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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about PHDwin Week 2025

Got questions? We’ve got answers. Explore our comprehensive PHDwin Week 2025 FAQ section to find quick solutions and detailed explanations to the most common inquiries about PHDwin Week.

PHDwin Week

Frequenly Asked Questions | Schedule

Where is the Schedule?

A: The full schedule is available on our Main Page  above featured speakers.

The calendar widget allows you to view who is streaming when and at what time. Hovering over each speaker should allow you to see the presentation topic if it is currently available. If a presentation title is not currently displayed, it is pending announcement.

All times are Central Daylight Time (CDT) due to broadcasting from TRC Consultants HQ @ Austin, TX.

Featured sessions will be at the hour, while short form content such as the Quick Starts will start when the featured content has ended.

Why do tiles use different colors?

Colors are a quick visual cue so you can tell PHDwin (internal) content, outside speaker sessions, and Quick-Starts at a glance. They do not imply priority—just category/brand.


Category legend (the 3 big buckets)

  • Burgundy / Red (PHDwin brand)Inside PHDwin sessions (our team content).

  • BlackQED Quick-Starts (hands-on, short how-to sessions).

  • Partner brand colors/gradientsOutside speakers (sponsor and guest sessions).

“Featured Replay” blocks appear in light gray.

Speaker/Partner color mapping (as shown on the calendar)

Platinum & other key partners

  • DeGolyer & MacNaughton (D&M): Opaque Gold
    Zach Quintanilla, P.E. — Diagnostic-Based Methodology (GOR/CGR)

  • Ryder Scott: Ryder Scott Dark Green & Gold Gradient
    Marylena Garcia, P.E. | Optimizing CO₂-EOR for 45Q : An ISO 27916 Compliant Path to $85/ton

  • Haas & Cobb: Red–Gold Gradient
    Thad Toups, P.E. — The Perils of the Black Box

Developer Program

  • Blue River Analytics: Brand Light Blue
    Steve Hoye & Jonathan Guthrie — A4E Spotfire Workflows: The Future’s So Bright

  • WellDatabase: Red / Purple-Blue Gradient
    John Ferrell

Silver/Guest features

  • Dwayne Stewart, P.E. (Foundation Energy Advisors): Gray —PHDwin V3 in Focus Session 

How PHDwin Helped Avert a $100 Million Mistake – 

  • Richard Scherer: Gray — PHDwin Version 2 In Focus Session

Why Midland, Texas is the Center of the Universe | Building a Representative Type Curve to run PHDwin for Economic Analysis

  • Jim Tague (Performance Analytics Group): Deep Blue

  • Kimberly Ayers, P.E. (Ayers Petroleum Consulting): Orange–Purple Gradient 

Type Wells in Action: Appalachian Basin Meets A4E

 
  • Dwayne Purvis, P.E. (Purvis Energy Advisors): Signature Silver & Dark Blue Gradient

  • Matthew T. Scott (Texas General Land Office): Ground Tan / White Gradient

  • Garrett Gremillion (Ethics): Green
    Ethics in Reserve Forecasting and Valuation

  • Brandon Penner: (color displayed on schedule when finalized)

Inside PHDwin (company sessions) — always Burgundy/Red

  • Hunter Rosplock: From ARIES to PHDwin: Fast, Accurate Data Conversions

  • J.D. Patrick: PHDwin Tips from the Support Desk: Unlocking V2 & V3’s Hidden Efficiencies

  • Nikhil Joyce: PHDwin V3 Economics: From WellDatabase to V3 Connect Reporting

  • Garrett Hoover: What’s New and Improved in PHDwin Reporting

  • Jonathan Smith: (title TBA)

Special program notes coming soon.

  • Connor Award: Red–Gold Gradient


Do colors affect CE credit or access?

No—colors are purely visual. CE eligibility is listed on each session page (e.g., Ethics in Green satisfies many P.E. ethics requirements).


Why do some tiles use gradients?

Gradients reflect partner brand styling while still signaling the overall category (outside speaker vs. PHDwin vs. Quick-Start).


Anything else I should know?

Small shade variations may occur as artwork is finalized, but the mappings above are the source of truth.

  • Presentation Date: Thursday, September 11
  • Presentation Time (Central Daylight Time): 10:00 am – 11:00 am
  • Speaker Garrett Gremillion from Oakstone Resources LLC

 

Ethics in Reserve Forecasting and Valuation

Join Garrett Gremillion from Oakstone resources as he provides a timeless take on ethics in the oil and gas reserves space. This session is required for applying for C.E. / P.E. continuing education credit hours. In order to receive any hours for PHDwin Week, you must tune in to our ethics session.

This special panel is supported by PHDwin Silver Partners Purvis Energy Advisors

Our stream begins everyday at 9:30 am CDT and ends around 4:00 pm CDT.

We stream every day from September 8 – 12.

PHDwin Week

Frequenly Asked Questions | Registration

How do I register for PHDwin Week?

You can register online at phdwindownload.com/phdwin-week-registration-2025. Registration is free and gives you access to all sessions.
 :point_right: Registered participants will receive a confirmation e-mail with more details about the event. 

