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Denise Hamsher works in Enbridge Energy Company’s Major Projects business unit –established when Enbridge recently undertook over $12 billion of pipeline expansions. Formerly with En... [ view bio ]
Director, Office of Energy Projects (OEP), Infrastructure Policy Group
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Mr. Wright is the Director of the Office of Energy Projects and has been a member of the Office of Energy Projects since its inception in 2000. This Office is responsible for the licensing, safet... [ view bio ]
Community Assistance/Technical Services (CATS) Manager, SW Region
Office of Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
John Jacobi joined the Office of Pipeline Safety, Southwest Region in 2003 with over 20 years of natural gas and liquids pipeline experience. A professional engineer (TX) and licensed attorney (... [ view bio ]
Andy Black became President and CEO of AOPL in September 2009. He leads outreach to Congress, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), other government ... [ view bio ]
Cliff Johnson has served as President since September 2010. Prior to coming to PRCI, Mr. Johnson served 13 years at NACE International, where he has held a variety of positions during his career.... [ view bio ]
Robert S. Purgason serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P. (CMP), the 50-50 partnership between Global Infrastructure Partners, L.P., and Chesapeake Energy C... [ view bio ]
On November 2, 2010, David J. Porter was elected to serve a six-year term as a Texas Railroad Commissioner. He won nearly sixty percent of the vote in that election. Before taking office, Com... [ view bio ]
Director of Environmental Safety and Technical Training, Gas Operations
CenterPoint Energy
Byron Smith has over 30 years of experience as a Safety and Environmental professional. He is a Certified Safety Professional. Byron is an advocate of leadership’s role in safety, and emp... [ view bio ]
Robert Kipp has served as President of the Common Ground Alliance (CGA) since the organizations inception in 2001. Since 2001, the CGA has grown to represent more than 1400 national members and ... [ view bio ]
Mr. Bennett is senior managing counsel for the American Gas Association. His primary areas of responsibility are regulatory and legislative issues affecting pipeline safety and employee safety. ... [ view bio ]
Charles Schwager is the Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Assistant General Counsel for the Kinder Morgan Natural Gas Pipelines Group. Mr. Schwager is responsible for managing, evaluat... [ view bio ]
Les Cherwenuk has over 30-years with TransCanada Pipelines and a broad experience in engineering, project management, system design, business development, regulatory, and field operations. Les w... [ view bio ]
Senior Program Manager, Operations and Integrity
Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)
Mark Piazza joined PRCI in 2008 as a Senior Program Manager. He is leading PRCI’s Operations & Integrity Technical Committee for Pipeline Programs. Prior to joining PRCI, Mark held posi... [ view bio ]
Mr. Adrian Banica is the Founder and President of Synodon Inc., an advanced remote sensing company. He is the one of the main architects of the realSens gas sensing application. Over the last 15 ... [ view bio ]
Dr. J. Malcolm Gray is an internationally acknowledged expert in the metallurgy, manufacture, welding and application of microalloyed (HSLA) steels. He has authored over 100 publications covering... [ view bio ]
President and Chief Operating Officer, Pipeline and Automatic Welding Group
CRC-Evans Pipeline International
Andreas Rudl completed his education in Industrial Engineering (Dipl.-Wirtsch-Ing.) in 1995 at the FH Gießen-Friedberg. He has over 15 years experience in logistics and automation in the dis... [ view bio ]
Michael Smith is the President | Principal Architect of Smith LaRock Architecture P.C. Mr. Smith has been involved in designing Command & Control Buildings, Control Suites, and Control Room ... [ view bio ]
Dr. Anderson is a world-renown expert in fracture mechanics and fitness-for-service methods. He is the author of a best-selling book on fracture mechanics, which has been adopted as a required te... [ view bio ]
Tom Sawyer is the Vice President of Pipeline and Chemical Services for Greene’s Energy Group, LLC. He has been with GEG since 2004 and has held the VP roles of International Business, Mark... [ view bio ]
Dane joined Flexpipe Systems in July 2010. Dane comes most recently from Tetra Technologies - Offshore Services Division where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager. Dane w... [ view bio ]
Trent Oglesby is currently the CEO and Managing Partner of Percheron Acquisitions LLC, a national, integrated Right-Of-Way Service Company. He has achieved this position after serving at ever in... [ view bio ]
As Chief Executive Officer of geoAMPS, LLC, Yogesh is an engineer with a diverse background in technology across various industries. Yogesh has experience with implementing six-sigma and lean pra... [ view bio ]
Dr. Bullemer is a senior partner with Human Centered Solutions, LLP (HCS). HCS is a North American consulting services company with expertise in applying innovative, proven solutions that improve... [ view bio ]
Glenn worked as an exploration geologist performing field surveys in Colorado, Wyoming and Alaska. In 2000, he formed CartoPac with Scott Crouch and has served primarily in sales and business man... [ view bio ]
Vice President of Technology, New Product Development
CRC-Evans Automatic Welding
Shankar Rajagopalan, Vice President of Technology, New Product Development at CRC-Evans Automatic Welding, has served as an integral member of CRC-Evans for over 20 years. Before joining CRC-Evan... [ view bio ]
Thomas Beuker has more than 19 years experience in developing pipeline inspection solutions. Currently he is the Marketing Manager at ROSEN responsible for the business segment pipelines, Thomas ... [ view bio ]


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