Non-Conventional Gas & Oil Training Course
Course Highlights and Agenda
Over the intensive two days this course:
- Addresses the key knowledge required to understand the non-conventional sector
- Provides a balanced mix of relevant commercial and technical information
- Explores international opportunities to expand non-conventional gas and oil exploitation
- Considers recent transactions surrounding non-conventional resources
- Reviews environmental and community issues confronting the available technologies
- Highlights strategic and geopolitical implications of non-conventional resources
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Agenda
Day 1 Focus on Shale Gas
Description of Non-Conventional Gas and Oil Resources and their Market Impacts
- What are non-conventional gas and oil resources?
- Distinguishing shale gas; tight gas, coal bed methane; hydrates
- Where are these non-conventional resources found on a commercial scale?
- Resource quantities and resource plays
- Unconventional supply implications for conventional gas sources
The Shale Gas Revolution in North America
- The Barnett Shale: where it all started
- The major shale gas basins of North America and their development
- Opportunities and challenges of the Marcellus Shale
- Constrained by natural gas prices and midstream infrastructure
- Costs, cash flows and the value of natural gas liquids
- Attention turns to the liquid rich shales
- Merger and acquisition activity
Technologies that have Unlocked Non-Conventional Gas Resources
- Multi-lateral and well pad drilling
- Multi-stage fracture stimulation
- Fracture stimulation fluids
- Micro-seismic techniques
- Using mineralogy, organic content and thermal maturity to pinpoint targets
- Geochemistry and carbon isotope signatures of productive gas shales
Shale Gas Opportunities Emerging Around the World
- Europe – wide interest: early drilling in Poland and Germany
- Asia – India, China and Indonesia projects are progressing
- Australia: projects span the continent
- Africa: focus is in North and South
- South America: Argentina and Colombia spearheading industry attention
- Merger and acquisition activity in the international shale gas sector
Day 2 Focus on Oil, Coal Bed Methane & Environmental Issues
Tar Sands, Bitumen and Ultra-Heavy Oil
- Global distribution of tar sands and heavy oils
- Development activities in Canada and Venezuela
- Tar sand mining and bitumen upgrading technologies
- Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD)
- Environmental impacts and sustainability: atmospheric, land and water issues
- Emissions issues and carbon capture initiatives
Oil Shales
- Evolution of the oil shale industry
- Distribution of oil shale resources
- Bakken Shale revolution of North Dakota (USA)
- Environmental impacts and cost constraints
- Potential for underground recovery technologies
Coal Bed Methane (CBM)
- Evolution of the coal bed methane industry
- Distribution of global coal resources
- Coal bed methane production technologies
- Coal seam methane to liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Queensland Australia
- Environmental, surface, groundwater and waste issues
- Community issues and impacts of increasedregulation on costs
- Disclosure requirements for hydraulic fracture stimulation fluids
Strategic and Geopolitical Impacts of Exploiting Non-Conventional Resources
- Impacts on North America’s natural gas supply
- Conversion of LNG import facilities to a bidirectional capability
- Europe security of gas supply: shale gas and future gas imports and prices
- Non-conventional gas to liquid and coal to liquids possibilities
- Strategic significance of gas hydrate resources and their future exploitation
- Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for non-conventionals
What You Will Learn
This course considers the potential for non-conventional resources to be exploited around the World in the current decade, on a continent by continent basis, in the wake of game-changing technology developments. It addresses the political dimension of their impact on future global gas and oil supply. Enthusiasm for non-conventional gas and oil resources are also fuelling substantial merger and acquisition activity around the World. Significant recent transactions are evaluated during the course.