Check your spam/junk folder first. If it’s not there, contact support at strujillo@phdwin.com or support@phdwin.com for assistance.

 

You may also consider whitelisting the address marketing@phdwindownload.com

PHDwin Week uses different credentials than the Client Portal. You DO NOT NEED to create a new user on phdwindownload.com to register. Logging into PHDwin Download website helps ensure you are considered “real traffic” and prevent you being booted for idle time while watching the stream, however, this rarely happens. If you are timed out of the website, simply re-load it. We have improved our bot tracking to make only erratic behavior or malicious use of forms lead to a user time out.

If you’re PHDwin Download account is not working, make sure you are using the correct username, e-mail, password. If you need to reset your password you may do so in the login window. You can also contact strujillo@phdwin.com or support@phdwin.com for a faster resolution or do manually create a user.

Q: How does two-step verification work?
A: After entering your login credentials, you’ll receive a verification code via email. Enter the code to complete the login process. This is only required if you want to have a PHDwin Download Account. Having a PHDwin download account ensures your information is not captured when you download our program. A user account however is not required for PHDwin Week 2025. Only the stream link, distributed via e-mail, or available on our PHDwin Week 2025 drop-down, is required to view content. 

Q: I haven’t received my verification code. What should I do?
A: Ensure that the email address provided is correct and check your spam folder. If the problem persists, contact support at support@phdwin.com or strujillo@phdwin.com.

PHDwin Week

Frequenly Asked Questions | Accessing Live Stream

How do I access the live stream for the sessions?

A:  You can access the live stream from daily e-mails with our daily programming schedule — or navigate to our main conference page

PHDwin Week 2025

Some sessions will also be available to stream on LinkedIn, and all session will be available for stream on our client portal mirror, and youtube account https://youtube.com/@phdwinmarketing?si=fCJcY8rimI1VwzeV

If the main stream is unavailable, try using one of our backup streams. Links to backup streams will be provided on the same page and via e-mail everyday.

Yes, all sessions will be available on YouTube and LinkedIn. You can find the links to those streams on our main page below the main stream link. 

You can also get these links from our e-mail communications daily.

However, the form for asking audience questions will only be available on the main site below the stream.

PHDwin Week

Frequenly Asked Questions | Firewall & Connection Issues

I’m having trouble accessing the PHDwin Week website due to a firewall. What should I do?

A: Check with your network administrator to ensure that access to our website is allowed. If you’re still having trouble, try using a different network or contact support.

If you are receiving an error from SUCURI with your IP information, please provide your IP address to strujillo@phdwin.com for whitelisting. You are likely in a country we block downloads of our program in order to prevent piracy and malware attacks on our website.

Use of VMs, VPNs, or other IP spoofing and re-direct / masking can also trigger our firewall. If you are having trouble accessing the stream on the main site, please consider using LinkedIn / Youtube for our backup concurrent streams.

If you are receiving 503 and 502 errors leading to the website timing out, we may be experiencing larger than anticipated server load.

Please consider using our concurrent streams on LinkedIn or Youtube.

You may also consider refreshing the page. 

PHDwin Week

Frequenly Asked Questions | Other Questions

How can I contact a Speaker?

You can submit questions or comments to speakers directly using the forms at the bottom of their speaker pages. You can also send an email to strujillo@phdwin.com or jsmith@phdwin.com  if you would like a speakers contact information to submit a private business inquiry.

You can also consider using the Typeform below the PHDwin Download stream page for Q&A at the end of the day. These will be addressed during the day in dedicated sessions for Q&A depending on time and availability.

Use the Main Stream Typeform to submit your questions or comments. Our moderators will forward them to the speaker during the Q&A portion of the session after review. 

Will I get a reminder e-mail for every session?

NO. We will send you an email with the week schedule on Friday September 5th, and daily schedules every day.  

 

Most speaker sessions will have downloadable .ics calendar reminders available on the respective speaker page. Check our e-mail communications leading up to the event for more information.

 

Please note, we can only ensure Google Calendar links work, for most people, we have come to realize Outlook calendar links break unless you are using Outlook already logged in your default browser. Even then, it is more reliable to use .ics downloadable calendar reminders for outlook than the links we send via e-mail.

Yes, we will send registered attendies an email each day with quick-links to stream pages (Main, Youtube, LinkedIn) and a reminder about each days session and time streaming CDT. Each of these e-mails will be sent at 8:00 am CDT to allow ample time before stream morning sessions.

What happens if something is re-scheduled/moved/cancelled?

Our schedule is updated in live time. If you think a change has happened check back on our schedule page. Stay tuned to our PHDwin LinkedIn for additional information and quick notifications. Also, consider joining each morning session where we will provide insight about what is happening that day.

YES! We want to reward our audience for staying engaged and seeing everything the PHDwin community and partner network has to offer.

Every day we plan to run giveaways for $25, $50, and $100 gift cards. Most gift card giveaways will require some kind of engagement with the stream Q&A form, speaker page questions, and interacting on LinkedIn through commenting & sharing.

Our grand prize which is based on total weekly engagement will be a complimentary in person Version 3 training class valued at $1,999. In order for us to track your engagement you must share & comment using #PHDwinWeek and #PHDwinWeek2025 on LinkedIn