RMS Annual Meeting Offers Science, Business Themes

Science and business are the themes for the Rocky Mountain Natural Gas 2004 energy summit -- this year's annual Rocky Mountain Section meeting -- which will be held Aug. 9-11 at Denver's Colorado Convention Center.

The meeting is a joint session for RMS and the Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Strategy Conference and Investment Forum, sponsored by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association.

The meeting, a "first time ever" blending of RMS and COGA -- RMS attendees can add $50 to their registration fee to attend concurrent COGA sessions -- will include eight technical sessions, posters, two luncheons and icebreakers, short courses and dual exhibits featuring more than 150 exhibitors.

Other highlights will include:

• A Monday luncheon featuring keynote speaker Scott W. Tinker, director of the Bureau of Economic Geology in Austin, Texas, speaking on "Unconventional Gas and Global Energy: Is It Mountain Standard Time?"
• A Tuesday luncheon featuring Bobby S. Shackouls, CEO of Burlington Resources and chairman of the National Petroleum Council, speaking on U.S. and Rockies natural gas resources.
• A Tuesday morning "mega session" on "Natural Gas in the Future of World Energy" and "The Role of the Rockies in the Future of North American Natural Gas."
• A Wednesday afternoon "Pipeline Session."

Technical themes will include:

• New and Old Plays in the Rockies.
• Unconventional Gas.
• Applied Reservoir Models.
• Coalbed Methane.
• Shallow Gas.
• Search for Giant Oil Fields.
• New Seismic Techniques-Basin and Petroleum Systems.
• Smart Development.

Additional information is available online at www.rmag.org and www.coga.org.