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RPSEA Member Meeting

NAS Shale Forum

C. Michael Ming
Chicago, IL
June 4, 2009

SECURE ENERGY FOR AMERICA
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 
And Section 999:
A Industry led Public/Private Partnership for R&D in the Ultra‐
Deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico and in Unconventional Onshore 
Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources of the United 
States.

Copyright Arnfinn
Olsen/Statoil ASA

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What is Section 999?

Specifically, the law directs ‐‐
Research, development, demonstration, and commercial 
application of technologies for ultra‐deepwater and 
unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resource
Maximize the U.S resource value by:
Increasing supply
Reducing the cost 
Increasing E&P efficiency 
Improving safety and minimizing 
environmental impacts

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Current Program Structure/Funding

Program Funding From Federal  Total Program:  $50 M/yr 
Oil and Gas Royalties

Department of Energy
$37.5 M $12.5 M
Fossil Energy Office

Program  NETL 
Consortium

In‐House R&D Program
Unconventional  Ultra‐deepwater   
$16.25 M $17.5 M
Designed to be 10 
Small Producer Program    year, $500M 
$3.75 M   directed 
spending.

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RPSEA Members Centre for Marine CNG
- Newfoundland, Canada

New England Research


Western Standard
Altira Group
Bill Barrett Corp.
Nance Resources Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
CERI/Colorado School of Mines University of Massachusetts WHOI
Idaho National Lab COGA Michigan Institute of
EnerCrest DCP Midstream Technology
Discovery Group Gas Technology APS
Energy Corp Institute
EnCana
Welldog
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Gunnison Energy Penn. State
Lawrence Livermore Lab HW Process Technologies University
Stanford Univ. Novatek IPAMS
AGA
Chevron Corp. University of Utah Leede Operating Ohio State ARI
Natural Carbon NiCo Resources University IODP
Robert L. Bayless West Virginia
IPAA
Spatial Energy PTTC University
University of Kansas Univ. of Tulsa
Chesapeake Energy
AeroVironment Devon Energy NGAS
BreitBurn Energy Los Alamos Lab Fleischaker Co.
Conservation Comm. of Texas IOGCC
NMOGA Bretagne
California Tech K. Stewart Energy
Delco Oheb Energy Sandia Lab Maxwell Resources
Mississippi State
Drilling & Production OIPA
Strata Production University University of South
Univ. of Southern NM Tech Univ. of OK
Carolina
California Harvard Williams University of
Watt Mineral IPANM Alabama
Petroleum ExxonMobil
Correlations
Pioneer
Univ. of TX at Austin SiteLark Jackson State University

TIPRO TEES/A&M

Louisiana State
SwRI University

Acergy US Florida International


Nalco
Acute Technology Services University
NanoRidge Materials
Univ. of Alaska Anadarko Nautilus International
Fairbanks Apache Noble Energy
Apex Spectral OTM Consulting Stress Engineering
B P America Energy Valley Oxane Materials Technip
Baker Hughes GE/Vetco Petris Technology Technology Intl.
BJ Services Greater Fort Bend Cnty EDC Petrobras America Tejas Research
Cameron/Curtiss-Wright EMD Groundwater Services Quanelle Tenaris
Capstone Turbine Halliburton Rice University Texas Energy Center
Current Members Carbo Ceramics HARC Rock Solid Images Titanium Engineers
City of Sugar Land Houston Offshore Engineering RTI Energy Systems Total USA
ConocoPhillips Houston Technology Center Schlumberger University of Houston
CSI Technologies Knowledge Reservoir Shell Exploration & Production VersaMarine Engineering
Pending Members Deepwater Structures Marathon Simmons and Co. Weatherford
Det Norske Veritas (USA) Merrick Systems StatoilHydro
Updated 12/1/08
Building a Relevant Portfolio
Years Five
thru Ten

Down-
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demonstration
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Smaller that meet


multiple objectives Development
--

more
numerous or enable the of“low-
Year One awards hanging fruit”
development
towards or technologies
of a suite of that provide
the basic
end of the technologies incremental
research improvements in E&P
spectrum economics, etc.

