Royalty Audit/Compliance Workshop

Agenda

Royalty Audit/Compliance Workshop

PASO 2015

February 11 - 12, 2015

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

7:50am – 8:00am / Opening/Housekeeping Comments / Bob Wilkinson (ConocoPhillips)
8:00am - 8:30am / Welcome/Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Update / Greg Gould (ONRR)
8:30am - 9:00am / ONRR Update / Deborah Gibbs Tschudy (ONRR)
9:00am – 9:30am / Financial Management Update – Royalty Reporting / Bob Prael (ONRR)
9:30am – 9:45am / Break
9:45am – 10:45am / Data Mining / Lorraine Corona (ONRR)
10:45am – 11:15am / Production Reporting & Verification / Kimbra Davis (ONRR)
11:15am – 12:00pm / PANEL: Marketable Condition – Update on Current Issues. / Carrie Wallace (ONRR); John Shepherd (Holland & Hart LLP); Dennis Cameron (WPX Energy)
12:00pm – 1:00pm / Lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm / ONRR System Upgrades and Reporting Changes / Bob Prael (ONRR); Kimbra Davis (ONRR); Roman Geissel (ONRR)
2:00pm – 2:30pm / Office of Enforcement/Civil Penalties / Geary Keeton(ONRR)
2:30pm – 2:45pm / Break
2:45pm – 5:00pm / PANEL: Common Problems that Auditors and Audit Coordinators Encounter During the Federal Audit Process. / Marvinette Ponder (Devon)
Pam Williams (Shell)
Mort Massis (XTO Energy)
Vanya Hecht (Bill Barrett Corp)
Mary Beth Rowley (ConocoPhillips)
Terry Hamilton (ONRR)
Allen McDaniel (ONRR - Dallas)
Cindy Nguyen (ONRR - Houston)
Dawn Hirman (So. Ute Tribe)
Gilbert Martinez (State of New Mexico)

Thursday, February 12, 2015

8:00am – 9:00am / Reporting Field Fuel & Volumes Lost Along a Pipeline Prior to Point of Sale / Chris Carey (ONRR)
9:00am – 9:45am / Unbundling Update / Doug Ginley (ONRR)
Linda Shishido-Sheahan (ONRR)
9:45am – 10:00am / Break
10:00am – 11:00am / Unbundling – More Complicated than It Needs to Be / Judy Matlock (Davis, Graham & Stubbs LLP)
11:00pm – 12:00pm / Overview of Proposed Oil & Gas Valuation Rule / Bob Wilkinson (ConocoPhillips);
Rich Adamski (ONRR)
12:00pm – 1:00pm / Lunch
1:00pm – 1:30pm / Update on Takes Vs. Entitlements Proposed Rule / Roman Geissel (ONRR)
1:30pm – 2:30pm / PANEL – Discussion on the Use of Pre-CAs for the Payment of Federal and Indian Royalties / Samantha Iron Shirt (BLM – Montana State Office); Virginia Barber (BLM – Farmington);Steve Tryon (BLM – Oklahoma); Bob Prael or LeeAnn Martin (ONRR)
2:30pm – 2:45pm / Break
CONCURRENT SESSION (Choose One)
2:45pm – 5:00pm / Indian Oil Valuation Rule and Other Indian Royalty Reporting Issues / John Barder (ONRR); Kevin Barnes (SM Energy)
OR
2:45pm – 4:00pm / Update on Onshore Orders Involving Oil & Gas Measurement Issues / Richard Estabrook (BLM – California)
SPECIAL BONUS SESSION – Thursday Night
6:30pm – 7:00pm / Desert Exstravaganza
7:00pm – 8:30pm / Unbundling – Latest Issues / Mark Lambert & John Emory (Pearson Watson Millikan & Co.)

Registration rates are the same as the 2013 workshop: COPAS Member: $400 Early Bird; $450 regular NON-COPAS Member: $450 Early Bird; $500 regular

The conference will be held at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center. If you have not already reserved your hotel room theRenaissance is full. A shuttle will be provided from the overflow “Aloft hotel” to the workshop. Aloft Tulsa, 104th East Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74133. Reservations can be made by calling 1-877-462-5638 and ask for the PASO rate of $100 per night.

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