Exploration & Production Technology Summit 2008

27th & 28th October, 2008 | Key Knowledge Workshops – October 29
Hilton Americas, Houston, Texas

Navigating the complex world of access to reserves: understanding the approaches you can apply to ensure future growth

day one | day two | Workshop

Day OneOctober 27, 2008
08:30
Delegate Registration & Coffee
09:00
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09:05
Opening Keynote Presentation
Open for Business - strengthening relationships between Government and Industry, proactive strategies to navigate the legislative process for offshore leasing and exploration permits
Understanding how to stay ahead of the regulatory curve
  • Generating consensus amongst Local and Federal Governments to maximize E&P opportunities and integrating into the community
  • Understanding perspectives from Industry – Government intermediaries and practical lessons to apply to your long-term operational strategy to ensure sustained and positive communication
  • Understanding recent environmental legislation and what you can do to work within specific ecological frameworks to optimize E&P opportunities
  • Defining Outer Continental Shelf leasing legislation and applying collaborative approaches from recent projects

Randall Luthi, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior - Minerals Management Service
09:40
Awakening The Giant – assessing the vast potential of the Bakken Shale, vital operating strategies to unlock it and the challenges of “the largest continuous oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS”
  • An overview of Bakken in light of the USGS report and the potential this has for domestic operators – how you can best tap into the Bakken
  • Analyzing the drilling economics of the Bakken play, evaluating where the gains have been made and the lessons learned so far
  • The potential for partnerships and farm-ins and the strategies employed to create collaborative success
  • The Great B.C. Land Rush – evaluating the potential of the Horn River Basin and it’s impact on the changing geography of Canadian E&P

Steven B. Hinchman, EVP, Technology & Services, Marathon Oil
10:15
An Unconventional Giant – uncovering the dramatic rise of North American Shale Plays, understanding the reasons behind this and assessing the new opportunities for domestic E&P
  • Evaluating the hottest E&P growth areas within the Shale Plays and the approach being taken to exploit the opportunities
  • Uncovering lessons on mapping the Bakken and Woodford Shales and the challenges which have been overcome in unlocking their potential
  • Assessing the next operational phase in the Bakken & Woodford Shales and their influence and impact upon unconventional E&P practices and technologies across the continent
  • “The tip of the iceberg” – examining what the Bakken Shale has to yield and the solutions taken to exploiting it's vast resources
  • An overview of “the next giant” – the Bakken and Woodford Shales and the potential it holds for diverse E&P operators making the switch to unconventional

Jack Stark, SVP, Exploration , Continental Resources Inc
10:50
Morning Refreshments
11:10
North American Shale Plays
Uncovering successes from a pioneer in today’s shale plays and what you can implement from their discoveries in your own E&P game plan
  • Unlocking North American natural gas deposits - outlining the critical path taken by an emerging Operator with proven success in shale E&P and the reasons for their growing ROI
  • Analyzing how the role of new technology and the way in which it is applied is helping to mitigate risk, increase reserves and ensure E&P success
  • Identifying specific challenges for a shale operator and what lessons can benefit all operators planning projects in similar resource plays
  • Capitalizing on the vibrancy of today’s shale E&P and what these resource plays may hold for the future

James E. Sigmon, Chairman, President & CEO, TXCO Resources
 
Seismic Technology
Visualizing the Future – the advances of 3D Seismic technology and it's role in boosting reserves that we have previously missed
  • Outlining key advances in 3D Seismic technology, the benefits of increased clarity and the direct impact to your bottom line
  • Analyzing cutting-edge technologies from the leading players and identifying successful applications
  • Assessing 3D seismic surveying from the Gulf of Mexico to Offshore Canada and the influence of technology on extending our E&P boundaries
  • Comparing 2D and 3D methodologies and advances in signal processing to determine what system to apply to your E&P portfolio