Science Themes Enabling/Cross-cutting Themes Enhancing Themes


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RPSEA Technical Forums Vortex Induced Vibrations 
Technologies for Mitigation of  Tight Gas, Shale Gas &  Bakken Shale Forum,  Flow Assurance Forum,  Forum, January 12, 2007
Environmental Impact of Rocky  Coalbed Methane Forum,  November 6, 2007  February 8, 2007 Massachusetts Institute of 
Mountain Unconventional O&G  November 14, 2006 North Dakota Energy &  University of Tulsa &  Technology & Chevron
Operations, May 12, 2008 Colorado School of Mines  Environmental Research  Halliburton
Colorado School of Mines Center
Autonomous Intervention for 
Deepwater O&G Operations 
Small Producer Forum, December 15, 2006 Forum, October 31, 2006 
New Mexico Institute of Mining and  Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology Technology & Schlumberger

Produced Water Forum, December 14, 2006 
Shale Gas Forum,  Unconventional Plays & 
New Mexico Institute of Mining and 
December 5, 2006 Research Needs for 
Technology
University of Oklahoma Appalachian Basin Small 
Producers Forum, 
February 15, 2007  West 
Problem Identification  Virginia University & 
Forum, November 29, 2006 NRCCE
University of Southern 
California
Fracture in Devonian Black Shale of 
Alaskan Unconventional 
the Appalachian Basin Workshop, 
Gas Resource Forum, 
January 8‐9, 2008
April7, University of 
PTTC Appalachian Region & The 
Alaska Fairbanks2008
Appalachian Geological Society 

Seafloor Engineering Forum, 
March 9, 2007
Texas A&M University & GE Shale Plays, Technology, and 
Permian Basin Trends  Coalbed & Shale Gas 
Symposium, November 29, 2007 Forum, May 21, 2008 
Midland College and the SPE  University of Alabama 
CO2 EOR & Carbon Sequestration  Permian Basin Section 
Forum, April 23, 2008
CO2 Flooding Conference &  Seismic E&P Forum, 
Bureau of Economic Geology October 10, 2006 
University of Houston
Low Impact O&G Operations in 
Environmentally Sensitive Areas  More Bytes & More Barrels, 
Forum, May 30, 2008 May 20‐21 2008
Texas A&M University SPE Gulf Coast Section
RPSEA UDW Structure
PAC and TACs

Resource of >700 SMEs from industry, academia and government!


Program Advisory Committee
“The PAC”

Regulatory TAC (X100) Flow Assurance TAC (X200)


51 Active Members 100 Active Members

Subsea Systems TAC (X300) Floating Systems TAC (X400)


138 Active Members 150 Active Members

Drilling & Completions TAC (X500) Reservoir Engineering TAC (X700)


66 Active Members 44 Active Members

Met Ocean TAC (X800) Systems Engineering TAC (X900)


55 Active Members 76 Active Members

Geoscience TAC (X000)


15 Active Members
Technology has Driven the Growth

Increased Cost & Risk

Improved Technology
Steve Holditch

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Unconventional Onshore Themes

Gas Shales
Rock properties/Formation 
Evaluation
Fluid flow and storage
Stimulation
Water management Cost Reduction 
Coalbed Methane in All Aspects of 
Operations
Produced water management
Tight Sands
Natural fractures
Sweet spots
Formation Evaluation
Wellbore‐reservoir connectivity
Surface footprint
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US Gas Resource Estimates Continue to Increase

William Fisher
COGA 2006

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Once only geologic correlation markers, gas 
shales have redefined the resource base!

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The Technology Challenges of Small 
Producers
Focus Area – Advancing Technology for Mature Fields
Target – Existing/Mature Oil & Gas Accumulations
Maximize the value of small producers’ existing asset base
Leverage existing infrastructure
Return to production of older assets
Minimal additional surface impact
Minimize and reduce the existing
environmental impact
Lower cost and maximize production

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Increasing Lag Between Discovery and
Development
Proven Reserves Add Value

MMS Report 2009 – 016:  Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2009. (continuing trend from 2008‐013 report)

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GOM Ultra-deepwater Activity

• Walker Ridge /Keathley


Canyon
– Sub-salt
– Deeper wells
– Tight formations
• Alaminos Canyon
– Viscous crude
– Lacking infrastructure
I H
• Eastern Gulf – Gas
Independence Hub
– Higher pressure
A C W R
– Higher Temperature
– CO2 / H2S
Great White
Higher Drilling Costs K C
Challenging Economics
DeepStar/BP (Nov04)

