DAY 1 PRESENTATION ARCHIVE - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2023
9:00 AM: Energy and the Environment
Dr. Matthew Balhoff
Chair, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
10:30 AM: PANEL 2 - Methane Regulatory Landscape: Improving Inventories and Accelerating Reductions
Daniel Zimmerle (Moderator)
Director, Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Center
Colorado State University, Energy Institute
Dr. David Lyon
Special Advisor for Implementation
U.S. EPA
Stefanie Rucker
Manager, Office of Innovations in Planning and Air Quality Assessment
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
James Diamond
Manager, Technical Operations & Upstream Regulatory Team
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
11:30 AM: TALK 2 - The Role of Scientific Tools in Policy Development: Case Study of the Fugitive Emissions Abatement Simulation Toolkit (FEAST)
Dr. Arvind Ravikumar
Co-Director, EEMDL
Associate Research Professor
Hildebrand Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
1:00 PM: PANEL 3 - Accelerating Global Action on Methane Mitigation of Fossil Energy
Bob Stout (Moderator)
Senior Advisor, Policy & Outreach, EEMDL
Claire Wang (virtual) (15 minute overview)
Global Efforts to Cut Methane Emissions in the Fossil Energy Sector
Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry United States Department of State
Tom Curry (15 minute overview)
GHG Supply Chain MMRV Framework
Director of Policy and Analysis, Office of Resource Sustainability
United States Department of Energy
Dr. Erin Tullos (15 minute overview)
Enabling a Global Differentiated Gas Framework: Insights from an EEMDL – Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Workshop
Senior Research Associate, EEMDL
The University of Texas at Austin
Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A
4:30 PM: TALK 5 - The Appalachian Methane Initiative – a New Era in Cooperative Methane Emissions Monitoring
Dr. Lyra Wang
Research Scientist, EEMDL
The University of Texas at Austin
4:45 PM: TALK 6 - Emissions Reconciliation at the Basin Scale - An Overview the Colorado Coordinated Campaign
Daniel Zimmerle
Director, Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Center
Colorado State University, Energy Institute
EEMDL Principal Investigator
5:00 PM: Preview of Day 2 & Reception Details
Andy Grimes
Managing Director, Research Development & Relations, EEMDL
The University of Texas at Austin
8:50 AM: PANEL 5 - Best Practices and Challenges in Constructing Measurement-Informed Methane Emission Inventories
Arvind Ravikumar (Moderator)
Co-Director, EEMDL
Mark Gebbia (virtual)
Vice President, Environmental, Regulatory & Permitting
Williams
Alex Bosiljevac
Engineering Specialist, Environmental
EQT Corp
Matthew Johnson
Professor and Head of Energy Emissions Research Lab
Carleton University
Daniel Zimmerle
Director, Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Center
Colorado State University, Energy Institute
9:50 AM: TALK 7 - The Use of Continuous Monitoring Systems (CMS) in Constructing Measurement Informed Inventories
Dr. Dorit Hammerling
Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistic
Colorado School of Mines
EEMDL Principal Investigator
10:05 AM: TALK 8 - Networked Continuous Monitoring Systems: An Overview of Project Astra Phase I and Phase II
Dr. David Allen
Co-Director
EEMDL
10:20 AM: TALK 9: Case Studies in OGMP 2.0 Level-4 and Level-5 Emissions Reconciliation
Colette Schissel
PhD Candidate
The University of Texas at Austin
11:05 AM: PANEL 6 - Methane Measurement Technology Assessment and Validation: Current Practices and Future Outlook
Dr. Thomas Fox (Moderator)
President
Highwood Emissions Management
Dr. Daniel Cusworth
Scientist
Carbon Mapper
Daniel Zimmerle
Director, Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Center
Colorado State University, Energy Institute
EEMDL Principal Investigator
Damon Burtt
Consultant
Carbon Limits
12:05 PM: TALK 10 - Beyond GHGs: Models to Evaluate Energy Emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants
Dr. Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz
Associate Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
1:25 PM: TALK 11 - Measuring Emissions Across Supply Chains: An Overview of Cheniere Energy’s Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (QMRV) Program
Fiji George
Senior Director, Climate and Sustainability
Cheniere Energy
1:45 PM: PANEL 7 - Operationalizing Global Trade in Differentiated Gas
Dr. Jonathon Stern (Recorded Remarks)
Distinguished Research Fellow,
Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
Ben Cahill (Moderator)
Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Keith Shoemaker
SVP, Commercial
EQT Corp.
Ed Lush
Director Business Development, New Energy Ventures
Williams
3:25 PM: TALK 13 - Emission Event Statistics: Implications for the Methane Fees in the Inflation Reduction Act
Dr. Arvind Ravikumar
Co-Director, EEMDL and Associate Research Professor
Hildebrand Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
3:45 PM: TALK 14 - EEMDL Education and Outreach Program Highlights
Andy Grimes
Managing Director, Research Development & Relations, EEMDL
The University of Texas at Austin
8:20 AM: TALK 1 EEMDL Overview: Mission, Activities, and Accomplishments
Dr. David Allen
Co-Director, EEMDL
Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Arvind Ravikumar
Co-Director, EEMDL
Research Associate Professor
Hildebrand Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin