8:30am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
8:35am | Opening Keynote |
9:00am | G&G Panel: Assessing Oily Shales
From regional geology to detailed reservoir studies, industry understanding of oil resource plays is rapidly expanding. |
10:00am | Networking Break |
10:30am | Operator Spotlight: The Bakken
Production from the enormous and still-expanding Bakken play has turned U.S. oil production around, from decline to incline. The Bakken is the star of oil-resource plays. James J. Volker, Chairman and CEO, Whiting Petroleum Corp. |
10:50am | Operator Spotlight Marathon's progress, lessons learned and plans in the Bakken and Niobrara shales
James Bowzer, Vice President, North America Production Operations, Marathon |
11:10am | Economics Panel: Better Wells, Lower Costs, Fatter Margins
Producers have turned their attention to horizontal liquids-rich prospects and are tapping all avenues to improve margins from these high-dollar wells. Horizontal Permian
Daniel J. Morrison, Managing Director, Senior E&P Analyst, Global Hunter Securities, LLC Niobrara
Jessica Chipman, Associate, E&P Research, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. |
12:00pm | Networking Lunch and Keynote |
1:30pm | Drilling and Completions Panel: Technology New and Old
Today, the technology of choice for a shale play might be something new, such as a high-angle rotary steerable system, or something old that is reexamined, such as multilateral technology. From shale-specific bits to green frac fluid, innovations are rife in the rapidly evolving resource plays. |
2:30pm | Operator Spotlight: The Barnett Combo
In-place resources in the Barnett oil window rank among the world's richest, containing up to 200 million barrels per square mile. Operators have shifted from vertical to horizontal wells to boost recoveries. |
3:00pm | Networking Break |
3:30pm | Operator Spotlight: Niobrara |
3:50pm | Infrastructure Panel: Pipelines, Terminals, Plants and More
As developments in oily plays accelerate, midstream operators are modifying existing infrastructure and launching newbuild projects. Here's a look at some of the major efforts under way to bring burgeoning shale oil volumes to market. Christopher W. Keene, President and CEO, Rangeland Energy, LLC |
4:45pm | Closing Keynote |
5:15pm | Networking Reception |
8:30am | Welcome |
8:35am | Opening Keynote: Statoil's Onshore U.S. Unconventional Portfolio
From non-operating, JV partner with Chesapeake Energy Corp. in the Marcellus dry-gas and gas-liquids play in Appalachia beginning in late 2008 to a JV position in the Eagle Ford, global energy giant Statoil has taken the reins of operatorship in the Bakken now from Brigham Exploration Co. What are the global integrated plans for unconventionals here and abroad? Torstein Hole, Senior Vice President, U.S. Onshore, Statoil ASA |
9:00am | Emerging Plays Panel: The Next Wave
The Heath, Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Sunniland Trend, Uteland Butte and Brown Dense are among the oil resource plays gaining traction. Tuscaloosa Marine Shale
Kirk A. Barrell, President, Amelia Resources LLC |
10:00am | Networking Break |
10:30am | Permian Panel: Avalon, Bone Spring and Wolfcamp Advances
The Permian Basin has a long and storied history as one of the most prolific U.S. producing provinces. Billions of barrels of oil have been made from conventional reservoirs and now a surge of unconventional drilling is unleashing fresh production. |
11:20am | Operator Spotlight: Permian |
11:50am | Closing Keynote |
12:15pm | Conference Adjourns |
