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Draft Agenda 2019
Key: What will be covered?
Economic Landscape & Market Review
Cost Reduction and Operational Efficiency
Recycling and Reuse
Research and Innovation
Technical Know-How
Regulatory and Standards
DAY 1: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019
0830 - 0930 REGISTRATION AND MORNING REFRESHMENTS
0930 - 0935 OPENING ADDRESS
SESSION 01 MAKING AN ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT FOR SHALE WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
- Understanding the economic fundamentals and making the business case for shale water management strategies
- Developing shale water management programs and evaluating the options while keeping OPEX down to a minimum
- Keeping in mind industry standards and regulatory considerations when developing water management programs
Chaired by Sean Collins
0935 - 1005 FRACTURING WATER MARKET REPORT
- Water is great business to be in!
- Examine the historical market comparing the water usage to the number of fracs being done year over year
- Demand for frac water in 2019. How high will demand rise?
- Challenges with frac water and looking at solutions
Tim Leshchyshyn
FracKnowledge
FracKnowledge
1005 - 1035 FRAC CHEMISTRY, ASSOCIATED PROPPANT TYPES, AND PRODUCED WATER DATA BY WELL
- Water handling costs and produced water data by chemistry type and play and aggregate cost numbers
- Providing estimates of produced water by play, which re-iterates the need to recycle water in the Permian
Samir Nangia
IHS Markit
IHS Markit
1035 - 1100 MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT AREA
1100 - 1130 OVERALL WATER MANAGEMENT STARTEGY
- The importance of water security - access to reliable fresh/make-up water as well as reliable, large-scale storage
- Water sources and performance standards - Understanding the limitations and different management strategies
- Economics of Large-Scale Fresh Water Storage - Importance of site scouting and selection based on different criteria
Wesley Ferris
Higher Ground Consulting
Higher Ground Consulting
SESSION 02 PRODUCED WATER RECYCLING AND TREATMENT-FOR-REUSE
- Looking at new low-cost and low-risk solutions for shale producers in water treatment, recycling and reuse
- Addressing the challenges of reusing produced water in terms of logistics, water quality and fluid compatibility
- Evaluating the options and making choices for produced water treatment in line with industry standards
Chaired By John Marcus
1130 - 1200 COST EFFECTIVE, NON-CHEMICAL, COMPLETE PRODUCED WATER TREATMENT
- What does the industry need? Recycled water that performs in a frac like fresh water!
- Consistent recycled water is needed for reuse to lower the production risks
- What are the goals of water recycling? Consistent recycled water regardless of the influent water variation
- New technology is able to deliver cost effective water treatment after years of R&D have provided the solution
Mark Story
Reclaim Water Services
Reclaim Water Services
1200 - 1230 WATER REUSE AND RECYCLING IN A TECHNICALLY-CHALLENGING, WATER RESOURCE-RICH SHALE PLAY
- Overview of the nature and current status of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale play
- Discussing financial realities and risk management requirements needed to counter the complexities
- Justifying the need for a comprehensive water management program
John Ryan
Allen Engineering and Science
Allen Engineering and Science
1230 - 1400 NETWORKING LUNCH & VISIT SHALE WATER MANAGEMENT EXHIBITION
1400 - 1430 CONSIDERATIONS FOR PRODUCED WATER RECYCLING & DISPOSAL - AN OPERATORS PERSPECTIVE
- The current recycling practices - trucking vs water pipelines
- Filtration, treatment and the lessons learnt
- Future considerations for recycling vs disposal - water sharing and long term storage
Judson Shreves
Gulf Port Energy
Gulf Port Energy
1430 - 1500 EVALUATING THE OPTIONS AND MAKING CHOICES IN TREATMENT-FOR-REUSE AND WATER-DISPOSAL
- Establishing term and scope of design for effective reuse of flow back and produced water and potential disposal
- Evaluating options to handle the key removal targets on 100% reuse and disposal volumes
- Understanding full life cycle economics of treatment cost and byproduct handling costs
Chad Randal
Amperage Energy Inc.
