Exploration, Evaluation and Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbons

Day 1
a. Defining an Unconventional Play
b. Useful Screening Criteria
c. Building an Unconventional Play Map
d. Yet-to-Find Methods and Reality Checks
e. Estimating In-Place Volumes
Day 2
f. Estimating Play Chance
g. Mapping, Ranking, and Identifying Sweet Spots
h. Probability, Distributions, and Correlations
i. Estimating the Range of the Average
j. Quantifying Uncertainty and Mitigating Bias
Day 3
k. Aggregation and Its Derivative Products
l. Quantifying the Value of Information Work Processes
m. Discipline Workflows
n. Economics and the Single Well Cashflow Model
o. Estimating Resources and Reserves
Day 4
p. Applying a Staged Approach (using Decision Trees and Stage Gates)
q. Introduction to ProjectRA (a fully-probabilistic cash flow tool)
r. Case Study Posters (evaluated by Teams)
i. Shale gas, liquids-rich shales, carbonates, sandstones