You are invited to attend the Damage Prevention Workshop in Houston, TX at the Omni Houston Hotel Westside from Thursday, October 14, 2010 through Friday, October 15, 2010.
The workshop will kick off with a presentation from Shell Pipeline Company President Mary Mujica, a review of excavation damage data by Cheryl Trench of Allegro Energy, and a review of the INGAA Foundation's previous workshop on parallel construction damage prevention issues. The National Utility Locating Contractors Association will host a panel discussion of issues from the locating contractor's perspective, and Mears will present damage prevention issues from a directional drilling contractor's perspective. There will be presentations from AGA about direction drilling and cross-bores, Buckeye Pipeline about a directional drilling near-miss, and the state of Virginia about their improvements in one call center technology and GIS. Kinder Morgan will explain their excavation monitoring process and their "ROW college". Participants will also hear from API's Public Awareness Team concerning RP 1162 and outreach activities to One Call Partners. Lastly, the attendees will participate in a breakout session to discuss these issues and develop recommendations for further consideration.
The fee to attend is $145 if registered by October 4, 2010 and $195 thereafter. Refunds for cancellations received in writing by October 8 will be made less a $100 processing fee. No refunds can be made after October 10.
API has reserved a block of rooms at the Omni Hotel Westside located at 13210 Katy Freeway Houston, Texas 77079 at the rate of $159 per night. Please contact the hotel at 281-558-8338 or 1-888-444-6664 and ask for the API Damage Prevention Workshop. The cut off date for making is Monday, September 27, 2010 at 5:00 pm local time.
To view the agenda please click here
To register online please click here https://meetings.api.org?D=4690&E=109
For registration inquiries please email registrar@api.org
For technical inquiries please contact wrb@rcp.com
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