Shale Plays: An Integrated Approach for Enhanced Exploration, Development and Valuation
- Program
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Contact:
GTW Registrar
Tel: +918 560-2650
Fax: +918 560-2678
Susan Nash,
Ph.D.
Director of Education and Professional Development
+918 560-2604
Amy Mahan
GTW Coordinator
+918 560-9431
Shale Plays: Shale Plays: An Integrated Approach for Enhanced Exploration, Development and Valuation
Houston, TX | 12-14 November 2012
Preliminary Program/Agenda
as of October 9, 2012
| Monday, November 12 | |
| 7:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 | Welcome and Introduction AAPG - Susan Nash, Director of Education and Professional Development |
| 8:30 | Session 1: Seismic & Microseismic |
Microseismic: Image Fracs as Complex Surfaces -- Integrates with Other Data Sets Including 3D Reflection Seismic, Borehole Images, Chemical and Radioactive Frac Tracers, Borehole Geochemistry, and Pore Pressure Measurements. Alfred Lacazette, Global Geophysical Services Use of Seismic and Sonic Anisotropy to Characterize Resource Shales Colin Sayers, Schlumberger WesternGeco The Sedimentology of Seismic Imaging in Source-Rock Reservoirs Bruce Hart, Conoco Phillips Integration of Seismic Attributes, Completion Parameters, Microseismic and Production Data to Define Well Prospectivity and Well Productivity: Examples from the Eagle Ford Ross Peebles, Global Geophysical Services |
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| 12N | Networking lunch |
| 1:30 | Session 2: Case Studies: US |
WolfBone Super Sweet Spot, Southern Delaware Basin: Stratigraphic Trap and Sedimentologic Processes, Exploration Identification to Field Development Bill Fairhurst, Eagle Oil & Gas, Co. Results of Eagle Ford Hydraulic Fracture Monitoring in Frio and La Salle Counties, Texas Nat Smith, Hess Corporation Eagle Ford Groundwater Protection and Groundwater Usage Robert J. Traylor, Railroad Commission of Texas Advancing Shale Play Viability Arnis Judzis, Vice President TerraTek Schlumberger |
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| 5:00 | Icebreaker Reception and Poster Session |
Hydrocarbon Exploration Potential and Distribution Characteristics of Lacustrine Carbonates in China Yan Weipeng, PetroChina; Liang Kun, PetroChina |
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| Tuesday, November 13 | |
| 7:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 | Session 3: Case Studies: International |
European Shale Gas - 5 Years On: The State of Play Chris Cornelius, TOROS Resources Ltd, London, UK The Original Gas In-Place in the Lower Silurian and The Lower Cambrain Overmature Marine Shales, Sichuan Basin Prof. Feiyu Wang, China University of Petroleum Analysis on Geological Characteristics and Exploration Potential of China’s Shale Oil Yan Weipeng, PetroChina; Liang Kun, PetroChina |
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| 12N | Networking Lunch |
KEYNOTE Darlene Beaubien, Economist / Gaffney-Cline |
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| 1:30 | Session 4: Economics |
A Closer Look at Shale Development Economics Florent Rousset, Lead Petroleum Economist Gaffney, Cline & Associates Porosity, Permeability and Profitability: Integrating Geoscience, Engineering, and Commercial Factors for the Evaluation of Unconventional Resources Kurt Steffen, ExxonMobil Economic Impact of Innovated Seismic on Shale Plays Rick Lewis, SLB and Richard Salter, SLB |
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| 5:00 | Icebreaker Reception and Poster Session |
| Wednesday, November 14 | |
| 7:30 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 | Session 5: Integration |
Systematic Evaluation of Unconventional Resource Plays Using Petroleum System Modeling Combined with Play Chance Mapping Ian Bryant Sweet Spot Identification through Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy and Geochemsitry Ailsa.Messer, Neftex Shale Plays Newest Tool to Reduce Risk Using High Resolution Maximum Flooding Surfaces and Genetic Sequence in Exploration and Development Programs Walter W. Wornardt Ph.D., MICRO-STRAT INC A 3-Dimensional Approach to Hydrocarbon Mapping in Resource Plays Rick Schrynemeecker, W.L. Gore & Associates |
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| 12N | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 | Session 6: Variability of Shales |
Integration of High-Resolution Petrologic, Geochemical and Petrophysical Data Sets with Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of Niobrara Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Tight Oil Reservoirs in the Rocky Mountains Regions, USA Christopher D. Laughrey, Weatherford Laboratories Organic Geochemistry of Gas Shales – How Variable Can Shales Be? Oswaldo Davogustto, University of Oklahoma Petrophysical Analysis of Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs Using Triple-Combo Open-Hole Logs Michael Holmes |
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| 5:00 | Close of Conference |
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