Speakers

Andrew Perry – Events Director Oil & GAs Awards Limited

Andrew Perry has worked at the Oil & Gas Awards since their inception in 2012 and is responsible for dealing with all logistical proceedings for the Awards and Industry Summits. Andrew has worked for an array of the most prestigious global media companies delivering conferences and gala dinners for the last 15 years in locations globally.

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Alan Laurita – Partner, Oil & Gas Preactise Lead – Hodgson Russ LLP

Alan draws from more than 30 years of experience as an attorney and former business executive in the oil and gas industry to assist oil and gas companies in the full range of their legal needs. His experience includes representing exploration and production companies in all aspects of the domestic oil and gas industry. He has also represented larger landowners in connection with leasing property for oil and gas development, and landowner organizations in connection with oil and gas issues. His real estate practice includes handling the sale and purchase of real property and representing lending institutions and borrowers in secured loan transactions.

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Brian Kalt – CEO – Fairmont Brine

Brian Kalt currently serves as the president of Fairmont Brine Processing, located in Fairmont, WV. Brian is an experienced oil and gas professional with a passion for getting companies through the “ramp up” phase. Before joining Fairmont, he played a critical role in taking a water treatment company from startup to fully operational in support of hydraulic fracturing operations for exploration and production companies. After almost 200 horizontal wells in the Eagle Ford, Delaware and Permian Basin, Brian decided it was time for a change of scenery (and weather) and moved to Pittsburgh, where he could utilize his prior experience in the Utica and Marcellus.

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Bruce McKay – Senior Energy Policy Director, State and Local Affairs – Dominion

Dominion [NYSE: D] is one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 26,400 megawatts of generation, 14,600 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline, and 6,600 miles of electric transmission lines. Dominion operates one of the nation’s largest natural gas storage systems with 1 trillion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves more than 6 million utility and retail energy customers.

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Charles Schliebs – Managing Director – Stone Pier Capital Advisors, LP

Charlie Schliebs has over 30 years of experience as a dealmaker and strategic advisor in a variety of industries, first as a lawyer and then as an investment, venture capital and private equity professional. Following graduation from the Wharton School and Vanderbilt Law School, Charlie returned to his hometown of Kansas City and joined the firm of Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi [now Husch Blackwell], a pre-eminent law firm in the Midwest with a premier corporate and securities practice.

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Des Murphy – BD Technology Manager – Halliburton

Des has worked for Halliburton for the last 20 years in a number of roles across multiple continents. in more recent years has been focused as a Senior Technical Services Advisor and Regional Technical Manager. Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry.

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Dr. Chad Daloia – President – Comtech Industries

Dr. Chad Daloia serves as a proud member of our talented executive team. Through a unique program at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA) focusing on business dynamics, leadership development, and team performance, Dr. Daloia defended his dissertation and received his doctorate in May 2009. His experience as a former high level educational administrator has allowed him to transition the skill sets of leading public corporations into a successful business strategy.

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Fred Lowther – Partner – Blank Rome LLP

Fred Lowther devotes his career primarily to the development of large energy and natural resource projects in the United States and abroad. He focuses his practice on domestic and international energy, water supply projects and transactions, and general counseling of energy companies in all sectors of the industry. His work on water supply issues involves both structuring projects and litigating over water rights. He also focuses his practice on counseling companies in the energy technology sector.

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George Stark – Director External Affairs – Cabot Oil & Gas

Versatile public policy professional with 25 years experience, 15 years with a Fortune 300 natural gas company. Extensive experience in government, political and public affairs, communications, community relations and advocacy. Consistently recognized for political judgment skills and ability to explain public policy initiatives to various audiences. Successful at developing and integrating public relations campaigns and legislative strategies to meet business challenges and exceed organizational objectives. Skilled at motivating and managing people to create partnerships and foster an environment of teamwork and cooperation. Director on Board of Leadership Pittsburgh and the Community Foundation of the Endless Mountains.

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Jared Oehring – VP of Technology – U.S. Well Services

Jared Oehring is VP of Technology with U.S. Well Services, Houston, TX. He received the B.S. in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, and the M.S. in engineering (mechanical design) from Kettering University, Flint, MI. Prior to joining U.S. Well Services, Jared worked for Stewart & Stevenson as Engineering Manager and before that he served as Vice President of Financial Operations at ASME.

