Ladies & Gentlemen:
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the Spring 2012 COQA meeting.
Date: March 1, 2012
Venue: Magnolia Hotel
1100 Texas Street
Houston, TX 77002
Sleeping Rooms: $169 per night single/double, plus applicable taxes. Cutoff date for reservations at this special meeting rate is February 8th. Rate is available 3 days prior to and 3 days following meeting, subject to availability.
The following dedicated booking website has been created for the meeting so attendees will be able to make, modify and cancel their hotel reservations online.
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=8119674
If the link does not open from this page, simply copy and paste the address into your browser, being certain no extraneous figures and numbers (e.g. %20%20) are present.Program for March 1st:
Registration
and continental breakfast hosted by
This will be followed by reports on COQA’s Domestic Sweet Subcommittee and its Domestic Sweet initiative, the Canadian Crude Quality Subcommittee, an update on activities of the Canadian Crude Quality Technical Association (CCQTA), and a report on progress made in CCQTA’s H2S project
Call for presentations. For the general session, I hope to have presentations focusing on Eagle Ford and Utica supply, transportation, and refining, and of transportation of crude oil from Cushing, OK to the Gulf Coast. Several presentations on other topics have already been confirmed for the general session. If you would like to make a presentation, please send me a message as soon as possible with an indication of the topic.
Morning
and afternoon refreshment breaks
are being hosted by Nalco. Lunch is being hosted by Cameron and
NCRA. Following the meeting, Inspectorate is hosting a reception.
Their generosity is greatly appreciated.
Additional support has been provided by
At the meeting, please thank all the meeting representatives for their corporate generosity.
Registration and Attendance: For this meeting, there will be a $75 registration fee, payable by cash or check – as COQA does not accept credit cards. Preregistration for the meeting is strongly encouraged, but not mandatory. To preregister, simply send me an email message indicating your intention to attend.
Dress Code: Business casual.
Sincerely,
Harry N. Giles
Executive Director, COQA
+1 (703) 282-2461
dir.coqa@verizon.net
www.coqa-inc.org