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Ultra Deepwater Needs

• Drilling, completion and intervention breakthroughs


• Appraisal & development geoscience and reservoir
engineering
• Significantly extend subsea tieback distances & surface
host elimination
• Dry trees/direct well intervention and risers in 10,000’ wd
• Continuous improvement / optimize field development
– Per wellbore recovery
– Cost reduction
– Reliability improvements
– Efficiency improvements
• Associated safety and environmental trade-offs

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2007 & 2008 UDW Selection Process

120+ Project Ideas


April, 2007
$300 MM

June, 2007
70 Project Ideas
$175 MM

July, 2007 26 Project Ideas


$30 MM

RPSEA 2007 & 2008 Projects


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2007 UDW projects

Project Project Title Number Selected Award (RPSEA


of bids max)
DW1201 Wax Control 3 University of Utah $400,000
DW1301 Improvements to Deepwater subsea measurements 2 Letton Hall Group $3,564,000
DW1302 High Conductivity Umbilicals 2 Technip $448,000
DW1401 Composite Riser for UDW High Pressure Wells 3 Lincoln Composites $1,680,000
DW1402 Deepwater dry tree system for drilling production 4 FloTec / Houston Offshore $936,000
DW1403 Fatigue Performance of High Strength Riser Materials 2 SwRI $800,000
DW1501 Extreme Reach Development 2 Tejas $200,000
DW1603 Design investigation xHPHT, SSSV 6 Rice Univ. $120,000
DW1603 Robotic MFL Sensor; monitoring & inspecting risers Rice Univ. $120,000
DW1603 Hydrate Plugging Risk Tulsa Univ. $120,000
DW1603 Hydrate Characterization & Dissociation Strategies Tulsa Univ. $120,000
DW1701 Improved Recovery 2 Knowledge Reservoir $1,600,000
DW1801 Effect of Global Warming on Hurricane Activity 1 NCAR $560,000
DW1901 Subsea processing System Integration 2 GE Research $1,200,000
DW1902 Deep Sea Hybrid Power Systems: 1 HARC $480,000
DW2001 Geophysical Modeling Methods 2 SEG $2,000,000
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$14,348,000

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2008 UDW projects

TAC Number Impact 2008 RPSEA Max Share

New Safety Barrier Testing Methods $ 128,000


DW 2101

DW 1202 EOS improvement for xHPHT $1,600,000

DW 2201 Viscous Oil PVT $460,000

DW 2301 Deepwater Riserless Light Well Intervention $3,411,500

DW 1502 Coil Tubing Drilling & Intervention $820,000

Early Reservoir Appraisal, Utilizing a Low Cost Well Testing System - Phase 1 $880,000
DW 2501

DW 2502 Modeling and Simulation; MPD $384,000

Resources to Reserves Development and Acceleration through Appraisal $400,000


DW 2701

DW 2801 Gulf 3-D Operational Current Model Pilot $1,248,000

power distribution & components (Component Qualification) $4,811,000


DW 2901

10 Projects Totals $14,142,500

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2009 UDW Funding
RPSEA YR3 Funding Allocation (2009) Funding Distribution ($k)

Title / Description Low High Average


Need #1 Drilling Completion and Intervention Breakthroughs 6,250

1 Drilling 2,000 5,000 3,500

2 Completions 1,000 3,000 2,000

3 Intervention (Downole Services) -

4 Intervention (In-Water IMR) 500 1,000 750

5 Extended Well Testing -

Need # 2 Appraisal & development geosciences and reservoir engineering 1,500

6 Reservoir Surveillance 1,000 2,000 1,500

Need #3 Significantly extend subsea tieback distances / surface host elimination 3,625