Francisco Ortigosa, Chief Geophysicist, Maxus US Exploration, Repsol YPF
 
11:45
New Horizons in North American Shale plays - a case study in Eastern Canadian shale operations
  • Outlining the critical path taken by an emerging operator with proven success in shale E&P and the reasons for their growing ROI
  • Identifying specific challenges for a shale operator in Eastern Canada and what lessons can benefit all operators planning projects in similar resource plays
  • Determining the viability of shale plays in the Canadian Maritimes and how you can best maximize the potential of your shale developments
  • Exploring the new frontiers of North American shale E&P; who will be at the forefront; which areas have the strongest potential and learning how to successfully position your organization as a competitive operator

Howard Anderson, COO & VP Engineering, Triangle Petroleum Corp
 
Cutting the Cord – the tantalizing promise of wireless seismic, the challenges involved and the monumental opportunities for North American E&P
Interactive Workshop
  • Outlining the challenges to becoming truly wireless; solving the power riddle and the companies working to make this a reality
  • Evaluating the implications of wireless seismic surveying to large-scale projects and how this could create new E&P opportunities and revolutionize your project costs
  • Determining applications for wireless technology in remote areas and the effect this would have on real-time data-modeling
 
12:20
Hosted Luncheon - sponsored by Hess Corporation
13:20
Examining key practices and technologies for field-life optimization in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Think Deep – reviewing the latest practices in Deepwater Drilling; how are companies moving out of their comfort zones to boost reserves from deeper GoM shelves?
  • Assessing the latest offshore reservoir engineering practices such as EOR to optimize hydrocarbon recovery in remote environments
  • Analyzing the role of EOR in boosting production – CO2 / Salt Water flooding and advances in Surfactants and Polymers
  • Uncovering lessons from long-term North Sea operators and how these can be applied to GoM operations

Scott Heck, SVP, Exploration & Production Technology, Hess Corporation
13:55
One-to-One Business Meetings
16:55
Offshore / Subsea Operations
Examining the significance of the emerging Lower Tertiary Trend in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico; the challenges faced and the potential rewards
  • Uncovering the fundamental character of the play and it’s similarities and differences with previously explored GoM trends
  • Assessing the future reserves potential and what this might mean to GoM operators
  • Evaluating the technical challenges inherent in the resource play, the possible strategic solutions and the perspectives of Chevron’s E&P team
  • Analyzing emerging industry solutions in Offshore and Subsea technology that might help unlock this play and those of future deepwater GoM projects

Stephen P. Thurston, VP, Deepwater Exploration & Projects, Chevron E&P
 
Carbon Capture & Heavy Oil
The E Word – A Case Study: Understanding approaches to minimizing environmental impact, addressing Industry accountability whilst optimizing the resource
  • A Refreshing Approach – assessing critical proactive approaches to environmental accountability, Government collaboration and strengthening relationships within the local community to meet all your goals
  • Overcoming environmental constraints in prudent use of local water supplies; the challenges in sourcing water without disrupting community needs and the solutions to successful water treatment facilities
  • Uncovering a critical path to optimal bitumen extraction, processing and delivery to market

Wishart Robson, Sr. Advisor to the CEO, Climate Change & Safety, Nexen Inc
 
17:30
“Houston – we have a problem” – overcoming the risks and challenges of remote operations through advances in E-Field Developments and building the Future of Offshore in North America
Interactive Workshop
  • Assessing the impact of remote digital operations and clarifying the benefits to GoM Operators
  • Outlining experiences in applied technology – comparative experiences of leading projects and what has been learnt in developing the E-Field
  • Present and Future Major Capital Projects – the risks taken and the triumphs achieved in a world-class North American offshore development
 
Establishing the economic viability and potential of the Oil Sands, the net benefits of advanced technology and the growth of global interest in Canada’s Black Gold
Interactive Workshop Option
  • Analyzing the impact of technology on bitumen extraction and the economic benefits in developing the Oil Sands
  • “The Saudi Arabia of North America” – examining the economic potential of Canada as the significant oil supplier for the Canadian and U.S. market
  • Fort McMurray – a case study in the boom effect of the Oil Sands on local community economics, the challenges of an exploding workforce and the long-term evolution of a vibrant energy centre
  • Uncovering the arrival of N.O.C.s to the Oil Sands; the global attractions to securing stable energy supplies and the lessons of international oil diplomacy
  • Examining Oil Sands E&P as part of your operating portfolio; evaluating the access points, uncovering established operator experiences and assessing the benefits of a stable E&P operating framework
 
