John P. Spivey, Ph.D., P.E.
Résumé
Experience
- PetroSkills: 2006 - Present
- Contract instructor for courses
- Well Test Design and Analysis (WTA),
- Gas Reservoir Management (GRM),
- Gas Condensates and Volatile Oils: Phase Behavior, Modeling, and Reservoir Engineering (NCRF), and
- Production Decline Curve Analysis (PD)
- Presented short courses worldwide
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Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Thailand, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, UK, and the United States
- Phoenix Reservoir Software, LLC: 2005 - Present
- Founded Phoenix Reservoir Software, LLC, to provide state-of-the-art software to the petroleum industry, specializing in applications for
- low permeability gas,
- unconventional gas, and
- gas storage
- Software:
- Designed and developed software (PMTx) for production data matching and forecasting for gas wells in multilayer unconventional gas reservoirs
- Designed and developed C++ class libraries for:
- Vector and matrix operations
- Special functions, including modifed Bessel functions, error functions, Beta and Incomplete Beta functions,
Gamma and Incomplete Gamma functions, Kelvin functions, Exponential Integral functions, and others
- Nonlinear regression using a modified Levenberg-Marquardt method with linear constraints on parameter values
- Equation of state calculations for petroleum reservoir fluids
- Fluid and rock property correlations
- Evaluating solutions to diffusivity equation, featuring a wide variety of different completion geometries,
outer boundary conditions, media types, and wellbore storage models
- Interactive X-Y graphics
- Units conversions
- Designed and developed custom DLL to allow access to the PMTx calculation engine
- Designed and developed software (WTA) for analyzing pressure transient test data
- Designed and developed software (EoS) for equation of state applications
- Research and Development:
- Invented and patented a method for estimating layer properties by analyzing production data from gas wells producing from multilayer unconventional gas reservoirs
- Customers and Clients:
- Beijing Highyield Technology
- BG Group
- ExxonMobil
- ExxonMobil BSC Hungary Ltd
- FracTech
- Geopark Argentina
- Halliburton
- Matador
- P.E. Moseley
- Petrobras
- BHP Billiton Petroleum/Petrohawk
- Schubarth, Inc.
- Shell
- Sinclair Petroleum Engineering
- Phoenix Reservoir Engineering: 2004 - Present
- Founded Phoenix Reservoir Engineering to provide state-of-the-art consulting and training to the petroleum industry.
- Training:
- Developed short course on pressure transient analysis
- Developed short course on gas condensates and volatile oils
- Research:
- Developed methodology and workflow for intensive quality-checking Constant Volume Depletion (CVD) tests for volatile oils and gas condensates
- Developed method for estimating reservoir fluid composition from separator and stock tank field data
- Developed correlations for estimating brine density and methane solubility in brines
- Consulting Clients:
- Ankor Energy LLC
- Anglo-Suisse
- Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
- Dana Hupp
- Denbury Resources
- Featherstone Petrie DeSisto
- Goldston Oil Corporation
- Kerry Pollard
- Matador Resources
- McCain Engineering
- MHA Petroleum Consultants
- OGCI/PetroSkills
- Phoenix Exploration Co.(no relation)
- Quicksilver Resources, Inc.
- Ray Powell
- Schlumberger DCS/College Station
- Schlumberger DCS/Pittsburgh
- Schlumberger NExT
- Schubarth, Inc.
- Shell Exploration & Production Company (SEPCo)
- Stonegate Production LLC
- Texas Star Disposal Systems
- Unbridled Energy
- Unconventional Gas Resources
- W. John Lee
- Texas A&M University, Visiting Assistant Professor: 1992 - 2005
- Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in pressure transient analysis and gas reservoir engineering
- Montana Tech, Visiting Assistant Professor: Fall Semester, 2002
- Taught reservoir simulation, pressure transient analysis, and petroleum thermodynamics
- S. A. Holditch & Associates: 1990 - 1997; Schlumberger Data and Consulting Services: 1997 - 2004
- Consulting:
- Analyzed pressure transient test data and/or production data for thousands of wells throughout the world
- Conducted or contributed to dozens of reservoir simulation studies and integrated reservoir studies
- Worked on projects in most of the major oil producing provinces in the world, including
offshore Gulf of Mexico, China, Indonesia, Tunisia, South Africa, Equatorial Guinea,
Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Canada, South Texas, East Texas, California,
the Rocky Mountains, the Mid-Continent, and the Appalachian Basin
- Training:
- Developed notes for industry short courses in gas storage, reservoir simulation, well test analysis, and production data analysis.
- Presented short courses and workshops on pressure transient analysis, production data analysis,
reservoir simulation, gas storage, and nodal analysis in Austria, China, Colombia, England,
Peru, Scotland, the United States, and Venezuela
- Software:
- Designed and developed software packages for production data analysis, pressure transient test analysis,
surface-bottomhole pressure conversion, and fluid properties correlation
- SoftSearch: 1985 - 1988; Dwights EnergyData: 1988 - 1990 (last job title: Director of Special Projects)
Programming in BASIC, Pascal, C, and x86 assembly language. Designed and developed applications for
production decline curve analysis, fluid properties, volumetric oil- and gas-in-place calculations,
and gas material balance for commercial release. Conceived, designed, and developed several
utility programs to enhance productivity of the software development group.
- Abilene Christian University, Assistant Professor: 1983 - 1985
Taught physical geology, historical geology, groundwater geology, introductory computer science, and university physics
Education
- Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, May 1984
- M.S., Physics, University of Washington, December 1979
- B.S., Physics, Abilene Christian University, May 1977
Professional Affiliations
- Professional Engineer, Texas
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (25 Year Member)
- Member, American Physical Society
- Member, American Chemical Society
- Chairman, SPE Reprint Committee, 2001-03
- Member, SPE Pressure Transient Testing Technical Committee, 1995-98
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