26th Annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference
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Tuesday, May 22
Growing the Energy Workforce and Advancing Our Western North Dakota Communities
Session Chairs: Rob Lindberg, Director, Bakken Backers
Doug Goehring, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner
Workforce Statistics – Cindy Sanford, Job Service North Dakota/Williston
Community Infrastructure/Growth – Geoff Simon, Executive Director, Western Dakota Energy Association
Growing Creedence Energy – Kevin Black, Co-founder & President, Creedence Energy Services
Millennials Matter – How to Attract, Retain, & Intrigue Today’s Workforce – Danita Bye, CEO: Sales Growth Specialists
CyberSecurity: Is your infrastructure safe?
Session Chairs: Tony Straquadine, Manager, U.S. Officer, Alliance Pipeline
Kari Cutting, Vice President, North Dakota Petroleum Council
Cybersecurity: Today’s Invisible Battlespace – Jerad Sayler, Capt., Chief of Offensive Cyber Operations, USAF Space Command
Protecting U.S. Infrastructure: FERC’s Cybersecurity Program – Joe McClelland, Director, Office of Energy Infrastructure, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (No presentation available)
Is Your Home/Business Data Safe? – John Nagel, CEO/Founder, CyberNet Security, LLC (No presentation available)
Williston Basin Breakthrough Technologies
Session Chairs: Michael Kukuk, Regulatory Manager, Oasis Petroleum
Curtis Ryland, Regional Vice President – Bakken Asset Team, Marathon Oil
Intriguing New Pipeline Monitoring Technologies – Brian Kalk, Director of Energy Systems Development, Energy & Environmental Research Center
UAS – Oil & Gas Inspection & Detection – Brad Tomer, Vice President of Operations, Avitas Systems, a GE Venture
Enhancing the Bakken with Beyond Visual Line of Sight UAS – Jim Cieplak, Business Development & Customer Strategic Accounts, Harris Corporation
The Davis Refinery: Industry Proven Technology, Comprehensively Applied to Meet Lower Emissions – Lance Medlin, Executive Vice President, Projects, Meridian Energy
Leveraging Digital Technology to Optimize Equipment Operation and Maintenance – David Dunlevy, General Manager, Caterpillar Oil & Gas
Well-site Automation – Travis Wardlaw, IS Manager Denver Division, EOG Resources
Moving Past the Thief Hatch/Alternative Central Tank Battery Designs – Ryan Lunsford, Facilities Engineering Supervisor, Whiting Petroleum Corporation
Dust Control for New OSHA Regulations – John Jackson, Application Technology Manager, Unimin Energy
Energy Transmission Siting in North Dakota: An Overview of Procedures for Route Adjustments Before or During Construction of Transmission Pipelines – Lawrence Bender, Attorney, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., on behalf of Dakota Access Pipeline
Natural Gas Capture & Infrastructure Development
Session Chair: Phil Archer, NDPC Natural Gas Capture Task Force Chair, Whiting Oil & Gas
Gas Capture Regulations – Bruce Hicks, Director of North Dakota Oil & Gas Division
Production Growth & Capture Data – Justin Kringstad, Director, North Dakota Pipeline Authority
Expanding Gas Processing Capacity – David Cassel, Manager of Project Analysis, Natural Gas Gathering and Processing, ONEOK Rockies Midstream
Tackling Gas Capture in the Core of the Bakken – Diaco Aviki, Crestwood Midstream Partners
Advances in Remote Capture – Brian Cebull, President & CEO, GTUIT
Wednesday, May 23
Welcome – Ron Ness, President, North Dakota Petroleum Council | (No presentation)
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum | (No presentation)
Address from Miss America Cara Mund | (No presentation)
Global Market Impact of the American Energy Renaissance | (No presentation)
Harold Hamm, Chairman & CEO, Continental Resources
Dr. Edward Lewis Morse, Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities Research at Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Address from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke | (No presentation)
Senator John Hoeven and Senator Heidi Heitkamp Videos
Leading the Way in Shale: Future Challenges and Opportunities for the Bakken – Greg Hill, President, Worldwide Exploration & Production, Hess Corporation
Liberty’s Stomping Horse Bakken EOR Project – Mark Pearson, President & CEO, Liberty Resources
Marketing Bakken Oil to the World – Brady Cook, Senior Vice President Oil and Trading, Koch Industries, Inc.
