Alaska - The Final Frontier For Natural Gas:

Alaska has more untapped natural gas than anywhere in North America. The locations are known, yet its remoteness and need to go through Canada has made any development of these volumes very difficult. A number of projects have been announced and the governments of Canada, the U.S. and the State of Alaska are supportive of projects, yet these projects continue to stall or have potential financial, legislative or contractual speed bumps. Tune into this special web broadcast, moderated by Frank Nieto, Editor, Gas Processors Report to gain:

1. An update of the natural gas resource base
2. An update of the Denali Pipeline project by ConocoPhillips and BP
3. Prospects for state-supported gas pipeline development
4. An update on TransCanada’s North Slope project, which recently added ExxonMobil as a minority partner.
5. The status of other proposed pipeline projects in the region

Douglas B. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Professor of Oil and Energy Economics,
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dr. Douglas B. Reynolds has lived in Alaska for over ten years and has extensive experience in Alaska's and the world's oil, natural gas and energy industries. His bachelor's degree was in mechanical engineering, and his doctoral work was in energy economics, after which he worked as an assistant professor in economics in the oil producing region of the former Soviet Union in Almaty, Kazakstan. In Alaska, Dr. Reynolds has been an energy consultant for the State of Alaska Legislature, and Alaska's State Department of Revenue in 2002 and 2006. He built economic models to evaluate competing natural gas pipelines in order to evaluate policy options. He testified before the Alaska State Legislature on pipeline feasibility issues. He has published a number of academic peer reviewed journal articles, editorials, and general articles in the oil and energy field and has published two books on energy including "Scarcity and Growth Considering Oil and Energy," and "Alaska and North Slope Natural Gas."

Scott Jepsen
Vice President of External Affairs for Denali - The Alaska Gas Pipeline

Scott has a Bachelor of Science and Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 29 years of experience with ConocoPhillips in the upstream oil and gas business. Scott has had a variety of assignments in the Lower 48 states and Alaska and has 20 years of experience managing North Slope and Cook Inlet fields. In July of 2008, he assumed his current position as Vice President of External Affairs for Denali - The Alaska gas Pipeline LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between ConocoPhillips and BP.

About the Moderator:

Frank Nieto
Editor, Gas Processors Report

Frank Nieto has served as editor of Gas Processors Report, an industry-leading publication covering the midstream sector published weekly for Hart Energy, since 2007. He also contributes to other Hart downstream products. His past experience includes an eight-turn as the editor of MDSI's Dail-E News, a daily electronic newsletter covering news in the healthcare supply chain, and Major Account News, a weekly newsletter that provides extensive coverage of the healthcare industry to the provider segment. He holds a B.A. in communications from Pennsylvania State University.