Monthly archive

National Petroleum Council (NPC) Dynamic Delivery Study Webinar

October 8th, 2020

A virtual outreach webinar by the NPC Oil and Natural Gas Transportation Infrastructure Study team leaders on the findings and recommendations from the National Petroleum Council’s report: Dynamic Delivery –America's Evolving Oil and Natural Gas Transportation Infrastructure.

NOTES:

•44:06: The slide correctly reflects the study’s recommendation of “reduction of intensity of greenhouse gases”. Speaker inadvertently omitted “intensity of” from his comments.

ETAG Semi-Annual Recap

September 30th, 2020
Program Publications


Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti

Job Title: 
International Energy Counsel
Organization: 
U.S. Department of Commerce

Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti is an award-winning U.S. international energy legal and policy expert. Her expertise in the field is centered on Eastern Europe. Her overall focus is the geopolitics of energy and strategic energy policy.

Currently based in Washington, D.C., Ms. Jayanti served in the U.S. Diplomatic Corps for almost a decade, with tours in Kuwait, the Bahamas, Iraq, Ukraine and Washington.

Her most challenging assignment was as the Energy Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 2018 to 2020. In that capacity, she worked closely with Ukrainian counterparts to help reform the country’s energy sector and establish energy security.

Prior to her diplomatic career, she worked as an energy attorney in Brussels and Washington, D.C. She previously worked for some years in journalism, most notably in Beirut at the Daily Star, the largest English-language newspaper in the Middle East.

Suriya has contributed to two textbooks and published in such venues as the International Energy Law Review and the Law Reviews at Georgetown, Rutgers, and American Universities.

Originally from Los Angeles, California, she holds a BA from Claremont McKenna College, a J.D. from American University and an LL.M. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Profile Type: 
Speaker

Power Utility Data Protection Policies and Practices

October 6th, 2020

This is the tenth in the series of USAID webinars on Digitalization and Cybersecurity in the Energy Sector hosted by E3.

Data protection is a critical aspect of compliance in many industries, including the energy sector. In fact, sensitive data is the most common target of cyber attacks.

This webinar will address data protection considerations, best practices, and legal/regulatory frameworks in an era of smart grids and sophisticated cybersecurity threats.

U.S.-Asia Gas Partnership: Use of International Standards in LNG Markets

October 6th, 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. With a long-term vision to enable the creation of a regional gas market, the AGP facilitates a shared understanding between government officials and the private sector about the technical, commercial, and economic factors that spur investment.

Geothermal Innovation For Economic Growth In East Africa

October 6th, 2020

Geothermal energy has countless benefits, mainly providing clean grid power at the lowest possible cost. Geothermal power plants can also provide economic benefits beyond power (or heat) as a way to stimulate and support the socio-economic development of countries in East Africa, especially near the plant itself. However, innovative technologies in other industries can provide greater power output and greater value, especially when overall grid costs are considered.

CONSENSUS Program: The Next Phase of the Shale Oil Revolution - Storing CO2 with Shale EOR

October 6th, 2020
This webinar draws on a recently completed study, entitled: “Increasing Shale Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage with Cyclic CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery,” performed by Advanced Resources International and sponsored by the USEA.

Carter Manucy

Job Title: 
IT/OT & Cybersecurity Director
Organization: 
Florida Municipal Power Agency

Carter Manucy is the IT/OT & Cybersecurity Director for Florida Municipal Power Agency, a joint-action agency in Orlando, Florida. At FMPA his responsibility over all of corporate Information Technology as well as the Operational Technology as it relates to FMPA’s generation assets. With more than 25 years of experience, Carter has held numerous roles in the IT/OT domain while maintaining a passion for cybersecurity. Carter often advises for the interests of APPA (American Public Power Association) and other municipal trade organizations in regard to cybersecurity, policy and NERC CIP compliance.

Carter is currently the chair for the Cyber Mutual Assistance Compliance Committee, was a voting member for NERC CIPC, and acts as chair/author/member/participant/contributor for numerous other committees, groups and publications in the cyber security and compliance arenas.

Profile Type: 
Speaker

CONSENSUS Program: CCUS Tax Strategies, Opportunities, Roadblocks, Hurdles, and Solutions

October 2nd, 2020

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.

Women In Energy: Kathy Curtis

October 2nd, 2020

Katheryn B. “Kathy” Curtis is senior vice president– Generation, Dominion Energy Virginia. 

Her team oversees the operation of Dominion Energy Virginia’s power generating fleet of gas, hydro, solar, biomass, coal and oil-fueled power stations in Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia. 

Curtis joined the company in 1981 and has held numerous leadership positions in the corporate support departments of Human Resources, Supply Chain Management, Information Technology, and New Asset Acquisition & Integration. Her longest tenure has been in Power Generation, where she held leadership responsibilities for several power stations and served as vice president–Merchant Operations before assuming her current post in January 2014. 

She serves on the executive committee of the board of trustees of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond and on the executive committee of the board of directors of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. She also is a board member of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies and serves on its Power Generation Committee. 

Curtis earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from the University of Virginia and her executive MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University. 

Pages