MONTANA PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION Plaza Hotel Billings, MT ANNUAL MEETING, GOLF TOURNAMENT & PETROLEUM INDUSTRY APPRECIATION DAY LUNCHEON AUGUST 29 & 30, 2017 Monday 8/28/17 PETROLEUM CLUB– Billings Board of Director’s Meeting, Petroleum Club, 22nd Floor of the Doubletree Hotel 3:00 pm 5:00pm Ice breaker with appetizers, Petroleum Club Tuesday 8/29/17 DOUBLETREE HOTEL– Billings 6:15 am Depart to Big Horn River (for confirmed fishermen only). Be ready to fish by 7:30am at the Big Horn River Lodge in Fort Smith PRYOR CREEK GOLF CLUB- Huntley GOLF TOURNAMENT AND BBQ DINNER 11:00 am 12:15 pm 5:30 pm 6:30 pm Speakers: Taco Bar for Golfers – upstairs Tee Time Cocktails BBQ Dinner Lt. Governor Mike Cooney and Attorney General Tim Fox Presentations: 8:30 am Program – Ballroom C, 3rd floor “Regulatory Issues Facing the Petroleum Industry Today” Ryan Ullman, Director of Public Relations and Government Affairs, IPAA, Washington, DC David Klemp, Bureau Chief, Air Quality Bureau, MT DEQ Tim Davis, Administrator, Water Quality Division, MT DEQ Bill Mercer, Attorney, Holland & Hart LLP, Billings, MT Bret Gallo, Project Engineer, Bison Engineering, Inc. “Environmental Activism: How will it play out in Montana?” Sheriff Leo Dutton, Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Trent Harbaugh, Fallon County John Strandell, Chief of Investigation Bureau, Division of Criminal Investigation, Montana Dept of Justice Don “DT” Greenwood, Senior Corporate Security Advisor, TransCanada, Houston, TX “Drone Uses in Petroleum Industry Applications” Montana State Senator Ed Buttrey, Great Falls, MT Todd Kelvington, Supervisor of Environmental Compliance, ONEOK Wednesday 8/30/17 DOUBLETREE HOTEL - Billings MPA ANNUAL MEETING (we are seeking approval for recertification credits from AAPL) 7:00 am Registration Opens – 3rd floor foyer 7:30 am Opening Breakfast & MPA General Membership Meeting –Ballroom A, 3rd floor Speaker: Bob Green, Former Head Football Coach, Montana Tech, Butte, MT “Ethics in the Workplace” PETROLEUM INDUSTRY APPRECIATION DAY LUNCHEON 11:30 am Registration – 3rd Floor Foyer 12:00 pm Luncheon – Grand Ballroom ABC, 3rd Floor KEYNOTE SPEAKER MR. JOHN HARPOLE President, Mercator Energy, LLC “The Geopolitical Impact of the U.S. Shale Revolution” PETROLEUM INDUSTRY APPRECIATION DAY LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER August 30, 2017 MR. JOHN HARPOLE Founder and President, Mercator Energy, LLC Mercator Energy LLC is a natural gas services, brokerage and energy market analysis company. Mercator assists both producers and end users throughout the United States in selling and sourcing natural gas supplies. Mercator is considered to be one of the largest natural gas brokers in the U.S., currently trading in excess of 1 BCF per day of natural gas. Mercator also conducts specific research projects for client groups exploring the impact of industry trends on various regional markets. Mercator’s analysis on “Poverty and Fracking” was featured in a Wall Street Journal editorial and on Fox News. During his career, Harpole has provided strategic advice and counseling to independent oil and gas producers, power producers, major electric and gas utilities, hedge funds and energy traders, retail and wholesale energy marketers, equipment vendors and large energy users typically at the CEO level. He has also played a key role in developing innovative new business structures and in helping to transform energy and environmental policy at the state and federal levels. Harpole is an Advisory Board Member of the Western Energy Alliance (formerly IPAMS), the Leadership Program of the Rockies, University of Colorado’s Global Energy Management Program (GEM) and Energy Outreach Colorado. He is also the moderator for the annual Wyoming Oil and Gas Fair and was recently invited to serve as a judge in the Daniels Fund Ethics Consortium Case Competition. Harpole has also been named to the Denver Business Journal's Who's Who in Energy for years 2014-2017. At the request of the Grand Junction Energy Partnership and 3 Western Slope counties, Harpole recently authored a white paper entitled, "From the Piceance Basin to the Pacific Rim" that focuses on potential partnerships between West Slope Colorado producers and Asian LNG consumers. Harpole has travelled to China twice in the last few years to instruct employees of PetroChina on the regulatory and marketing history of natural gas in the United States.