Geomechanics:
Geomechanical Experiments & Modeling for CCS Sites in Australia & SE Asia

Featuring: Dr. David Dewhurst
Description: This presentation will comprise two short talks highlighting different aspects of the use of geomechanics as part of the process of site evaluation for sub-surface CO₂ storage.

Geomechanics:
Principles & Challenges of Geomechanical Assessment of CO2 Storage Containment

Featuring: Dr. Mehrdad Soltanzadeh
Description: This talk explores the principles of geomechanical assessment of caprock integrity through reviewing a variety of CO₂ sequestration studies in Canada. 

Geomechanics:
Predictive Models of Potential Geomechanical Risks Related to CCS Storage in Depleted Gas Reservoirs

Featuring: Dr. Bogdan Orlic & Dr. Thibault Candela
Description: During this talk a collection of newly developed modelling strategies to forecast these risks will be presented.

Geomechanics:
Understanding Fractures & Faults in Geological Carbon Storage

Featuring: Dr. Pania Newell
Description: This study highlights that in addition to injection rate, wellbore orientation, and the number of faults in the domain play critical roles in caprock integrity.

Reservoir Evaluation & Production Optimization:
Gas Lift: Lessons Learned in Canadian Unconventional Shale Plays

Featuring: Dean Gordon
Description: The transition to understanding gas lift operations has not been without lessons learned and reestablishing industry best practices whilst writing new practices for the challenges on hand.

Young Professionals:
Data Science 101

Featuring: Roman Shor
Description: Data science is comprised of statistics, programming, data analysis, and visualization and Roman will explain how these interrelate through a series of examples using Python.

Health Safety Environment & Sustainability:
Is There A Future For Oil & Gas In A Net Zero World?

Featuring: Audrey Mascarenhas
Description: Our industry is facing mounting pressure from all sides to decarbonize. Regulations are getting tougher in response to public pressure and investors are pulling capital out of the oil and gas industry over concerns that assets may be left in the ground stranded.

Young Professionals:
Advanced Process Control (APC): Theory & Applications in SAGD

Featuring: Thiago Avila
Description: In today’s world of lower margins and reduced capital spending, it becomes increasingly important to leverage existing systems and knowledge to maximize the profitability of our operations in real-time. This is where the use of Advanced Process Control (APC) technology shines.

Reservoir Evaluation & Production Optimization:
An Examination of the Effects of Surface Data Acquisition Methods on Well Performance Evaluations and Completion Optimization

Featuring: Darryl Tompkins
Description: It is a common practice in the development of unconventional wells to change completions designs in an effort to determine which design works best in each area. Quite often a Rate Transient Analysis (“RTA”) of the flowback / early production data is used to evaluate how well performance is affected by changes in the completion design. 

Drilling & Completions:
Deep Earth Energy Production: An Overview of well design & testing considerations on Canada's first Geothermal Development

Featuring: Dave Brown P.Eng
Description: This talk will discuss well design and testing considerations/challenges for the exploration, appraisal and development wells associated with the DEEP geothermal development.

Young Professionals:
ESG - Past, Present, & Future

Featuring: Ciprian Georgescu and Griffin Smith
Description: ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) ratings are a system by which a company's sustainability or social responsibility are measured. As the world changes and investing changes, ESG ratings are becoming more impactful factors in the investment of capital. Given this trend, it is necessary to understand how ESG ratings started, how they are measured and what this means for the future.

Data Science & Analytics:
Data Innovative Machine Learning Approach at Unconventional Production Prediction: 
The Type-Curve Optimizing Geostatistical Array

Featuring: Shane Prochnow
Description: TOGA ties unconventional reservoir and well completion characteristics to historical production and makes robust predictions of well performance. TOGA is built on a foundational geologic framework and leverages random forest machine learning optimized for subsurface data sets.