Conference Agenda

"Unconventional Fuels in the State & National Energy Portfolios"

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8:30 a.m.      Welcome & Opening Remarks - Philip J. Smith, Director, Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah

Session 1 - Keynote Address

8:45 a.m.      David W. Pershing, President, University of Utah

Session 2 - Energy Policy at the State Level

9:15 a.m.      Developing Utah's 10-Year Strategic Energy Plan - Samantha Julian, Director, Office of Energy Development, State of Utah

9:40 a.m.      Impact of New State Laws on Utah's Unconventional Fuel Development - James Holtkamp, Partner, Holland & Hart

10:05 a.m.      Unconventional Fuels Development in Utah - John Nowoslawski, Manager of Unconventional Energy Development, State of Utah

10:30 a.m.      Break; display of Skyline 16 oil shale core

Session 3 - What Can We Learn from Research?

10:50 a.m.      Using High Performance Computing Tools for In Situ Shale Oil Production Processes - Alan Burnham, Chief Technology Officer, American Shale Oil

11:15 a.m.      Kinetics of Uinta Basin oil shale pyrolysis - Thomas Fletcher, Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Brigham Young University

11:40 p.m.      Wilderness Quality Lands and Unconventional Fuel Development - John Ruple, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

12:05 p.m.      Lunch; display of Skyline 16 oil shale core

Session 4 - Energy Development Impacts & Mitigation

1:00 p.m.      Sage Grouse Habitat & Unconventional Fuels Development - John Harja, Sage Grouse Working Group & Utah Department of Food & Agriculture

1:25 p.m.      Uinta Basin Air Quality Study - Seth Lyman, Acting Branch Lead, Eastern Utah Operations, Energy Dynamics Laboratory

1:50 p.m.      Break; display of Skyline 16 oil shale core

Session 5 - Unconventional Fuels Development in the Western U.S.

2:15 p.m.      US Oil Sands 2013 Project Start-up: Economic, Repeatable & Environmentally Responsible - Cameron M. Todd, Chief Executive Officer, US Oil Sands

2:40 p.m.      Progress Update for Enefit American Oil - Rikki Hrenko, Chief Executive Officer, Enefit American Oil

3:05 p.m.      Red Leaf Resources, Inc.: Overview and Update - Laura Nelson, Vice President, Energy and Environmental Development, Red Leaf Resources

Session 6 - Plenary Address

3:30 p.m.      Former U.S. Senator Robert F. Bennett, Chairman, The Bennett Consulting Group

4:00 p.m.      Wrap-up & Adjourn