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The lecture series brought high-profile speakers to the campus, all experts in the different aspects of the oil and gas industry globally, and of the unconventional gas industry in New York state. The vision for the lecture series was to help usher in an era of rational debate and research on the possibility of environmentally responsible unconventional gas exploration and extraction in New York state. The series consists of two subseries: 1) General overview and global context for gas drilling in New York, and 2) Specifics of unconventional gas exploration and extraction in New York state -- geology, land use, legal issues, and environmental impacts.
The talks were held from latest March to early May, 2011.
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Talk, Date |
Theme |
Speaker |
Video |
Slides |
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1, 3/31 |
Natural gas and the energy future of the U.S. |
Rayola Dougher |
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2A, 4/7 |
Geology of the black shales of New York |
Langhorne Smith |
N/A* |
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2B, 4/14 |
Land leasing and property rights |
Michael Joy |
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2C, 4/21 |
Permitting and regulation |
Greg Sovas |
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2D, 4/28 |
Drilling and fracing |
Rich Nyahay |
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2E, 5/5 |
Production, pipelining and long-term build-out |
Gary Marchiori |
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2F, 5/12 |
Completion |
Roger Willis |
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2H, 5/19 |
Energy and the environment: gas and the green earth |
John Martin |
* We are sorry but the talk by Langhorne "Taury" Smith cannot be made available at this time.