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Technology Based Opportunities to Improve Bottom Line Performance in Shale Gas Reservoirs

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When: Anytime, at your convenience.
Where: Your Computer
Cost: Free

This webinar will also be available on demand at any time after the live broadcast.

Overview:
As gas development economics continue to stagnate it is increasingly important to understand and deploy the most cost-effective technology in the development of shale gas plays. The Hart Energy webcast, “Technology Based Opportunities to Improve Bottom Line Performance in Shale Gas Reservoirs”, sponsored by Kenda Capital, will bring attendees up to speed with today’s most effective shale gas development tools.

Kenda Capital is the independently owned manager of the Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1 B.V. (the Fund)
For detailed information on Kenda and the Fund, please visit  http://www.kendacapital.com/.
     
What you will learn

• Well design factors that control deliverability of shale gas wells
• Designing shale gas completions to optimize reservoir-to-wellbore delivery
• Improving well recovery efficiencies in shale gas projects by better understanding of dynamic and time dependent inflow
• When a refrac makes sense in shale gas wells
• Appraisal strategies for shale gas projects - are you being realistic with expectations and well numbers

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Featured Speakers:

Matt Bell

Vice President Technology Matt Bell joined GEODynamics in 2007. Previously senior investment manager for Shell Technology Ventures Inc., he helped manage a $300-million-plus investment portfolio consisting of energy industry companies with groundbreaking technologies applicable to Shell's E&P business. At Shell E&P since 1995, Bell held various technical positions around the world including: technical expert - perforating global delivery team, staff production engineer - applied well technologies, production technologist and wellsite petroleum engineer.

He graduated with honors from the Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine in London with a Masters degree in chemical engineering. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, a member of the API subcommittee on perforating, an associate member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (UK), and an associate of the City & Guilds Institute of London. Bell also holds several US patents, is a director of Epik Energy Solutions, and consults on oil and gas technology matters for various organizations.

George King

George E. King is a Registered Professional Engineer with 38 years of experience since joining Amoco in 1971. He has been active in most stages of well stimulation, damage assessment and removal, perforating, and production operations. After retiring from BP as a Distinguished Advisor in 2008, he served a year with Rimrock Energy as Sr. VP Engineering and is still active in the all phases of stimulation and production operations. He has authored or coauthored 60 technical papers and several chapters in various technical books. He has received the 1997 Amoco Vice President’s Award for Technology and the 2004 SPE Production and Operations Award.

William Severns

Bill is an expert on the upstream oil and gas industry. As founder and Managing Director of The Energy Consulting Group (ECG), he specializes in developing and implementing successful technology based business models and strategies for the exploration and production industry. He also sits on the OGEM board of directors. OGEM is focused on using new technology to assist in the exploration and development of oil and gas reserves.

Before founding ECG, Bill was a Senior Director at the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), where he worked closely with E&P industry leaders on strategy projects and oversaw CERA’s Digital Oil Field of the Future initiative. Prior to CERA, he was an engineer and engineering manager for ARCO and worked exploring for and developing oil and gas fields in challenging settings around the world, including early Fruitland CBM piloting/development efforts; new, large gas field developments offshore Bali, and new field developments in the UK North Sea.

Between his time at ARCO and CERA, Bill studied at MIT and was a senior business strategy consultant for Bain & Co. While at MIT, he participated in the founding of a start-up focused on commercializing MIT developed microprocessor technology. The start-up was eventually sold for $1.2 billion.

Bill holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and an MBA from MIT and attended the MS program in Petroleum Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

Dave Elliott

Dave Elliott has 32 years of experience since joining Shell in 1977. His experience is split evenly between operational supervision and office based project development with positions held as a Production Engineer, Completions Foreman, Safety Coordinator, Asset Team Technical Manager and Technology Implementation Manager. He is a Chemical Engineer and currently is Shell’s Global Tight Gas Well Technology Focal Point. Dave is a founding member of Shell’s Under Balance Drilling/Managed Pressure Drilling Global Implementation Team working out of Rijswijk, The Netherlands.


About the Moderator:

William (Bill) Pike

William (Bill) Pike, Ph.D., is Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director. Prior to joining Hart, Bill was European editor, international editor, and editor of two respected energy journals. He worked nearly 20 years in the upstream industry,in both drilling and production operations, and has served as a technical and economic consultant to operators, service and supply companies, and governments worldwide. Bill holds a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen and is a Life Member of SPE. He is Chair of the SPE Energy Information Committee,Chair of the Centre for Marine CNG (a Canadian natural gas research center), and a member of the Editorial Board of Energy Politics.