USTAR and SPESaltLake Petroleum
UtahOil Shale Resources and Technology Update
Thursday, November 13, 2008
The Leonardo
209 East 500 South,
Salt Lake City, UT84011
The Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Salt Lake Petroleum Section are hosting a one-half day workshop on oil shale in Utah. The workshop will be from 8:45 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. on November 13, 2008. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Registration and continental breakfast start at 8:00 a.m. The entrance fee is $30.00, to partially defray expenses. The venue is the Leonardo, 209 East 500 South, Salt Lake City,Utah84011 ( The agenda is shown below. There will be 15 minute presentations with questions covering the resource, technologies, environmental and processing. For further information, please contact John McLennan, at 801-634-4412 .
To register, go to
Agenda
8:00-8:30 Registrationand Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:35Welcome and Logistics Craig Buschmann, Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP, (SPE Chairperson)
8:35-8:45USTAR and Oil ShaleTed McAleer, USTAR Director
8:45-9:05 Oil Shale Development Policy Jared Brown, Senator Hatch’s Office
9:05-9:25Oil Shale: An IntroductionSteve Schamel, GeoX Consulting
9:25-9:45Basin-wide Evaluation of the Uppermost Green River Formation's Oil-Shale Resource, Uinta Basin, UT and COMike Vandenberg, Utah Geological Survey
9:45-10:05Technical Aspects of Producing Oil from Oil ShaleMilind Deo, Department of Chemical Engineering,University of Utah
10:05-10:20 Break
10:20-10:40Environmental Technologies Applicable to Shale DevelopmentPhil Smith, Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, University of Utah (ICSE)
10:40-11:00OSEC’s White River ProjectGary Aho, OSEC
11:00-11:20Environmental, Alternative FuelsLaura Nelson, EcoShale
11:20-11:35 DOE Loan Guarantee Program Steve Richards, CAPPA
11:35-12:30 Lunch
12:15-1:00 Featured Luncheon SpeakerTracy Boyd, Communications and Sustainability Manager, Shell Exploration & Production Co. –Shell’s Unconventional OilMahogany Research Project - Technology to Secure our Energy Future
Registration
Registration is $30.00 (plus a $0.99 on-line fee). Registration closes at 5:00 p.m. on November 12, 2008. To register, go to
If there are any questions or concerns please contact John McLennan, Salt Lake Petroleum Sectionof SPE Secretary at 801-634-4412 (mobile) or 801-587-7925 (office) or .
While online registration ispreferred so that attendance can be tracked, if it is necessary to register by check, please makechecks payable to “SPE” and remit $30.00 to:
Dr. David Handwerger
SPESaltLake Petroleum Section Treasurer
C/O TerraTek Inc., a Schlumberger Company
PioneerBusinessPark
1935 South Freemont Drive
Salt Lake City, UT84104
Sponsorship
The sponsorship of various organizations is gratefully acknowledged. These are USTAR, SPE, TerraTek, A Schlumberger Company, the Energy Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah and Idaho National Laboratory.
Ted McAleer
Ted McAleer is currently the Executive Director of the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative. Prior to assuming this position, Ted was the Director of Business Development for University of Utah's Technology Venture Development organization. Ted has 20 years of experience in technology innovation; business development; product, services and operations management in both start-up and mature corporations. He has been Chief Operating Officer for Teleoptic Digital Imaging, LLC and the Sr. Director of Implementation services at Campus Pipeline, Inc. He also has worked for SunGard SCT, Procter and Gamble, Pepsi Co. and the US Army. He holds a MBA from HarvardBusinessSchool, a Master of Engineering from the University of Virginia and BS in Engineering Management from the United StatesMilitaryAcademy at West Point.
Steven Schamel
Steven Schamel is Principal with GeoX Consulting Inc, a Salt Lake City firm specializing in unconventional gas and oil resources, renovation of mature oil fields, and regional oil and gas resource assessments. He formerly was Research Professor and Associate Director in the PetroleumResearchCenter and the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah. He was 2006-2007 President of the AAPG-Rocky Mountain Section. Dr. Schamel was educated at FranklinMarshallCollege and YaleUniversity.
Michael D. Vanden Berg
Michael D. Vanden Berg is a Project Geologist for the Energy and Minerals Program of the Utah Geological Survey. He is the principal researcher for all UGS studies concerning Utah’s vast oil shale deposits, and also works on several other energy-related projects involving conventional oil and gas and coal. Mike received a Bachelor’s degree in geology from CalvinCollege in Grand Rapids, MI and a Master’s in geology from the University of Utah.
