UPCOMING CONFERENCES

8th Annual GAS SHALES SUMMIT

March 30-31, 2009
Marriott Quorum at Galleria
Dallas, TX

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This comprehensive and information intensive program will examine:

• Utilizing microseismic fracture mapping to evaluate shale completions
• Find structures and stress/strain regimes, plan field operations and maximize wellpad locations with remote sensing
• The Haynesville Shale – where we thinking its heading now
• Horizontal drilling in the Huron Shale and associated siltstones in the Appalachian Basin
• State of the energy capital markets
• The Future of fracing after Coastal Oil and Gas v. Garza

Peter Duncan
Founder and President
MicroSeismic, Inc.

• Exploration Geologists
• Pipeline and Midstream Companies
• Geo-Engineers
• Government and Regulatory Bodies
• Energy Marketing Companies
• Financial Investment Firms
• Energy Related Law Firms
• Energy Related Industry Associations
• Geologic Consultants
• Operations and Project Managers
• Reservoir Engineers
• Exploration and Production Managers
• Business Development Managers
• Industry and Energy Research Analysts
• Financial and Investment Advisors
• Geologists and Hydrologists
• Petroleum Geologists
• Regulatory and Community Affairs Professionals
• Gas Marketing Experts

As we close out 2008 and enter in to 2009 under a cloud of uncertainty, the ascendance of shales in the North American Gas production mix continues. With pricing challenges, the importance of the right technology being applied at the right times and in the right plays becomes even greater. Operators are shedding some assets in order to concentrate on others that they value more highly. Yet even in this environment of uncertainty, new plays are being tackled. It is in this context that we bring to you the 8th Annual Gas Shales summit. Building on last year’s successful program we will reprise some of the keynote presentations on the Marcellus, with a timely update on activity over the last year. Another interesting presentation will discuss some of the industry activities during the first year chasing the Haynesville. The program will be rounded out with updates on the latest drilling and completion technology developments.

This Insight conference once again offers an invaluable opportunity to share experiences in these unconventional plays with other operators. As in the past it will be attended by oil and gas company executives, project managers, senior exploration geoscientists, reservoir engineers, and technical professionals from the service industry, focused on the world of gas shale exploration and development.

Highlights of the program for the 8th Annual GAS SHALES SUMMIT:

• The Marcellus Shale – Are All Shales Equal?
• Cash is King – Challenges for 2009” Safeguarding Operations and Maintaining Profitability
• Extended Reach Drilling Applications in Shale Formations (ERD Designs and Practices to Improve Performance)
• Horizontal Drilling in the Huron Shale and associated Siltstones in the Appalachian Basin
• A New Look at Gas Shales – Why Do They Produce So Well?

Join us in Dallas this March and learn critical information on the US gas shale resource play. Insight’s Summit explores technical, financial, legal and regulatory issues of evaluation, production and completion.

We look forward to seeing you in Dallas on March 30-31, 2009

Peter Duncan
Founder and President
MicroSeismic, Inc.

9:00 | 9:05    
Welcoming Remarks from Insight

9:05 | 9:15   
Chair’s Opening Remarks

Peter Duncan
Founder and President
MicroSeismic, Inc.

9:15 | 10:00
The Marcellus: An Overview

Dr. Terry Engelder
Professor of Geoscience
Pennsylvania State University

• Estimates of the size of the resource
• Where industry is in developing the play
• Geological parameters that influence the value of the resource

10:00 | 10:15  
Networking Coffee Break

10:15 | 11:00
The Marcellus Shale – Are All Shales Equal?

