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Short Courses

Best Practices/Optimization of Marcellus Completions/Stimulations

Instructors:
Bob Garland, Universal Well Services;
John Gottschling, BJ Services; and
Kirby Walker, Schlumberger

Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010;
Morning Session, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

The course will include a review and discussion of the “Best Management Practices” being released by the Marcellus Shale Coalition; a comparison of completion and stimulation differences between the eastern and western portions of the Appalachian basin; a review of microseismic data; a review of water flowback data; an overview of new well designs and site construction; and the latest technologies being applied or coming soon. A 30-60 minute panel session with the instructors will conclude the short course.

Water Management and Treatment for the Marcellus

Instructors:
Amy Bergdale, Environmental Protection Agency;
Dave Grottenhaler, Kroff Well Services, Inc.;
Dean Grose, Comtech Industries; and
Andy Kicinski, Reserved Environmental Services

Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010;
Afternoon Session, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The course will include an overview of the planned EPA study “Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water Resources”, a technical review of water treatment technologies, and reviews of day-to-day operations of both a mobile and stationary water treatment facilities managing Marcellus flowback/produced water. A 30-60 minute panel session with the instructors will conclude the short course.

Kroff Well Services will discuss technologies that need to be considered for treatment of flowback, water treatment goals, supporting documentation for safe and effective water reuse, and frac fluid design considerations when reusing water.

Comtech will discuss the formalities of dealing with water treatment from a Mobile perspective. Questions that need to be considered when assessing mobile treatment include:

What equipment is involved
How is the mob/demob accomplished and in what timeframe
How are the jobs evaluated and assessed to ensure no harm is done once the water is returned down hole
How is the sludge handled and managed
How is the proposal generated and what are the typical costs involved
What is the treatment capacity and flow rates that can be expected
Benefits of Mobile Treatment

Reserved Environmental Services will walk through the operations of a stationary wastewater treatment facility (aka central wastewater treatment) including:

The screening (physical and visual testing) of every truck load of wastewater delivered to the facility. This is required to protect the treatment chemistry set for continuous processing.
Off loading is to “rock” boxes designed to remove rocks, stones, tyvex, wood, cups, etc.
Equalization for influent stability—steady state conditions
Metals removal (barium, strontium, and iron) and other cations
Clarifiers/Sludge settling
Sludge handling and dewatering—Form “U” analyses- NORM issues.
Filtration for Suspended solids removal—treatment to less than 25 mg/l
Blending- prepared fluids, specifically for desired chloride concentrations—40-60,000 mg/l
Post chlorination—thermal bacteria extermination
Truck re-loading and recycle to the next drilling site---ZERO DISCHARGE
TURN AROUND GOAL—in/out in 30 minutes.