New Energy Economic Reality
(No presentations for this session)
Session Chairs: Preston Page, CEO/President, Page Petroleum
Kathleen Neset, North Dakota Petroleum Council Vice Chair, Neset
Outlook for U.S. Monetary Policy & Implications on Energy Sector – Neel Kashkari, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Conversation 1: Global Oil Market Perspective/The Williston Basin’s Contribution
Conversation 2: Shift in Public Market Mindset as to the Energy Sector
Bob Morris, Managing Director, Oil and Gas Exploration & Production, Citi Research
John Gerdes, Managing Director & Head of Research, KLR Group
Neel Kashkari, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Williston Basin Optimization
Session Chairs: Alan Olson, Montana Petroleum Association
John Harju, VP-Strategic Partnerships, Energy & Environmental Research Center
US-Canada Collaborations on EOR and CO2-EOR – Dan MacLean, CEO/President of Petroleum Technology Research Centre
Expanding the Margins of the Williston Basin – The Impact of Refined Stimulation Design – Kyle Trainor, Reservoir Engineer, NP Energy Services, LLC
Strategic Completion Design and Operation in Addressing Parent-Child Well Impact
Ashley Thoma, Completions Team Lead, Statoil
Lionel Ribeiro, Senior Reservoir Engineer, Statoil
Fiber Optics in Completions: Real-Time Stage Optimization – Price Stark, Pinnacle
Completion drivers to optimize dollars per barrel of oil equivalent – Leen Weijers, VP of Engineering, Liberty Oil Field Services
Regulation: New Day – Better Way! | Location: Exhibit Hall D
Session Chairs: Zac Weis, Government & Community Relations Manager, Marathon Oil
Alan Olson, Executive Director, Montana Petroleum Association
Douglas Benevento, EPA Region 8 Administrator
Dave Glatt, Chief of the North Dakota Department of Health Environmental Health Section
Wayne Stenehjem, North Dakota Attorney General
Tim Fox, Montana Attorney General
Williston Basin’s Multi-Zone Geology
Session Chairs: Ed Murphy, North Dakota State Geologist, ND Geological Survey
Melinda Yurkowski, Assistant Chief Geologist, Petroleum Geology, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy
Untapped Unconventional Potential: Heat Flow and Source Bed Thermal Maturity – Burke Brunson, UND Geology Graduate Student
Spearfish/Madison Formations – Travis Stolldorf, Geologist, North Dakota Geological Survey
Tyler Formation – Tim Nesheim (filling in for Jeff Brehm, Managing Member, Tall Cotton Petroleum)
Madison Targets in Saskatchewan & North Dakota
Arden Marsh, Petroleum Research Geologist Saskatchewan Geological Survey
Tim Nesheim, Geologist, North Dakota Geological Survey
Birdbear-Duperow (Devonian) – Jeff Bader, Geologist, North Dakota Geological Survey
Stonewall and Lower Interlake Formations (Silurian) – Tim Nesheim, Geologist, North Dakota Geological Survey
Helium Resources and Potential of the Phanerozoic Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Southern Saskatchewan – Melinda Yurkowski, Assistant Chief Geologist, Petroleum Geology, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy
Thursday, May 24
Welcome – Blu Hulsey, North Dakota Petroleum Council Chairman, Continental Resources (No presentation)
Congressman Kevin Cramer Video
World Supply/Demand – Linda Capuano, Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
Bakken Now! Production Growth & Infrastructure Needs – Lynn Helms, Director, Department of Mineral Resources
The Best Play Gets Better – Jack Stark, President, Continental Resources
High-Tech Oil Shale – Mike Henderson, Vice President, Resource Plays North, Marathon Oil
Bakken CEOs – What’s Next for the Williston Basin
Moderator: Ron Ness, President, North Dakota Petroleum Council
Resilience Against Volatility – Erec Isaacson, Vice President, Rockies Business Unit, ConocoPhillips
Bakken Strong: Our Cornerstone Asset – Thomas Nusz, Chairman and CEO, Oasis Petroleum
Why the Bakken? – Brad Holly, President and CEO, Whiting Petroleum Corporation
Politics & America 2018 – J.C. Watts, Chairman, J.C. Watts Companies (No presentation)