ESG - Attracting investors looking for an environmentally responsible portfolio
Responsible investing (RI) has moved into the mainstream as more investors seek to create a better outcome for community and our planet through investment coupled with positive outcomes. Whether new believers or long-term adherents, many investors looking to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their portfolios limit themselves to either excluding specific industry sectors or adding a fund at the margin. How can the natural gas industry
Environmental Permitting 101
Project permitting and design modifications are necessary for this evolving regulatory landscape. Successful air, biological, cultural, and other types permitting and adherence to these various permits take a team effort. This roundtable will present a general overview of the process to acquire and maintain the necessary permits to build and operate a natural gas pipeline and associated facilities.
COVID-19 Supply Chain Disruptions Best Practices
In this session, you will hear from industry professionals on best practices for supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendees will be able to participate in live Q&A during this engaging and enlightening 75-minute webinar, brought to you by SGA’s Supply Chain Committee. Beyond professional development, this session offers an opportunity to stay at the forefront of the natural gas industry. Please join us as we explore COVID-19 Supply Chain Disruptions Best Practices!
Engaging & Connecting with the Millennial Gen X, Y, Z, and Alpha Workforce
Pandemic & Beyond: Engaging our Millennials in the Energy Future. The pandemic has affected the entire world; but in North America, it has disproportionately affected millennials. Understanding and alleviating this disparity is mission-critical to the future of the natural gas industry. Tisha Schuller will present the findings of Adamantine Energy’s latest report describing how millennials have become the most important generation for our industry’s ongoing success and future engagement with a skeptical public. This presentation is designed for oil and gas leaders who are finding that millennials are increasingly relevant to us as civic leaders, regulators, elected officials, customers, and investors.
Emerging New Technology - R&D
In this session, you will hear from industry professionals on emerging new technologies. Attendees will be able to participate in live Q&A during this engaging and enlightening 75-minute webinar, brought to you by SGA’s End Use Codes & Standards Committee. Beyond professional development, this session offers an opportunity to stay at the forefront of the natural gas industry. Please join us as we explore Emerging New Technology - R&D!
Emergency Preparedness Panel: “All hands on deck” Incident Command Systems Best Practices
Emergency planning is complex. There are hundreds of variables to consider, and many internal and external stakeholders to satisfy. It is a daunting process, especially with the constantly-evolving nature of the external environment. Join Atmos Energy, Xcel Energy and Black Hills Energy emergency planning experts to learn incident response best practices that emphasize how Legal, Operations and Communications department work together. Topics of discussion will include outages, evacuations, third party damage and maintaining service during community unrest.
Document Work with MOC & Field Operations
The regulatory climate has made it clear that defined documentation of engineering review of projects may be in our future. Visit this session to see how some companies are proactively approaching this scenario. The presentation will include forms and software used to facilitate the documentation and review process.
Digitally Transforming your Integrity Management Program
Modern technology is reshaping every aspect of the pipeline industry, a shift that’s exciting and scary at the same time. Whether you're ahead of the competition or not, digital transformations, such as cloud computing and machine learning, are set to alter the industry’s standard approach to safety – we see the shift with the introduction of the new mega rule. The session will cover how pipeline operators can maintain regulatory compliance and save money on their integrity management program (IMP) with the power of data science and machine learning.
Current Political Climate Toward Fossil Fuels
Cultivating Innovation
Control Room Management Inspections
Discuss PHMSA and state audits. Focus on CRM Training and Team Training, Alarm Management, and API RP1165.
Emerging Research in Gas Forecasting: Metrics for Evaluating Forecast Performance
In this workshop Dr. Brown will present the concepts and mathematics behind commonly used performance metrics (MAPE, WMAPE, RMSE, mean, stdev, etc.). This will be followed by a group discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of these methods, which metrics are in practical use at various companies, how they impact business decisions.
Managing and Supporting Change
Grubb, Mike : 39 minutes
May 01,2014
Mike Grubb, President & CEO, Southern Gas Association moderated a panel including Caron Lawhorn, Senior Vice President, ONEGas, Steve Lindsey, COO, Laclede Gas Company and Bruce Narzissenfeld, Vice President, Marketing, Customer Service, Business Development and Fuels Operations, TECO from the SGA Managment Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Learn perspectives from these industry leaders on managing & supporting change in today's natural gas operating environment.
Topics discussed include:
What is change management & how does your company prepares for, deal with, and responds to change?
What change initiatives have you lead or are you currently leading?
What do you expect from employees during change?
How can employees be seen as early adapters?
What is the leader’s role during change?
Is it important to answer the ‘why’ question during change initiatives?
Have any personal experiences aided you in the change adaptation process?
TC Energy:MIA
In this session, you will hear from industry professionals on the topic of missing-in-action natural gas. Attendees will be able to participate in live Q&A during this engaging and enlightening 75-minute webinar, brought to you by SGA’s Gas Measurement Committee. Beyond professional development, this session offers an opportunity to stay at the forefront of the natural gas industry. Please join us as we explore TC Energy: MIA!
Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
In this session, you will hear from industry professionals on the topic of unconscious bias in the workplace. Attendees will be able to participate in live Q&A during this engaging and enlightening 75-minute webinar, brought to you by SGA’s Inclusion & Diversity Committee. Beyond professional development, this session offers an opportunity to stay at the forefront of the natural gas industry. Please join us as we explore Unconscious Bias in the Workplace!
Embracing Change (Web Conference)
Peter A. Land discusses how the winds of change have been with us since the beginning of time, but never have changes been so rapid, far-reaching, and impactful as today. Tomorrow they will be even more so. One of the greatest challenges for companies today is to create a culture of not only accepting change but embracing it with confidence and courage. Doing so will require everyone mastering discreet change management skills, which will ensure survival of the enterprise.
Presenter: Land, Pete
Embracing Change - The Cycle of Renewal
Hard work doesn’t guarantee success. Our lives are filled with surprises and increasing complexities. Companies and individuals transition through cycles of energized, focused and directed peak times; flat, down times; times of transformation and reinvention and times for exploring and preparing for the next chapter. Exploring the characteristics of these cycles and learning to understand how to deal with them will help us better adjust and make new discoveries for confronting change in a positive and healthy manner.
Presenter: Schuster, John P
Effective Presentations & Engaging an Audience
How to give effective presentations and engage your audience.
Presenter: Industry Experts
Delegation
Mina Brown provides insight on the What, Who and How of delegation. She points out that while some managers may over delegate, the greater tendency to keep too much and not delegate enough.
The What – as much as you can.
The Who – the person who can be successful; the task or project must fit the individual.
The How – is up to them; communicate the What and the Why with agreed upon check points, then get out of the way.
Presenter: Brown, Mina
Dancing with Difficult People
There are two ways to respond to difficult people: become even more difficult than the difficult person or... dance. That's right, dance. The approach of Dr. LeMon in this presentation is to get in step with the energy from a difficult person and then channel that momentum to do problemsolving instead of name-calling.
Presenter: LeMon, Cal