Events
Lunches are the second Monday of the month and are typically $25 (pay online or at door). Please register early as space is limited!
Happy hours and other events are typically free for all to attend (thank you, SPONSORS!)
Join us for AWOG’s 2023 Holiday Happy Hour reception and networking event!
We’ll be gathering to celebrate the holiday season and would love to see you there! Food and drink will be provided. Please register below for the reception.
Join us for AWOG’s 2023 October luncheon with Patricia Yarrington, "Lessons from a Female CFO"!
Food and drink will be provided. Please register below ($25).
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Join us for AWOG’s 2023 September networking luncheon!
Food and drink will be provided. Please register below ($25).
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Join us for AWOG’s next Happy Hour at Lou’s (on Barton Springs)!
Join us for AWOG’s 2023 July networking luncheon!
Food and drink will be provided. Please register below ($25).
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Join us for AWOG’s 2022 holiday reception and networking event!
We’ll be gathering to celebrate the holiday season after nearly two years of being apart. Food and drink will be provided. Please register below for the reception.
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Join us as we welcome guest speaker Karen Bogisch for a discussion on the Accommodation Doctrine in regards to solar leases and mineral owners.
Please join us for a panel discussion with several of our very own AWOG entrepreneurs, discussing their experience, lessons learned, and answering questions from you!
Join us for AWOG’s 2021 holiday reception and networking event!
We’ll be gathering to celebrate the holiday season after nearly two years of being apart. Food and drink will be provided. Please register below for the reception.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us as we welcome back Anne Billingsley and Lauren Spreen for a Legislative Update. Anne and Lauren will discuss developments from the 2021 Texas Legislative Regular Session and Special Sessions to date, including the new speaker of the house, COVID-19, eminent domain, Winter Storm Uri, bills specific to oil and gas, and upcoming Railroad Commission of Texas rulemakings.
No registration necessary! Come network with other AWOG members and professionals in the oil and gas community in Austin.
Join us for a lunch IN PERSON at a NEW location (Barton Creek Country Club) for our guest speaker, Kat Galloway, to discuss trends and opportunities in oil & gas ESG.
With nearly twenty years of experience as an environmental consultant, Kat Galloway will discuss the basic principles of environmental sustainability in the oilfield. She will discuss some of the initiatives Bright Sky Environmental has supported with their oil and gas clients as the industry starts to move beyond tackling the “low-hanging fruit.” Emissions reductions, data-driven emissions management, plugging orphaned wells, flaring, and even Bitcoin mining are hot topics that present opportunities for Austin Women in Oil and Gas.
Join us as we welcome back guest speaker Annell Bay with a discussion regarding recent investor activism against Exxon Mobil.
A key ingredient for sustainable consumption of oil and gas for the future is successful management of carbon dioxide emissions. At the Illinois Basin – Decatur Site, CO2 injection into a deep saline reservoir started in 2011. The two projects at this site, a large-scale demonstration and an industrial-scale demonstration, together have successfully injected more than 3 million metric tonnes of CO2 and injection is ongoing. The extensive monitoring program in place at the site provides valuable information for optimizing future monitoring programs, and critical data on the reservoir response to the injected fluid that will aid in selection of future carbon sequestration sites.
This presentation will review 2020’s biggest oil and gas deals, recent deal trends and what last year’s activity can tell us about the state of the industry going into 2021.
Melissa Munson is a member with the Woodlands office of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC. Melissa’s practice focuses on energy transactions, including upstream and midstream acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as day to day operational matters. She currently serves as the Secretary of the Houston Bar Association’s Oil and Gas Section. Melissa lives in New Braunfels with her husband, Neil, and puppy, Lucy.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FfLPwhqUTtGNvtEb-WN_Gw
Martha Creager Barnes is an owner and managing partner at Santa Clara Minerals, LLC which manages mineral rights for private mineral owners. Prior to starting SCM, she was an exploration and production geologist for Marathon Oil Company for nearly 29 years. Martha grew up in New Mexico and is a third-generation geologist and a fourth-generation mineral owner. She has a BA in Geology and Managerial Studies from Rice University, a MS in Geology from the University of South Carolina and is a Registered Geologist with the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists (TBPG) and a Certified Geologist with the American Association of Petroleum Geoscientists (AAPG). She is a Certified Minerals Manager with the National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO) and currently serves as a Director on the OK NARO Board and the US NARO Board. She is a member of AAPG, HGS, and AAPL.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oYyDjKzWRe-Ra2JFus9gtQ
Dave Savelle is the General Manager of Enverus’ Oildex OpenTicket Digital Field Ticketing solution
Please join us as Susan Howe covers networking and building relationships in the modern world.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jpu7BiXsT-y7VA-Nl3RY0A
Susan Howes, PE, PHR, joined Subsurface Consultants (SCA) in August 2016 as Vice President of Engineering. In 1982, Susan began her career with Anadarko as an Engineer in Denver, Colorado. Through the years she held a variety of engineering positions of increasing responsibility. In 2007, she joined Chevron as Horizons Program Manager and afterwards moved into their Reservoir Management function providing functional leadership that resulted in improved production and reserve trends.
