Oil & Gas Water Management Strategies

Join Dave Collyer, President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, at the CI Energy Group’s Oil & Gas Water Management Strategies conference on January 30 in Calgary, when he will speak about industry’s continued commitment to report, measure and improve overall performance. He will highlight industry’s commitment to advancing shale gas development in Canada in a manner that ensures responsible environmental outcomes, especially as it relates to water use. Further supporting CAPP’s Guiding Principles for Hydraulic Fracturing, Mr. Collyer will share the newly developed Operating Practices that put the Guiding Principles into practice.

• Analyzing how to better manage water systems across the oil and gas sector while meeting environmental and industrial requirements
• Examining the cumulative effects and regulatory challenges for license approvals
• Updates on the Land-Use Planning Framework and Water for Life Strategy: How will these policies come together?
• What are the affects of regional planning for the future of water use?

• The importance of integration of your Water Management Plan: “Finessing” your water management
• Staging of water management plan when water resources are limited
• When does overhead become a corporate asset?
• You can't manage what you don't understand – the need for data
• Reuse of flowback and produced water – When is it more trouble than it is worth?
• Reducing capital costs of water management through joint ventures & cross-sector opportunities
• Removing impediments to water access in a changing regulatory setting

• Outlining a development strategy to optimize the usage of flowback and recycled water
• Developing an water handling infrastructure to create significant cost reduction
• Optimizing completions for maximized productivity and reduced water requirements
• Examining options and challenges for alternative water sources

• Examining Geoscience BC’s water column inventory research projects on:
  • The Horn River Basin
  • The Montney Play
• Assessing future research priorities in water inventory

• Determining the benefits of delegating responsibility for water on site to an external water expert
• Examining risk transfer options and performance guarantees
• Exploring financial models and freeing capital for core business expenses
• Assessing environmental responsibility and reuse solutions, while optimizing asset functions
• EPCOR & Suncor partnership – A case study

• Building recycle schemes to treat and reuse water based on the quality and quantity available
• Addressing water quality management challenges: understanding the quality of water needed for production
• Investigating the state of expanding industrial development on our water supply
• Meeting requirements and gaining approvals to avoid substantial project delays

• Learning about Talisman's Operating Principals for its global shale business
• How Talisman incorporates conservation and protection of fresh water in its operations
• Setting quantitative continuous improvement goals for Operational Principals and transparently reporting our progress against these metrics
• Assessing the fit for Talisman’s Operational Principals to your management practices

• Preparing for the impacts of regulatory initiatives in Alberta and British Columbia
• Examining significant water issues arising from oil and gas activities
• Understanding cumulative effects – what does this mean in Alberta and British Columbia
• Determining prospects and effects on water management for usage and disposal under:
  • Alberta's developing Regional Land Use Planning Frameworks
  • British Columbia's Living Water Smart Plan

• Tailings management practices in surface mined oil sands: past, present and future
• Identification of water requirements and the quality and quantity needed for production and/or discharge
• Understanding the shortcomings of a proscriptive approach to water and tailings management
• Incorporating stake holder involvement from the planning stage to avoid delays

• Presentation of the Aqueduct global water risk measurement and mapping tool
• Use of Aqueduct water stress maps and overlay maps of agricultural and electric power production to illustrate the water-food-energy nexus
• How the Aqueduct tool can be used by oil and gas companies to assess and respond to water-related risk

• Examining effective strategies to remove oil from produced water
• Assessing the best management practices for efficiently treating produced water in SAGD operations
• Discussing innovative technologies and techniques to develop sources of water for the future
• Understanding the importance and value of water balance for SAGD productions