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8:45 AM | APGA Breakfast (Located in the Southern Art Restaurant in the Intercontinental Buckhead Hotel)
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| 7:30 AM |
8:45 AM | Networking with the Industry: Registration & Continental Breakfast
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| 8:45 AM |
9:00 AM | Welcome & Overview
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| 9:00 AM |
10:00 AM | Opening Keynote: Natural Gas: Where do we go from here?
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Mr. Orlando Alvarez, Chairman and President of BP America, BP Energy Company - (Speaking Virtually)
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10:40 AM | Presentation: Can’t Keep a Good Man Down- The Resilience of US Natural Gas Supply and Things to Watch in 2021
 Click here for details.Expectations coming into winter of last year were for US natural gas supply to see declines through the winter and into 1H 2021 as reduced activity in the basins took its toll. The reality turned out to be yet another testament to how robust natural gas production truly is in the US. We will walk through some of the factors that lead to the stickiness of production along with key themes to watch going forward that will influence the rate of future growth.
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11:10 AM | Networking Break
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12:30 PM | Panel: Emerging Opportunities and Threats for End Users
Click here for details.This panel will identify practical realities of the latest opportunities and threats facing end users of natural gas, including accommodating increasing share of renewables, resiliency concerns and solutions and local municipal natural gas bans. The discussion will include perspectives from various industry value chain segments, including end user, utility, marketer as well as industry association.
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| 12:30 PM |
2:00 PM | Keynote Lunch: Enlightened Energy
Click here for details.Discussion of market fundamentals including supply/demand dynamics, recent past performance, inter-basin supply competition, demand projections (domestic, export), evolving flow patterns, domestic and global price implications, as well as policy and public influences. Will include particular focus on expectations for post-Pandemic demand recovery. Impact of weather will be addressed including long-range forecasting and hurricane activity. Also discussion on use of new technologies to streamline transactions across the value chain.
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3:15 PM | Panel: Supply Demand & Market Fundamentals - Are We Out Of The Woods Yet?
Click here for details.Discussion of market fundamentals including supply/demand dynamics, recent past performance, inter-basin supply competition, demand projections (domestic, export), evolving flow patterns, domestic and global price implications, as well as policy and public influences. Will include particular focus on expectations for post-Pandemic demand recovery. Impact of weather will be addressed including long-range forecasting and hurricane activity. Also discussion on use of new technologies to streamline transactions across the value chain.
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Mr. Dan Leonard, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Company, an IBM Business - (Speaking Virtually)
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Mr. Sam Andrus, Executive Director, North American Gas, IHS Markit - (Speaking Virtually)
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| 3:15 PM |
3:45 PM | Networking Break
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5:15 PM | Panel: New Business Applications Complementing The Traditional Natural Gas Value Chain
Click here for details.ESG and low carbon footprint requirements are demanding creativity in delivery of energy to markets. This panel explores novel new business applications and technologies that offer to complement the traditional natural gas value chain. The range of business and cost-saving applications to be explored includes non-pipeline alternatives (NPAs), micro-LNG, peak-shaving LNG, CNG, pipeline energy recovery (PERTM), and we will even explore GreenERTM Hydrogen as it relates to the natural gas business. Includes case studies and relevant metrics.
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Mr. Zachary Shaaban, Sr. BD & Sales Representative, CenterPoint Energy - Mobile Energy Solutions
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Mr. Seong Oh, Business Development Manager, Chart Industries, Inc.
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7:15 PM | Cocktail Reception hosted by the Sponsors
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