9:00– 16:00 “Appalachian Basin” Room Developing The Marcellus Supergiant: Tapping The One Trillion Dollar Gas Shale

Capitalising on the success of US shale

Known about it’s potential for decades, the Marcellus shale has the potential to provide a secure supply to densely populated areas of the US domestic market. Deepen your financial, technological and geophysical understanding for development planning in this promising new territory and how best to reach the 50 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas.

Discussion session will focus around:

• How far do stimulation fractures run through the Marcellus?
• Do the benefits of being close to market outweigh the complexities of production?
• To what extent the J1 fracture set will facilitate improved recovery of gas?
• Are low production rates of the shale offset by long production life and low decline rate? Leave this workshop with detailed understanding of:
• The economics of vertical v horizontal drilling prospects
• Examine the most appropriate completion techniques
• Determine the decline curve of the field
• The extent of technically recoverable gas in the Marcellus
• Hydro-fracturing techniques for optimised well productivity

Workshop facilitated by:

Terry Engelder
Professor of Geosciences
Penn State University

9:00– 16:00 “Gulf Of Mexico” Room

Oil & Gas 2.0: Time To Act On Knowledge Management

The Future of Smart E&P

In a knowledge-intensive industry such as oil and gas global leaders are seeking competitive advantage, reduced capital costs and streamlined work processes by putting knowledge to the test. How well are you prepared for the knowledge industry of Oil & Gas 2.0? Address major questions, such as:

• How do you make the workforce want to share knowledge, their most employable asset?
• How can demographic differences be accommodated in a knowledge management approach?
• Is knowledge retention and capture solely the responsibility of human resources?
• What barriers to mergers and acquisitions pose for KM practice? Take away practical insights in order to:
• Maximise productivity of workforce
• Build communities of practice that work
• Applying KM for business advantage
• Challenge business process and human change
• Integrate knowledge management into business functions and goals
• Assess the latest tools: blogging, tagging, wikis and social networks

Workshop facilitators:

Driving Business Value From Digital E&P

Intelligent Technology In Digital Oilfields

• Explore how to generate a return on investment from digital oilfield technology
• Utilise real-time data to enhance production and achieve intelligent operations
• Gain from the latest studies into the reality that is emerging for the oil and gas industry

Dr. Michael Nikolaou
Director MChE Engineering Program
University of Houston

Panel Discussion: How Does Taking The Asset To The Engineer Enhance Production?

The introduction of intelligent oilfield technology and collaborative work environments has accelerated over recent years.

But how does the investment in technology correspond to improved production figures? Discuss the financial implications of intelligent oilfields, and how to link the capital expenditure to your bottom line.

Facilitated by:

David Bowlby
Manager E&P Systems
Occidental

Collaborative Success & Knowledge Exchange

Ensuring Enterprise Wide Best Practice: Getting The Basics Right

Explore how best practice is defined and shared on a global level and focuses on enduser needs rather than technological capability

• How can policies and procedures that enhance consistency and reduce portfolio risk create industry “best practice”?
• Analysis of a recent case study

Gabrielle Costigan
Global Programme Manager Information Systems
OMV

Getting The Petrobras Global Workforce to Work Together

The management of global mega-projects demand ever more complex and pioneering technologies used by a multicultural workforce.

• Accelerate the learning process for new project managers through storytelling and case studies
• Capture and transfer tacit knowledge acquired during decision making
• The importance of a governance model in the management of lessons learned

Technological & Business Innovation In The Human Technology Organisation

Shell GameChanger Case Study: A Safe Place Inside To Get New Ideas Started

Shell GameChanger provides a platform for some of the most innovative technological ideas in the industry to get started. Explore how the organization can improve current solutions and capitalize on the entrepreneurism of people in and outside the company walls:

Russ Conser
GameChanger Manager
Shell

Current Trends In Petroleum Visualization Environments

Incorporation of new technologies has updated these environments. They can now be more productive contributors to the E&P business, and also more engaging, reliable and easier to use and manage.

• Touch-enabled interfaces are available, particularly for GIS and seismic interpretation applications, allowing users to interact with data in a natural way.
• High-resolution, remote collaboration tools now allow one or more sites to concurrently view the same data and to share control of the underlying applications.

James Thomson
Visualisation Theme Lead
BP

Lunch & Networking Break

Fully Integrated Operations: Closing The Loop To Drive Business Value From Intelligent Technology

Smart E&P depends on a fully integrated production system to deliver an ROI.

• Identify and close the gap between people, process and technology for commercial advantage
• Driving value from each and every process to optimise the asset base
• Combine data, work practice and the human element for a lean E&P operation

Ronald Cramer
Senior Advisor
Shell

Streamlining Team Processes: Integrating GIS To Facilitate Business Change

• Generating workflows from GIS data: automating business processes through mapbased data
• An integrated workforce management approach involving geologists, landmen, and other core business roles
• Putting the right technology in place to achieve an optimized workflow and secure data

Blake Blackwell
Senior Application Developer & Analyst
Chesapeake Energy

Double Length Workshop! Facilitating Best Practice Between

Project Teams:

Part 1

In this session, learn and discuss a case study of KM framework from BP’s knowledge management team.

