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2016

February
10-12
NAPE Summit
Exhibitor - Booth #2421
Drop by for a demo of the Well Completions & Frac Database, Catalyst application, Discovery Digest, Digest Spark or Technical Studies Library. Looking for Canadian opportunities? Find out how Canadian Discovery's Strategic Services can help you.
Date: February 10-12, 2016
Time: 10:00am - 7:00pm
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Venue: George R. Brown Convention Center
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2015

October
29
Scoping Opportunities Just Got Easier!
CATALYST Launch Party
Canadian Discovery invites you and your colleagues to celebrate our new application for evaluation resource plays. CATALYST replaces EDGE software and brings in a new era of data discovery.
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015
Time: 2:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Canadian Discovery Theatre
Address: Suite 200, 706 - 7 Avenue SW
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October
20
Unconventional Resources Conference
Show Exhibitor – Booth #300.
The growth in supply from today’s unconventional formations has deemed the necessity of constant and frequent technological breakthroughs which evidently can make the production of these unconventionals commercially viable. The SPE/CSUR Unconventional Resources Conference is one of the most dedicated events to this topic. It offers E&P professionals an arena to discuss and showcase the latest technologies, best practices, challenges and suggested solutions for discovering, developing, and producing unconventional resources in North America.
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Canadian Uncoventionals – The Low(er) Hanging Fruit Kaush Rakhit
This presentation is a geoscientific and well completions overview of recent activity, results and trends in Western Canada. Resource plays are ranked using several production metrics, and six of the most active plays are discussed, including the Spirit River, Montney and Viking.
Unconventional Resources Conference
Presenter(s): Kaush Rakhit
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015
Time: 8:30am - 9:30am
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October
1
Lunch & Learn - Well Completions & Frac Database
Find out how to use the largest publicly available, digital completions dataset in the world!
This session will teach you how to optimize completions programs, benchmark competitor performance and more. We'll introduce new data fields and provide best practices, with analysts on hand to provide a 1-on-1 walkthrough. Be sure to stick around for a sneak peek into CATALYST, our newest data application.
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2015
Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Canadian Discovery Theatre
Address: Suite 200, 706 - 7 Avenue SW
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August
13
Reading Between the Lines II: A NEBC Shale Gas Quanititative Interpretation Case Study Incorporating Multi-component Data
See what earned Laurie Weston-Bellman and her co-authors a Best Presentation Award out of 300+ talks at GeoConvention 2015!
This talk illustrates the successful integration of converted-wave shear (PS) seismic data into a QI workflow to improve the prediction of facies and geomechanical properties of a shale reservoir interval. The results of this expanded workflow will be compared to those achieved using the P-wave component only, with additional insight provided by a 3D VSP.
Presenter(s): Laurie Weston Bellman
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2015
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Canadian Discovery Theatre
Address: Suite 200, 706 - 7 Avenue SW
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July
20-22
Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC)
Show Exhibitor – Booth #835
Come by our booth to get product demos and talk to our experts about what they're working on. Canadian Discovery is giving three presentations at this conference.
Date: July 20-22, 2015
Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States
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A Regional Review of Geomechanical Drilling Experience and Problems in the Duvernay Formation in Alberta Mehrdad Soltanzadeh
This paper summarizes the results of a comprehensive regional review of drilling experience for 43 Duvernay wells. In this review, the details of drilling experience for these wells were documented using a graphical approach that captures important information on the details of drilling incidents including depths and dates, along with information on mud weights and well trajectory.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Mehrdad Soltanzadeh, Amy Fox, Sarah Hawkes, David Hume
Date: Monday, July 20, 2015
Time: 10:50am - 11:10am
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Optimizing Completions Within The Montney Resource Play Mike Seifert
In recent years, the Montney has emerged as one of North America’s top resource plays. Since 2008, there have been more than 3,200 horizontal, multi-stage wells drilled and completed targeting the Montney. As development proceeds, operators are beginning to realize that heterogeneities in the Montney require variable approaches to completions to achieve optimal results within each region of the play.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Mike Seifert, Mark Lenko, Joshua Lee
Date: Monday, July 20, 2015
Time: 11:40am - 12:00pm
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Application of Mechanical and Mineralogical Rock Properties to Identify Fracture Fabrics in the Devonian Duvernay Formation in Alberta Mehrdad Soltanzadeh
This presentation suggests that using natural and induced fracture fabrics observed on image logs and in cores, along with mineralogical and mechanical rock properties, is a more practical approach to assist with identifying sweet spots in unconventional play.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Mehrdad Soltanzadeh, Graham Davies, Amy Fox, David Hume, Nasir Rahim
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Time: 10:50pm - 11:10pm
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May
4-8
GeoConvention 2015
Show Exhibitor – Booth #125
CSPG, CSEG and CWLS come together to host a convention that will bring together over 4,000 earth science professionals from North America and around the world. This event will provide a valuable networking and learning experience for all delegates, with three full days of technical talks, an exhibit floor displaying the latest industry developments, special events throughout the week, and more.
