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The workshop is also intended to bring together technology developers and users with environmental specialists, regulators, and policy makers to find common ground and open channels of discussion and understanding. This should lead to more technology-based and less emotional development of policies and regulations on O&G activities, as well as improve the understanding by the O&G industry of how to avoid confrontation and improve hydraulic fracturing practices to eliminate any potential hazards to the public and surface owners.

Part of the motivation for the GTW is the fact that hydraulic fracturing for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas development and production has become a hot button issue for the public and regulators in most of the United States and Canada where this technology is being used or might be used in the near future. Concern and regulation of hydraulic also is growing in other areas of the world, especially in Europe. There is a disconnect in most places between how the technology is applied and the real and perceived hazards to aquifers and surface owners (including induced-earthquake hazards) that have led to the contentious state of affairs.

Another motivation is the blistering pace of technological innovation and the need for a better understanding of how diversity in reservoirs, structural regimes, lithology, the acquifer, fracture systems, facies, geochemistry and tectonic history affect hydraulic fracturing efforts.

 

Preliminary List of Accepted Talks:

 

Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future

            Gas Shales – Their Importance and the Controversies

 

Brent Wilson, Chesapeake Energy Corporation

            Results of a Study Determine Methane in Aquifers Prior to Drilling for the Marcellus

 

Cal Cooper, Apache

            Water Issues in Hydraulic Fracturing

 

Chip Groat, Texas University

            Subject not yet given

 

Claude Signer, Schlumberger

            Subject not yet given

 

David Castillo, Geomechanics International

            Geomechanics Overview / Importance

 

Harry Vidas, ICF International

            A GIS Approach to Detailed Unconventional Resource Assessment and Economic Analysis

 

Janell Edman, Edman Geochemical Consulting

            Using Geochemical Tracers to Monitor Hydrocarbon Flow During Hydraulic Fracturing

 

John Fontana, Vista Geoscience

Addressing Water Well ‘Problems’ and Complaints in Areas of Unconventional Resource Development:Appearances Are Deceiving and Solutions are Many

 

Kevin Fisher, Flotek Industries

Hydraulic Fracturing Safety from a Rock Mechanics and Fluid Chemistry Perspective

 

Manika Prasad and Saeed Zargari, Colorado School of Mines    

The Effects of Fracturing Fluids on Shale Rock Mechanical Properties and Proppant Embedment

 

Mark A. Parker, Pinnacle, A Halliburton Service

New Proppant for Hydraulic Fracturing Improves Well Performance and Decreases Environmental Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations

 

Mark D. Zoback, Dept. of Geophysics, Stanford University Stanford

Long Period, Long Duration Seismic Events during Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation of a Shale Gas Reservoir

 

Murray Roth, Transform Software and Services, Inc.

            Comparison of Shales / Hydraulic Fracturing Techniques

 

Niranjan Banik, Ph.D., GeoSolutions Technology Schlumberger-WesternGeco

From Pore-Pressure Prediction to Reservoir Characterization

 

Randy Koepsell, Schlumberger

Discrimination of Fracture and Stress Effects Using Image and Sonic Logs for Hydraulic Fracturing Design

 

Randy LaFollette,  Baker Hughes

Shale Reservoir Production Results: Everything Matters, But Some Things Matter More Than Others

 

Richard Nehring, Nehring Database

            Basic Concepts: Characterizing What We Do and Don’t Know

 

Rob Jackson, Nicholas School, Duke University

            Controversies of Fingerprinting the Culprits: Knowns and Unknowns

 

Seth Busetti, ConocoPhillips Subsurface Technology

            Geomechanics of Hydraulic Fracture Induced Microseismicity

 

Uni Blake, Gastem

Chemical and Analytical Methods

 

Xavier Refunjol, Swift Energy Operating, LLC

Extracting Formation Properties from Hydraulically-Induced Microseisms, Seismic Attributes, and Impedance Inversion.

Join us for panel discussions as well.

 

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