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Addressing Environmental Risks associated with Shale Gas and Oil through Worldwide R & D Workshop

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AGENDA

27 October 2015

08:00 – 08:30 REGISTRATION
08:30 – 08:40 WELCOME – Mr. Rudolf Strohmeier, Deputy Director-General, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
08:40 – 09:00 WELCOME AND OUTLINE OF THE TWO DAYS’ AGENDA – Jostein Dahl Karlsen, GOT Chair

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
09:00 – 09:30 Doug Morris, Chief, Office of Offshore Regulatory Programs, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), DOI
09:30 – 10:00 Mike Ming, General Manager, GE Global Research Oil & Gas Technology Center, Oklahoma
10.00 – 10:25 Prof. Jon E. Olson, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas

10:25 – 10:50 BREAK

INTRODUCTION TO ONGOING NATIONAL AND REGIONAL RESEARCH (15 MIN. PER TALK + Q/A)
10:50 – 11:10 Vassilios Kougionas, Official at the EU Commission, DG Research and Innovation
11:10 – 11:30 Christian Minnig, Georesource Manager, Swiss Geological Survey
11:30 – 11:50 Prof. Gregory Pienkowski, Polish Geological Survey
11:50 – 12:10 Richard Adamson, President, Canadian Containment and Monitoring Institute
12:10 – 12:30 Rene Peters, Director Gas Technology, TNO/EERA Shale Gas Joint Programme Coordinator

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

TOPICAL TECHNOLOGY SESSIONS – ADDRESSING KEY ISSUES AT STAKE THROUGH R & D
13:30 – 15:00 WATER R & D PROGRAMS RELATED TO WATER (15 MIN. PER TALK FOLLOWED BY Q/A OR PANEL DISCUSSION)
Chuck Taylor, International Activities Manager, US DOE/National Energy Technology Manager, Water and Related Research Projects within NETL
Prof. Alberto Striolo, Molecular Thermodynamics, University College of London on behalf of the EU supported “Shale XenvironmenT” R & D Project consortium

15:00 – 15:20 BREAK
15:20 – 16:30 INDUCED SEISMICITY

R & D PROGRAMS RELATED TO INDUCED SEISMICITY (15 MIN. PER TALK FOLLOWED BY Q/A OR PANEL DISCUSSION)
Prof. Mark Zoback, Stanford University, California
Christopher I. McDermott, Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh on behalf of the “FracRisk” EU funded Project consortium
Prof. Paolo Gasparini, Scientific Coordinator, AMRA on behalf of the SHEER EU funded Project consortium

16:30 – 17:00 WRAP-UP OF DAY 1 AND IEA PERSPECTIVE
17:00 – 17:45 NETWORKING RECEPTION

28 October 2015

08:00 – 08:30 REGISTRATION

08:30 – 08:40 OPENING REMARKS AND OUTLINE OF AGENDA FOR DAY 2 – Jostein Dahl Karlsen, GOT Chair

08:40 – 10:10 R&D, EMISSIONS TO AIR AND PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE (15 MIN. PER TALK FOLLOWED BY Q/A OR PANEL DISCUSSION)
Dag Nummedal, Director, CERI at Colorado School of Mines – Methane emissions from natural gas
Darrick Evensen, Researcher at University of Cardiff on behalf of the M4ShaleGas EU funded Project consortium

10:10 – 10:30 BREAK

10:30 – 12:15 PANEL DISCUSSION – Way forward on collaborative RD & D to demonstrate a social license to operate

Moderator – Mike Smith, Executive Director, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), Oklahoma

Moderated panel discussion with panelists, including q/a with floor

INTRODUCTIONS:
Christophe Amadeї, – TOTAL E&P, Head of Unconventional Development
Jo Huseby, Project Manager, Rystad Energy
Prof. Jon E. Olson, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas – Importance of Subsurface RD & D

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