Date: May 4-8, 2015
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Determination of Duvernay Formation Reservoir Properties through Probabilistic Petrophysical Analysis Calibrated to Core Studies Nasir Rahim
This talk will present an overview of a workflow designed to determine reservoir properties in unconventional reservoirs using probabilistic petrophysical techniques. A regional study of the Duvernay Formation in Alberta incorporating sample analysis data guided by sedimentological understanding is used as an example of this methodology.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Nasir Rahim, Neil Watson
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Time: 10:40am - 11:05am
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Application of an Integrated Approach for the Characterization of Mechanical Rock Properties in the Duvernay Formation Amy Fox
An integrated approach towards understanding geomechanical properties in the Duvernay Formation, an emerging unconventional play in Alberta, Canada is presented here. This study illustrates how analyzing geomechanical data in the context of geology, geochemical properties, rock mineralogy and fracture fabrics leads to a better understating of rock behaviour in this highly over-pressured play and its immediate overlying formation, the Ireton.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Amy Fox, Mehrdad Soltanzadeh, Nasir Rahim
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Time: 2:15pm - 2:40pm
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Reading Between the Lines II: A NEBC Shale Gas Quantitative Interpretation Case Study Incorporating Multi-component Data Laurie Weston Bellman
This presentation will describe an unconventional case study in the context of an integrated interpretation workflow, incorporating converted-wave shear (PS) data. The objective of the case study was to enhance and improve the prediction of facies and geomechanical properties of a shale reservoir interval by incorporating the pre- and post-stack PS data.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Laurie Weston Bellman, Andrew Nicol, Jennifer Leslie-Panek, Pamela Reid, Eric Von Lunen
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Time: 3:00pm - 3:25pm
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A Regional Geomechanical Study of the Duvernay Formation in Alberta, Canada Amy Fox
This paper reviews the results of a regional geomechanical analysis of the Duvernay Formation in Alberta. The study included the characterization of mechanical rock properties and natural fractures, determination of in situ stresses and analysis of drilling and fracturing experience.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Amy Fox, Mehrdad Soltanzadeh
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Time: 3:25pm - 3:50pm
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Western Canada Resource Plays: A Geoscientific and Well Completions Overview of Recent Activity, Results and Trends Meridee Fockler
This presentation provides a geoscientific and well completions overview of recent activity, results and trends, with a view to highlighting key successes and identifying remaining opportunities. Hot plays, such as the Montney, as well as new entrants, such as the Midale, will be ranked and discussed.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Meridee Fockler, Ben McKenzie, Heather McCrank
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Time: 8:15am - 8:40am
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A Rock-Physics Tutorial: Discovering a Supermodel Carl Reine
This tutorial shows the steps required to create models of reservoir rocks saturated with different fluids, with the aim of predicting elastic properties (velocity, impedance, moduli, etc.) for different geological scenarios.
Oral Presentation
Presenter(s): Carl Reine
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Time: 2:15pm - 2:40pm
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April
15
Geomechanics Theory and Practice
Two-Day Workshop
This workshop provides an introduction to geomechanics including an overview of current topics important in the field. Focused on the importance of understanding the full geomechanical setting and its implications in oil and gas operations today, the workshop includes a rigorous determination of all three principal in‐situ stresses, pore pressure and rock properties, as well as an examination of how geomechanics can improve drilling, completions and production.  
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Canadian Discovery Theatre
Address: Suite 200, 706 - 7 Avenue SW
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March
26
Quantitative Seismic Interpretation: The Why, What and How
A practical two-hour overview
This free overview will cover basic terms, data types and the main elements of the QI workflow – Rock Physics, AVO, inversion and seismic attribute classification. The session is appropriate for all geophysicists, geologists, reservoir engineers and geoscience managers.
Presenter(s): Laurie Weston Bellman
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2015
Time: 8:00am - 10:25am
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Canadian Discovery Theatre
Address: Suite 200, 706 - 7 Avenue SW
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March
19
The Surprising Influence of Multi-Component Data
CSEG Lunchbox Geophysics Talk
Multi-component (aka converted-wave, aka PS) data is a bit of an enigma. It’s like poetry; we know it’s important and we want to appreciate and understand it, but it’s hard work and the encounter can leave us a little bewildered and secretly disappointed. What was all the fuss about?, we ask. I think the key is to keep an open mind and, like all seismic interactions, let the sound waves speak for themselves in their native tongue. Just as French poetry loses something in the translation to English (I’m told), so does PS data when we convert (clumsily, I might add) to PP time.
Presenter(s): Laurie Weston Bellman
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Venue: Chevron Auditorium
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