Milind Deo
Milind Deois a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. He is the Director of Petroleum Research Center, whose mission is to conduct research for efficient production, transportation and processing of oil and gas. His research interests include oil and gas characterization and thermodynamics, reservoir engineering and enhanced oil recovery and oil processing. His current projects include wax and asphaltene precipitation and flow assurance, reservoir simulation of highly complex fractured/faulted reservoirs, carbon dioxide sequestration, and heavy oil production from oil sands and oil shale. He is also the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering where he coordinates the academic activities of the College.
Philip J. Smith
Professor Philip J. Smith is the director of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE), a multidisciplinary research program for understanding the technical, policy and environmental issues for clean oil shale, oil sands and coal utilization. He is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. For the past11 years Prof. Smith has also been responsible for the hydrocarbon fire simulation aspects of CSAFE, the Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions. CSAFE is one of five DOE funded Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC)university alliance centers with the purpose of advancing simulation science pedagogy.
Gary Aho
Gary Aho has consulted for the Oil Shale Exploration Company since 2005 and currently serves as the company’s Vice President of Operations. From 1969 through 2003 Mr. Aho was employed by Cleveland-Cliffs, largest iron ore mining company in North America. He spent the first 10 years doing exploration, research and engineering in the mining division in Michigan. Beginning in 1974 he was also assigned to assist the company’s western office that was involved in oil shale, uranium and other diversification activities. In 1979 he was transferred to Rifle, Colorado as the Chief Engineer of the Western Division. In 1980 he was named Manger-Oil Shale and Vice President/Manager of Cliffs Engineering. In 1982 he became the Manager-Western Division, VP of Cliffs Oil Shale Corp. and VP of Cliffs Synfuel Corp. In 1997 he was named: President and Director of Cliffs Oil Shale Corp., Cliffs Synfuel Corp. and Cliffs Copper Corp., all subsidiaries of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. In 2003 Mr. Aho took an early retirement and formed his own consulting company Sage Geotech Inc. located in Rifle, Colorado, consulting on oil shale projects, environmental remediation projects, exploration programs and land management issues. He has a B.S. and M.S in Geophysics from MichiganTechnologicalUniversity. He was a 1997 inductee into Michigan Tech’s Academy of Geological Sciences.
Laura Nelson
Dr. Laura Nelson joined Red Leaf Resources as its Vice President of Energy and Environmental Development in October 2007. As the former Co-Chair of the U.S. Strategic Unconventional Fuels Task Force, Dr. Nelson brings with her an extensive background on energy issues and has solid track record of developing proactive energy policies and strategies.From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Nelson was Energy Advisor to Utah's Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. Dr. Nelson participated as state representative in the review of RD&D proposals for Oil Shale commercial demonstration leases in Utah and as a cooperating agent provided input, review and evaluation of the Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic Environmental Impact Study. She was responsible for identifying and supporting regulatory projects to promote better land use while realizing increased energy production and improved environmental quality. Dr. Nelson is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oil Shale Industry Committee. As Energy Advisor in Utah, she served as a representative to the Western Interstate Energy Board. She was also elected to the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System Board and served as the Western Governor’s representative of the Federal Royalty Policy Committee.
Steve Richards
Mr. Richards is currently a Managing Director of Capitol Project Partners, LLC, (CAPPA) a Washington, D.C. based firm providing business development expertise in U.S. and international markets. Prior to founding CAPPA, Mr. Richards served as the Director of International Energy Market Development at the United States Department of Energy (2002-2005) responsible for developing policy and initiatives to deploy clean energy technology worldwide. He currently serves as the membership chairman of the International Clean Energy Alliance an organization focused on industry collaboration with policymakers to accelerate the international deployment of clean energy technologies and to spur global investment in clean energy markets.
Tracy C. Boyd
Tracy C. Boyd is the Communications and Sustainability Manager for Shell Exploration and Production Company’s Unconventional Oil group in DenverColorado. He is responsible for managing issues including external affairs, social performance, socioeconomics, workforce development; and assuring that a long-term balance of environmental protection and social responsibility is integrated with the business. Tracy has been with Shell since 1982, and he has degrees from MontanaStateUniversity in Fisheries and Wildlife Management (BS, 1978) and Civil (Environmental) Engineering (MS, 1982).