Dr. Jack A. Ward
Executive Vice President – Exploration and Production
PetroEdge Resources

• Marcellus depositional framework
• Marcellus regional stratigraphy
• Lithologic (Petrographic) and time stratigraphic units
• Marcellus play types

11:00 | 11:45  
Cash is King – Challenges for 2009 Safeguarding Operations and Maintaining Profitability

Julie E. Lennon
Partner
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

• Operator suspense accounts:  use and abuse
• • purpose of suspense accounts
  • why suspend
  • legal duty to pay royalty owner their share of production
  • interest payments on suspended royalties
  • mineral proceeds as unclaimed property 
• Operator/non-operator expense issues
• • legal relationship
  • the AFE
  • standard of care
• Self dealing
• • cost allocation
• Operator’s lien for unpaid costs

11:45 | 1:00
Networking Luncheon

1:00 | 1:45  
Extended Reach Drilling Applications in Shale Formations (ERD Designs and Practices to Improve Performance)

Tony Krepp
Senior Vice President of Technical Services
K&M Technology Group

• Overcoming the complex challenges of drilling and completing shale horizontal wells  
• Applying Extended Reach (ER) well practices and design methods to shale horizontal wells
• ER can result in improved performance, significantly reduced stuck pipe & wellbore problems, and successful drilling & completion of very long lateral wells (to date up to 10,000’)
• Application in areas where operators are looking to use less surface locations (for either environmental or other reasons)
• Extended Reach mindset dramatically improves your possibilities

1:45 | 2:30          
Utilizing Microseismic Fracture Mapping to Evaluate Shale Completions

Mike Mayerhofer
Senior Staff Engineer
Pinnacle Technologies

• Microseismic fracture mapping results for shale reservoirs
• Application of mapping results to evaluate well completions and well placement strategies
• Horizontal well applications
• Concept of Stimulated Reservoir Volume (SRV)
• Increasing frac complexity and shale contact area
• Refracs in shale

2:30 | 2:45  
Networking Refreshment Break

2:45 | 3:30
Find Structures and Stress/Strain Regimes, Plan Field Operations and Maximize Wellpad Locations with Remote Sensing

David G. Koger
President
Koger Remote Sensing

• Map open fractures, “sweet spots,” and basement faults
• Predict stress regimes in the subsurface (design fracs, orient perforations)
• Plan seismic surveys with current, context-rich maps (locate surface water sources, find and build infrastructure); document environmental conditions
• Know slope severity; optimize well pad siting and access

3:30 | 4:30     
Evaluating Shale Gas Plays with Fluid Inclusions in the Lab and with Mass Spec Chemical Profiling at Wellsite

Dr. Don L. Hall
President
Fluid Inclusion Technologies, Inc.

David A. WavrekPh.D.
President
Petroleum Systems Analyst
Petroleum Systems International, Inc. (PSI) 

• Assessing maturity, gas source (migrated vs. locally generated), gas mixing, presence and abundance of potential problem gases (e.g. volatile sulfur species and CO2), BTU content, etc., with laboratory evaluation of fluid Inclusion gas chemistry (organic, inorganic and isotopic) in shales
• Integrating temperature information with conventional maturity parameters: Microthermometric study of individual fluid inclusions in fracture fill cements or matrix diagenetic phases
• Evaluating compartmentalization, gas chemistry, water saturation and fault/fracture distribution for analysis of shale gas via direct mass spectrometry at wellsite

4:30 | 5:15  
Critical Economic Considerations for your Shale Operations in a Changing Economy

Bill Marble
Vice President, Land & Engineering
Hallwood Petroleum, LLC

• Can we sustain an economic operation?
• Can we continue to expand an operation?
• Will services be available?
• • at what service cost?
  • at what gas price?

5:15

8:15 | 9:00
Continental Breakfast

9:00 | 9:15  
Opening Remarks from Conference Chair

Peter Duncan
Founder and President
MicroSeismic, Inc.

