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 13: Investigating Hydraulic Fracturing in Tight Gas Sand and Shale Gas Reservoirs in the Cooper Basin
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Published:2020
M. P. Scott, T. Stephens, R. H. Durant, J. M. McGowen, W. W. Thom, R. A. Woodroof, "Investigating Hydraulic Fracturing in Tight Gas Sand and Shale Gas Reservoirs in the Cooper Basin", 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 © 2013 Society of Petroleum Engineers Inc. Symposium paper SPE 167073 was first presented at the SPE Unconventional Resources Conference and Exhibition–Asia Pacific held in Brisbane, Australia, 11–13 November 2013.
SPE 167073-MS presents a case study of hydraulic fracturing of three wells in the Cooper Basin of Australia and Queensland. Scott et al. collected data, which include the review of basin structure and offset wells, stress regime, hydraulic fracture treatments, causes of high tortuosity, treatment strategies, and fracture diagnostics. This study also includes results from the prefracture formation evaluation using core analysis, diagnostic injection tests on most intervals, surface tiltmeters to measure fracture azimuth and orientation, tracers to infer fracture height, and chemical tracers to estimate flowback contributions from each stage. A summary of drilling results and analysis of fracture treatment data is presented in detail through use of a 3D hydraulic fracture model, which is compared with results obtained using surface tiltmeters and tracers. The authors of the study conclude the following:
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