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Jerel J. Bogdan, PE – Vice president of Engineering – Eureka Resources, LLC

VP of Engineering for Eureka Resources, a company headquartered in NorthCentral PA, focused on provided leading-edge wastewater treatment and management services to oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) companies active in the Marcellus and Utica nonconventional basins. Primary duties include support of operations, new facility design/development, sales, and R&D corporate initiatives.

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Jim Willis – Editor – Marcellus Drilling News

Jim hails from the Marcellus/Utica region and consults for Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI), a leading B2B news, data and analytics company serving the natural gas industry since 1981. NGI publishes Daily Gas Price Index, Shale Daily, Bidweek Survey and several other natgas-related publications. Jim founded and still edits the daily Marcellus Drilling News blog site, which aggregates and analyzes the players and issues in northeast shale drilling. Jim’s previous roles include director and vice president of marketing at several specialty publishing companies in both the financial and engineering sectors.

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Kyle Bradford – Director Drilling & Completions – Eclipse Resources

Eclipse is an independent exploration and production company engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Appalachian Basin. Its business strategy is to create stockholder value by aggressively developing its asset base while generating industry-leading rates of return on our capital.

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Matt A. Jarrell – Chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Services Group – Sherrard, German & Kelly, P.C.

Mr. Jarrell is a Shareholder and Director of the firm, Chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Services Group, and a member of the Corporate and Financial Services Groups. Since well before the shale boom, Mr. Jarrell has assisted energy industry players in formulating and executing their business strategies through asset and equity acquisitions and divestitures, capital structuring, general operations, and business planning. He counsels his oil and gas clients, including international majors and regional and private equity-infused firms, in connection with negotiation and drafting of purchase and sale agreements, joint ventures, development agreements, farmouts, operating agreements, and other contracts. He also regularly represents industry clients in connection with large scale land title due diligence matters, title certifications, regulatory matters, land use tension, contract and commercial litigation, and other issues. Additionally, Mr. Jarrell has extensive general corporate and transactional experience and has counseled clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs to well-funded business entities through all aspects of a business’s lifespan.

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Michael Krancer – Chair, Energy Industry Team – Blank Rome LLP

Michael Krancer is an experienced and well known policy and substantive thought leader in energy development and deployment. He is an experienced and valued advisor to U.S. and global energy companies of all types regarding the full range of legal, public policy, government relations, state and federal regulatory, financial, corporate, and labor matters with his 20+ years of energy industry and public policy experience at the highest corporate and policy-making levels.

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Oliver Bridgen – COO – Oil & Gas Awards

Prior to co-founding the Oil & Gas Awards, Oliver held senior management roles with two early-stage technology companies, where he was instrumental in their growth and in achieving successful exits to UK Listed FTSE100 companies. Oliver has also been involved in the founding and development of a range of start-ups in technology, media and property.

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Robert Riga – General Manager Business Development – Spectra Energy

Robert is an experienced energy industry professional with a specific emphasis in natural gas pipeline business development. Currently leading Spectra Energy’s development efforts in the Marcellus Shale region. Other experience includes managing interstate pipeline marketing organizations, international LNG supply and marketing and LDC supply planning.

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Ron Frank – Partner – Blank Rome LLP

Ron Frank concentrates his corporate practice on managing large, complicated financial projects for his clients. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and international transactions, and has advised domestic and international clients on the structuring and financing of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, privatization transactions, the development of distribution networks, and the negotiation of sales agency, distribution, and licensing agreements.

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Tim O’Brien – President – Trumbull Energy Services

PJ Dick, Trumbull, and Lindy Paving are a closely-held family of companies controlled by the Clifford R. Rowe, Jr. and Jane D. Burton families. Our companies operate with the integrity and honesty exemplified by our founder, Perry J. Dick and our Chief Executive Officer, Clifford R. Rowe, Jr. Collectively, our companies have managed more than $9 billion in construction activity and are consistently ranked among the nation’s Top 100 General Contractors and Construction Managers by Engineering News Record. As a result of this experience and our strong commitment to the clients and the communities we serve, our family of companies has been consistently honored with “best of class” status in our industry.