Meet Alaska right around the corner

Petroleum News

Alaska’s largest oil and gas conference is right around the corner. Meet Alaska, a one-day event, is scheduled for Jan. 23 at the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel.

The trade show is sold out, The Alliance said Dec. 29, but sponsorships are still available. Sponsorship opportunities include the following:

• Discovery Well Sponsor at $5,000, for which you get to designate one representative to attend the Speakers’ Breakfast at the Jade restaurant in the Sheraton lobby on Jan. 23 at 7 a.m. You also receive placement in the conference program, on-site sponsor signage, on-screen logo display, prominent display of your company banner and recognition in pre-and-post event media.

• Platform Sponsor (break sponsor) at $2,500, for which you receive logo placement in the conference program, on-site sponsor signage near the food and beverage break tables, on-screen logo display, prominent display of your company banner and recognition in pre-and-post event media.

• Derrick Sponsor (reception sponsor) at $1,000, for which you receive logo placement in the conference program, on-site sponsor signage in reception, on-screen logo display, prominent display of your company name and recognition in pre-and-post event media.

• Roustabout Sponsor at $500, for which you receive a sponsor listing in the program, on-site sponsor signage, on-screen logo display and display of your company name, recognition in pre-and-post event media.

For more information on sponsorships, contact Alicia Egan at 907 563-2226, or by e-mail at [email protected].

The Meet Alaska official publication was published by Petroleum News for The Alliance, which received a percentage of the advertising proceeds.

Speakers include Ryan M. Lance, president of exploration and production for Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East for ConocoPhillips (he was in Alaska with ARCO for many years, most recently as vice president of the Western North Slope for ARCO Alaska, then Phillips, from 1998 to 2002); Larry Burton, executive director of Business Roundtable; John ‘t Hart, executive vice president for Talisman Energy and its subsidiary FEX; Brian E. Frank, president of BP Energy Co. and North America Gas & Power; Oliver Scott Goldsmith, Institute of Social and Economic Research, College of Business and Public Policy, and University of Alaska Anchorage Professor of Economics; Jay P. Still, executive vice president of domestic operations for Pioneer Natural Resources; Edward Kelly, vice president of Wood Mackenzie’s Americas Gas and Power consulting group; Don Korach, engineering manager of Nabors Alaska Drilling (with Nabors Alaska since 1984, and with Pool Arctic Alaska Drilling from 1978 to 1984); Joey Husband, Alaska general manager for Parker Drilling Co. (began his career in Alaska in 1984); plus an unidentified speaker from ExxonMobil.