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 Under the leadership of Director Charles Mankin, PTTC's South Midcontinent Region is achieving record activity levels that demonstrate the power of leverage. This effort is bringing a wealth of information resources, in key areas, to the independent and consulting communities in Oklahoma and Arkansas. This leverage multiplies the impact of PTTC funding several fold.
Key ways in which leverage is occurring are:
- Geological play workshops through the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS). Using their funds, staff from OGS develops comprehensive, and professionally published, play-based workshops on primary oil and gas reservoirs in Oklahoma. Examples include the Hunton play, Springer play, and coalbed methane, to name a few.
- Operations-oriented workshops through the Oklahoma Marginal Well Commission (MWC). Support funds are provided to MWC for their operations-oriented workshops. In these workshops, locals (i.e., those knowing how it really works in Oklahoma), deliver insights on a myriad of topics. Notably, MWC is delivering a "Successful Operator" series to industry this year. Importantly, these workshops are brought to "patch" towns, not just Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
- Data access/mapping through OU's Geo Information Systems. OU's Geo Information Systems provides the NRIS (production and well) database to industry. Holding hands-on workshops in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City, they are showing industry how to access/retrieve information from the NRIS database, and how to perform mapping operations with this and other data.
This leverage is on top of the typical PTTC effort where quality speakers are brought in for other high interest topics, such as a recent "underbalanced drilling" workshop. Impact, as illustrated in the chart, is self-evident. Finally, although the South Midcontinent Program targets local producers, Dr. Mankin's influence extends worldwide as he is also serving as Director of the Sarkeys Energy Center at OU. Congratulate Dr. Mankin, and all those involved, on a job well done.
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