Amperage Energy Inc.
1500 - 1530 AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT AREA
1530 - 1600 DISPOSAL WELL RISK MANAGEMENT FOR THE 21st CENTURY
- Addressing current challenges, complexities and cost management related to produced water management
- Highlighting findings from multi-faceted 2018 risk analysis of disposal well capacity trends, formation health, pressure and volume management
- Regional seismicity impacts and regulatory drivers, with emphasis on Texas producing basin benchmarks
Laura Capper
EnergyMakers Advisory Group
EnergyMakers Advisory Group
1600 - 1630 TREATMENT OF PRODUCED WATER BRINES TO DISTILLED WATER QUALITY AND RECOVERY OF LITHIUM
- Overcoming technology challenges through the application of Membrane Distillation technology
- Analysis of the Membrane Distillation technology together with Capital Cost and Operational Cost analysis
Martin Hauschild
KmX Membrane Technologies Corp
KmX Membrane Technologies Corp
SESSION 03 REGULATORY AND INDUSTRY STANDARDS FOR PRODUCED WATER
- Upcoming regulations and industry standards for produced water management
- The implications for effective shale water management options for reuse and disposal
- Hearing from key regulators and environmental bodies to ensure your program meets with standards
Chaired By John Marcus
1630 - 1700 SOCIAL LICENCE TO OPERATE: PRODUCED WATER REUSE AND CHALLENGES IN ARGENTINA
- Acceptability of operations, or Social License to Operate - Overcoming the challenges of this in order to be responsible operators
- Overcoming challenges: cost, logistics, efficiency and infrastructure capacity, in order to reuse produced water during hydraulic fracturing operations
- Covering the motivation and challenges we faced and still need to overcome for this operation
Sandra Flanagan
Total S.A.
Total S.A.
1700 - 1800 NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY 2: FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2019
0830 - 0930 MORNING REFRESHMENTS
0930 - 0940 OPENING ADDRESS
SESSION 04 TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW AND STRATEGIES FOR WATER MANAGEMENT
- New technological advancements and chemical strategies to remove H2S and enable reuse of produced water
- Exploring the latest advances in water treatment and the tools available to improve efficiencies and shale operations
- Ensuring a low-cost project is maintained throughout the water management process in light of current oil prices
Chaired by Sean Collins
0940 - 1010 REDUCING CHEMICAL DEMAND USING ADVANCED AERATION IN PERMIAN BASIN
- Applying innovative water treatment technologies to the oil & gas and industrial sectors
- What is Aeromax? A ventri-style aeration system and it's performance benefits
- Produced water treatment - understanding submersible pump configuration
Samuel Oliver
Blackbuck Resources
Blackbuck Resources
1010 - 1040 THE CHALLENGES AND IMPORTANCE OF MONITORING FOR MIC INCLUDING SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA
- Understanding Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) - where can microbes cause problems?
- Effective risk management comprises a multitude of approaches but starts with effective monitoring
- How do you monitor for MIC causing corrosion?
