Bob was awarded the 2018 SPE Southwestern North America Region Formation Evaluation Award for his work integrating petrophysics with reservoir data to estimate recoverable oil and gas reserves in organic shales. He was one of 130 nominees for the 2024-25 SPE Distinguished Lecturer Program to speak on organic shale refracs, and served as a Distinguished Lecturer 1995-96 on the integration of petrophysics with hydraulic fracturing. Teaches the Subsurface Consultants and Associates 5 day open-hole log analysis course, 2 day refrac and new well “best practices” course, 4 day cased-hole course, and the 2 day upcoming course on inputs for CCUS project success. With over 50 total publications, Bob has authored or co-authored 20 SPE, URTeC, and DUG papers and major conference presentations and six major magazine articles on recompletions (see below). Papers and presentations -Barba, R.E.: “ A Novel Approach to Identifying Refracturing Candidates and Executing Refracture Treatments in Multiple Zone Reservoirs,” SPE paper 125008 presented at the 2009 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, La. Oct 1-3. -Barba, R.E. :“Liquids Rich Organic Shale Recovery Factor Applications,” SPE paper 174994 presented at the 2015 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas 28-30 Sept -Barba, R.E. : “Evaluating Refrac Potential in the Permian Wolfcamp Formation,” presented at the 2017 SPE/ICoTA Refracturing Workshop, Austin, Tx April 11-12 -Barba, R.E.:“Converting P&A Candidates to P1 Reserves in Vertical Tight Gas Reservoirs,” presented at the 2018 SPE/ICoTA Refracturing Workshop, San Antonio, Tx Oct 9-10. -Barba, R.E. and Villarreal, M,: “Maximizing Refrac Treatment Recovery Factors in Organic Shales Using Expandable Liners and the Extreme Limited Entry Process,” SPE paper 195962 presented at the 2019 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Calgary 30 Sept-2 Oct -Barba, R, and Villarreal, M: “Evaluating Refrac Economic Potential and Primary-Infill Relative Well Performance in Permian Organic Shales,” URTEC paper 2662 July 2020. -Barba, R, Allison, J., and Villarreal, M.: “A Comparison of Latest Generation Frac New Well and Refrac Results with Evidence of Refrac Reorientation,” URTeC: paper 3724057 presented at the 2022 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, June 20-22. -Barba, R.E.: “The Refrac: More Eagle Ford Oil,” presented at the 2022 Harts Developing Unconventional Gas Conference Permian and Eagle Ford, May 17-18, Fort Worth, Texas -Barba, R.E.: “Economic Analysis of Haynesville Refracs,” presented at the 2022 Harts Developing Unconventional Gas Conference Haynesville, May 25-26th, Shreveport, Louisiana Barba, R.E. and Villarreal, M: “ The High Cost of Poor Child Protection: Economic Analysis at the Pad Level with Primary Well Refracs,” presented at the 2022 SPE Near Wellbore Region workshop, Scottsdale, Arizona 18-19 Oct. -Barba, R.E.: “Analysis of Organic Shale Refracs,” Harts Oil and Gas Investor, Aug 2022 -Barba, R.E. and Rossano, M.: “Economics, Business Trends put Refracs in Favorable Light in Oil and Gas Resource Plays,” American Oil and Gas Reporter cover story, August 2022. -Barba, R.E.: “Study Highlights Upside of Refracturing Older Wells in Organic Shale Plays,” American Oil and Gas Reporter, January 2023. -Barba, R.E.: “The High Cost Of Poor Child Protection: Economic Evaluation At The Pad Level With Primary Well Refracs” SPE paper 213075 2023 SPE Oklahoma City Oil and Gas Conference, April 19. -Barba, R.:“A Review of the Selection Process for Refrac Candidates’” presented at the SPE 2023 workshop on Refracturing: A Proven Strategy to Maximize Economic Recovery,” Denver, Aug 14-15th. -Barba, R. : “Refracturing increases recovery in mature unconventional assets,” Oil and Gas Journal, January 2024. -Barba, R: Are we “Refraccing” or “Recompleting” with Mechanically Isolated Subsequent Stimulations in Organic Shales?,” SPE Journal of Petroleum Technology, Guest editorial April 2024. -Barba, R: “A Comparison of Petrophysically Derived Post Refrac Recoverable Oil and Gas with Offset New Well EUR Results,” URTeC paper 4042322 to be presented at the 2024 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, Tx July 2024 -Barba, R, Crenshaw, J., and Wilie, C: “A Low Cost Microproppant for Flattening Production Declines Using an Industrial Byproduct,” SPE paper 221016 to be presented at the 2024 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. September 2024New Orleans
