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To: Brumar89 who wrote (14972)	7/15/2007 12:10:25 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

ASPO-USA Fall World Oil Conference Rick Block and Dave Cohen, ASPO-USA Early Registration Ends August 1 and Media Policy for Registration now available. --- ASPO-USA has announced early registration will end Aug. 1 and that Media Policy for attending and registration is now available for the the 2007 World Oil Conference at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston, Texas on October 17th thru the 20th, 2007. aspousa.org Confirmed speakers include T. Boone Pickens (pioneer oilman & acquisition expert), Houston Mayor Bill White (former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy), Bob Hirsch (co-author of the groundbreaking Hirsch-Bezdek Report to DOE), Peter Tertzakian (author of "A Thousand Barrels a Second"), Matthew Simmons, (author of "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock"), Henry Groppe of Groppe, Long & Littell, Art Smith of John S. Herold, Inc., U.S. Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-Del.), Chairman Elizabeth Ames Jones of the Texas Railroad Commission, Chris Skrebowski of the London Energy Institute, Charles Maxwell of Weeden & Co., David Hughes of the Canadian Geological Survey, Jeremy Gilbert of Barrelmore Ltd. (and recently retired Chief Petroleum Engineer for BP), Professor Peter Bishop of the University of Houston, and many others. Other distinguished participants include Stuart Staniford of The Oil Drum, Richard Nehring of Nehring Associates, Roger Duncan, Director of Austin Utilities' "Plug-in Partners Program" (who will be bringing a Toyota Plug-in Hybrid to the Conference), and Tom Whipple, Editor of Falls Creek News and ASPO-USA's Peak Oil Review and Peak Oil Daily News. The honorary Co-chairmen of the Conference are Houstonians Matt Simmons of Simmons & Company International, and Art Smith of John S. Herold, Inc. The Houston Conference agenda will feature technical sessions on Reserves and Production; Substitute Fuels; Peak Oil & Climate Change; Peak Oil Reports from the GAO, National Petroleum Council, and AAPG; a Natural Gas/LNG Update; a Net Energy Update; Mitigation Scenarios; Smart Policy Initiatives (local, state & national); and Smart Money & Investment in the Age of Peak Oil. ASPO Week in Houston will consist of four days and nights of energy discussion as well as field trips to Refinery Row on the Houston Ship Channel and other sites of interest in the heart of the nation's refining and petrochemical industries. ASPO-USA still has DVDs of last years Boston Conference with the intergraded power points available. For more details on the conference, to register, or purchase the DVDs see the ASPO-USA Website at aspousa.org (13 July 2007) energybulletin.net