WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Tight Oil E&P Companies With The Following Job Titles:
VPs, Directors, Managers & Team Leaders Of
- Completions
- Engineering
- Production
- Operations
- Drilling
- Exploration
- Unconventional Resources
- Geology, Geophysics and Geoscience
- Technology
- Drilling
- Exploitation
Plus...
Organizations Including:
- Hydraulic Fracturing & Completion Technology Suppliers
- Seismic & Core Analysis Companies
- Horizontal Drilling Companies
- Midstream & Pipeline Companies
- Key Industry Laboratory & Analysis Firms
- Pressure Pumping Firms
- Market & Economic Analysts
- Environmental Consultancies
- Geological Surveys
- Research & Development Institutes & Universities
- Modelling Software Systems Companies
- Investment Firms
- CO2 Sequestration
- Water Treatment/ Management
- Oil Transportation Companies
- Research & Development Institutes & Universities
- Examining Canada's Tight Oil Operators...
TECHNICAL EXPERT SPEAKERS FOR 2012 INCLUDE:
Tight Oil Canada Congress 2012
THE SECOND IN THE GROUNDBREAKING TIGHT OIL CANADA SERIES FOCUSING ON THE LATEST ADVANCES IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BAKKEN, VIKING, CARDIUM AND EMERGING TIGHT OIL PLAYS
There is no doubt that the astoundingly profitable prospect of tight oil exploitation in Canada has caught the attention of almost every leading operator in North America. With investment continually being poured into formation analysis and completions techniques, the question now is how can the industry lower the well cost, speed up the hydraulic fracturing process and increase the deliverability of fracs across the country that has become a global unconventional oil super power.
In the complex geological environment of Canada’s tight oil plays, determining these cost-effective and high recovery completions techniques, including fracture fluid composition, number of frac stages and well spacing, is an on-going challenge that every operator wants to be the first to overcome. Leading E&P operators as well as junior companies across Canada are continually experimenting with completions enhancements; changing variables at every stage and aiming to capture that all important frac recipe that will enable the execution of a quick, low cost high delivery frac job.
Tight Oil Canada 2012 will, for the second time, host industry-renowned thought leaders, executives and technical experts from operators involved in the Bakken, Viking, Cardium and emerging tight oil plays across Canada to share the most up-to-date completions and reserves estimations and trial findings to optimize production processes and achieve maximum deliverability.
Day one will hear operators explain how they have chosen fracture types, fluid types, number of stages and completions technologies that have increased the amount of recoverable oil and maximized fracture growth. They will also discuss how to maintain a stable production flow and avoid early shut-downs by utilizing secondary and tertiary recovery methods.
Day two will examine leading methodologies used for reserves estimation and reservoir evaluation including operators’ real-life results to determine key geological indicators that lead to competitive completions. Detailed case studies will also be provided from tight oil operators that have successfully utilized reservoir simulation, coring and microseismic tools to measure petrophysical and lithological aspects of reservoirs. The conference will end with presentations identifying how pressure transient analysis can optimize the completions process and how advances in drilling have been implemented to increase the speed and reduce the cost of tight oil drilling operations.
ExxonMobil
"The topics were good and everyone has a sense of camaraderie that is fun to see"
NEW LEARNING BENEFITS
Tight Oil Canada 2012 is the second in the Tight Oil Canada series and ...
...the fifth in the North American Tight Oil series focusing exclusively on the latest advances in reservoir characterization and hydraulic fracturing techniques that will have the greatest impact on the profitability of Canada's tight oil plays.
Last year we gathered a huge amount of feedback from participants so we could work hard to make sure the 2012 congress is more technically engaging and solutions-oriented than before. The main feedback was as follows:
- High quality speaker line up hosting all the key companies that E&P professionals wanted to hear from
- Excellent networking opportunities with executive level delegates
- The discussion and Q&A sessions facilitated insightful debate on the most important topics in the Canadian Tight Oil industry
- Great variety of topics including useful comparisons between reservoir and geology tool sets as well as evaluations of targeted and topical completions techniques
We also appreciate that there is opportunity to make the presentations even more technically-focused this year with more scope for specific take-away solutions on each of the broken down topics and sub-topics. As such, this year we are making sure all presentations are increasingly focused on real life case studies and results to provide delegates with new practical insights and takeaway solutions to the challenges being faced in Tight Oil production.
Next year, leading E&P operators at the Tight Oil Canada Congress 2012 will be providing increasingly technical and in-depth case studies on the following learning points:
FRACTURE FLUIDS: Comparing the most high conductivity fracture fluids used by tight oil operators in Canada and examining their compatibility with different formations
MULTI-STAGE FRACS: Examining how to choose the most cost-effective amount of fractures per well and the space between them to achieve optimal conductivity without overspending
COMPLETIONS TECHNOLOGIES: Evaluating latest advances in completions technologies to facilitate successful production and maintain high levels of return
EOR : Examining the viability of secondary and tertiary recovery tor tight oil plays in Canada using water, chemical or CO2 flooding
RESERVES EVALUATION : Explaining cost-effective methods to estimate EUR of tight oil reserves in Canada and determine production viability
ROCK PROPERTIES: Comparing permeability and porosity cut-offs used by successful tight oil operators to determine the optimal completions design