Immediately after the networking activity on Monday, stop by and join us in the Bunker Hill Foyer 2nd Floor of the Omni Los Angeles Hotel for drinks and networking!

For the past several years, Colorado has been the epicenter of the fight over responsible oil and natural gas production as out-of-state activists and outside money have pushed local bans on hydraulic fracturing and an extreme statewide setback. In 2018, Colorado voters rejected the 2,500-foot setback measure but efforts continue to regulate and restrict the industry, including sweeping reforms passed by the Colorado legislature this year. The lessons learned in Colorado are becoming more applicable across the country. In this session, you will find out what industry has done in Colorado to try and create a more stable and predictable political and regulatory environment.

The Utah Governor’s Office of Energy Development (OED) is committed to advancing Utah’s energy and minerals economies for the provision of affordable, reliable, and sustainable outcomes that promote rural and urban economic growth. This is accomplished through adhering to an all of the above energy policy to supports the use of all energy sectors for project and infrastructure development. OED continues to provide agency leadership for advancing natural gas development and policies in order to advocate and engage stakeholders throughout the western region. The Western States and Tribal Nations Rural Natural Gas Initiative (WSTN), is a strategic partnership between government and industry stakeholders that in formalized through a memorandum of understanding between, Utah, Wyoming, Ute Tribal Nation, and Colorado Counties; Mesa, Rio Blanco, Moffat and Garfield. The WSTN has identified two key west coast LNG facilities in its recent report that will generate significant export opportunities for western states natural gas. Western natural gas developments and west coast LNG facilities are aligned for increased rural job growth, economic diversity, infrastructure development, tribal self-determination, access to global markets and environmental stewardship.

Electric Generation Fuel Switching Dynamic
Natural Gas Supply vs Demand Management
Exploding Pipelines: California’s Natural Gas Infrastructure Approach
California’s “Smugness Bill 100” (SB 100)
•What are they smoking?
•Disconnecting from Natural Gas
•Solving a “global” issue California-style
•Is it Affordable?
The Nuclear Option
California’s Retail Power Rates

An overview of energy fundamentals, with a specific emphasis on Western natural gas markets. The discussion also includes a review of the current regulatory environment and international events contributing to the evolving energy landscape.

•The Promise of the Permian: Managing growth in Lower 48’s most promising basin
•Western Canada production outlook and challenges: LNG / Regulatory Concerns
•Capitalizing on Opportunities and navigating Challenges in marketing natural gas to the West
•Rockies production and Decarbonization: Supply flow changes and realistic goals

Alternatives methods for delivery of natural gas where/when traditional pipelines and distribution systems are unavailable or impractical. Including natural gas fueling systems and virtual pipeline arrangements, leveraging truck transport of LNG and CNG.

Please join our hosts, the Corporate Sponsors, at a cocktail reception in your honor. Don’t make your dinner plans too early as hors d’oeuvres and an open bar will be the highlight of this extremely well attended session!

How can we best balance the equally important needs of equality, environment, economy, and a truly sustainable energy future?

•Industrial and PowerGen end use gas buyers discuss natural gas supply requirements including deliver-ability concerns and rate-able take requirements in support of renewables. Topics of discussion to include:

1. What buying or pricing strategies are you currently employing, for instance, what if any long-term purchases are you making or how are you managing the hedging activities?

2. What are the important issues/challenges for your LDC/company/industry in both the short-term and the long-term? How will your LDC/company/industry meet these challenges?

3. How has the recent low-cost commodity environment impacted expectations of and communications with end-users and regulators?

4. Were there any developments this winter that caused you to look at storage and firm transportation differently? Discuss how and why. What will you do differently to prepare for the winter of 2019/2020 based on low storage injection projections?

5. How have exports to Mexico and LNG Exports impacted the current natural gas market in the West?

6. Are the planned Permian pipeline projects enough to affect the current basis? What do you foresee as a result of the recent pipeline expansion and/or project delays?