Susan has coauthored several papers and articles on the topics of uncertainty management, risk management, and talent management for SPE conferences and publications. She is past chair of the SPE Soft Skills Committee, previously served as SPE Regional Director for Gulf Coast North America, is a recipient of the SPE DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal and serves on the US Advisory Council. In 2018, she was selected as an SPE Honorary Member in 2018. Howes holds a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas.
As the Vice President of Engineering for SCA, Susan is responsible for maintaining the highest technical quality standards for SCA’s recruitment, consultancy and training services. Additionally, she participates in the direction, administration, and coordination of SCA’s operations, manages technical projects, and serves as the company’s primary liaison to the engineering community through her continued involvement in the SPE and other organizations.
The creators of Flipping the Barrel podcast will be joining us for a candid discussion of the life of women in the industry.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qxz5cPTPSNeUsRIC0IYt6A
Parsley Energy and Jagged Peak Integration: Process, People and Lessons Learned
Ms. Endorf will discuss the workflow of integrating companies during an acquisition and how Parsley approached its most recent integration with Jagged Peak. She will show how it differed from previous acquisitions and what lessons were learned (the good, bad, and ugly).
Carrie Endorf, Vice President - Reservoir Engineering and Planning
Ms. Endorf joined Parsley in October 2014 as an engineer and was promoted to Reservoir Engineering Manager in April 2015. Prior to Parsley, Ms. Endorf spent twelve years at Pioneer Natural Resources in a variety of engineering roles including facilities, operations, reservoir and corporate budget and planning. Ms. Endorf has a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and a Master of Science from the University of Colorado at Denver in Global Energy Management.
Lynn Fowler gives an update on energy markets including the impact of coronavirus shutdowns as well as geopolitical developments. How is the current downturn similar and different to previous dips? Industry developments and potential opportunities for the next wave in the oil patch.
Olga Kobzar, with Scott Douglass McConnico, will summarize all of the oil and gas cases decided by the Texas Supreme Court in 2019 and will provide a preview of the granted cases that will be decided in 2020.
The energy transition is sometimes described as the switch from carbon-based fuels to non-carbon fuels. This narrow lens leads to divisive and unproductive political and social discourse by pitting the environment against the economy. In reality, the production of all forms of energy at scale—fossil, nuclear and renewable—impact land, water, local air and atmosphere. And unquestionably, affordable, reliable energy underpins modern economies and has led to unprecedented economic growth and human advancement. Thus, a sustainable transition will happen when all humans are lifted from energy poverty and environmental impacts of all forms of energy are minimized. Rather than creating false dichotomies of “good and bad” and “clean and dirty,” it is vital that the energy dialog be data-driven, and seek compromise and convergence on workable solutions. Fortunately, such solutions exist.
Join us as Annell Bay returns as an encore guest speaker to elaborate on the role of directors on boards. Ms. Bay serves as a director of Apache Corporation, a major oil & gas exploration and production company, of Hunting PLC, a London-based energy service provider, and Verisk Analytics, Inc., a global data analytics provider. She also serves on the advisory boards for the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin and the Independent Petroleum Association of America Energy Education Center.
No registration necessary! Come network with other AWOG members and professionals in the oil and gas community in Austin.
AWOG will host a booth at UT’s Girl Day where girls grades 2nd through 8th can Explore the Engineering of Oil and Gas with interactive experiments. Please consider volunteering with us at this wonderful event. Morning and afternoon shifts are available. Additional details will be sent out prior to the event.
Join us as Tracy Lenz presents an industry primer to oil & gas reserves. Reserves are the estimates of how much oil and or gas is remaining to be recovered by a company. Or better put, how much “inventory” (oil/gas) is in a company’s “warehouse” (reservoir) and ready to sell. Learn more about what reserves are, how they are calculated, what they affect, how value is derived from them, and the things to watch out for.
All backgrounds welcome, no prior knowledge required!
Our next luncheon is this coming Monday, January 13th 11:30-1pm with Melissa Munson, Partner at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC: "Acquisitions & Divestitures: A year in Review" - a presentation on the biggest US & Texas oil and gas deals in 2019.
Ms. Munson practices in the areas of business and energy and natural resources law. Her practice focuses on energy transactions, including those involving oil and gas exploration and production and upstream and midstream asset acquisitions and dispositions. Melissa’s transactional experience includes advising clients in connection with the formation of joint ventures and joint development projects, general corporate matters including entity formation and corporate formalities, and other commercial transactions. She also has experience conducting due diligence on energy assets and corporate entities. She received her law degree from the University of Houston and attended UT for her undergraduate degree
