ShaleTech 2013 brings together diverse range of technology and talent

Gulf Publishing Company’s fourth, annual ShaleTech conference serves as a specialized forum, which focuses the industry’s wide range of upstream activities to the increasingly important recovery of shale oil, gas and condensate. This conference provides opportunities for creators of new shale exploitation technologies to meet and network with those companies who are looking to put such technologies to work in the field.

JOHN BETZ, Associate Editor

David Porter, Texas Railroad Commissioner (left); David Blackmon, Managing Director, FTI Consulting.

From spudding to production, all stages of upstream, shale play development will be discussed in the extensive two-day lecture series. The conference’s keynote speakers include Texas Railroad Commissioner David Porter and oil and gas consultant David Blackmon. Mr. Blackmon is managing director of FTI Consulting. Mr. Porter became Texas Railroad Commissioner in 2010, after a successful career of providing accounting and tax services to oil and gas producers. Porter will speak in the morning of the first day, Blackmon will speak on the following morning.

ShaleTech attendees will have the opportunity to register for an exclusive pre-conference workshop on Aug. 28, hosted by Ali Daneshy, president of Daneshy Consultants Int’l, Inc. This year’s workshop is titled “Advanced hydraulic fracturing: Beyond the basics.” Attendees will learn new guidelines for better fracture designs that lead to superior production enhancement at lower cost. Built on actual field data, this workshop steps beyond simple theory and offers new insight on the topics of fracture initiation, extension, closure, proppant transport, conductivity and screen-outs.

The conference will be held August 28–30 at Norris Conference Centers – City Center in Houston, Texas.

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