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2024

➜ January 6th, 2024 | whitson+ Just Got a lot better! 🚀

➜ September 27th, 2024 | whitson+ Just Got a Boost! 🚀

➜ September 22nd, 2024 | Michael J. Fetkovich Technology Award 2024

➜ April 20th, 2024 | Caution: whitson+ release is coming in hot ☕

➜ February 4th, 2024 | Caution: whitson+ release is coming in hot ☕

2023

➜ December 29th, 2023 | Uinta Basin – Multi-Client PVT Study

➜ October 19th, 2023 | Dr. Curtis Hays Whitson Receives SPE Honorary Member Award

➜ October 15th, 2023 | Michael J. Fetkovich Technology Award 2023

➜ October 9th, 2023 | Caution: whitson+ release is coming in hot ☕

➜ August 27th, 2023 | RTA – Using all the Tools in the Toolbox

➜ August 5th, 2023 | In Memoriam: Ralph Steven Jones, Jr.

➜ July 11th, 2023 | Caution: whitson+ release is coming in hot ☕

➜ July 3rd, 2023 | What makes my fluid different from your fluid?

➜ June 16th, 2023 | User Guide to the Gamma Distribution Model

➜ April 14th, 2023 | Tams Whitson: From HVAC Technician to Oil Man – A Story of Perseverance and Legacy

➜ February 22nd, 2023 | Caution: whitson+ release is coming in hot ☕

➜ February 1st, 2023 | Shale PVT Estimation Based on Readily Available Field Data

➜ January 25th, 2023 | Numerically Enhanced RTA Workflow

➜ January 18th, 2023 | Rate Transient Analysis (RTA) of Fracture Swarm Fractal Networks

➜ January 12th, 2023 | Powder River Basin – Multi-Client PVT Study

➜ January 11th, 2023 | Sampling a Stimulated Rock Volume: An Eagle Ford Example

➜ January 4th, 2023 | Quantifying Pressure Interference in Horizontal Shale Wells

2022

➜ December 25th, 2022 | Converting RTA Half-Lengths to Actual Non-Uniform SRV Half-Lengths

Auto calculate bottomhole pressues with whitson⁺ and Peleton’s WellView

➜ December 12th, 2022 | Leftover yearend budget? Join whitson’s consortiums!

➜ October 9th, 2022 | Fall News from whitson+ 🍂

➜ July 5th, 2022 | Summer News from whitson+☀️

➜ June 24th, 2022 | Michael J. Fetkovich Technology Award

What is Fractional RTA?

➜ May 10th, 2022 | Anadarko – Multi-Client PVT Study

➜ April 25th, 2022 | Spring News from whitson+🍃

➜ March 10th, 2022 | Crossing K-values from a tuned EOS model

➜ February 22nd, 2022 | Permian – Multi-Client PVT Study

➜ January 20th, 2022 | Duvernay – Multi-Client PVT Study

➜ January 20th, 2022 | Bakken – Multi-Client PVT Study

➜ January 20th, 2022 | Montney – Multi-Client PVT Study

➜ January 20th, 2022 | Eagle Ford / Austin Chalk – Multi-Client PVT Study

2021

➜ December 13th, 2021 | Winter news from whitson+❄️

➜ December 8th, 2021 | Analytical vs. Numerical RTA

➜ November 8th, 2021 | To tune or not to tune BIP’s when lumping: That’s the question

whitson+ in the cloud … with diamonds

Numerical RTA – What’s New?

➜ September 23rd, 2021 | whitson and Cimarex initiate technical software collaboration

➜ August 1st 2021 | Numerical RTA JIP – What, When & Why?

➜ July 28th, 2021 | The Gas Huff-n-Puff PVT Experiment

➜ July 7th, 2021 | Molar Distribution Models Applied to Petroleum Reservoir Fluids

➜ June 9th, 2021 | Should We Use Binary Interaction Parameters

➜ May 17th, 2021 | Press Release

➜ May 12th, 2021 | Flowing Bottomhole Pressures Calculations Using the Black-Oil PVT Model

➜ March 3rd, 2021 | Lost volumes in MPSR fluid sampling bottles, and the impact on fluid properties

➜ February 17th, 2021 | How to quality check a developed EOS?

2020

➜ December 30th, 2020 | Decreasing CGRs above Saturation Pressure in “Shales”

➜ December 17th, 2020 | Press Release

➜ December 2nd, 2020 | Frac-to-Frac Gas EOR—The Future of Unconventional Gas EOR?

➜ November 11th, 2020 | Using Contaminated PVT samples

➜ October 8th, 2020 | EOS Component Lumping Optimization

➜ September 10th, 2020 | Answers to Questions at SPE IOR 2020

➜ September 3rd, 2020 | Black-Oil and Compositional Reservoir Simulation of Gas-Based EOR in Tight Unconventionals0

➜ August 6th, 2020 | Compositional Tracking of a Huff-n-Puff Project in the Eagle Ford: A Second Take

➜ July 5th, 2020 | Single Phase Labeling in Compositional Simulators

➜ June 29th, 2020 | Collaborating with ResFrac on Advanced Black Oil PVT

➜ June 20th, 2020 | Condensate Blockage – a short introduction to gas condensate well modeling

➜ May 8th, 2020 | What is an Equation of State?

➜ April 7th, 2020 | Gas EOR Processes in Tight Unconventionals

➜ March 2nd, 2020 | CGR Normalization – Convert Rates to a Common Surface Process

➜ February 12th, 2020 | Separator optimization

➜ January 20th, 2020 | LBC Viscosity Correlation for Gas Condensate Reservoirs

2019

➜ November 10th, 2019 | Gridding in Reservoir Simulation

➜ October 6th, 2019 | Global Component Lumping for EOS Calculations

➜ September 1st, 2019 | Estimating In-Situ Reservoir Fluid Compositions

➜ August 5th, 2019 | Consistent Fluid Management from Reservoir to Sales

➜ July 17th, 2019 | URTeC 539: Compositional Tracking of a Huff-n-Puff Project in the Eagle Ford

➜ July 16th, 2019 | URTeC 551: Field-wide Equation of State Model Development

➜ June 30th, 2019 | Ensuring Consistent EOS Model Transfer from one PVT Package to Another

➜ June 3rd, 2019 | ASTM D2892 Data for Better C7+ Characterization in EOS Modelling

➜ May 6th, 2019 | Practical Aspects of EOS Treatment in Compositional Simulators

➜ April 2nd, 2019 | Advanced Gas Condensate Reservoir Management

➜ March 18th, 2019 | Gas EOR in Tight Unconventionals

➜ March 13th, 2019 | Duvernay SPE Workshop

➜ March 1st, 2019 | From PERA to whitson