18:00
A Sea of Green – Projected investments in the future of Subsea, determining the critical areas and how you can optimize your Offshore operations
Uncovering new players in the GoM – the attraction for global players and the benefits of International Operator investment in the region
  • Forecasting Major Capital developments for Offshore North America
  • Intelligent Procurement – winning strategies to enable maximum efficiency in the Subsea technology purchasing process and how to use knowledge of Subsea Standards to maximize your investment power
  • Analyzing core improvements to technical standards in Subsea equipment and how this will optimize your expenditure and minimize your risk
  • Boosting the Rig Count – identifying the challenges for Offshore Contractors, and how you can use this to reduce the backlog and minimize operational downtime

David Latin, VP, E&P Technology (Global Head, Field of the Future), BP
 
The Carbon Conundrum – evaluating viable practices and technologies for carbon capture, sequestration and reinjection.
The technical roadblocks and the incredible paradigm of successful applications
  • Understanding the complexities of developing separation technologies in profitable carbon capture and sequestration – can it be cost-effective?
  • Assessing cutting-edge research and technologies that can be applied to reduce emissions and fuel the burgeoning carbon-trading industry
  • Determining the viability of CO2 supply and reinjection – is it really possible that E&P can become environmentally friendly by virtue of EOR?
  • Identifying the opportunities in tertiary CO2 supply and the enhanced oil recovery applications that this can bring to your organization – is this a win-win critical path for the industry as a whole?

Douglas P. Bloom, President, Spectra Energy Transmission West, Spectra Energy
 
18:35
Networking Drinks Reception

day one | day two | Workshop

Day TwoOctober 28, 2008
 
 
08:30
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
08:35
Innovators & Game Changers - Analyzing the role of technology in significantly boosting hydrocarbon recovery, optimizing ROI and achieving a plan towards overall project cost reductions
  • Outlining key technological advances in drilling, completions and reservoir management to increase EOR
  • Identifying successful technology applications in recent E&P projects and steps to integrate these in your current project
  • Uncovering strategies to enhance R&D investment and the difference this could make to reducing E&P budgets
  • Generating more successful collaboration between Operators and Technology providers to create reduced cost benefits

Stephen R. Brand, SVP, Technology, ConocoPhillips
09:10
Leading the Revolution – Identifying best practices in Directional Drilling, Fractured Stimulation and Seismic technologies; examining how these can be applied to deliver significant ROI and bottom-line growth
  • Examining the practices of a pioneering operator and the critical stages in executing a successful Horizontal Drilling program
  • Key technological advances in Horizontal Drilling and practical applications for optimizing your E&P projects
  • Clarifying significant returns from Directional Drilling programs versus Conventional practices and how these have been achieved
  • Uncovering new advances in Seismic technology and practices from the perspective of an Independent
  • An Independent's overview of challenges and solutions in today's North American E&P projects

Michael S. Bahorich, EVP, E&P Technology, Apache Corporation
09:50
Horizontal Drilling & Fracing
Lands of Opportunity – an analysis of the hottest geographical regions for North American Horizontal Drilling and Fractured Stimulation projects – understanding the challenges, watching for the pitfalls and achieving the triumphs
  • Uncovering lessons learnt in applying Horizontal Drilling and Fracing methods to a myriad of geological terrains and what has been discovered in the process
  • Understanding how Horizontal Drilling and Fracing revolutionized the Shale Plays, spurred the North American onshore phenomenon of the new millennium and what this means for the future
  • Overcoming the challenges in applying technologies to varying sediments and uncovering the best-practices of leading drilling practitioners across North American E&P
  • Analyzing what causes drillers to get stuck during the process and how to deal with horizontal drilling snags

Rob Morgan, COO, Upstream, Harvest Energy Trust
 
Workforce Challenges
Getting Serious about Talent Management
Winning strategies in attracting and retaining key talent in your E&P operation
  • Building a talent management infrastructure to maximize the identification, development and longer-term potential of your talent
  • Aligning experience to the business strategy: developing talent with the right experience to meet the strategic needs of the business
  • Strategically analyzing succession plans to identify gaps and issues in your talent pipeline before a business or talent crisis emerges
  • Exploring talent management and retention successes and lessons learned

