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AGA - Operations Section Fall Committee Meetings & Related Events

The AGA O&E committees work together to anticipate, plan for and meet the operational challenges of the natural gas industry. Committee products include technology transfer (e.g., publications and workshops), operation processes (e.g., best practices, standards development), regulatory input and influence, and professional development. Committees provide a forum for industry professionals to pool their collective knowledge to improve the state of operations, maintenance, engineering, and the technological aspects of transporting, storing, distributing, measuring and utilizing natural gas. Individual committee meeting agendas will be available by the end of July. #AGA

AHRI - Leadership Forum

AHRI will welcome hundreds of members, staff, and invited association guests to the La Quinta Resort and Club Palm Springs, CA, from November 17 to 19 for the 2024 AHRI Leadership Forum. This is the premiere association event at which HVACR industry colleagues engage on pressing issues, while taking the opportunity to network in relaxed and beautiful settings. #AHRI

2024 APGA Annual Conference

July 28-31, 2024 | Traverse City MI Thought-provoking education sessions, game-changing ideas, and practical solutions are just three of the many things you’ll take away from the APGA Annual Conference. #APGA

Fall Board & Committee Meetings and 2024 APGA Operations Conference

October 20-22 Fall Board & Committee Meetings  Knoxville, TN October 22-23 Operations Conference  Knoxville, TN #APGA

B3PE - Basic GASCalc & GASWorkS

The cost of the course is $895. If our course schedule does not meet your needs, we can conduct any courses at other times to meet your individual or group needs. We can also provide individually tailored courses at your site or ours and schedule additional courses upon request. Please contact us at training@b3pe.com to discuss your specific training needs. Visit our website, www.b3pellc.com, for additional courses, course descriptions, and registration information. #B3PE

DCA - Fall Meeting

The Fall Meeting is a members-only event with a board meeting, leadership council meeting, committee meetings, and a networking social event. The Executive Finance Committee meets at this event to review the operations of the staff. #DCA

ESC - Delivering Tough Messages with Tact to Both Internal and External Customers (Virtual)

The Energy Solutions Center is offering its 4th training webinar in conjunction with Vicki Flesher with InterAct Training Group on September 5th at 2PM Eastern. This program will educate gas representatives to enhance and improve customer service, management and sales skills. Vicki has worked with ESC for several years on various training and education programs. About this Training session: This session will focus on how to deliver difficult messages to internal and external customers. Often times, others in our own business aren’t as responsive as we need them to be, and this creates a barrier to delivering excellent service to our external customers. To build productive internal relationships, we need to find ways to communicate our needs and expectations, and to do so tactfully and diplomatically. This course will help us to do just that! Participants will also learn how to deliver bad news to external customers in a palatable way. How do we communicate that the customer needs to make a large financial contribution to the project, or that the customer’s expectation for the completion of the project can’t be met? The content in this webinar will explore a couple of simple models that can be used for delivering tough messages, both internally and externally. About the Speaker: Vicki Flesher owns InterAct Training Group, specializing in business development, customer service, and leadership and management development training. Her innovative methodologies assist clients in maximizing their return on the training investment. Vicki worked with ESC to develop its Customer Relationship Development training program and our 2022/2023 Leadership Development training. Individual rate: Regular rate is $197 per person, early bird discount is $179 through 8/30/24. Corporate Unlimited Access Rate: ESC is offering a corporate rate for unlimited staff registrations for this event. The regular rate is $1,950 and early bird rate is $1,750 good through 8/30/24. Please contact eburgis@escenter.org for this. #ESC

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2024 Calgary Technology & Market Assessment Forum - ESC

TMAF is the  Energy Solutions Center 's premier education and networking conference for gas utility marketing, sales, and customer support representatives from throughout North America. The two and a half-day conference focuses on educating utility professionals about the latest  gas solutions, marketing, sales and customer outreach, and conservation. We guarantee that each attendee will gain new and innovative approaches to bringing energy-efficient natural gas solutions to residential, commercial, and industrial customers.   #ESC

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ESC - Improving Your Productivity in the Workplace (Virtual)

The Energy Solutions Center is offering its 5th training webinar in conjunction with Vicki Flesher with InterAct Training Group on November 14th at 2PM Eastern. This program will educate gas representatives to enhance and improve customer service, management and sales skills. Vicki has worked with ESC for several years on various training and education programs. About this Training session: Fortunately, or unfortunately, we have a finite amount of time to get work done! To make meaningful contributions to our LDC, we need to use that time in the most productive ways. This webinar will focus on ways that we can be more efficient and effective managing time. Participants will learn how to set goals, prioritize tasks, plan their work and time, avoid procrastination, and even how to say no. They will also walk away with a number of strategies on how to be more productive in the workplace, and how to create better work/life balance. About the Speaker: Vicki Flesher owns InterAct Training Group, specializing in business development, customer service, and leadership and management development training. Vicki offers clients unique consulting services unmatched by similar firms through her group training, coaching for individual employees, and training transfer techniques. Her innovative methodologies assist clients in maximizing their return on the training investment. Vicki worked with ESC to develop its Customer Relationship Development training program and our 2022/2023 Leadership Development training. Individual rate: Regular rate is $197 per person, early bird discount is $179 through 11/8/24. Corporate Unlimited Access Rate: ESC is offering a corporate rate for unlimited staff registrations for this event. The regular rate is $1,950 and early bird rate is $1,750 good through 11/8/24. Please let eburgis@escenter.org know if you would like to purchase a corporate unlimited staff pass for this event. #ESC

