Tentative: updated on Sep 4, 2012
Shell Energy Day Panel Discussions
New Frontiers in Natural Gas and Renewables: Challenges and Opportunities
September 27, 2012
Pfendler Hall 241 (Dean’s Auditorium)
7:30-8:00 am
Registration
8:00-8:15 am
Opening Remarks – Maureen McCann, Director, Energy Center,
Discovery Park, Purdue University
8:15-9:15 am
Panel #1: Renewables: Wind Energy
Moderator: William (Bill) Zinsmeister (to be confirmed)
 Commercially and Future of Wind Power, Dick Williams, General
Manager of Shell Wind Energy
 Reliability and performance of Wind Turbines, Douglass Adams.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
9:15-10:15 am
Panel #2: Keystone Pipeline/Shale Oil Sands
Moderator: Jim Ogg (to be confirmed)
 Pipeline Infrastructure in U.S.A., Geoff Gauthier, Business
Opportunity Manager
 Mineral-Organic Interaction, Clifton Johnston, Professor of
Agronomy
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Panel #3: Fracking
Moderator: Jim Ogg (to be confirmed)
 Onshore Gas Well Completion Techniques, Brad Bracewell,
Communications Manager for the Onshore U.S. assets
 Challenges in Porous Media, John Cushman, Professor of Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
11:30-12:00
Networking
12:00-1:00 pm
Pizza and soft drinks to be served Shell Careers by LaBuz, Shell Energy
1:00-1:30 pm
Networking
1:30-3:30 pm
Energy Poster Session and Prize Presentation (poster size 24” x 36”)
* Titles of presentations are subject to change
* Shell is setting up a web site that will be circulated shortly. Registration is needed to attend
sessions including lunch presentation and displaying posters
* More information will be posted at
http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/energy/events/view.php?id=983