Dr. Candy Albertsson, President, Albertsson Consulting Group, Former Senior Talent Management Head, BP plc
 
10:30
Morning Refreshments & Networking
10:50
Exploring Unconventional Tight Gas Developments - Lessons Learned
  • Determining the viability of sustained unconventional plays and how you can best maximize the potential of your shale developments
  • Analyzing the practices and technologies used in order to optimize tight gas production flow
  • Lessons from a leading North American independent on the challenges they have faced, the unconventional solutions applied and the lessons learned to take away to your E&P operations

Jon David "J.D." Caron, Project Engineering Advisor, Anadarko Petroleum Corp
 
Uncovering recent proven strategies to enhance recruitment of in-demand technical talent
Interactive Workshop - presented by Petroleum People Ltd (www.petroleum-people.com)
  • Identifying key talent pools in the global E&P community to draw from and strategies to make them part of your team
  • Assessing core geographical regions as key targets and the viability of incorporating international talent into your operation
  • Differentiating yourself from your competitors in order to place your operation at the head of the pack
  • Reviewing alternative industries to draw talent from – sourcing people with key transferable skills and the rapid impact this could have on your growth

Nick Carter, Managing Director, Petroleum People Ltd
 
11:25
Cracking the Challenge of Successful Fracturing – Advances in Fractured Stimulation practices and innovations in optimizing and packing a successful frac to maximize hydrocarbon recovery
  • Analyzing best-practices of fractured stimulation; the process involved and the challenges that have been faced in execution
  • Uncovering the challenges and solutions to carrying out a successful frac; how the technology works, the lessons learnt so far and the strategies to help you change your game
  • Executing multiple fracs – where do I begin? Building a critical path towards technical executions, the challenges to look out for and examples of successful projects
  • Understanding a geological perspective on which methods are suitable for varying formations and avoiding expensive errors in developing your reservoirs

Dr. Terry Engelder, Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University
 
Case Study: A Major Operator’s recent experience in building E&P talent and overcoming workforce attrition
  • Uncovering successful strategies in overcoming workforce attrition and the steps that have been taken to achieve this
  • Identifying and building effective partnerships – collaboration between Industry, Government and Educational Institutions and the inherent benefits that this has for all
  • Uncovering what works and what doesn’t through invaluable experience and the key lessons learned through the strategies used
  • Future Energy – Industry perspective on the workforce in the next decade, the next steps that should be taken and what we might find on the horizon
 
12:00
Interactive Workshop
From Frac to Pack – Completions technology and optimizing your fractured reservoir through world- class packing applications
Interactive Workshop presented by Downhole Fluidics Inc. (www.dhfluidics.com)
  • The New Kids in Town – lessons from a game changer spearheading packing technology and completions practices and the ROI achieved
  • Can advances in fractured stimulation and packing lead North American E&P to reevaluate it's entire perspective on reserves?
  • Assessing which technologies can take you to the next-level of packing and completions practices and help stimulate your operating profits

Andy Rowe, EVP Global BD, Marketing & Client Relations, Downhole Fluidics Inc
 
IT Strategies & The Workforce
How can IT be used to address workforce challenges, operations effectiveness, reliability and capital program delivery?
How to maximize profitability in applying the law of diminishing ROI for IT expenditure.
  • Uncovering value drivers for IT: less experienced workforce, fewer resources available, increased turnover, increased regulatory requirements
  • Analyzing and understanding the opportunities to uncover through automation, integration, corporate knowledge and successful practices
  • Defining your vision in terms of safety, reliability, single source of the truth, transparency, overall cost reduction and profitability
  • Achieving success: Effectively implementing Executive "top down" objectives in a "bottom's up" and complex IT environment

