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AAPG Home : Meetings : 2008 ACE-San Antonio : Luncheons : DPA
Protecting your way of doing business is certainly something that your industry should strive to do, but “business as usual” won’t cut it.
The Oil and Gas extraction industry has done a good job of creating efficiencies in its business model and exploiting new technology to protect the environment, minimize waste and maximize production. In fact, policy makers should learn and apply oil and gas industry business modeling to government, which would enable it to do more with less. Because of the confluence of increasing global energy demand, the pressures of public perception, the depletion of historic conventional reserves and the opening up of new production from heretofore unconventional and inaccessible reservoirs, now is the time for the industry to show what it’s really made of. What’s going on in Texas and across other producing states can become a template for positive change in national energy fundamentals and perceptions. You might even change the world.
The Honorable Elizabeth Ames Jones, Texas Railroad Commissioner, will present her perspective, as a regulator and policymaker, on how we can all make a positive contribution to the new Energy Revolution and enhance America's energy security. Elizabeth Ames Jones, a member and the immediate past Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, was elected three times to the Texas House of Representatives before Governor Rick Perry appointed her to a vacancy on the Texas Railroad Commission. In November 2006, she was elected statewide to a full six-year term. She serves as the Commission’s representative to the Coastal Coordination Council, which administers the Federal Coastal Management Plan and on the Coastal Land Advisory Board, which allocates the state's Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) funds as determined in the Federal Energy Bill of 2005.
During her tenure in the Texas Legislature, Jones was one of Texas’s three appointees to the Southern States Energy Board, whose mission is to enhance economic development and to improve living conditions through innovations in energy and environmental technologies. She also served as Chairman of Budget and Oversight for the Energy Resources committee and she served on the Appropriations, Local and Consent Calendars and Select School Finance committees.
The recipient of many awards recognizing her work ethic in the Legislature, Commissioner Jones understands how important industries regulated by the Commission are to the economy of Texas and to national security. Commissioner Jones, a sixth generation Texan from San Antonio, is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) does not endorse or recommend any products and services that may be cited, used or discussed in AAPG publications or in presentations at events associated with AAPG.
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