7 Stabilized Flow 750 1,500 1,125

8 Subsea Power -

9 Subsea Processing, Pressure Boosting, Instrumentation and Controls 2,000 3,000 2,500

Need #4 Dry trees / Direct well intervention and risers in 10,000' wd. -

10 Riser Systems -

11 Dry Tree Structures -

Need #5 Continuous Improvement / Optimize field development 3,000

12 Long Term Research and Development and Graduate Student Program 1,000 2,000 1,500

13 Sensors, tools and Inspection Processes 1,000 2,000 1,500

Bridging and Contingency 500 750 625

Need #6 Associated Safety and Environmental Concerns 500

14 Environmental Issues 250 750 500

10,000 21,000 14,875

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UDW Program status

Categories 2007 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008


Proposals selected awarded proposals selected awarded

Universities / 5 5 8 3
National Labs
Nonprofit 4 4 1 1
Corporation
For Profit 8 7 16 5
Corporation
Total 32 17 16 25 9 out of 0
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2010 UDW Plan Strategy

• RPSEA draft Annual Plan currently being prepared.


UDW program will include;
– Follow-on work from 2007 & 2008
– New releases
– Graduate Student and Innovative / Novel projects
– A focus to drive technology to demonstration mode
• Submit to NETL July, 2009
• FACA reviews
– Week of 15th of September 2009
– Week of 12th of October 2009
– Final review End of October 2009

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Award Composition ‐ 2007 Program 

Ultra 
Small Producer On Shore Deepwater Total
Universities 6 13 5 24
For Profits 0 1 8 9
Non‐Profits 0 1 4 5
National Labs 1 2 0 3
State Agencies 0 2 0 2
Total Selected 7 19 17 43

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Award Value – 2007 Program

Total Value  RPSEA Share  Cost Share  Cost Share %


(000) (000) (000)
Small Producer $   5,334 $   2,981 $   2,353 44
On Shore $33,620 $17,938 $15,682 47
Ultra Deepwater $20,311 $15,317 $   4,994 25
Total Program $59,265 $36,236 $23,029 39

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2008 Awards

Small Producer On  Shore Total

Universities 4 5 9
For Profits 2 1 3
Non‐Profits 2 2
National Labs 1 1
State Agencies
Total Selected 6 9 15

Total Value RPSEA share Cost Share Cost Share %


(000) (000) (000)

Small Producer $6,836  $3,140  $3,695 54


On Shore $17,182 $13,746 $6,836  40
Total Program
$24,019  $16,886 $10,532  44

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RPSEA Program Status by Year

2007
41 of 43 selections awarded and under contract and in research
1 selection certified and contracted and ready to commence
1 selection finalizing contract details
2008
9 Unconventional  Natural Gas selections in negotiations
6 Small Producer selections in negotiations
3 UDW selections in negotiations
6 UDW selections under review
2009
Solicitations targeted for late summer 2009
2010  Annual Plan development ongoing with a target DOE approval date by 12/31/09

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Administrative Process Improvements

– Two‐step proposal process
– Fixed hourly rate option
– Supplemental subcontract negotiation support
– Updated property management provision
“You miss 100% of the shots 
you don’t take.”

Wayne Gretzky

mming@rpsea.org

www.rpsea.org

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2009 UDW Initiatives

Need 1: Drilling, Completion and Intervention Breakthroughs


• Proposals will be requested identifying novel ideas to reduce well
construction and completion costs.
Need 2: Appraisal and Development Geoscience and Reservoir
Engineering
• Proposals will be requested in the area of production and reservoir
surveillance.
Need 3: Significantly Extend Subsea Tieback Distances/Surface
Host Elimination
• Proposals may be requested in one or more of the following areas:
– Ultra-deepwater flow assurance especially for the areas of solids
(asphaltenes, hydrates, waxes, and scale) deposition and plug
formation management
– Pressure boosting
– Autonomous underwater vehicles and intervention
– Subsea processing/produced water treatment

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2009 Anticipated Initiatives, cont’d

Need 4: Dry Trees/Direct Well Intervention and Risers in 10,000’ Water


Depth
• No proposals in this area are expected.
Need 5: Continuous Improvement/Optimize Field Development
• Proposals in this need area may include:
– Advancing industry understanding of phenomena impacting ultra-deepwater
operations such as vortex-induced vibration
– Improvements in integrity management and reliability
– Additional graduate student project funding
– High risk, high reward ‘long-shot’ R&D opportunities
Need 6: Associated Safety and Environmental Concerns
• Ultra-deepwater efforts in this need area will involve the assessment of
environmental and safety impact of RPSEA UDW funded technology
development projects. This effort may take the form of individual
solicitations or elements of more extensive project based solicitations.
Areas of study may include:
– Improved Metocean understanding
– Discharge of produced water subsea – technology and regulatory aspects

