| Day TwoOctober 28, 2008 |
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08:30 |
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
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08:35 |
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Innovators & Game Changers - Analyzing the role of technology in significantly boosting hydrocarbon recovery, optimizing ROI and achieving a plan towards overall project cost reductions
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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| 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
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| 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
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10:30 |
Morning Refreshments & Networking
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 12:00 |
| Interactive Workshop |
| From Frac to Pack – Completions technology and optimizing your fractured reservoir through world-
class packing applications
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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
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| 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
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12:35 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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?
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| 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
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| 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
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16:00 |
Close of main E&P Technology Summit conference
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