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The panel on transporting LNG in the U.S., featuring Andrew Biar, president of Strategic Public Affairs; Kevin Ewing, partner at Bracewell; Guy Nicholls, director of Maritime
Operations at Cheniere; and Lance Goodwin, vice president of Business Development at Freeport LNG; and William Lansinger, director of FERC Regulations at Sempra Energy.

Pipeline Opportunities Conference
Shifts Back to Industry Basics
The 15th annual Pipeline Opportunities
Conference (POC) marked something of
a departure from recent years with more
speakers and panelists coming from the
ranks of operators and contractors.
About 200 participants from all areas
of the pipeline industry gathered April 9
at Houston's JW Marriott to hear a wide
range of experts offer their perceptions
about the challenges and opportunities
ahead for the industry, as well as share
insights on how to move forward.
Kicking off the morning session was
Bud Weinstein from Southern Methodist
University's Maguire Energy Institute, and
conference newcomer James Coleman, an
associate professor of law at SMU, who
specializes in energy and regulation.
Coleman remarked that while energy
policy remains so unpredictable that "a
few votes in Wisconsin can determine
whether a pipeline gets built or not," he
cautioned that an incoming president
could go further, ordering that no new
pipelines, even on at the state level,
could be built without an environmental
impact statement.

Young Congress
In another timely morning presentation,
Don Santa, president and CEO of INGAA
discussed the regulatory picture in
Washington, D.C. He pointed out that the
age of Congress members was becoming
increasingly younger, with one-third of the
body elected in 2016 or 2018.
Santa cited the proposed Green Deal
as indicative of "a shift we are seeing"
and said 29 states, along with the District
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of Columbia, now have greenhouse gas
emission goals in place.
"This is not something that is going
to go away," he said.
Keynote speaker Nick Stavropoulos,
who recently retired as president and chief
operating officer of PG&E, discussed the
importance of instilling a strong safety
culture and recognizing the value of safety
management systems.
He stressed the importance of regular,
rigorous assessments, adding that any
incident that occurs affects the public perception of every company in the industry.
Stavropoulos said it is important for
employees to feel free to speak up when
they see potential threats to safety. He
suggested that safety results be tied to
compensation packages, much like financial benchmarks are.
"When your people tell you, everything
is going gloriously well, how do you know
what's really going on?" Stavropoulos said.

Regulatory issues
Regulatory clarity and shifts in policy on the
executive level were mentioned frequently
by panelists throughout the program and
by several observers in the audience.
Those concerns were dealt with directly
in the well-attended afternoon session on
FERC procedures. Hosted by Susan Waller,
vice president of Stakeholder Engagement
at Enbridge, the panel, consisting of Rutter
& Roy attorneys Christine Roy and Richard
Scott, and Samuel Brothwell, director of
research, at Energy Income Partners.
Another afternoon session dealt with
the Mega Rule (Pipeline Integrity Rule) and

what effects it will likely bring concerning
pipeline construction. The panel included Mark Hereth, managing director of
Blacksmith Group, and Jeffrey Wiese,
senior vice president, Pipeline Integrity
at TRC Companies. With a July 2 publication date predicted, Wiese said the big
question is "How long will operators
have to get into compliance."
A panel on "Changing Energy
Infrastructure Climate" closed the event,
featuring moderator Georgia Carter,
vice president and general counsel for
Millennium Pipeline.
She presided over a group consisting
of Bobby Huffman, vice president of U.S.
Marketing, and Juan Miguel Bermudez,
director of Corporate Development, both
at Enbridge; Robert Riess, senior vice
president and Pipeline Division manager at
Henkel & McCoy; Kelly Osborn, president
at U.S. Pipeline; and Craig Meier, director
at Sunland Construction.
Osborn summed the situation up from
the perspective of contractors when he
said, "We need three things-pipe, permits
and right-of-way." He added that the last
time he remembered building a pipeline,
uninterrupted, "straight from Point A to
Point B" was in 2003.
In addition, a panel presided over by
Andrew Biar, president of Strategic Public
Affairs, took up the topic of moving LNG
around the United States and the need for
additional pipelines to move the natural
gas to production plants.
The 2020 Pipeline Opportunities
Conference, the 16th such event, will be
again be held next spring in Houston. *


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