2019 Conference Agenda - Pipeline Safety Trust

Twenty Years After the Bellingham Tragedy –
What’s Changed, Are We Safer?

Hotel Monteleone | New Orleans, Louisiana | November 7-8, 2019

DAY ONE — Thursday, November 7
8:30 – 9:00	Welcoming Comments Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust	Queen Anne Ballroom
9:00 – 9:30	Opening Address — Howard “Skip” Elliott – PHMSA Administrator	Queen Anne Ballroom
9:30 – 10:15	Food For Thought – Clearly There is Still Much Safety Work Left To Do Dan Rivera, Mayor, Lawrence, Massachusetts Roger Evans, Senior Pipeline Accident Investigator, National Transportation Safety Board	Queen Anne Ballroom
10:15 – 10:30	Break	Queen Anne Parlor
10:30 – 10:45	Food For Thought – What does the data tell us about “safer”	Queen Anne Ballroom
10:45 – 12:00	The Last Big Thing – Integrity Management. Has It Lived Up To The Promise? Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust Alan Mayberry, Associate Administrator, Office of Pipeline Safety, PHMSA Mobeen Khan, Director, Systems Enhancement, New Jersey Natural Gas Company C.J. Osman, Director of Operations, Safety, and Integrity, INGAA Steve Ernst, Integrity Engineering Manager, Marathon Pipe Line, LLC	Queen Anne Ballroom
10:45 – 12:00	Pipeline Safety in a Time of Energy Transition – Dr. Stacey Balkan, Assist. Professor, Environmental Literature & Humanities, Florida Atlantic Univ. Dr. Kai A. Bosworth, Assist. Professor, School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Dr. Jeffrey Insko, Associate Professor of American Literature, Oakland University	Queen Anne B
12:00 – 1:15	Lunch	Royal Room
1:15 – 1:45	Food For Thought – Clearly There is Still Much Safety Work Left To Do Don Gilliam, Director, Lincoln County Kentucky Emergency Management Trish O’Quin, Deputy Director, Lincoln County Kentucky Emergency Management	Queen Anne Ballroom
1:45 – 3:00	Have Major New Non-Regulatory Initiatives in the Past 20 years Improved Safety? Dr. Christie Murray, Director of Outreach & Engagement, Office of Pipeline Safety, PHMSA Mojgan Karimi, Mgr of Integrity First Implementation, Canadian Energy Pipeline Assoc. Luke Litteken, Sr Vice President of Gas, Xcel Energy Inc. Nancy Conder, Director SMS and Quality, CenterPoint Energy	Queen Anne Ballroom
1:45 – 3:00	What’s new in this Year’s Congressional Reauthorization bills? Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust John Stoody, Vice President, Government & Public Relations, Association of Oil Pipe Lines Christina Sames, Vice President, Operations and Engineering, American Gas Association Jim Gordon, Manager, Federal Government Relations & Policy, TC Energy	Queen Anne B
3:00 – 3:15	Break	Queen Anne Parlor
3:15 – 4:30	Applying Gas Leak Detection Data Analytics to Risk Modeling and Assessment Aaron Van Pelt, V.P. of Product Strategy, Picarro, Inc. Joe von Fischer, Professor of Biology, Colorado State University Andrew Argeski, Manager, Gas Planning & Design, PSE&G (NJ gas utility) Brien Sheahan, Commissioner (and past Chair), Illinois Commerce Commission	Queen Anne Ballroom
3:15 – 4:30	Have Technology Advances Over the Past 20 Years Improved Safety? Max Kieba, Engineer, Engineering & Research Division, Office of Pipeline Safety, PHMSA Grant Coleman, Vice President of Technology, Enduro Pipeline Services Matt Romney, Senior Product Manager, T.D. Williamson Jeff Sutherland, Products Portfolio Leader, Process and Pipeline Services, Baker Hughes Christopher De Leon, Head of Integrity Solutions, ROSEN Group Tim Clarke, Senior Integrity Consultant, Boardwalk Pipelines	Queen Anne B
5:30 – 7:00	Pipeline Safety Trust Board of Directors’ Reception for Attendees And – INGAA ILI (Smart Pigs) Technology Showcase	Royal Room
DAY TWO — Friday, November 8
8:00 – 9:30	Breakfast Buffet available	Queen Anne Parlor
8:30 – 8:45	Welcome – Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust	Queen Anne Ballroom
8:45 – 9:15	Keynote – Jim Hall, Former NTSB Chairman – Twenty Years Later	Queen Anne Ballroom
9:15 – 10:30	The Next Big Thing? – Gathering Lines John Gale, Director, Office of Standards & Rulemaking, Office of Pipeline Safety, PHMSA Sara Gosman, Pipeline Safety Trust Board President and GPAC Member Aaron Martinez, Marathon Petroleum & Committee Chair, API RP 1182 Large Diameter Gathering Lines Mary Friend, Director, Pipeline Safety, West Virginia Public Service Commission	Queen Anne Ballroom
9:15 – 10:30	Have Major Data and Transparency Initiatives Since Bellingham Improved Safety? Massoud Tahamtani, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Pipeline Safety, PHMSA Christina Sames, Vice President of Operations and Engineering, American Gas Association David Murk, Pipeline Manager, American Petroleum Institute Graham Emmerson, Chair, CSA Z260 Technical Committee	Queen Anne B
10:30 – 10:45	Break	Queen Anne Parlor
10:45 – 12:00	Engaging the Public – Do People Really Want to Engage With People With Differing Views? Shawn Lyon, President, Marathon Pipe Line LLC Kandilarya (Kandi) Barakat , Project Manager, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Dr. Christie Murray, Director of Outreach & Engagement, Office of Pipeline Safety, PHMSA Chuck Lesniak, Principal, CL3 Consulting	Queen Anne Ballroom
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch	On your own
1:30 – 3:00	A Roundtable Discussion – 20 Years After Bellingham, Are We Really Safer? Is Safety Really the Priority?	Queen Anne Ballroom