Part 2

Barriers and Enablers – group work and feedback

Leveraging Technology From Early Stage Companies

In the competitive oil and gas technology market, the most innovative solutions frequently emerge from the most unexpected places.

In this session:

• Construct a portfolio investment plan to reap the rewards of future technology
• Build an awareness of future technological innovation to remain one step ahead
• Discover how Chevron interacts with the marketplace to uncover the latest applied E&P technology to drive its business forward

John Hanten
Venture Executive
Chevron

Repeat Session

Another chance to benefit from one of the most popular sessions of the day, in case you missed it first time.

Exchange Gala Dinner

Relax with new business peers and reflect on the day's proceedings at the Exchange Gala Dinner. Enjoy an evening of fantastic food and entertainment with our compliments - the perfect conclusion to the first day of the Exchange!

Driving Business Value From Digital E&P

Networking Break

Grab a coffee and continue the discussion. Meet with your sponsors and go into more detail with your workshop leaders.

Open Oilfield Ontology: The Key To Integrated Operations Success

Explore how oil and gas can leverage the application of semantic web technology in the industry.

• Integration, exchange and handover of information between stakeholders in the process industries during the well lifecycle.
• An analysis of ISO 15926, the standard for data integration, sharing, exchange, and hand-over between computer systems

Frank Chum
Enterprise Architect
Chevron

Collaborative Success & Knowledge Exchange

KM For The Workforce: Why Should They Care?

• The retention of critical knowledge and sharing of information is now widely accepted as a fundamental business value across the enterprise.
• Encourage knowledge management tools and practices that successfully involve the workforce
• Consider demographic differences in the workforce and the enthusiasm for knowledge sharing

James Kochan
Lead KM Consultant
ConocoPhillips

Capitalising On Unstructured
Data: A Well Lifecycle Management Case Study

From appraisal to decommissioning, the most useful data on an asset is often held by individuals in disparate locations and formats.

• The challenges of capturing unstructured data in a usable format

Tom Koscelny
Quality Control Manager
Samson

Technological & Business Innovation In The Human Technology Organisation

Solving Two-Way Wave Equation With Petascale Computing

Study the groundbreaking geophysical supercomputing Kaleidescope project involving stateof- the-art ‘petascale’ infrastructure and applications

• Uncovering hidden reservoirs: developing new algorithms for currently unseen reservoirs
• More accurate visualisation of ultra-deep oil
• Converting terabytes of data into valuable seismic information

Francisco Ortigosa
Director of Geophysics
Repsol YPF

Networking Break

Take a break from the workshops to meet with your sponsors or forge new working relationships with industry peers

Lunch & Networking Break

Panel Discussion Confronting The Spreadsheet: Getting Access To The Good Stuff

Do the benefits of being a user-friendly tool outweigh the obvious obstruction to data management across the enterprise?

• Examine how to extract value from spreadsheets to streamline decision support analysis
• Enable culture change away from privately held information silos

Facilitated by:

David Bowlby
Manager E&P Systems
Occidental

Double Length Workshop! Embed Knowledge Management Into Current Business Processes

The benefits for the enterprise are clear, but is your workforce convinced by knowledge management? Explore how to put people first in knowledge initiatives to create a low-cost, embedded knowledge management programme.

• How do you make KM business as usual, rather than some special programme requiring additional effort from field staff?
• How do you make the power of social computing a corporate asset, linking to process and content management systems?
• What is the role of narrative in knowledge management?
• Bottom up KM, creating the conditions for a natural low cost and sustainable approach to KM

David Snowden
Founder & Scientific Director
Cognitive Edge

Geophysical Technology Successes For Mapping A Complex Subsurface

This session will outline the current programme to invest in innovative technology to succeed in complex subsurface environments.

• Recent geophysical technology developments in subsurface imaging
• Explore what technological barriers remain to improve the accuracy of reservoir environments

Ken Tubman
Emerging Subsurface Technologies Manager
ConocoPhillips

Time To Become Competitive: Add Business Value Through DataIntegration

Successfully integrating data and sharing information within asset teams produces real competitive advantage.

• Methods and example projects to provide asset teams with faster, more consistent access to data
• How to use knowledge held by experienced engineers to advance the business
• Approaches to achieving competitive advantage from data standardization

Yogi Schulz
Secretary to the Board
PPDM Association

Chairman’s Closing Remarks & Prize Draw

Dr. Michael Nikolaou
Director MChE Engineering Program
University of Houston

End of the Exchange