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PPROA Pipeline ~ July 2015
FROM THE WELLHEAD
As you can see preparation for the 86th Annual Meeting and Convention is well underway. The
plans indicate an exciting line up and a few interesting changes to Hospitality night.
Convention packets will soon be in the mail allowing you the opportunity to sign up early as
exhibitors or sponsors. The same information will soon be available on our website
www.pproa.org where you can also sign up and pay online.
In this issue you will see a very impressive panel for the Wednesday Forum ready to speak on
the most recent legislative and industry topics so have your questions ready.
Prepare for our Clay Shoot and our Golf Tournament. Again, not only does it give us a great
chance to network with decision makers and industry supporters but it provides fun, food, prizes
and a lot of “tall tales”. I can be bribed to not share what I already know!
PPROA President
Greg Graham
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Our industry seems to be a constant target for environmentalist. We no sooner won the legislative victory for “frac
bans” than Ryan Sitton with the Texas Railroad Commission was charged with combating the seismicity issues
dealing with injection wells and earthquakes. On Friday, June 5, 2015, Commissioner Ryan Sitton and RRC technical
staff met with authors of a study entitled, “Causal factors for seismicity near Azle, Texas.”
Also in attendance was Dr. Dan Hill, Chair of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, and
scientists from EnerVest Corporation. All in attendance agreed that the researchers’ work was important and a good
first step in beginning to understand very complex models, assumptions and preliminary conclusions regarding
seismicity in Azle and across Texas