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New Two‐Phase Proposal Process

• RPSEA has implementing a Two‐Phase proposal process
• Phase 1 – Technical proposal with a cost summary
• Phase 2 – Detailed cost and other supporting documentation for 
those proposals selected to negotiate toward award

• This Two‐Phase approach alleviates unnecessary effort for 
proposals not selected to negotiate toward award.
New Two‐Phase Proposal Process
(continued)

• Phase 1 – Request for Technical Proposal
• Submit technical response and summary cost information
• RPSEA review teams evaluate and score proposals
• Review teams recommend selection to RPSEA President
• RPSEA President recommends selections to DOE
• DOE approves selections
New Two‐Phase Proposal Process
(continued)

• Phase 2
• Selected organizations prepare final documentation to support 
negotiations toward award.
• Detailed cost proposal
• Other government required forms (next slide)
• Negotiate final subcontract
Phase 2 Documentation
Fixed Hourly Rates

• Cost reimbursable subcontracting requires that cost be 
invoiced as actual cost incurred
• For labor, that means each individual’s actual wages plus their 
actual indirect costs (fringe, OH, G&A)
• The project begins with a provisional indirect rate
• Costs are tracked for the duration of the project and the final 
actual indirect costs are reconciled
• In lieu of this approach, for companies that do not have prior 
federal cost reimbursable subcontracting experience, RPSEA 
may offer the option of establishing a predetermined fixed 
hourly rate not subject to final reconciliation
• A fixed hourly rate would be established for each individual 
performing work on the project
Supplemental Subcontract Negotiators

• Subcontract negotiations are labor intensive and surge shortly 
after project selection
• RPSEA has contracted with a federal procurement consulting 
firm to provide surge resources
• Established a working relationship during negotiations of the 
2007 program awards
• Anticipate significant improvements in timeliness of 2008 
subcontract negotiations
Updated Property Management Clause

• RPSEA negotiated with DOE to allow implementation of a new, 
improved Government Property Management Clause
• Previous clause required subcontractors to have a government 
approved property management system
• New clause allows subcontractors to utilize consensus standard 
property management systems
A Small Organization, A Large Network

RPSEA Board of Directors 
and Executive Committee
Strategic Advisory 
Committee (SAC)  Small Producer 
President Regional Advisory 
(Program Manager) Group  (RAG)

VP Operations VP Offshore VP Onshore Small Producer

Operations Team  Ultra‐deepwater Team  Unconventional  Small Producer 


Support from  Support from  Team Support  Team support 
SAIC Chevron/DeepStar
Environmental   from GTI from NMT
Advisory Group (EAG)

Program Advisory Committee (PAC)  Program Advisory Committee (PAC)  
Offshore Onshore 

Technical Advisory Committees  (TAC)   Technical Advisory Committees (TAC)  
Offshore Onshore

Well over 1,000 experts have participated in this process!
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RPSEA Unconventional Gas 
Program Components & Approach 
Resource
Assessment

Drilling

Exploration Impact By
Technologies Integrated Basin Geologic Basin
Technology and
Analysis Dissemination Unconventional
Stimulation & Resource
Completion

Reservoir
Description &
e.g., CBM
Engineering

Environmental &
Water
Management

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Technically Recoverable 
Unconventional Gas (Tcf ) 
By Geologic Basin 
70
60
CBM 65 Tcf
50 Gas Shales 69 Tcf
Tight Gas Sands 159 Tcf
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Total 293 Tcf
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NPC 2003
CBM 10% Gas Shales 45% Tight Sands 45%

Integrated Basin Analysis $3.4M (GTI) $2.9M(CSM) - Piceance


New Albany
Drilling

Stimulation and Completion $.08M (Penn St.) $.09M - Carter -Cutters $1.05M (TEES) Gel
Microwave CBM $.69M (U.Houston) Damage
$.95M UT-Refrac $.22M (Tulsa) Frac
Damage
Water Management $1.56M (CSM) Intergrated
Treatment Framework

