The agenda for the Shale Gas Drilling & Completions 2010 conference to be held May 26-27 is now online. The conference will “deliver key insight into applying cutting-edge drilling and completions techniques used throughout diverse shale projects in the US & Canada. Leading shale producers will share real life examples of their drilling and completions success and challenges – including experience from the Barnett, Haynesville, Horn River, Marcellus, Woodford and Fayetteville shale plays.”

How long will the new natural gas shale plays be producing gas? 20 years? 40? More? This topic was discussed at IHS CERA conference last week in Houston. Some believe that they will be producing gas for a long time.

“The U.S. Department of Energy announces the release of Modern Shale Gas Development in the United States: A Primer. The Primer provides regulators, policy makers, and the public with an objective source of information on the technology advances and challenges that accompany deep shale gas development.” Quoted from fossil.energy.gov. Download the .pdf

Ziff Energy Group has a press release on their website predicting that unconventional gas plays now active across North America will account for 53% of the continent’s gas production by 2020.

This article from the Calgary Herald reviews some of the Montney Formation and Muskwa Shale natural gas projects in play in British Columbia. The  author of this article clearly understands that there has been a sea change in the natural gas industry over the past two or three years.

Trivello Energy Corporation, Apache Corporation and Encana have been drilling the Muskwa Shale in Northeastern British Columbia. More in a story at Stockhouse.com.

Apache Corporation, partnering with EnCana drilled three horizontal wells in the Muskwa Shale as part of theor Ootla play in northeast British Columbia, Canada. These wells had test-flows of 8.8 million cubic feet per day, 6.1 million cubic feet per day and 5.3 million cubic feet per day according to an Apache news release.