Natalia Rodriguez
Modern Water
Modern Water
1040 - 1100 MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT AREA
1100 - 1130 TECHNOLOGIES FOR BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF PRODUCED WATER FOR ON-SITE REUSE IN HYDROFRACTURING
- A review of the traditional, versus new and upcoming wastewater treatment technologies
- Produced water key constituents and their effects on wastewater microbiology
- Prior planning to determine if produced water are amenable to biological treatment
- Modular biological treatment packages that can be moved from location to location
Somnath Basu
Headworks International
Headworks International
1130 - 1200 ALTERNATIVES TO DEEP WELL INJECTION - ECOVAP TOWER EVAPORATION
- Review drivers to produced water volume
- Illustrate potential temporal and spatial variability to produced water brine chemistry
- Compare ECOVAP tower evaporation technology-service suite to current industry
- Contrast sustainability of reliance on injection to ECOVAP cost-benefits
Joel Schneyer
Capstone Headwaters
Capstone Headwaters
1200 - 1330 NETWORKING LUNCH & VISIT SHALE WATER MANAGEMENT EXHIBITION
1330 - 1400 POLYMERS - SYNTHETIC ORGANICS USED IN WATER TREATMENT
- Discussion of synthetic polymer attributes and how each relates to polymer function
- Product physical forms - solution, emulsion, dry, brine, gel with advantages and disadvantages
- Viscosity build, liquid/liquid & liquid/solids separation and how the polymers work in these functions
Dan Shannon
Cameron Schlumberger
Cameron Schlumberger
1400 - 1430 A CRITICAL LOOK AT CUSTOM vs. OFF-THE -SHELF TREATMENT SOLUTIONS
- Highlighting scenarios where off the shelf doesn't work and identifying different technologies that work for various applications
- Discuss scenarios where there are limitations for the off the shelf treatment products
- Technologies ALSYS can offer (packaging, membranes etc.) and Technical Case Studies
James Blackburn
ClearBakk Water Solutions
ClearBakk Water Solutions
1430 - 1500 MEMBRANE DISTILLATION - DISCUSSING COMBINE MEMBRANES AND THERMAL DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES
- High salinity water treatment using membrane distillation up to TDS 250.000 mg/ltr
- Novel technology combining membranes and thermal desalination
- Understanding technology using validated mathematical modelling
Bart Nelemans
Aqua|still b.v.
Aqua|still b.v.
1500 - 1530 AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT AREA
1530 - 1600 THE CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING LEAK DETECTION ON PRODUCED WATER GATHERING SYSTEMS
- Leaks on produced water pipelines can be considered more detrimental to the environment than other product pipeline leaks
- There are a different set of challenges on implementing leak detection on gathering systems compared to typical transmission pipelines
- Software and hardware solutions are available to easily implement leak detection on complex gathering systems
Peter Han
Atmos International
Atmos International
1600 - 1630 WATER SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION: UTILIZING MATHEMATICAL MODELS TO CUT COSTS
- A mathematical optimization model that schedules hauling and pipeline water movements while rigorously minimizing water management costs
- The development and implementation of this scheduling model presented many challenges such as data gathering and change management
- Implementation of this scheduling model has already demonstrated significant cost savings as well as other intangible benefits
Nate Blandino
EQT Production Company
EQT Production Company
1630 - 1700 INNOVATIVE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING APPROACH TO MITIGATE FLOW BACK WATER VOLUMES
- Use of flow back water in stimulation treatments
- Insitu mechanics that dissipate pressure gradients & injected water, resulting in lower flow back volumes being generated.
- Showcasing this innovative stimulation technique and its impact on optimizing water management during shale resource development
Susanne Adamson
Terralog Technologies Inc.
Terralog Technologies Inc.
1700 - 1730 CLOSING REMARKS
Key topics for 2019:
- Making an economic assessment for shale water management strategies
Understand the economic fundamentals and make the business case for shale water management strategies. - Looking for low-cost and low-risk solutions in water treatment, recycling and reuse
Ensure a low-cost project is maintained throughout the water management process in light of the current oil price market. - Evaluating the options and making choices in treatment for reuse and water disposal
Avoid the pitfalls and learn from recent results from shale water management experts to build the right water management plan. - New technologies and technical know-how in shale water management operations
Explore the latest advances in water treatment, recycling and reuse and the tools available to improve on efficiencies and shale operations. - Upcoming regulations and industry standards for produced water management
Hear from key regulators and environmental bodies to ensure your water management program meets with new regulations and industry standards. - Operational case studies and developing a successful water management program
Gain insight from shale plays across North America and implement strategies that others in the industry are using to ensure successful operation.