While at Texas A&M, he taught 97 courses and served on more than 175 graduate committees during his tenure. Holditch received several awards from Texas A&M. He was elected into the Petroleum Engineering Academy of Distinguished Graduates in 1998, named a Texas A&M Distinguished Alumni in 2014, and named to the Corps of Cadet’s Hall of Honor in 2016. An endowed chair was also created to honor him in 2012 by many of his former students, the Stephen A. Holditch ’69 Department Head Chair in Petroleum Engineering, which is currently held by Jeff Spath.
Holditch held various leadership positions in SPE, including vice president–finance, member of the Board of Directors from 1998-2003, and SPE president in 2002. He received numerous awards in recognition of his technical achievements and leadership. In 1995 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering at the age of 49, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He was elected as an SPE and AIME Honorary Member in 2006. He received some of SPE’s highest technical awards, including the Lester C. Uren Award, John Franklin Carll Award, and Anthony F. Lucas Medal. He published over 150 technical papers.
From 1999-2003, Holditch was a Schlumberger Fellow where he was a Production and Reservoir Engineering advisor to the top managers within Schlumberger. Holditch was President of S. A. Holditch & Associates, Inc. from 1977-99, a full service petroleum engineering consulting firm. His firm provided petroleum engineering technology involving the analysis of low permeability gas reservoirs and the design of hydraulic fracture treatments for various industrial and government clients. Holditch also has been a production engineer at Shell Oil Company in charge of workover design and well completions
Holditch received his B.S. in 1969, a M.S. in 1970 and Ph.D. in 1975 all in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Chapter 5: Fracturing and Testing Case Study of Paludal, Tight, Lenticular Gas Sands
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N. R. Warpinski, P. T. Branagan, A. R. Sattler, J. C. Lorenz, D. A. Northrop, R. L. Mann, K. H. Frohne, "Fracturing and Testing Case Study of Paludal, Tight, Lenticular Gas Sands", Case Histories of Tight Gas Reservoir Development, Stephen A. Holditch, John Spivey, John Y. Wang, Stephen A. Holditch, John Y. Wang
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Copyright © 1987 Society of Petroleum Engineers Inc. Journal paper SPE 13876 was published in SPE Form Eval 2 (4), pgs. 535–545. Original SPE manuscript received for review 19 May 1985 and accepted for publication 14 March 1986. Revised manuscript received 25 March 1987 and first presented at the SPE/DOE Low Permeability Gas Reservoirs Symposium held in Denver, 19–22 May 1985.
SPE 13876 presents a case history of the formation evaluation, completion, and stimulation of the Paludal Interval (Late Cretaceous Lower Delta Plain deposits) of the Williams Fork Formation at the M-Site in the Piceance Basin in Colorado. Warpinski et al. provided first a detailed description of the regional geology and sedimentology, performed comprehensive coring (> 4,000 ft) and log analysis from two wells, measured in-situ stress throughout the Paludal Interval, conducted prefracture well tests and mini-fracture tests to estimate important parameters (e.g., permeability, fracture behavior, and leakoff coefficient), and discussed fracture design and implementation and treating pressure analysis using the Nolte-Smith method. The authors worked to improve their understanding of what causes a screenout and how to clean out the fracture sand in the wellbore. This study also discusses remedial treatments to break gel, which resulted in precipitation of iron oxides, and after 20 months of shut in, the better-than-expected production performance. Conclusions from the study include the following:
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