| 7:00 am - 6:30 pm | Conference Registration |
| 7:00 am - 6:30 pm | Speaker/Moderator Resource Center Open |
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:00 am - 8:15 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Luke Geiver, Managing Editor, The Bakken magazine
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| 8:15 am - 8:45 am | Keynote Address
The American Energy Renaissance and the U.S. Export Solution
- Gary Gould, Senior Vice President of Operations, Continental Resources Inc.
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| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | Evolution of the Bakken
- John Harju, Associate Director for Research, Energy & Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota
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| 9:15 am - 9:30 am | The $4 Billion Project: Bakken Gas Used for Manufacturing Plant
- William Gilliam, CEO, Badlands NGLs LLC
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| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | North Dakota Oil and Gas Update
- Alison Ritter, Public Information Officer, North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources
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| 10:00 am - 6:30 pm | Expo Open |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Refreshment Break in the Expo |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Tribal-Based Exploration and Production
- David Williams, CEO, Missouri River Resources
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| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | General Session Roundtable
Industry Insight: Decision Makers Talk the State of the Bakken
Moderator: Luke Geiver, Managing Editor, The Bakken magazine - Kathy Neset, Owner, Geologist, Neset Consulting Services
- Brandon Elliott, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy, Northern Oil & Gas Inc.
- Dan Eberhart, CEO, Canary Wellhead
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| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch in the Expo |  |
| 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm | Exploration and Production
The Hawkinson Unit and the Bakken Production Optimization Program
Moderator: Luke Geiver, Managing Editor, The Bakken magazine - Heath Mireles, Manager Resources Development, Continental Resources
- John Harju, Associate Director for Research, Energy & Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota
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| 2:15 pm – 2:30 pm | Exploration and Production
Proppant Frackonomics in the Bakken: Selecting a Technically, Environmentally and Economically Sound Proppant under Depressed Commodity Prices
- Tihana Fuss-Dezelic, Global Marketing Manager, Saint-Gobain Proppants
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| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Exploration and Production
Breaking Down the Best Completions in the Bakken
- Bilu Cherian, Director, Reservoir Engineering, Sanjel
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| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Refreshment Break in the Expo |  |
| 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Exploration and Production
The Future of Hydraulic Fracturing
- Hema Prapoo, Senior Account Manager, Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services
New Perforating Switch Technology Advances Horizontal Completions - Mahmoud Asadi, Director of Technology, Oil & Gas, Praxair Services Inc.
Energized Fluids and Dryfrac - Jeremy Dockter, Co-founder & Managing Director, Expansion Energy
Fracturing with Natural Gas Instead of Water: Economic and Environmental Benefits - Dax Cornelius, CEO, Torrid Technologies Group
Achieving New Efficiencies through Advanced Water Heating Methods
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| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Presentation
To Be Announced |
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Networking Reception in the Expo |
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Bert's Bakken Bash |  |