Agenda

Conference Day One: Thursday 25th June 2009

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Registration & morning coffee

9:00 Welcome & opening remarks from the chair

9:10 Prospects for Unconventional Gas in Western Australia
Bill Tinapple, Executive Director Petroleum and Environment Division, Department of Mines and Petroleum

9:50 CASE STUDY: Warro Project the tight gas era arrives
Stephen Keenihan, Managing Director, Latent Petroleum

10:30 Morning tea break

11:00 An Overview of Tight Gas Developments a Commercial Perspective

• Commercial success factors of tight gas in the US
• Do the gas markets of Australia support the development of tight gas?
• What are the above ground challenges?

Richard Quin, Senior Analyst, Australasia Upstream Research, Wood MacKenzie

11:40 Unconventional Gas Outlook: Resources, Economics, and Technologies

12:20 Lunch

1:30 Optimization Techniques for Tight Gas Hydraulic Fracturing: A presentation on the use of Multilayer Fracturing Techniques, Microseismic Monitoring and Production Surveillance to Optimize Hydraulic Fracturing programs and resulting gas production in Tight Gas Reservoirs.

• Candidate Recognition: what makes a good hydraulic fracturing candidate
• Hydraulic Fracture Design: how to size a treatment and select the right fluid and proppant
• Stimulation Evaluation: how to measure the effectiveness of the treatment through different monitoring techniques
• Production Optimisation: how to optimise treatment design on future wells to increase production and decrease cost per unit

Craig Vandenborn, Domain Champion Stimulation and Production for Australasia, Schlumberger

2:10 CASE STUDY: Historical Overview of 50 Years of Tight Gas Development in the Rocky Mountain Basins, USA.
A brief summary of the areas to be covered is as follows:

• Greater Green River Basin
• Piceance Basin
• Unita Basin
• Wind River Basin
• Lessons Learned
• Expectations for Future Development

David Guise, Managing Director Consulting & Energy, RPS Australia\SE Asia

2:50 Afternoon Tea

3:20 Panel Discussion
Tight Gas: Viable; Feasible; Practical;

Craig Vandenborn, Schlumberger
David Guise, RPS Australia\SE Asia
Rob Annells, Lakes Oil

4:00 Advancing a Tight Gas Project in WA Regulatory Burdens
Focus on the core approvals and consents required in relation to affected land-users such as:

• native title and cultural heritage issues in particular negotiating with native title claimants to obtain the grant of permits
• private landholder issues in particular, negotiating with private landholders to obtain the necessary consents to commence operations on areas of freehold land
• negotiating access agreements with geothermal and mining tenement holders
• Review of the report by the Commonwealth Productivity Commission into the regulation of upstream petroleum sector due to be published in April 2009 Will any of the recommendations made in the report provide any ease for tight gas operators from the regulatory burdens faced?

Claire Boyd, Partner & Christine Lovitt, Consultant, Blakiston & Crabb

4:40 Close of day one

Conference Day Two: Friday 26th June 2009

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Morning coffee

9:00 Opening remarks from the chair

9:10 Operational Case Study: Wombat Tight Gas Field

• The lonely journey of tight gas development in Australia
• Tight gas is more about engineering and return on investment than geology
• Australia versus USA
• The way ahead

Rob Annells, Executive Chairman, Lakes Oil

9:50 INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: The Effectiveness of Seismic Fracture Data Techniques in Tight Reservoirs Examples from WCSB

• Unconventional gas resources, including tight sands and carbonates, coalbed methane, and gas shales, constitute some of the largest components of remaining natural gas resources in North America
• Knowledge about the occurrence of natural fractures can help delineate permeability fairways (sweet spots) for optimum placement of the wells
• In the last decade, different seismic techniques were developed to identify enhanced fractured zones in tight reservoirs
• Recently, we reprocessed 3D seismic data sets which were acquired for conventional Lower Cretaceous fluvial reservoirs and Paleozoic carbonate plays to test some of the available fracture detection techniques applicable for tight reservoirs
• This paper will summarise the results of these analyses and how they correlate with subsequent drilling information

Christian Abaco, Geophysicist, Canadian Foothills Division, EnCana Corporation, Calgary

10:30 Morning tea break

11:00 Central Petroleum Limited Large Scale Tight Gas Opportunities:

• Frontier Basin Context the tyranny of distance
• CBM and UCG in the Permian Pedirka Basin
• Horn Valley Siltstone in the Amadeus Basin
• Major Joint Venture Partners
• Value adding for gas prior to export
• Infrastructure to monetise gas

John Heugh, Managing Director, Central Petroleum Limited

11:40 Systematically Understanding Tight Gas Reservoirs in the Context of the Earths Active Stress Field

• Can we predict the role natural fractures will have on production?
• How will stimulation and natural fractures interact?
• Can we predict how the reservoir will evolve with production-induced changes in pressures/stresses?

David Castillo, Director, Asia Pacific, GeoMechanics International

12:20 Lunch

1:30 Technologies to Optimise Tight Gas Field Development

2:10 Case Study: Tight Gas Reservoirs: Key Research Needs with a Focus on Stimulation
Outline of the key scientific issues that constrain the gas production from tight reservoirs;
What has been done and how to move forward on these issues.
Joint presentation: Dr Jian Guo Wang, Research Assistant Professor & Professor Jishan Liu, School of Oil and Gas Engineering, The University of Western Australia

2:50 Closing remarks end of conference