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CHAPTER 15 WORKSHOP: LIFE CYCLE OF THE UNIT
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(Nov 2006)
WORKSHOP: LIFE CYCLE OF THE UNIT
Section Chief and Supervisory Petroleum Engineer
Bureau of Land Management
Montana State Office
Reservoir Management and Operations
Billings, Montana
Jay Spielman
Geologist
Bureau of Land Management
New Mexico State Office
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Armando Lopez
Regulatory Agent
Yates Petroleum Corporation
Artesia, New Mexico
PASCUAL "PAS" R. LABORDA
Pascual "Pas" R. Laborda is a Supervisory Petroleum Engineer and the Section Chief for the Reservoir Management and Operations Section for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Montana State Office, in Billings, Montana. He graduated from the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology (Montana Tech) in Butte, Montana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1983. He worked in the BLM --Miles City District Office -- in Miles City, Montana as a staff Petroleum Engineer (1983-87) where he was responsible for reviewing, processing, and approving oil and gas operations; BLM -- Reservoir Management and Operations Section, in Billings, Montana as a staff Petroleum Engineer (1987-01); and is currently the Section Chief (2001-present), responsible for the administration of oil and gas unit agreements and program oversight of oil and gas operations on Federal and Indian lands in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Pas has been a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) since 1978, and is currently the Section Treasurer for the Billings Petroleum Section of the SPE.
JAY SPIELMAN
Jay Spielman is currently a Petroleum Geologist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), New Mexico State Office, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He began his career as a staff Geologist in the BLM Billings Resource Area in 1976. In 1983, he transferred to the Reservoir Management and Operations Section, in the Montana State Office in Billings, and worked as a Petroleum Geologist there from 1983-2001. He transferred to the New Mexico State Office in 2001. He has 18 years of experience in the administration of oil and gas unit, gas storage, and compensatory royalty agreements, and provides program oversight for oil and gas reservoir management on Federal and Indian lands in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. Jay has been a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists since 1985. He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Geology in 1974, and has two years of graduate education (no degree), with an emphasis on stratigraphy, paleontology, and mineral resources.
ARMANDO LOPEZ
Armando A. Lopez is Chief Regulatory Agent for Yates Petroleum Corporation in Artesia, New Mexico. He graduated from New Mexico State University with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 1975. He worked in the Hobbs District Office of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as a staff Petroleum Engineer (1976-78), Agreements Section of USGS Roswell and Albuquerque Offices as Staff Petroleum Engineer (1978- 80), Supervisor of the Agreements Section USGS Albuquerque (1980-81), Production Unit Supervisor USGS, and Minerals Management Service Roswell (1981-83), Chief, Branch of Fluid Minerals, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roswell (1984-91), Assistant District Manager for Minerals BLM Roswell (1992-94), Lead Technical Expert for Lands and Minerals Division BLM Roswell...
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1 BASIC CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND BASIC DEFINITIONS
- CHAPTER 2 STATE CONSERVATION REGULATION -- SINGLE WELL SPACING AND POOLING -- VIS-À-VIS FEDERAL AND INDIAN LANDS1
- CHAPTER 3 COMMUNITIZATION AGREEMENTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY1
- CHAPTER 4 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF POOLING AND UNITIZATION
- FORMING THE UNIT - WHY UNITIZE? THE INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
- FORMING THE UNIT -- WHY UNITIZE? A BLM PERSPECTIVE
- FORMING A FEDERAL EXPLORATORY UNIT THE AREA AND DEPTH MEETING -- A BLM PERSPECTIVE
- PREPARING FOR THE AREA AND DEPTH MEETING
- CHAPTER 7 AREA AND DEPTH WORKSHOP
- CHAPTER 8 PREPARING AND FINALIZING THE UNIT AGREEMENT: MAKING SURE YOUR EXPLORATORY DUCKS ARE IN A ROW
- CHAPTER 9 TIMEFRAMES AND OPERATIONAL OBLIGATIONS
- CHAPTER 10 UNIT AND FEDERAL LEASE SUSPENSIONS AND EXTENSIONS
- CHAPTER 11 PAYING WELL DETERMINATIONS
- CHAPTER 12 PARTICIPATING AREAS
- ESTABLISHMENT AND REVISION OF PARTICIPATING AREAS
- CHAPTER 13 PLANS OF DEVELOPMENT AND UNIT EXPANSIONS
- CHAPTER 14 CONTRACTIONS AND TERMINATION
- CHAPTER 15 WORKSHOP: LIFE CYCLE OF THE UNIT
- CHAPTER 16 THE UNIT OPERATING AGREEMENT FOR FEDERAL EXPLORATORY UNITS
- CHAPTER 17 THE IMPACT OF UNIT EVENTS UPON A FEDERAL OIL AND GAS LEASE
- CHAPTER 18 SECONDARY RECOVERY UNITS AND PRESSURE MAINTENANCE
- CHAPTER 19 OTHER FEDERAL CONSERVATION MECHANISMS
- AN INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE ON COALBED NATURAL GAS (METHANE) UNITS
- COALBED NATURAL GAS (METHANE) UNITS FROM THE BLM PERSPECTIVE
- CHAPTER 21 WORKSHOP: LEASE AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES
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