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SUMMARY:Register now for URTeC 2026 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference June 22-24, 2026 – Houston
DESCRIPTION:The Integrated Event for Unconventional Resource Teams\nHere’s What You’ll Experience at URTeC\nTechnical Program\nExperience three days of unmatched technical content featuring high-quality presentations, talks, and case studies from leading experts.\nSpecial Highlights\nAttend plenary, panel, and special sessions led by top industry executives and unconventional-resource specialists.\nExtended Learning\nExpand your expertise through topical luncheons, short courses, and new-technology showcases designed to deepen your understanding.\nNetworking Opportunities\nEngage with peers, innovators, and decision-makers through interactive events that spark collaboration and lasting business connections.\nTheme 1\nOperators’ Forum: Case Studies Highlighting the Multidisciplinary Approach to Exploration, Appraisal, Pilot Tests, and Development (You MUST be an Operator to submit to this theme.)\nThe Operators’ Forum will focus on case studies that illustrate the integration of multiple disciplines, including geology, geophysics, geomechanics, completions engineering, and reservoir engineering, to evaluate complex datasets and improve asset value. The case studies may focus on the complete life cycle of unconventional plays, from exploration and appraisal to pilot tests and large-scale development. Because this is an Operators Forum, speakers must be operators, and the focus of the paper should be on operators’ projects. Team presentations are encouraged; lead presenters must be operators, though collaboration with non-operators is welcomed.\n\nWell Spacing to Field Development and Stacked Pay Development Strategies\nQuantifying, Mitigating and/or Overcoming Parent-Child Effects\nCase Studies Highlighting Optimizing Completion, Perforation, and Stimulation Strategies\nRefracturing, EOR or Other Techniques to Improve Performance and Economics\nA Focus on Key Unconventional Basins and Their Development\nNew Exploration and Appraisal Opportunities\nBusiness, Regulatory, and Economic Considerations\nApplication of New Materials, Technologies, and Data Analytics\nDiversity, Collaboration, Safety, and Environmental Stewardship in Multidisciplinary Teams\n\nTheme 2\nAdvanced Formation Evaluation\nFormation evaluation integrates well logs, core and fluid analyses, and diverse interpretation techniques to characterize unconventional reservoirs and mitigate subsurface risks. Advanced logging technologies and specialized core analyses play a pivotal role in developing robust petrophysical models. This process is essential for identifying optimal landing zones for horizontal wells and for constructing rock mechanical models that support wellbore stability and inform completion design.\n\nThis theme focuses on secondary well treatments such as mechanical or chemical intervention, refracturing, sidetracks, and artificial lift optimization, and other similar techniques to re-establish reservoir contact, restore pressure support, and extend productive life of wells. It includes the integration of high-resolution diagnostics – fiber-optic strain/temperature, tracers – with geomechanical modeling and well completion and intervention techniques to address produced or under-stimulated rock.\nAdvances in Core/Cuttings Analysis and Rock-Fluid Characterization/Interaction\nInnovative Logging Measurements and Interpretation Methods\nDevelopments in NMR Logging, Interpretation, and Core Analysis\nGeomechanical Integration of Petrophysical Interpretation\nGeosteering, Logging, and Monitoring Along Horizontal Wells\nApplications of AI and Machine Learning in Petrophysical Interpretation\nEmerging Unconventional Plays and Case Studies\n\nTheme 3\nGeological and Geophysical Applications Spanning the E&P Lifecycle\nUnderstanding geologic uncertainty is a key topic related to the growth and future of unconventional play development. This theme focuses on the geologic and geophysical applications across the exploration and production lifecycle in unconventional plays, emphasizing their role in opportunity evaluation, business decisions, and capital efficiency. It highlights the importance of understanding geological and geophysical properties, managing uncertainty, and integration with other disciplines to assess unconventional reservoir performance.\n\nEmerging Geological Evaluations: Integrated Workflows for Prospectivity Assessment and Development Efficiencies\nApplications to Assess Acreage and Running Room: Case Studies on Subsurface Characterization of Existing and New Plays\nGeologic Drivers Behind Stimulated and Drainage Rock Volume: Observations, Lessons Learned, and Strategies for Assessment\nWhat’s in Your Rock: Geological and Geophysical Integration that Impact Business Decisions and Capital Efficiency\nAdvances in High Resolution Geophysical Imaging: Cutting-Edge Techniques in Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation\nAdvances in High Resolution Geophysical Imaging: Cutting-Edge Techniques in Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation\nProduction Optimization: Integrating 3D Seismic, Microseismic, and DTS/DAS to Enhance Completions and Predict Performance\nGeological and Geophysical Applications to Produced Water Management\nInternational and Emerging Challenges of Unconventional Resources\n\nTheme 4\nGeomechanics – The Intersection of Geoscience and Engineering\nGeomechanics permeates different aspects of unconventional and conventional reservoir development including drilling, completions and reservoir engineering by integrating mechanics, geology, geophysics, and rock physics to find solutions for economic production of resources. The objective of this theme is to highlight the versatility of this integrative platform in solving the most pressing problems in unconventional reservoirs.