7. How are Canadian flows impacting natural gas in the Northwest / West?

8. How has the impact of the Aliso Canyon and SoCal outages affected the region and gas buying in the region?

9. Approximately 40% of the U.S. Coal power plant capacity has shut down since 2010 and this trend doesn’t appear to be changing.

a. Does your company have plans to shut down coal plants and will gas be used to replace this generation?
b. Have other utilities that you transact with shutdown coal and has that changed your gas or power sales with them?

10. Has the growth in renewable power generation impacted your gas demand? If so, how?

11. How do you see utility scale batteries (energy storage) impacting your gas demand – in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years?

12. What factors, other than price, influence your decision to choose one supplier over another?

Immediately after the networking activity on Monday, stop by and join us in the Bunker Hill Foyer 2nd Floor of the Omni Los Angeles Hotel for drinks and networking!

•The California Public Utilities Commission’s job is to assure that California is served with sufficient resources, at reasonable rates, and that we meet clean energy mandates.
•California’s energy market is in flux – so how do we accomplish our mission in a changing world?  
•In the near term, what market design changes might assure sufficient affordable generation – from natural gas-fired and renewable resources – to meet demand in the next several years?
•By 2030 and beyond, California is moving toward an electric sector that emits nearly zero greenhouse gas emissions. What role does natural gas play in that future?

•Kinder Morgan Overview
•Key Trends in the US Natural Gas Market
•West Region Power Generation Trends
•Implications of Residential Electrification
•Summary

-The natural gas supply “glut”
-Retail vs wholesale natural gas prices
-California natural gas infrastructure failures
-California’s renewable portfolio standard

Understanding this dynamic & complicated market - Rockies & West market fundamentals
This panel examines market fundamentals at work resulting in dynamics impacting the Rockies & West region. Perspectives will be provided from a major midstream infrastructure operator, a major not-for-profit water and energy utility, a leading market analyst, and a natural gas price data and news provider!!

Please join our hosts, the Corporate Sponsors, at a cocktail reception in your honor. Don’t make your dinner plans too early as hors d’oeuvres and an open bar will be the highlight of this extremely well attended session!

This year marks a decade since the start of the US shale gas revolution — when broad-based commercial reserve development of shale resources fundamentally altered the industry, ultimately reframing market views on gas price formation. Once shaped by chronic shortages and growing import dependency, US natural gas prices have more recently been influenced by periods of prolonged surplus with a more recent imperative for exports to rebalance the domestic market. Looking ahead, it is clear that in order to avoid another decade of price-driven supply accommodation (a decade-long buyer’s market, if you will), gas suppliers will need to better align growth with consumer requirements. Given a deeper understanding of the geology, gas producers would appear up to the task. Yet, we expect that balancing act ahead will be complicated by oil producers given record associated gas on top fluctuating demand growth.

•PSEP Program Progression & Operational Improvements

Our gas buyer panelists will give you solid and valuable insight into what is currently working, what they have learned from volatility and what they will do differently next time. Topics of discussion to include:

1) What buying or pricing strategies are you currently employing, for instance, what if any long-term purchases are you making or how are you managing the hedging activities?

2) What are the important issues/challenges for your LDC/company/industry in both the short-term and the long-term? How will your LDC/company/industry meet these challenges?

3) Has FERC Order No. 849 adopted in rulemaking docket RM18-11, Rate Changes Relating to Federal Income Tax Rate, and the requirement for interstate pipelines to file Form No. 501-G had any impact on your business?

4) How has the recent low-cost commodity environment impacted expectations of and communications with end-users and regulators?

5) Were there any developments this winter that caused you to look at storage and firm transportation differently? Discuss how and why. What will you do differently to prepare for the winter of 2018/2019 based on low storage injection projections? 

6) How have exports to Mexico impacted the current natural gas market in the West?

7) Are the planned Permian pipeline projects enough to affect the current basis? What do you foresee as a result of the recent pipeline expansion and/or project delays?

8) How are Canadian Imports impacting natural gas in the Northwest / West. How could the proposed LNG Methanol exports in the NW impact the region? 

9) How has the impact of the Aliso Canyon and SoCal outages affected the region and gas buying in the region?

10) What tools and assets would you like to have access to as an end-user to improve your ability to manage your energy portfolio

11) What factors, other than price, influence your decision to choose one supplier over another?