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GCI - SCADA Fundamentals Certification

Beyond just ensuring their systems are in compliance with shifting regulations and standards, SCADA operators want to implement best practices. This course enables the industry to stay current with standards and the processes to properly apply them to their operations. SCADA environments require unique management and security considerations than a traditional enterprise network environment. This course provides participants detailed understanding of industry standards as well as how to safely and properly safeguard against the typical vulnerabilities that exist in SCADA environments. The SCADA Fundamentals Certification course prepares controllers, operations managers and support personnel to meet the unique challenges in today’s energy industry. The added study of the complete lifecycle of alarm management and controller support technology creates advanced awareness and knowledge key to effective controller operations and overall operational integrity. #GCI

GCI - Gas Measurement Fundamentals & EFM Best Practices

The importance of measurement cannot be overstated, and this course provides participants a solid foundation to understand the impact of not following industry standards and best practices for measurement certainty. Seemingly minor discrepancies can have far-reaching results: adverse impact to revenue, noncompliance issues, breach of contracts, and possible litigation, so the need for accurate measurement is imperative. This training is also considered the first week of our two-week Gas Measurement Fundamentals Certification course. <Participants can enroll for both weeks consecutively or split the weeks over time.> By attending this instructor-led course, participants can return to their jobs and immediately apply the knowledge gained. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. #GCI

GCI - Fundamentals of Crude Measurement

Grounded in API standards, this course provides participants with an understanding of the fundamentals of manual tank gauging, principle operations of dynamic meters, meter proving, factor calculation, asset balancing, and much more. By attending this instructor-led course, participants can return to their jobs and immediately apply the knowledge gained. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. #GCI

GCI - Gas Measurement Fundamentals & EFM Best Practices

The importance of measurement cannot be overstated, and this course provides participants a solid foundation to understand the impact of not following industry standards and best practices for measurement certainty. Seemingly minor discrepancies can have far-reaching results: adverse impact to revenue, noncompliance issues, breach of contracts, and possible litigation, so the need for accurate measurement is imperative. This training is also considered the first week of our two-week Gas Measurement Fundamentals Certification course. <Participants can enroll for both weeks consecutively or split the weeks over time.> By attending this instructor-led course, participants can return to their jobs and immediately apply the knowledge gained. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. #GCI

GCI - Back-Office Gas Measurement Fundamentals

The class will equip back-office professionals with the measurement fundamentals knowledge required to understand custody transfer practices, to identify and address common issues in measurement data, and to improve their interaction with field measurement personnel.  It emphasizes the importance of maintaining the integrity of measurement data throughout data collection, validation, and processing.  It teaches the fundamentals of gas measurement based upon AGA, API, and GPA standards, and provides context on how data should be processed, whether a company is using a commercial measurement software system, an in-house developed system, or outsourcing to a 3 rd  party. This course presents the fundamental concepts, terminology, standards, and best practices that natural gas custody measurement is based upon, focusing on the context needed by measurement analysts and other back-office professionals. While much attention is focused on the field custody transfer equipment and its operations, the data from the field devices must then be collected, validated, processed, and summarized prior to being used by accounting and other business units.  This course discusses validation of data to detect anomalies, errors, or missing data and how to address those issues, while maintaining the integrity of the custody transfer process. This class will not address navigation, use, editing, or configuration of specific measurement software systems, rather it equips users of these systems with the measurement knowledge needed to make sound decisions and to manage their workflow efficiently. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. #GCI

GCI - Fundamentals of Liquid Measurement

Virtually all hydrocarbons are bought and sold by volume; however, variations in component content and shrinkage due to molecular variation make it impossible to measure NGLs by volume. Measuring NGLs by mass, and subsequently calculating component volumes, demands accuracy and intimate knowledge of the processes involved. Learn the basics of properly measuring liquid to help your company control loss. Included is a brief history of flow measurement technology, various methods of liquid flow measurement currently in use, what can affect measurement accuracy and repeatability, and what to consider when selecting flow instrumentation for a particular application. By attending this instructor-led course, participants can return to their jobs and immediately apply the knowledge gained. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. #GCI

