Presentations

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Scott W. Tinker, Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, and State Geologist of Texas
"Natural Gas: Fortune or Folly" 

Ms. Katherine Lorenz, President and Treasurer of The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
“George P. Mitchell: The Power of Individuals to Change the World”

Session 1: Outlook for natural gas supply   Download all presentations in this session

John B. Curtis, Colorado School of Mines
"U.S. Natural Gas Supply:  A View from the Potential Gas Committee"   Download presentation slides

Richard Nehring, Nehring Associates
"The Myth of 100 Years of Gas Supply"  Download presentation slides

Renee Orr, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
"The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and offshore natural gas resources"  Download presentation slides

David Pursell, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.
"Natural Gas Thoughts"  Download presentation slides

Session 2: Forecasts of natural gas demand  Download all presentations in this session

Eyal Aronoff, Fuel Freedom Foundation
"Refueling the future with Alcohol Fuels"  Download presentation slides

David Levinson, University of Minnesota
"Futures of Energy for Transportation"  Download presentation slides

Kenneth Medlock, Rice University
"Natural Gas Demand:  Outlooks and Implications"  Download presentation slides

Session 3: Environmental, health, and safety issues  Download all presentations in this session

Mark Brownstein, Environmental Defense Fund
"Natural Gas in a Low Carbon Future:  Environmental Opportunities & Challenges"  Download presentation slides

Doug Jordan, Southwestern Energy
"Health, Safety, and Environmental - Building Collaboration and Culture"  Download presentation slides

Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future
"The health and environmental impacts of shale gas development:  What we know and don't"  Download presentation slides

Session 4: Drivers of and barriers to natural gas development in North America  Download all presentations in this session

Lawrence Bengal, Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission  Download presentation slides

Kitty Milliken, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas
"Seeing Reservoir Quality at the Appropriate Scale:  A Look at Tools for High-resolution Imaging and Our Evolving Understanding of Pore-Scale Processes in Fine-grained Systems"  Download presentation slides

Randy Randolph, Southern Gas Association
"Politics & Public Opinion: The Natural Gas Conundrum"  Download presentation slides