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Review of Federal, State, And Regional Tax Strategies And Opportunities For C02-EOR-Storage And The CCUS Value Chain

September 21st, 2020
External Reports
Carbon capture and storage projects are rapidly emerging as lucrative investment opportunities, due to a combination of federal and state tax credits and other incentives. But for states, counties, utilities, and corporations seeking to meet carbon emission reduction goals—and for the investment community seeking to fund these projects—it can be difficult to understand and apply the various incentives that exist. This report from the United States Energy Association (USEA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE), prepared by Orrick and FTI Consulting, offers insights into these complexities.

USEA CONSENSUS Webinar: The Next Phase of the Shale Oil Revolution: Storing CO2 with Shale EOR

September 23rd, 2020

The Next Phase of the “Shale Oil Revolution”: Storing CO2 with Shale EOR

Vello Kuuskraa

Job Title: 
President
Organization: 
Advanced Resources International

Mr. Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources International, has over 40 years of experience with energy technologies and economics.   Having written over 100 technical papers and reports, he is an internationally acknowledged expert on new energy resources.  He currently serves on two advisory bodies to the Secretary of Energy -- the National Petroleum Council and the National Coal Council.  He also serves on the Board of the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources and as the Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Carbon Capture Project.

Heng Mok

Job Title: 
Chief Information Security Officer
Organization: 
AGL Energy
Heng leads the cyber security team at AGL. His 20 years’ experience spans a range of industries and cybersecurity disciplines including risk management, compliance, technical design, infrastructure security, architectural processes, application security, data security, security architecture and strategy. Heng has worked on some of the largest transformation programs–including digital transformation–in Australia, within financial services and energy. He has written security standards for the Open Data Center Alliance and sits on CompTIA Cybersecurity committees.
Profile Type: 
Speaker

USEA CONSENSUS Webinar: CCUS Tax Strategies, Opportunities, Roadblocks, Hurdles, and Solutions

October 1st, 2020

David Miller

Job Title: 
Director, Standards Development
Organization: 
American Petroleum Institute

David Miller is the Director of Standards Development at the American Petroleum Institute.  In this role he is responsible for overall standards policy and oversight and is a member of API’s Senior Management Staff.  David also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute.  He has served on several federally-chartered advisory committees and has testified before Congress, federal and state regulators on standards and technology issues.  David is a registered professional engineer and earned a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Utah and a MS degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas.  He joined API in 1985 and has been elected a Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers and serves on their Membership Application Review Committee.

Profile Type: 
Speaker
Credentials: 
PE, F.ASCE

Alexa Burr

Job Title: 
Director, Systems Programs, Global Industry Services
Organization: 
American Petroleum Institute
Alexa Burr is the Director for Systems Programs in the Global Industry Services Division at the American Petroleum Institute.  Ms. Burr’s responsibilities include overseeing the strategic direction of GIS System Programs, including the Process Safety Site Assessment Program and Pipeline Safety Management System Assessment Program.  In this role, Ms. Burr develops, directs and guides strategies to grow these API offerings working in coordination with other GIS programs and with other external partners.  Ms. Burr also oversees the implementation of the GIS Global Standards Strategy and advocates on behalf of the industry in various international forums to promote the use and adoption of industry standards to continuously improve environmental, health, safety, security, and sustainability performance globally.  Prior to API, Ms. Burr worked at the American Chemistry Council in various roles where she oversaw the strategic direction of the Responsible Care® program and led international advocacy efforts on a range of issues from chemical management regulations, to GHS, to security issues.  Ms. Burr holds a MS in Biological Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases and a BS in Biology of Global Health, both from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Profile Type: 
Speaker

Renee Hancher

Job Title: 
Director, Regulatory Policies
Organization: 
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)

Ms. Hancher is the USTR lead on Good Regulatory Practices (GRP) and covers GRP and regulatory cooperation matters in bilateral and regional trade negotiations, the WTO, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.  Before joining USTR, Ms. Hancher worked on standards, conformity assessment, technical barriers to trade and GRP issues at the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration from 2005 to 2019.  Prior to that, she spent 10 years directing the international trade work at the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute – an industry trade association.  Ms. Hancher holds a B.A. in International Studies from the American University and an M.A. in International Economics from Columbia University.

Profile Type: 
Speaker

Use of International Standards in LNG Markets

September 30th, 2020

The U.S.-Asia Gas Partnership (AGP) is a public-private partnership that aims to optimize gas network infrastructure planning and develop domestic gas markets across the Indo-Pacific. The objective of the AGP is to share best practices in the development of secure, reliable, and economic sources of natural gas.

Drue Pearce

Job Title: 
Deputy Administrator for PHMSA
Organization: 
USDOT

On August 7, 2017, Ms. Drue Pearce was appointed to be the Deputy Administrator for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

Ms. Pearce came to USDOT from Holland & Hart LLP, where she served as Director of Government Affairs focused on the energy, natural resource and manufacturing industries. For six years beginning in 2010, she was a Senior Policy Advisor at Crowell & Moring LLP. In both positions, she split her time between the D.C. and Alaska offices.

Ms. Pearce has an extensive background in federal transportation and pipeline safety. In 2006, she was named as the Federal Coordinator for Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation Projects, where she oversaw efforts to advance the nation's energy, environmental, and economic security by expediting the delivery of Alaska natural gas to North American markets via pipeline.

Prior to that, Ms. Pearce served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.  She was named by the Secretary to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council on behalf of the Department of the Interior. In addition, she was appointed by Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee, a position she held for six years.

Prior to her federal service, Ms. Pearce served in the Alaska House of Representatives, where she became the Minority Whip in just her second term, and the Alaska State Senate, where she became the first woman to serve two terms as Senate President. She chaired Alaska Legislative Committees of jurisdiction that authored the complete rewrite of Alaska's oil and hazardous waste prevention, contingency planning, and response statutes, and was the prime sponsor of legislation to bring non-tanker vessels into compliance with prevention and response statutes.

Drue Pearce earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University and her Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.  She is also a graduate of the TEP at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. 

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