9:15| 9:55 
Technology and Prices

Rob Lindermanis
Managing Director
Petrobridge Investment Management

• Unconventional figures
• Unconventional plays
• Capitalizing an unconventional project
• The investment tools
• Information required
• The investment process
• Execution, Execution, Execution

9:55 | 10:10
Networking Coffee Break

10:10 | 10:50        
The Haynesville Shale:  A Look Back at the First Year

Richard K. Stoneburner
Executive Vice President-Chief Operating Officer
Petrohawk Energy Corporation

• How the “land grab” evolved, and where we think it is heading now
• How the geologic knowledge has evolved, or more accurately, not evolved very significantly
• How the drilling and completion learning curve has evolved and what appears to be the best approach to drill and complete Haynesville wells
• How the shortages in the service sector, specifically proppant, water, horsepower and other drilling and completion services, has effected the development of the play
• How the midstream sector and the limited takeaway capacity has been addressed, and what has been done to mitigate the problems

10:50 | 11:30        
Horizontal Drilling in the Huron Shale and associated Siltstones in the Appalachian Basin

Michael Canich
Vice President Geosciences
Equitable Production Corporation

• Technological learning curve
• Production history
• Future applications

11:30 | 12:10
Tractor and Mechanical Services for Gas Shales Applications

Gary Murrill
Sr. Account Manager
Welltec U.S.

• Wireline or coiled tubing deployed Tractor services in high angle and horizontal wells
• Deployment of evaluation services in gas shales such as micro-seismic, OH logging suites, bond logs and frac confirmation
• Conveyance of completions services such as setting plugs and perforating
• Milling, cleaning and mechanical manipulation of downhole completion hardware in both vertical and high angle wells
• Freepoint, backoff of stuck pipe and MWD recovery services in horizontal wells

12:10 | 1:10  
Networking Luncheon

1:10 | 1:50        
Microseismic Events, Fracture Network Models and Fracture Flow Properties for Reservoir Simulation

Dr Sherilyn Williams-Stroud
Microseismic Inc.

Microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracture stimulation treatments has done much to diminish the expectation of engineers and geoscientists that symmetrical bi-wing fractures extending away from the well bore from as a result of the treatment.  Mapping of microseismic event locations indicates that more often, zones of high complexity form which suggest multiple rock failure mechanisms could be in play during the stimulation treatment.  The complexity of the failure is further complicated, or perhaps explained, by the interaction of the perturbed stresses with existing fractures in the reservoir relative to the unperturbed stress state of the reservoir. Existing fracture planes favorably oriented for shear will fail at lower stresses than are required to create new fractures.  Geologic mapping and regional to local in-situ stress information will allow informed interpretation of the resulting microseismicity patterns as well as providing predictive capability for fracturing patterns of treatments in subsequent area wells and production planning. 

1:50 | 2:30     
The Future of Fracing After Coastal Oil and Gas v. Garza

Charles W. Sartain
Member
Looper, Reed & McGraw PC

• Fracing and the law of subsurface trespass
• Balancing of interests in trespass-by-frac cases
• Public policy and modern drilling practices

2:30 | 2:45  
Networking Refreshment Break

2:45 | 3:30   
A New Look at Gas Shales – Why Do They Produce So Well?

Dr. Fred Wang
Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology
University of Texas at Austin

• Controlling factors on shale gas production
• A new look at pore network
• Brittleness
• Screening criteria

3:30 | 4:15
State of the Energy Capital Markets

David Hayes
Principal
Natural Gas Partners 

• Sources of funding
• Impact of the credit crisis
• Impact of commodity prices
• M&A environment

4:15

The Marriott Quorum at Galleria is conveniently located at 14901 Dallas Parkway, TX 75254. A block of rooms will be held until February 28, 2009, at a special rate of $159.00 per night.  For reservations, please call (972) 661-2800 or by fax (972) 934-1731 and mention the 8th Annual Gas Shales Summit.

[   ] Early Bird Special
(Register and pay by January 9th, 2009)

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A refund (less an administration fee of $200.00) will be made if notice of cancellation is received in writing three weeks before the event. We regret that no refund will be given after this period. A substitute delegate is welcome at any time.

Accreditation will be applied for in those jurisdictions requested by registrants who have continuing education requirements. To request credit, please check the appropriate box on the Registration Form.

Insight is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This conference qualifies for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 12 hours.  Insight certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing Minimum Continuing Legal Education.

Insight is certified as an accredited provider from the Pennsylvania CLE Board. You will earn a maximum of 14.5 MCLE hours for attending this conference.