2014 Williston Basin Petroleum Conference May 20 - May 22 • Bismarck, ND Conference Schedule Wednesday, May 21 Conference Expo Hours Introductions – Joel 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Heitkamp, News and Views with Joel Heitkamp 7:00 a.m. – KFGO Radio Conference Registration Opens – Upper Level 11:00 a.m. Energy corridors Lobby Market Opportunities for NGLs – Don Bari, IHS 7:00-8:30 a.m. Chemical Hot Breakfast Buffet – Arena and Exhibit Hall 11:20 a.m. giving western North The Future of Crude by 8:00 a.m. Rail – Matt Rose, BNSF Expo Opens – Exhibit Hall Keynote Luncheon Speaker – Arena Morning Session – Arena Dakota a new look Introductions – Brian 11:45 a.m.-1:20 p.m. Kroshus, Bismarck Lunch is available in Tribune both the Arena and the By Dan Sharp for the Tribune Exhibit Hall 8:00 a.m. Welcome – Ron Ness, 12:20 p.m. North Dakota Petroleum Introduction – Wayne The success of must be accomplished Historically, only about operator’s planning. Council Stenehjem, ND Attorney horizontal drilling and with mechanical 1-3 of every 10 “Having gathering John Warford, Mayor of General Bismarck (invited) The Bakken: Creating a hydraulic fracturing in pumps. With vertical exploratory vertical facilities, storage units, Central Dakota Children’s New Reality for America’s the Bakken play has well drilling, typical wells produced processing plants, Choir Energy Future – Lee come to bear on not North Dakota well commercial quantities pipelines and rail Tillman, Marathon Oil only how an oil-bearing spacing was one well of oil and/or natural shipment capacity in 8:25 a.m. Corporation unit is exploited but per 40-80 acres, in gas. By contrast, well place has to be Kevin Cramer, U.S. Congressman (Video) Bakken Optimization – also how oil and gas some areas one well over 95 percent of planned well ahead of Arena wells are spaced. per 160-320 acres. The Bakken horizontal wells drilling,” he says. 8:30 a.m. Session Chairs – John During recent years, the spacing depended on drilled become “Otherwise, North Dakota Governor Harju, Energy & landscape in North the expected drainage producers. infrastructure can be Jack Dalrymple Environmental Research Dakota’s oil patch is of the producing zones. overwhelmed and Center & Brent Miller, 8:55 a.m. Whiting Petroleum taking on a much “Because horizontal result in serious delays Jamshed Merchant, Corporation different look from the In order to space wells drilling exposes a much and bottlenecks.” Canada’s Consul General one that started in the for maximum longer portion of the 1:30 p.m. spring of 1951 when production and the well bore, it has the Energy corridors, 9:00 a.m. Maximizing Recovery Amerada Hess struck most efficient use of potential for much multi-well pads, and Williston Basin Roundup Through Increased Moderator: Drew Wrigley Density Design – Gerbert oil on Clarence resources, operators greater — and much multiple layer drilling Melinda Yurkowski, Schoonman, Hess Iverson’s farm just and regulators normally faster — production North Dakota’s daily oil Saskatchewan Ministry of south of Tioga. employ accepted from a single well,” says production now tops the Economy 1:55 p.m. formulas that take into Bruce Hicks, assistant 900,000 barrels and is Keith Lowdon, Manitoba Continental’s Multiple Matching drilling to consideration a director of the North forecast to continue to Innovation, Energy & Bench Development – Mines John Harju, EERC infrastructure reservoir’s Dakota Oil and Gas increase to more than 1 Dustin de Yong, Montana Prior to 1987, all wells permeability, depth, Division. “So, operators million barrels per day Department of 2:20 p.m. drilled in the Williston number of pay zones must focus more in the coming months. Commerce Multi-well Pad Drilling – Basin were vertical with and other data. The intensively on their Some forecasters Michael Lees, South Alan McNally, Continental the well bore calculation methods long-term production believe production Dakota Dept. of Mineral Resources Resources penetrating one or have improved over goals — everything could reach 1.5 to 2 Lynn Helms, North 2:45 p.m more producing zones. time with technological must be taken into million bopd by 2025. Dakota Dept. of Mineral Frac Operations: Review Resources of Offset Producing Well Protection – Ben Ackley, 10:00-11:00 a.m. Marathon Oil Company Break – Visit the Expo & “Because horizontal drilling exposes a much longer portion Outdoor Exhibits Continued on page 2 of the well bore, it has the potential for much greater — and much faster — production from a single well.” TABLE OF CONTENTS With those conventional improvements and as consideration in order Current changes in well Thursday Conference Schedule..........2 wells, a producing petroleum engineers to get oil to market.” spacing could make Letters of Welcome..............................4 unit’s pressure forces gained a better those forecasts Bakken Stockwatch ...........................22 oil and gas to the well understanding of Hicks says being able achievable. Nation & World ..................................25 bore. Eventually, individual reservoir to connect to existing Drilling Permits..................................34 however, the flow of oil characteristics. infrastructure is “During the past few Well Completions...............................43 and gas declines and especially critical in an years, the Oil and Gas Our Housing Solutions Will Meet Your Needs Visit us at Booth 811 at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference to learn more! www.dakotalandlodging.com 866.275.8142 Page 2 MAY 2014 • Williston Basin Petroleum Conference Williston Basin Geology Bakken Reservoir Rock – Meeting Rooms 103, and Shales – Steven 104 & 105 Hawthorne, EERC Session Chairs – Ed Murphy, ND Geological Williston Basin Geology Survey and Melinda – Meeting Rooms 103, Yurkowski, 104 & 105 Saskatchewan Ministry Session Chairs – Ed of the Economy Murphy, ND Geological Survey and Melinda 1:30 p.m. Yurkowski, Continued Geological Saskatchewan Ministry and Geochemical of the Economy Evaluation of the Tyler Formation: a Dual 3:30 p.m. Petroleum System – Tim Province Wide Nesheim, ND DMR Hydrogeological Geological Survey Characterization Mapping of 2:00 p.m. Saskatchewan – Gavin Determining Three Jensen, Saskatchewan Forks Oil Prospectivity Ministry of the Economy with Core and Fluorescence – John 4:00 p.m. Hohman, Hess The Evolution of the Corporation Spearfish in the North- central Portion of the 2:30 p.m. Williston Basin – Mark The Relevance of Core Birchard, Corinthian and Lab Work in Exploration Whiting’s Pronghorn Project Area, Stark 4:30 p.m. County, ND – Mark Activation Energies and Sonnenfeld, Whiting Oil RockEval Analyses of Image courtesy of the North Dakota Oil and Gas Division and Gas Corp. Keragonites in the Red Energy corridors allow drillers to exploit multiple producing zones of the Bakken and Three Forks. Using this strategy, drillers might access River Formation in as many as 15-20 wells from a single pad allowing a spacing unit to be drained of oil and gas as efficiently as possible. Regulatory & North Dakota – Steve Environment – Meeting Nordeng, ND Geological Rooms 101 & 102 Survey Session Chairs – Dave Searle, Marathon Oil Workforce Safety – and Zac Weis, WPX Meeting Rooms 101 & Division has worked extend in a parallel Energy corridors also tanks and changing Energy 102 with operators to direction to the foot of allow drillers to exploit and cleaning drilling Session Chairs – Kari position and space the spacing unit.” multiple producing equipment from one 1:30 p.m. Cutting, North Dakota drilling sites along zones of the Bakken operation to another. Exploring Technologies Petroleum Council & ‘energy corridors,’ While the use of energy and Three Forks (see in Managing Solid Waste Dave Galt, Montana Streams – Jeff Kummer, Petroleum Association especially in the corridors is having a diagram). Using this More wells drilled MBI Energy Services mature Bakken play, marked landscape strategy, drillers might per rig 3:45 p.m. which underlies parts impact, subsurface access as many as 15- Hicks underscores the 1:50 p.m. Dangerous Work of nine western North changes are occurring 20 wells from a single benefits of energy Federal Permitting – Doesn’t Have to be Dakota counties — as well. Operators are pad allowing a spacing corridors, multi-pad Jamie Connell, Bureau Unsafe: Workplace of Land Management Fatalities and Injuries in primarily Williams, now tapping multiple unit to be drained of oil drilling, and multi-zone the Bakken – Bryan Mountrail, Dunn and layers in the Bakken and gas as efficiently as drilling. “Drilling four 2:10 p.m. Klipfel, ND Workforce McKenzie,” Hicks and underlying Three possible. Many wells from a single pad Permitting Waste Safety Insurance continues. “The Forks formations from operators are also saves eight acres of Facilities – Dave Glatt, corridors provide single well pads. “Some employing a technique surface area over single ND Dept. of Health 4:05 p.m. The Importance of orderly development operators are even called “batch drilling,” well spacing,” he says. 2:30 p.m. Partnerships Between on 1,280-acre (one using a single well bore where several adjacent “In addition, it reduces The Power of Integrated Law Enforcement and mile by two mile) to drill two laterals, wells are drilled in truck traffic, allows for Logistics – Mark Industry in Combatting spacing units. Using which makes more alternating segments. the common use of Johnsrud, Nuverra Crime – John A. Dalziel, this configuration, well efficient use of drilling First the well bores are tanks and other on-site Environmental FBI Solutions pads are positioned in- rigs,” Hicks says. Nearly started, then the facilities, and improves 4:20 p.m. line parallel to east- three-fourths of all vertical bores drilled, the planning and timing 3:00-3:45 p.m. A Primer on FR Clothing west access roads Bakken wells are now and finally the laterals of pipeline Break – Visit the Expo – Brad Eaton, DuPont (corridors). Horizontal drilled from pads.