GCI - Advanced Fundamentals of Liquid Measurement

For participants who have completed our Fundamentals of Liquid Measurement course or for personnel who need to expand their on-the-job knowledge, this training provides a greater understanding of balance relationships through a combination of reviewing fundamental theories and examination of real-world case studies of volume and mass systems. Participants are given a factual case of measurement imbalance with supporting data to perform an investigative analysis and a systematic recommendation to resolve the imbalance and then to present their findings. By attending this instructor-led course, participants can return to their jobs and immediately apply the knowledge gained. Participants will receive a certificate of completion. #GCI

GMA - Annual Gas Section Conference

The Gas Section of the Georgia Municipal Association exists to coordinate activities and assist municipal natural gas systems in providing efficient, safe and economical service to their consumers and to foster, coordinate and perform, or cause to be performed, training schools, conferences, short courses and training sessions and/or mediums for discussion, study and communication regarding transportation, storage, production and utilization of natural gas by municipal operators. #GMA

LDC-Gas Forums - Annual LDC Gas Forums - Mid-Continent

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LDC-Gas Forums - Gulf Coast Energy Forum

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LDC-Gas Forums - Annual US-Mexico Natural Gas Forum

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MEA - Gas Operations Technical & Leadership Summit

MEA - Gas Operations Technical & Leadership Summit August 6-8 MEA has been offering best-in-class gas operations training since 1923. This annual event is attended by natural gas crews, foreman, supervisors, managers, and directors. The summit features keynotes, exhibits, pre-conference courses, and tracks on compliance, safety, measurement and control, distribution and technology, engineering, and technical training.   Springfield, IL https://www.meaenergy.org/education/gas/gas-operations-technical-leadership-summit/   #MEA

MEA - National Gas Rodeo & Expo

  #MEA MEA - National Gas Rodeo & Expo September 11-13 The National Gas Rodeo is a program of MEA Energy Association. It was started to promote the skills and teamwork of those working in the natural gas delivery industry. The team-based events build leadership and enhance company morale. We focus on safe, time-efficient performance of job skills. At Turfway Park Racing & Gaming.   Florence, KY https://www.nationalgasrodeo.org/

MEA – Fall Executive Forum

MEA – Fall Executive Forum #MEA October 8-10 The MEA Executive Forums are industry events for leaders and executives from natural gas and electric delivery companies, supplier companies, and contractors. Participate in structured discussions on conference topics, discover successful practices, and share ideas with leaders in similar roles to help envision and prepare for a better future for the energy industry. At the Omni Grove Park Inn.   Asheville, NC https://www.meaenergy.org/education/leadership/executive-forums/

MEA/NGR - National Gas Rodeo

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Empowering Success: Women’s Leadership Symposium - NGA & SGA

Successful careers are rewarding, help you achieve financial stability, and make a difference in the world around you. Contributing to this definition is having the flexibility to integrate work and life successfully. Your successful career may differ from how others define success, and this symposium celebrates those unique careers women have forged in the natural gas industry. #SGA #NGA Details coming soon! For questions or to be involved with the event, please contact   memberservices@southerngas.org .

Introduction to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has gained increasing attention over the past few years, with many institutional investors investing only in those companies that provide ESG performance reporting.  An introduction to Environmental, Social and Governance for the natural gas industry provides an overview of an ESG framework and how it supports a company’s overall risk management. We will look at each component in detail and deliver insight into how those components converge to impact a company and its stakeholders. Whether you’re in distribution, transmission, marketing, E&P or a supplier you will no doubt be faced with a growing interest in ESG and how it informs you or your company’s decision-making.  The intention of this course is to prepare you with the foundational knowledge needed to respond effectively and help you understand how the stakeholders are using ESG information to conduct due diligence and make investment decisions. Attendees will receive  2 Professional Development Hours (PDH)   and   Level 1 Natural Gas Industry ESG Professional Credly badge   upon completion. #SGA

SGA - Operations Conference

The Operations Conference 2024 is a premier gathering for professionals in the natural gas industry, specifically tailored for supervisors to director-level operations professionals. This conference provides a platform for industry leaders to share insights, discuss best practices, and explore the latest advancements in operations, asset management, gas control, and technology. #SGA

2024 Gas Machinery Conference - SGA

The  Gas Machinery Conference provides technical training and presentations, provided by the industry’s leading subject matter experts. Educational sessions and presentations on recent GMRC research are valuable for design engineers, facility engineers, technicians and others, with an emphasis on the operation, maintenance and testing of gas compression machinery.   #SGA Face-to-face meetings are key to building strong relationships. GMC will be focused and productive, don’t be left out. #SGA

Empowering Success: Women’s Leadership Symposium - NGA & SGA

Successful careers are rewarding, help you achieve financial stability, and make a difference in the world around you. Contributing to this definition is having the flexibility to integrate work and life successfully. Your successful career may differ from how others define success, and this symposium celebrates those unique careers women have forged in the natural gas industry. #SGA #NGA Details coming soon! For questions or to be involved with the event, please contact   memberservices@southerngas.org .

TNGA - Safety Summit

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TNGA - Business Accounting & Professional Development Conference

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