OCGS April Technical Luncheon

"Fail Forward by Being Curious"

Presented by Scott Robinowitz

Wednesday April 16th

11:30am-1:00pm

Petroleum Alliance Building

500 NE 4th St #200, Oklahoma City, OK 73104

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Abstract
“Fail Forward by Being Curious”
The presentation highlights the value of embracing failure and learning the lessons that can be gleaned from unsuccessful reservoir development. Unsuccessful reservoir developments can Fail Forward and result in successful reservoir development only if the geologists and engineers pay attention to the granular details of their failures.
Curiosity is the primary virtue that will allow a team to Fail Forward.
Mr. Robinowitz will highlight the application of various technologies to replumb mature Pennsylvania Aged reservoirs long into their life cycle and abandoned by historic operators. Through iterative failures realized in the effort to develop various shallow, compartmentalized Pennsylvania Aged reservoirs the staff at Grand Resources consistently applied curiosity to overcome field development failures and was able to accelerate hydrocarbon recovery from fields in Northeastern Oklahoma and realize economic successs.
Or in other words, curiosity allowed the team at Grand Resources to Fail Forward.

Scott Robinowitz
Mr. Robinowitz has been operating oil and gas wells in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana for over 23 years. He has extensive experience buying, drilling and managing conventional oil and gas projects. Scott has diverse experience in completing horizontal drilling projects and has drilled over 200 horizontal wells since 2002. Scott managed a Department of Energy grant received in 2002 titled "Enhanced Oil Recovery by Horizontal Waterflooding". He has experience in reservoir engineering and modeling, well completions, equipment design, field operations, secondary recovery design and implementation and environmental compliance. Mr. Robinowitz holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Tulane University and an M.S. in environmental engineering from Oklahoma State University.