Arthur W. Boykiw, Director, Oil Sands Systems, Petro-Canada
 
12:35
Themed Luncheon
14:15
Government Legislation & Royalty Issues
A Taxing Issue – Analyzing the delicate balance between State / Provincial royalties and potential decline in investment to North American E&P development
  • An overview of the royalties debate and the North American regions affected by recent tax legislation
  • Overcoming legislative roadblocks through building collaboration and understanding between Government and Industry
  • Identifying E&P positive regions and understanding incentives and strategies to produce a “win-win” collaboration

Wishart Robson, Sr. Advisor to the CEO, Climate Change & Safety, Nexen Inc
 
Alaskan E&P
The Last Frontier - an overview of Alaska’s mature and emerging fields and the fundamental challenge of bringing hydrocarbons to the North American market
The balance of Government-Industry collaboration
  • Outlining access to Alaskan resources and an overview of 40 years of Alaskan E&P; the established operators, the lessons learned and the new wave of emerging players in the coldest state
  • Analyzing the latest pipeline projects and the challenges to be overcome in innovative engineering and hydrocarbon transportation over major distances
  • Evaluating collaboration between Government and Industry to achieve project growth and secure U.S. energy resources
  • Achieving balance in project costs and profitable hydrocarbon recovery from mature fields in Prudhoe Bay, the North Slope & Cook Inlet and managing increased E&P in hostile environments

Kevin Banks, Director, Oil & Gas, Alaska Department of Natural Resources
 
14:50
Determining proactive strategies to navigate the legislative process for land leasing and exploration permits
Positioning your operation as a Responsible Community Partner
  • Generating consensus amongst Local and Federal Governments to maximize E&P opportunities and integrating into the community
  • Understanding perspectives from a legal expert and practical lessons to apply to your long-term operational strategy to ensure sustained and positive compliance
  • Understanding recent environmental legislation and what you can do to work within specific ecological frameworks to optimize E&P opportunities
  • Defining stewardship in land concerns and applying collaborative approaches from recent projects
  • Uncovering cohesive strategies to ensure positivity in local community - energy operator relations; lessons learned by operators when facing public challenges

Steve McMillen , Special Counsel, Baker Botts LLP
 
The New Pioneers - perspectives from an emerging E&P player in Alaska, the challenges of setting up a viable operation and the opportunities of untapped territories
Interactive Workshop Option
  • Uncovering the challenges of new investments in Alaskan exploration and building a framework to address these
  • Assessing the longevity of field production; once the flow begins how do we bring the hydrocarbons to market effectively
  • Analyzing approaches to remote infrastructure and building partnerships to maximize Alaskan operations
  • Achieving future growth in Alaska - just how much has the largest State still to yield?
 
15:25
How can industry and government further enhance collaboration to ensure sustained resource exploitation of North American reserves and reinvestment in the domestic E&P industry?
Panel Discussion
  • Perspectives on successfully partnering the aims of Government and the Upstream Industry to optimize domestic hydrocarbon production and lessen North American dependence on foreign energy imports
  • Identifying and acting on strategies to open up greater access to resources in onshore and offshore territories and the challenges involved
  • Clarity & Accountability – minimizing differences and focusing on enhanced cooperation to combat high oil prices, project delays and NIMBY challenges in North America’s oilpatch
 
Analyzing successful E&P strategies incorporating environmental responsibility and Government collaboration in Alaska
What we can learn as an industry and assessing the applications to your own operations Panel Discussion
  • A Poster-Child for Proactive E&P? – perspectives on working toward common energy goals whilst collaborating in economic growth and minimal environmental impact
  • Assessing strategies in creating local prosperity, environmental stewardship and navigating remote and hazardous environments to unlock massive hydrocarbon resources
  • Understanding technologies involved in unconventional and remote resource plays and applications across North American E&P for your operations
 
16:00
Close of main E&P Technology Summit conference

day one | day two | Workshop

WorkshopOctober 29 2008
08:30
Registration for E&P Technology Key Knowledge Workshops; Coffee & Networking
08:50
First Half-Day Workshop - Solutions to Rising Project Costs
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09:00
The Economics of High Oil – outlining the critical factors at play, defining strategies to remain competitive and uncovering innovative steps to minimize impact on your bottom line