COQA is once again headed to New Orleans! Save the date and plan to join us.
Tour Registration (March 13th to St. James Terminal, Details Below, Space Limited)
General Conference Registration
Complimentary Conference Registration
For: Corporate Member Representatives, Event Sponsors, Press, Retirees, Speakers
Venue
Hilton Riverside, New Orleans (2 Poydras St, New Orleans, LA 70130)
COQA Room Block:
Guestroom Reservations Link
Phone:
(504) 561-0500
Cut-off date for COQA room block reservations is March 6th, 2019
Wednesday Session: Kabacoff Room, Riverside Building
Thursday Session: Jefferson Ballroom, Main Building, 3rd Floor
Tour Information (guests welcome)
**registration first come first serve, space limited, deadline is February 22nd**
Join COQA to tour the St. James terminal (Plains All American) and more! Your registration (only $30) will include:
- transportation to/from/around the sites
- tour of St James (Plains) docking facility, metering and sampling stations, lab, control center, tanks
- visit to rail facility (with tour, time permitting)
- viewing of local pipeline facilities
- all safety gear provided
- lunch provided (Crawfish Boil)
- return to Hilton Riverside in time for subcommittee meetings
You may find RBN Energy’s
current blogs about St. James particularly relevant to our St. James tour
Program
Wednesday, March 13th
7:30-8:00am: Arrive in the lobby of the hotel to board the bus for another
COQA tour!
8:00am-1pm:
Bus tour to St. James terminal and neighboring facilities. Lunch provided.
2:00pm-3:00pm: Additives Subcommittee Meeting
3:00pm-3:20pm Satbir Nayar, XOS, Update: Metals Testing Methods
3:20-4:00pm: Domestic Sweet Monitoring Program Subcommittee Meeting
4:00-5:00pm: Advisory Board Meeting
5:00pm: Executive Board Meeting
Thursday, March 14th
7:00am-8:00am: Breakfast buffet provided by COQA
8:00am-4:30pm:
Main Program
Speakers (titles/topics tentative)
One Hour Roundtable Discussion, Nalco Champion, Baker Hughes GE, Dorf Ketal, Q2 Technologies, Suez
H2S and Crude Quality
Meghan Conan & Amy Meacock, ASTM Training and eLearning
ASTM Proficiency Testing and Training Programs: Helping You Work Better
Suzanne Lemieux, American Petroleum Institute
API Quarterly Industry Outlook
Gus Vasquez, Argus Media
The Evolution of US Export Markets
Matthew Goitia, Peaker Energy
Crude Quality, Liquidity/Debt Cycles, and Energy Infrastructure Development
Noah Dean, Intertek Caleb Brett
West Permian Producers Crude Quality Group
Randy Segato, Suncor
Quality of Partially Upgraded Crudes
Aaron Dillard, P66
Review and Highlights of Argus Americas 2019
Domestic Sweet Monitoring Program
Specifications Implementation in 2019 and Program Wrap-up
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