Agenda
Tuesday, November 01
Welcome remarks by Workshop Co-Chairs
Susan Ilsley, Paramount Resources and Aaron White, Pipestone Energy Corp.
The world is facing unprecedented uncertainty in the energy landscape. Geopolitics have recently raised the stakes in the energy trilemma humanity has faced for decades: we require secure and reliable energy, at an affordable cost, with minimal environment impact. Fundamentally, Canada seems well positioned to be a key player in the re-balancing of global energy markets, but headwinds remain abundant. The panel, comprised of subject matter experts in the areas of commodity markets, geopolitics and energy transition will unpack some of the concepts woven into the challenges and opportunities that lie before us.
Moderator: Mike Davies, VP Business Development, Innervision Wellbore Technologies
Panelists:
- Matt Desroches, COO & Co-Founder, Innova Hydrogen Corp
- Steven Golko, Senior Vice President, Reservoir Services, Sproule
- Jeremy McCrea, Director - Energy Research, Raymond James
- Mark Quesada, Senior Analyst, Rystad Energy
Wednesday, November 02
In an effort towards achieving continuous improvement of well production and operations efficiency in unconventional plays, this session will showcase examples of how operators are integrating different geological methods and associated modelling into their workflows.
Presentations:
- Using Stratigraphy to Improve Landing Zone Placement and EUR Forecasting
- Greg Baniak, PETRONAS Canada
- Variation in Liquids Recovery: From In-Situ to Produced Montney Fluids
- Elizabeth Watt, ConocoPhillips
- Geomechanical Considerations in the Montney and Duvernay Plays
- Amy Fox, Enlighten Geoscience
In an effort towards achieving continuous improvement of well production and operations efficiency in unconventional plays, this session will showcase examples of how operators are integrating different geological methods and associated modelling into their workflows.
Presentations:
- Integrated Modeling: Data vs Physics Showdown - Part 1
- Lee Grant and Mason MacKay, Birchcliff
- Integrated Modeling: Data vs Physics Showdown - Part 2
- Lee Grant and Mason MacKay, Birchcliff
Child well under performance and the associated uncertainty in long range development plan assumptions, continues to challenge industry’s ability to both mitigate and predict the performance of a growing inventory of infill drilling locations. Numerous mitigation workflows have been empirically tested, including preloading of parents, far field diversion, real-time modifications to child well completion designs. This session will explore the interplay of the development strategy, spacing, timing, completion intensity and mitigation workflows playing a critical role in the parent/child performance relationship.
Presentations:
- Insights into Parent-Child Interaction from Bottom Hole Pressure Data
- Rob Zinselmeyer, ARC Resources
- Applying Multiple Modelling Approaches to Predict Child Well Performance and Gain Insight on Key Impact Drivers
- Jerry Tkachyk and Sam Razzaghi, Ovintiv
- Machine Learning Approach to Parent Child
- Steven Taylor, McDaniel
As unconventional well design evolves it has implications on artificial lift. The session focuses on looking at economic and output challenges operators are facing with, and discussing production optimization strategies in various areas in the Montney and Duvernay.
Presentations:
- Plunger Performance – You Don’t Know What You Can’t See
- Rob Oliver and Remi Laflamme, Ovintiv
- Gas Lift and ESP – Montney Experience of Producing Liquids-Rich Wells from Multi-bench Pads
- Karl Kiegler, NuVista Energy
With the added focus on capital efficiency, companies have developed pilot programs to understand the interactions between the subsurface and completion design. Now it is time to look back at the lessons learned and how we can further maximize the value of our assets.
Presentations:
- Maximizing Data Pad Value through Integrated Diagnostic Methods: Duvernay Case Study
- Jean-Francois Gagnon, Crescent Point Energy
- Case Study: Diagnostic Pad Design in the Alberta Montney
- Mani Mehrok, ARC Resources
- Completion Execution - Acoustic Imaging and Sand Distribution Modelling
- Mitch Schinnour, ConocoPhillips
Thursday, November 03
This session will explore and contrast different methodologies relating to maximizing asset value through continuous improvement, collaboration and internal operational best practices. Topics will range from completions, through to production and facility optimization related to various operators throughout the Montney play, and the learnings that have evolved along the way.
Presentations:
- Learnings in FR and Water Quality Control
- Nick Kozak, Crew Energy
- Machine Learning Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations and Susceptibility to Induced Seismicity – Duvernay Formation
- Alex Robertson & Steven Pawley, Alberta Energy Regulator
- Leave the Balls in the Bowling Alley
- Jeyhun Najafov, Advanced Upstream
Operators in the Montney and Duvernay plays have been actively trialing a variety of completion techniques, well spacing/stacking, landing zones and well designs with no clear consensus on the optimum development strategy. The goal of this session is to dive deeper into the operator learnings and the factors that are driving the variability in full field development strategies.
Presentations:
- Death by a Million Grid Cells: How to Radically Accelerate Well Spacing and Completion Design Decision Making in Unconventionals with Simple Tools
- Pat Miller, PETRONAS Canada
- Making MVA Models More Predictive through Higher Resolution Geo
- Tyler Schlosser, McDaniel
- Applying Machine Learning and Economics to Large Montney Completion Optimization Datasets
- George Voneiff, Datagration
Session Chairs:
Kris Watson, Cold Bore Technology; Jared Wynveen, McDaniel
Moderator:
Jared Wynveen, Executive Vice President, McDaniel
Panelists:
- Brendan Paton, Vice President, Engineering, Spartan Delta Corp
- Tom McCarthy, Director and Team Lead, Energy Advisors, TD Securities
- More panelist information coming soon.
This panel will seek to understand the pressure points placed on organizations in the current business landscape. Between internal pressures, perceived investor demands, and high-level value questions such as growth via drill bit, corp. acquisitions or share buy backs, we will strive to understand the nuances of corporate decision making in this environment as it pertains to development strategy and culture. Topics of interest include development and completion strategies, financial considerations, and corporate growth strategies (or lack thereof).
Friday, November 04
The purpose of this one-day course is to offer the most practical applications of the Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests (DFIT). The DFIT has become an essential tool to obtain reservoir information that cannot be obtained using conventional Pressure Transient Test (PTA); such as flow and buildup tests. Also, useful information obtained from the DFIT analysis are critical to the design of hydraulic frac treatment. Test interpretations including pre-frac closure and after closure analysis will be discussed in details; both the theory and practical applications. The application of DFIT is extended to cap rock integrity testing. Several case studies will be reviewed using commercial software.