\n\nRock and Hydraulic Fracture Modeling\nGeomechanics in Well Design, Construction, and Drilling\nDiagnostics and Monitoring in Hydraulic Fracturing with Geomechanical Models\nGeomechanics in Production Simulation, Forecasting, and Optimization\nInfill Drilling and Refracturing; Geomechanical Applications and Lessons Learned\nInfill Drilling and Refracturing; Geomechanical Applications and Lessons Learned\n\nTheme 5\nOrganic and Inorganic Geochemistry Including Fluid-Rock Interactions\nUnlocking the potential of unconventional resources through the fascinating world of geochemistry and fluid-rock interactions. In this theme, contributions should be focused on applications and breakthroughs in the fields of geochemistry and fluid-rock interactions as related to the development, understanding, and impacts of constraining unconventional resources (both predictive and post-auditing). The subcategories should be treated as guides rather than restrictions on submissions.\n\nNovel Case Studies of Geochemistry Applications\nExamples of Geochemical Monitoring Integration with Multi-Disciplinary Datasets\nFluid Geochemical Impacts on Production Performance and Hydrocarbon Recovery\nBreakthrough Technologies in Geochemical-Based Applications\n\nTheme 6\nApplications of AI and Data Science\nThis theme will focus on various aspects of the new approaches in data science in terms of measurement, analysis, and physics-informed data analytics during the entire lifecycle of reservoir from geological, geophysical and petrophysical exploration and development to how it can help in drilling, completion, and reservoir performance management. Main themes include, but are not limited to, how the data is acquired, managed, and stored as well as used in an integrated fashion beyond the discipline specific workflows. In addition, we will also look at the acquisition, cost-quality pairings, and timing and frequency-redundancy of the data while highlighting the multi-scale nature of it.\n\nSubsurface Characterization, Applied Case Studies, and Business Implementation\nNew Approaches, Workflows, and Best Practices; Case Study Examples\nApplications in Reserves Estimation and Production Forecasting\nImpact to Drilling and Completion(s)\n\nTheme 7\nUnlocking the Production and Recovery Potential\nBuilding on strong fundamentals, this theme will focus on maximizing unconventional oil and gas productivity. To get the most from these reservoirs, understanding reservoir flow dynamics, which better enable modeling tools to mimic these processes, and improved artificial lift and facility methods can improve recovery. Due to low primary recovery, enhanced recovery applications could present a significant opportunity for further asset exploitation.\n\nReservoir Production and Recovery Mechanisms\nFlow and Phase Behavior for Tight Oil and Shale Oil/Shale Reservoir Systems\nPressure Transient Testing, DFIT, and Well Testing\nRecovery Enhancement due to Facility and Artificial Lift Optimization\nEOR/IOR Field Case Studies and Implementation\nEGR (Enhanced Gas Recovery) Methods in Unconventionals\nNew Materials and Innovative Technologies\nEOR/IOR in Unconventional: Lab and Simulation\n\nTheme 8\nReserves Estimation and Production Forecasting\nThis theme showcases new insights with respect to estimating reserves and forecasting production with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of well supported assessments. New techniques to provide reliable forecasts will be explored in moving resources to reserves to production.\n\nPerformance Prediction Forecasting Methods\n\nEUR Estimation and Decline Curve Analysis\nPhysics-Based Models and Data-Driven Forecasting Approaches\n\n\nReserves Classification and Business Implications\n\nSEC/PRMS Guidelines for Forecasting\nConsiderations for Reserves Booking and Revisions\n\n\nWell and Field Development Dynamics\n\nType Well Profiles and Early-Time Data Usage\nLifecycle Updates and Their Impact on Forecasts\n\n\nWell Spacing and Interference Effects\n\nDiagnostics and Integrated Insights\nProduction Diagnostics and Surveillance Tools\nConnecting Forecasting with Reservoir Management Decisions\n\n\n\nTheme 9\nClean Energy Systems for Unconventionals\nAs oil and gas extraction in unconventional reservoirs continues to evolve our industry is facing new opportunities such as end of lifecycle extension, exit strategies, and new uses for these reservoirs. Technology opportunities are emerging to create and demonstrate safer and cleaner production for existing and new energy systems. Submissions in this theme will look to highlight more sustainable oil and gas operations, transition of technologies in the energy space, as well as development of integrated energy systems.\n\nGas Storage, Exploration, and Extraction (Helium, Hydrogen, etc.)\nCarbon Capture, Sequestration, Utilization, and Case Studies\nCarbon Capture, Sequestration, Utilization, and Case Studies\nSafer and Cleaner Unconventional Operations (Emissions Monitoring, Emission Reduction, Water Reuse, etc.)\nGeothermal Opportunities for Technology Development, Simulation, Exploration, and Extraction\nCritical Minerals Exploration and Extraction\nEvaluation of Economics and/or Policy Changes Enabling Clean Energy Systems\n\nTheme 10\nRevitalize and Maximize — Targeted Well-Level Interventions for Higher Unconventional Recovery\nThis theme focuses on secondary well treatments such as mechanical or chemical intervention, refracturing, sidetracks, and artificial lift optimization, and other similar techniques to re-establish reservoir contact, restore pressure support, and extend productive life of wells. It includes the integration of high-resolution diagnostics – fiber-optic strain/temperature, tracers – with geomechanical modeling and well completion and intervention techniques to address produced or under-stimulated rock.\n\nRefracturing and Re-Stimulation Campaigns\nAdaptive Artificial Lift Operations\nChemical, Gas, Solvent, and WAG Huff-n-Puff Pilots\nLaboratory Experiments of EOR Studies\nIntegrated Surveillance for Reintervention Pilot Evaluation\nDigital Twins, Machine Learning and Coupled Simulations for Secondary Intervention\nSurface and Midstream Adaptations for Field Execution and Production Enhancement\n\n
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