Webcast

North American Shale Gas: Prospects and Pitfalls on the Road Ahead

	Oct 22, 2008
	Approximately one hour
	Don Warlick, President, Warlick International Randal F. LaFollette, Manager, Geoscience Technology, BJ Services Bob Williams, Director of Research, Oil & Gas Journal Research Center

Gas shale development in the US (and soon in Canada) has set a blistering pace, thanks to aggressive E&P players and a strongly supportive services infrastructure. Recent successes in North American gas shales are largely due to well-planned leasing strategies, cost-appropriate technologies, and smart field/play development.

But has shale gas become a victim of its own success? Concerns over an emerging gas supply surplus have pushed gas futures prices down to the point where some of the top operators have begun cutting E&D budgets and laying down rigs. Even as momentum has spread from the Barnett shale into the Arkoma-Woodford, Haynesville, Marcellus, and other plays, there are questions about the path forward.

In this webcast, Don Warlick, president of Houston-based energy intelligence firm Warlick International, will provide a brief overview of the directions in North American shale gas and what producers and service and supply companies can expect through 2009.

Warlick is author of the best-selling Oil & Gas Journal Research Center study North American Unconventional Gas Market Report, of which the 2008-2009 edition has just been published.

Randy LaFollette, the webcast's other panelist, is manager, geoscience technology, for BJ Services' corporate research and support center in Tomball, Tex. LaFollette will focus on multidimensional approaches for technologies that can produce efficiently and can be utilized smartly in the established gas shales and the early-stage developing shales.

Don Warlick President Warlick International
Randal F. LaFollette Manager, Geoscience Technology BJ Services
Bob Williams Director of Research Oil & Gas Journal Research Center

BJ Services Company :
With more than 11,000 shale frac stages around the world, BJ Services has the technology and experience to crack the code for optimum frac designs and operations. The company is a leading provider of field development and production enhancement services to the worldwide petroleum industry. BJ offers cementing, stimulation, coiled tubing, sand control, completion, tubular running, production chemical, and process and pipeline services in virtually every major oil and gas-producing region of the world.