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1st Annual Shale Gas Producers Conference New York City, Oct. 6, 2008

Conference Agenda

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7:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:00 Welcome & Speaker Introductions

8:15 Opening Keynote Address

  • The latest intelligence on shale gas production potentials?
  • Fundamental steps to evaluate the productivity and overall success of a shale project
  • Where are the top shale gas producing regions for your company?
  • What are their general characteristics, production profiles, and economics
  • Where is future shale gas exploration and production activity expected to take place?

8:45 U.S. Shale Gas Plays:  Moving Forward with Development

  • What are the most developed shale plays in the US?
  • The economics of the Barnett, Woodford, Marcellus, Bakken, Fayetteville and other established shale plays?
  • Emerging shale plays: reservoir characteristics, economics, and likely success?
  • Land acquisition and costs?
  • Infrastructure and Technology?
  • Environmental, regulatory, and other issues affecting continued development?

9:45 Coffee Break

10:00 Canadian Shale Gas Plays:  What the Recent Buzz is All About

  • Canadian shale play reserves, potentials, and production?
  • Status of current development in Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba?
  • Economics of shale play development in Canada?
  • Drilling and completions techniques
  • Environmental, regulatory, and other issues affecting continued development?
  • Where to from here?

11:00 Servicing the Producers:  Making development happen on both sides of the border

  • Does the necessary service infrastructure exist today?
  • Drilling and completions techniques; fracing fluids and technologies.  Are there analogies that can be used to shorten the learning curve?
  • What techniques are used to measure gas-in-place and the percentage that is deemed ‘recoverable’?
  • What are the shale play characteristics that make a land section appealing?
  • How much of the U.S. activity is getting outsourced to service firms? Is this trend expected to continue into Canada?
  • Determining the number of pilot wells to drill to assess commercial feasibility
  • Does the gathering, processing and transportation infrastructure exist to
  • handle the production?  How to assess the capabilities and value of an infrastructure partner
  • Complexities of early stage projects, understanding the lead times to complete grass roots infrastructure projects, including governmental and other regulatory matters

12:00 Lunch & Keynote Address

How to turn a high potential pilot into a commercial success: common steps to streamline production

  • How do the basins you operate in compare with the Barnett?
  • What other regions are expected to provide future benchmarks in productivity?
  • What are XTO’s recent shale play development and results?
  • What additional gas gathering and compression infrastructure is required to be a commercial producer?
  • Identifying optimal well-spacing to best develop shale reserves: what are the regulations on well-spacing from basin to basin?
  • Where is the industry heading?

1:00 Conference Concludes

1:15 One-on-One Investor Meetings (30 minutes/meeting)

6:00 Investor Meetings Conclude