Environmental

Reservoir Description & $1.07M (LBNL) High $1.7M (LBNL) Expert


Management Resolution Imaging Teaching System Tgas

Reservoir Engineering $.31M (TEES) Dev. $.44M (Tulsa) Wamsutter


Strategy/Decision Model $1.07M (UofUtah)
Forecasting TGas
$.52M (Stanford)
Condensate
Resource Assessment $.50M (Geo Surv)Alabama $.67M (CSM) Gas Comp.
Shales Rockies
$.43M (Utah Geo)Manning
Shales
Exploration Technologies $.86M (CSM) Coal &Bugs

H High Priority Resource Focus


M Medium Priority Technology Focus
L Low Priority
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Current Portfolio
CBM 10% Gas Shales 45% Tight Sands 45%

Integrated Basin Analysis $6.3


New Albany (GTI) $3.4 Piceance (CSM) $2.9

Drilling $0.0

Stim ulation and Cutters (Carter) $.09 $4.7


Gel Dam age (TEES) $1.05
Completion Frac (UT Austin) $.69
Microw ave CBM (P enn) $.08 Frac Dam age (Tulsa) $.22
Refrac (UT Austin) $.95
Frac Cond (TEES ) $1.6

W ater Management $5.2


Integrated Treatm ent Barnett & Appalachian (GTI)
Frac Water Reuse (GE) $1.1
Framework (CSM) $1.56 $2.5

Environmental $2.2
Environm entally Friendly
* Drilling (HARC) * $2.2 *
Reservoir Description & Hi Res. Imag. (LBNL) $1.1 Tight Gas Exp. S ystem $5.1
Gas Isotope (Caltech) $1.2 (LBNL) $1.7
Management Marcellus Nat. Frac./Stress S trat. Controls on Perm.
(BE G) $1.0 (CSM) $0.1
Reservoir Engineering Decision Model (TEES) $.31 Wam sutter (Tulsa) $.44 $5.3
Coupled Analysis (LBNL) Forecasting (Utah) $1.1
$2.9 Condensate (Stanford) $.52
Resource Assessment $1.6
Alabama Shales (AL GS) $.5 Rockies Gas Comp. (CS M)
Manning Shales (UT GS ) $.43 $.67

Exploration Technologies $2.0


Multi-Azim uth Seism ic (BEG)
Coal & Bugs (CSM) $.86
$1.1

$2.5 $20.0 $9.8 $32.3


2008 Program Priorities H High Priority 2007 Projects
M M edium Priority 2008 Projects
42 L Low Priority
RPSEA 
Cross Cutting Technical Projects
Unconventional  UH – Fracturing (UT)
LBNL – Self Teaching Expert System

Gas Projects
CSM - Coal Bugs
UT – Refracturing
TEES – Fracturing Gels
LBNL – High Resolution Imaging
PSU – Microwave Coals
Utah - Paleo Shales
Carter – Saws
Tulsa – Wamsutter
Tulsa – Novel Fracturing Fluids
CSM – Gas Quality
Stanford – Condensate
U of Utah – TGS
CSM – Produced Wtr.
CSM – Piceance TGS
CSM – Strat Control

BEG – Marcellus
Natural Fractures

GE – Frac Water
Reuse

GTI – New Albany


GTI – Barnett and
Appalachia Produced
Water Alabama - Shales

Cross Cutting Technical Projects


Integrated Basin Project
HARC – Environmentally Friendly Drilling
Technical/Resource Projects LBNL – Coupled Reservoir Model
TEES – Fracture Conductivity
BEG – Multi – Azimuth Seismic
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$32 Million Research Portfolio CalTech – Gas Isotopes
Significant Producer and Service Industry Involvement

– Crucial for Program Relevancy
• Anadarko • Devon Energy
• Chevron • Unconventional Gas Resources 
Canada
• Pioneer Natural Gas • Whiting Petroleum
• Williams E&P • CNX Gas
• ConocoPhillips • Trendwell
• ExxonMobil  • Diversified Operating Corp
• Noble Energy
• Newfield Exploration
• Jones Energy
• Encana • Aurora Oil & Gas
• BP
• Bill Barrett Corp.
• Schlumberger
• Pinnacle Gas Resources • Halliburton
• Coleman Oil & Gas • Pinnacle Technologies
• Ciris Energy • BJ Services
• Carbo Ceramics

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