Wednesday 2nd April 2014 08:30 Registration and coffee 08:55 Welcome and Introduction to “Securing the Future - Best Practice in Unconventional Reservoir Characterisation” 09:00 Keynote address - TBC 09:30 Dinantian to Early Namurian controls on shale deposition & character in the Craven Basin, NW England Nick Riley (Carboniferous Ltd) 10:00 Controls on natural fracture development in a gently subsiding UK shale basin: Lower Jurassic, Cleveland Basin, NE England Jonathan Imber et al. (Durham University) 10:30 Break 11:00 Making 3D seismic relevant to unconventional play value creation Walt Ritchie (Geokinetics IRG) 11:30 Use of wide-azimuth, multi-component and time lapse seismic data to characterize unconventional reservoirs Colin Sayers (Schlumberger) 12:00 Reservoir Model Building using Advanced Seismic Processing Results and the Integration of Borehole Seismic Data Simon Emsley (ION) 12:30 Lunch Session 1 Chair Jim Henderson Session 2 Chair Phil Mollicone 14:00 Focussed Formation Evaluation Programmes are Key to Understanding Shale Resource Plays Matthew Wright and Andrew Foulds (Igas) 14:30 Providing a framework for UK Onshore unconventional E&P with rock properties and petrophysical analysis Christine Butler et al. (CGG) 15:00 Best practices for predicting unconventional reservoir quality Cristian Malaver et al. (IKON) 15:30 Break 16:00 Pre-drill assessment of shale gas plays using basin models- improved prediction of gas content and saturation Mark Osborne, Tony Barwise (BP) 16:30 Evaluation of recoverable shale resources based on a petroleum system modeling approach Ian Bryant (Schlumberger) 17:00 Integration of surface seismic, microseismic and rock properties to high grade and increase profitability of a shale play Adrian Smith et al.(CGG) 17:45 Evening Reception The aim of this seminar is to cover technical and operational best practice in the geological, geophysical, petrophysical and geomechanical aspects of characterising unconventional reservoirs. Geophysics Conference Securing the Future- Best Practice in Unconventional Reservoir Characterisation One Great George Street, London 2-3 April 2014 Registration is now open www.pesgb.org.uk Thursday 3rd April 2014 Session 3 Chair Jason Sutton 09:00 Exploring Shales: well data impact and derisking workflow – the Polish example Alda Muttoni (ENI) 09:30 Characterization of the Vast Marcellus Shale Play using P and S-wave Recorded Data Tony Rebec (Geokinetics) 10:00 Assessment of Marcellus prospectivity in S.W. Pennsylvania, USA, using core, log, seismic, microseismic, fracture and production data Gareth Taylor et al. (Rock Solid Images) 10:30 Break 11:00 Geomechanical characterisation of the fracture permeability of a unconventional shale reservoir: an Australian Proterozoic case study Scott Mildren et al. (IKON) 11:30 Unconventional gas evaluation process: from anisotropic geomechanical characterization to completion design Vincenzo De Gennaro (Schlumberger) 12:00 Optimising Hydraulic Fracture And Drilling Location Selection for Unconventional Gas Development Through A Discrete Fracture Network Approach Cottrell (Golder Associates) 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Modeling of brittle zones in unconventional reservoirs Fred Jenson and Reza Saberi (Jason) 14:30 Modelling and inverting fracture orientation and fracture density from surface seismic data Phil Wild (Phil Wild) 15:00 Seismic Hazard Associated with Fracking Operations? The Bowland Shale Case Study Robert Vörös (Q-con GmbH) 15:30 Break 16:00 DFN and reservoir model for coal bed methane Sonwa et al (Golder Associates) 16:30 The Waloon coal seam gas play, Surat Basin, Queensland Australia Stephen King (BG) 17:00 Seminar recap - Discussion - Concluding Remarks - Stephen Pickering and panel guests Session 4 Chris Walker ‘To promote for the public benefit, education in the scientific and technical aspects of petroleum exploration’