DAY 1
Keynote: Brad Gray, President and CFO, Diversified Energy Corporation – Total lifecycle management of marginal wells, with scheduled plugging, optimizing production, maintaining constant monitoring.
Technical Track:
Session 1: Planning and Risk Management: Identifying and Locating Wells
- Robert Hendricks, Birkhoff, Hendricks & Carter - Use of remote sensing in in orphan, abandoned, and idle wells
- Nick Gianoutsos, USGS – Orphan wells database
- Sunil Garg, DataVedik, and Eric Bruesewitz, TAQ Energy - End-to-End Life-Cycle Management for Decommissioning/Repurposing Assets
Session 2: State and Federal Requirements, including Emissions
- Alexander Brandt, Southern Methodist University - Fugitive Methane Emissions Modeling from Microannulus Failure in Horizontal Well Systems
Session 3: Borehole Integrity, New Materials
- Fred Gyllenhammar, CaMa GeoScience, Norway - Methane emissions in EU and Europe. A summary the problem and the action plan.
- Mileva Radonjic, Oklahoma State University – Borehole Integrity Factors
Session 4: Urban P&A Challenges, Wetlands, Water Quality
- Craig Kerkhoff, Managing Partner - Birkhoff, Hendricks & Carter – Long-term municipal resource management planning and infrastructure
- Curtis Shuck, CEO, Well Done Foundation – Plugging wells in wetlands
Business Track:
Session 1: Human Health and Environmental Benefits
- Dan Arthur, President, ALL-LLC
Session 2: Tribal Legacy Assets, Federal Lands
- William Lynn, Osage Assets
- Fred Beartrack, Osage Orphan Well Program
Session 3: Innovative Funding: Carbon Credits, Tax Credits
- Whitney Landress, True Methane
Session 4: Blended Projects
- Scott St. John, Reagan-Smith
DAY 2
Technical Track:
Session 5: Natural Gas to Power Generation: Microgrids, Data Centers, Turbines
- Jonathan Kohn, BitPetro - Bitcoin Mining and Microgrids
Session 6: Repurposing and Multiuse: Geothermal, Brine Mining, Energy Storage
- Steve Tedesco, Running Foxes – Helium and Hydrogen Potential in Repurposed Wells
Session 7: Optimizing Marginal Wells: Lifecycle Management, Waterfloods, more
- Geoff Thyne, E-Sal – Smart waterfloods
- Nima Daneshvarnejad, USC – From Leak Rate to Leak Profile; AI-Driven Monitoring and Predictive
Session 8: CO2 Floods, Carbon Management, EOR for Shale Plays
- Tongwei Zhang, UT-Austin – EOR for Shale Plays
Business Track:
Session 5: Legacy Assets for Mergers and Acquisitions, or Direct Investment
- Douglas Kris, Senior Vice President Investor Relations, Diversified Energy Corporation – Fireside Chat
- Don Burdick, Olifant – Buying legacy assets to create value through optimization
- Dan Boyd, Scarab – Need for a Midcontinent Geological Library
- Galen Dillewyn, NuTech – Derisked deals; behind pipe, remaining reserves
Session 6: Meeting demand for Oil and Natural Gas through 2050: New technologies, techniques, chemicals
- Jerry Swearingen, Stratum Reservoir
- Sashi Gunturu, Petrabytes – New Analytical tools to boost production, cut costs
Session 7: Revitalized Gas Wells and Gas-Gathering Systems for Low-Volume Gas and Microgrids
- Sean Epps, Manager, Regional Sales, Heath US – Methane detection and monitoring for compliance
Session 8: Future Opportunities