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Michael W. Conder is a senior
staff technical advisor for Denverheadquartered Bonanza Creek Energy
Inc. He has 35 years in engineering design and operations, and has worked
for design engineering firms such as
Ortloff Mountain States Corporation,
The Pro-Quip Corporation, Propak
System Ltd., Bateman Engineering
and Pearl Process Systems, as well as
for operating companies including
Maple Gas, Vessels Energy, Duke Energy Field Services, Samson Resources
Company and Berry Petroleum. Conder also has managed a gas gathering
and processing facility and is co-inventor for a patent related to carbon capture technology. He has written several articles for technical conferences and
magazines, and serves on the Laurance
Reid Gas Conditioning Conference's
Advisory Committee. Conder holds a
B.S. in mechanical engineering from
the University of Arizona.

APRIL D.
SCHROER

April D. Schroer operates a consulting company focused on project engineering, project management, and production facilities design and optimization. She has more than 20 years of experience in the oil, gas and refining industries in project engineering and
management, engineering design and
operations, process safety management, and facility optimization. Schroer
previously worked for operating companies such as Noble Energy and
ConocoPhillips, as well as Pearl Processing Systems. She is also active in
promoting green technology such as
LNG usage and design, and integrated syngas technology. Schroer holds a
B.S. in chemical engineering from Arizona State University.

prove overall well economics.
PVT analyses provide essential data for
modeling the well fluid properties needed to design gas handling equipment at
multiwell production facilities. More
specifically, PIONA characterizations using PVT data give design engineers critical insights on nonalkane structures to allow more accurate modeling of the true fluid characteristics, ultimately leading to better and more economic production facility design over the full life cycles of tight
oil assets.
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minimize cost is to offset drilling. For example, in wells with 65-75 percent firstyear declines, drilling and producing
groups of four wells every six months instead of drilling all 16 wells at the same
time can reduce the size of the gas and liquids handling equipment by 25 percent or
more.
There are numerous opportunities
available to improve and optimize the design of gas-handling facility equipment. It
is important to use this period of low oil
prices and reduced activity to minimize the
capital cost of production facilities and im-

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