Conference Day One: Wednesday 26th May 2010

08.30 Morning Coffee And Registration

  • 09.10 Chairman’s welcome
    • Recent developments in shale gas production
    • Key challenges still remaining for the industry to overcome with drilling techniques
    • Technology improvements and technology gaps
  • Larry Buchanan
  • Vice President – Operations
  • PetroEdge Energy

09.30 The Evolution Of Drilling And Completion Practices In The Fayetteville Shale

  • Examine the Fayetteville shale play discovery and the learning curve and fundamentals to ensure development success
  • Drilling history: Best practices, evolution and future challenges
  • Completion history: Technologies deployed, the evolution ofkey techniques, design & execution challenges
  • Project performance and results

Grant Jacobs
Sr. Staff Completions Engineer
Southwestern Energy

10.15 Coffee And Networking Break

11.00 It’s 2010 - What Else Have We Learned About Key Shale Gas Well Productivity Drivers?

  • Reservoir and bounding bed effects
  • Well architecture: What are the productivity differences between toe-up and toe-down wells?
  • Fracture stimulation: How do we go about optimizing the fracturing treatments?

Randy Lafollette
Manager - Shale Gas Technology
BJ Services

11.45 Technical Insight Session

This session is currently being held open. To discuss opportunities to lead this session please contact sponsorship@iqpc.co.uk

12.30 Lunch And Networking Break

13.30 Problem Solving Session

Proppant Selection, Supply And Its Implications On Shale Stimulations

In This Interactive Session, A Few Key Challenges With Achieving Efficient Shale Stimulations Will Be Introduced. After A Brief Introduction By Your Session Leader, Delegates Will Be Invited To Break Into Small Groups To Discuss The Best Ways To Identify And Manage These Obstacles:

  • Proppant transport considerations
  • Fracture conductivity
  • Value-based proppant selection

Session led by Larry Buchanan
Vice President – Operations
PetroEdge Energy

and speakers from day one

14.15 Baker Hughes’ Outlook On Shale Gas Exploitation Developments

  • Hear an overview of the trends of shale gas technical challenges
  • Gain insight into shale gas technology developments
  • Examine case history examples of shale achievements

Robin Robinson
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, US Land.
Baker Hughes

15.00 Afternoon Tea And Networking Break

15.30 Mechanical Interaction Of Multiple Fractures:

Explore the impact of the spacing/number of perforation clusters of horizontal shale gas wells

  • “Stress changes substantially with the creation of multiple fractures”. Assess this assertion through considering the following variables:
  • Stress concentration occurs between fractures
  • Both minimum and maximum horizontal stresses are changed
  • Shear stress is induced around tips of edge fractures, favorable to create complex fracture networks
  • The number/spacing of fractures have significant will have a significant impact on fracture geometries. Understand the implications of this by examining how:
  • Edge fractures and sub-center fractures are asymmetrical and no longer elliptic-like
  • Sub-center and center fractures have much smaller fracture width than that of the edge fractures
  • The closer the fractures are placed, the smaller the widths of center and sub-center fractures will be
  • Number/spacing of fractures need to be optimized

Yueming Cheng
Assistant Professor, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
West Virginia University

16.15 Interactive Panel Discussion

Horizontal well placement: Exploring strategies and criteria to best land your horizontal well laterally in the shale

  • Explore the common challenges with lateral well placement
  • Weigh up cased hole vs. open hole options
  • Fully understand key considerations for locating nearby other lateral wells
  • Examine strategies for well spacing optimization

Interactive panelists:

Steve Carter
Drilling Manager
TXCO Resources

Steve Mamerow
Worldwide Drilling Manager
Pioneer Natural Resources

17.00 Chairman’s Close

17.10 Welcome Drinks Reception

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