modeling. A case history regarding a series of wells drilled in both the Sycamore and the Woodford in the southern part of the SCOOP that required well intervention techniques will also be presented. Several of the above-mentioned methodologies were deployed to optimize the well completions and meet operator objectives. Case histories for the above-mentioned methodologies will also be presented separately where applicable.

Improved operational efficiencies and production can be observed when utilizing targeted methods. As examples, stimulations can be sized based on proper data analysis and modeling by area and formation which can improve well economics by avoiding the oversizing or under sizing of stimulations. Next, production can be enhanced by the utilization of less polyacrylamide in fluid systems or utilizing a non-polyacrylamide polymer. Also, operational inefficiencies related to near wellbore complexity and fluid leak-off can be mitigated using tailored and adjustable fluid system packages as well as operational breakdown techniques. The fluid leak-off mitigation alone has implications on stimulation cluster efficiency, well communication, fracture geometry growth, and seismicity mitigation.

Practical Methods for Completing the SCOOP Woodford and Sycamore | SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition | OnePetro

Speaker Bios:

Hap Pinkerton is a Technical Sales Advisor with Halliburton Energy Services based in Tulsa, OK specializing in the design and optimization of hydraulic fracture and mature well remediation treatments. He has 25 years’ experience in the oil and natural gas industries designing and executing stimulation treatments in producing basins all over North America. Hap received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, is a licensed Petroleum Engineer in the State of Oklahoma, and a 23 year member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers serving as Mid-Continent Section Chairperson in 2018-2019 and as a director until May of 2025.

James Calvin, PE, is a licensed professional engineer with 16 years of multidisciplinary experience in completions, production, and reservoir engineering. A former Halliburton engineer, he specializes in applying data analytics and machine-learning techniques to improve fracture stimulation design and production performance. He has authored eight SPE technical papers and is a named inventor on four patents in stimulation technology.

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