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The key to maximizing the economics of any play - getting good results while not spending a lot of money on drilling - according to speaking Bill Boykin, vice president of business development of NuTech Energy Alliance, "is to study existing data and develop the smartest possible strategy before you even put the bit in the ground."

Hart Energy's DUO 2012 panel, "Assessing Oily Shales" addressed regional geology, reservoirs studies and industry understanding of two western plays, Bakken and Niobrara. According to speaker Professor Steven Sonnenberg's unconventional checklist, both plays have sweet spots, continuous accumulations, are hydrocarbon saturated and abnormally pressured, have low permeability and porosity, big generation windows and large volumes of oil or gas in place.

David Pescod: We are with Allen Howard, President and CEO with NuTech Energy Alliance out of Houston, Texas and he’s got some serious expertise in the shale plays. But first, Allen, a little background on NuTech and I hear you are awfully busy these days with the explosion of interest in shale oil and gas…

Allen Howard: That’s correct Dave. NuTech has been in business for 14 years as a company; we have grown it from my kitchen table into a firm of about 100 employees with 55 engineers and 15 geoscientists. We have offices in several places around the world, and we are about to open an office in Canada this year, to be based in Calgary.

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Beginning in September, NuTech is expanding its services by offering Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure (MICP) core analysis services to its clients. Allen Howard, NuTech’s President and CEO, states “This is an exciting technology to add to NuTech’s family of services. A standardized core analysis benefits NuTech in so many ways. First, it ensures consistency in both core processing and reservoir interpretation. Second, it enhances NuTech’s predictive solutions. This is very valuable to our clients as they continue to look for guidance while exploring unconventional opportunities.”

May was a big month for presentations that promoted the NuTech product. FIV (Fracture Intensity Vision) was the topic of a talk given at the Mississippian Carbonate Conference in Norman, Oklahoma in mid-May. This conference, which was attended by over 200 individuals, focused on one of the hottest horizontal plays in the Mid Continent. That same week, a presentation was given at the Oil Shales Forum in Dallas dealing with the petrophysical variability of the Eagle Ford formation across the trend.

Global Geophysical Services, Inc. (NYSE: GGS) today announced that it has launched, in partnership with NuTech Energy Alliance, Ltd. (NuTech), a new multi client product offering that provides an integrated earth model for over 6 million acres of the Eagle Ford shale in Southwest Texas, built from multidisciplinary geosciences and engineering data spanning cores to well logs to seismic data. The product will provide unrivalled insight into the most prospective areas of this prolific shale play supporting local exploitation, regional understanding, leasehold acquisition and M&A.