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Operator Spotlights: Bakken and Three Forks/Sanish
The Williston Basin’s Bakken kick-started the industry’s surging interest in low-permeability oil reservoirs. Longer laterals and more frac stages are delivering excellent high-rate wells across a broad area.
- Three Forks in the Road
Continental has been a leader in the development of the Bakken play, and now plays a key role in advancing understanding of the exciting possibilities of the underlying Three Forks reservoir.
Harold G. Hamm, Chairman and CEO, Continental Resources - The Bakken and Beyond
Jim Volker, Chairman, President & CEO, Whiting Petroleum
Panel - The Three Gs: Geochemistry, Geology & Geophysics of Oil-prone Shales
Myriad questions about reservoir and oil qualities swirl about the rapidly evolving oil-prone shale plays. Geoscientists are growing their understanding of these unique opportunities by leaps and bounds.
- Shale-oil Systems, Their Main Characteristics and Distribution
Daniel M. Jarvie, President, Worldwide Geochemistry - The Bakken: What We Know and What it Tells Us about Analogs
Steve Sonnenberg, Professor, Colorado School of Mines - Seismic Applications in Oil Shales
Chris M. Friedemann, Sr. Vice President-Corporate Marketing, ION Geophysical Corporation
Operator Spotlights: Bakken, Niobrara and Mowry
Oil-prone shales are the industry’s next major paradigm shift, and the Rocky Mountain region--home to a wealth of shale potential--is a major testing ground for new concepts.
- Building an Oil-resource Play Portfolio
Privately held Cirque and its partners have leased hundreds of thousands of acres in Rockies basins that are prospective for oil production from shale reservoirs.
Peter Dea, President and CEO, Cirque Resources LP - The Three Cs: Content, Container and Completion
American, which holds significant Bakken acreage in North Dakota, is a pioneer in Mowry and Niobrara drilling in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
Peter Loeffler, VP of Exploration and Development, American Oil & Gas Inc. - The Niobrara Shale Oil Play: Tectonic and Geochemical Evidence for a Large Basin-Centered Accumulation
Denver-based Laramie Energy is a private company primarily focused on finding and developing unconventional resources within the U.S. Rockies.
Robert S. Boswell, Chairman & CEO, Laramie Energy II, LLC (Presentation not available)
Keynote: Wall Street's View of the Bakken and Oily Shales
Commercial production from the Bakken and Monterey is inspiring hopes for similar results from many additional shales. But it all comes down to the challenge—show us the money.
- Wall Street's View of the Bakken and Oily Shales
Subash Chandra, Managing Director-Senior Exploration & Production Analyst, Jefferies & Company
An A&D View on Oily Shales from an Insider
- An A&D View on Oily Shales From an Industry Insider
Dan K. Eberhart, CEO, Frontier Wellhead and Supply Inc.
Panel: Drilling and Completion Technology
Horizontally drilled wells, stimulated with multiple fracs, make many demands on operators. The added challenge of flowing oil instead of gas through the tight shales further complicates matters.
- Fracture Growth in the Niobrara and Bakken Formations
Leen Weijers, Rocky Mountain Regional Manager, Pinnacle - Improving ROI on Bakken Wells through Appropriate Technology Adoption
Jean-Francois Poupeau, President, Drilling & Measurements, Schlumberger - Issues in Unconventional Oil Development
Nathan Meehan, Senior Executive Advisor, Baker Hughes - A Life of Field Monitoring Array for Whitings Sanish Bakken Oil Field
Peter M. Duncan, President, MicroSeismic, Inc.
Operator Spotlight: The Monterey
The most prolific producing shale found to date is southern California’s Miocene Monterey. With the application of today’s technologies, multiple new plays are now at the forefront.
- Rediscovering the Prolific Monterey Shale
Venoco has 25 project areas comprising close to100,000 net acres spread across southern California--from the coast to the San Joaquin--that it is honing for Monterey drilling.
Tim Marquez, Chairman and CEO, Venoco Inc. - Why California and Why the Monterey Shale
Privately held Western Energy Production has leased tens of thousands of acres in the San Joaquin Basin that are prospective for the Monterey Shale and is developing JV opportunities in the basin.
Steven C. Marshall, Managing Director, Western Energy Production, LLC
Panel: Emerging Oil-prone Shales
Explorers have turned toward oil-prone shales with a passion. Intriguing targets are already known to occur in several U.S. basins, and world resources are just beginning to be evaluated.
- The Shale Gale: It is Not Only About Gas
Philip H. "Pete" Stark, Ph.D., Vice President, IHS Inc. (Presentation not available) - Wolfcamp Oil Shale, Permian Basin
Don Edwards, Senior Geologist, Broad Oak Energy (Presentation not available) - Petroleum Potential of the Atoka and Cherokee Formations of Pennsylvanian Age in the Denver Basin
Steven Tedesco, President and CEO, Running Foxes Petroleum Inc. - It’s a Big World: Global View of Oil-prone Shales
Selim Hannan, President & Co-Founder, Reservoir IntelliLogic
