Message from the Chairman

ur world has changed dramatically from what it was a Oyear ago. The Administration’s response to the Gulf spill threatens our industry, security and economy through increased energy costs, greater reliance on foreign energy sources, and the loss of more American jobs. We have seen both shallow and deepwater moratoria in the Gulf, emergency rulemakings, a series of NTLs and attempts at clarification, a lengthy investigation by the Oil Spill Commission, and the rebirth of blanket moratoria on both coasts and in parts of the Gulf and Alaska.

ur industry has worked tirelessly to understand and Omeet the seemingly ever changing new regulatory requirements. We formed task forces and have conducted our own investigations. We have offered our knowledge and expertise to the Administration and have met with them on numerous occasions, yet certainty and clarity are not forthcoming.

espite the official lifting of the deepwater Gulf moratorium in October, a de Dfacto moratorium clearly remains there as well as in Alaska. There have been no permits issued for new deepwater exploration in the Gulf, and permits for shallow water activity have slowed to a snail’s pace. Faced with idle rigs, some companies have moved their rigs from the Gulf to other regions of the World. We are beginning to see layoffs. Progress on projects offshore Alaska has stalled.

ow, as we struggle to find the “new normal,” a new Congress will bring us a fresh Nround of proposed legislation and hearings. n this context, the National Ocean Industries Association will convene its 2011 Annual IMeeting on April 13-15 in Washington, DC. This NOIA gathering will provide a unique opportunity to exchange information and ideas with policy makers and thought leaders, and will also offer an excellent opportunity for networking among the senior executives from all sectors of our industry.

n behalf of our association’s leadership, I urge you to diligently support my efforts Oand the tireless efforts of our entire NOIA staff by committing to attend this annual meeting. This has become a very pivotal time in determining the future role each one of us will play in our country’s offshore energy policy.

he meeting will be held at The Ritz-Carlton, a memorable destination that has Thosted the NOIA membership before. I look forward to seeing you in April.

Burt Adams President & CEO, OGRS LLC and 2010-2011 NOIA Chairman

1 Schedule

Wednesday, April 13: Please note: 12:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Registration In addition to the speakers featured in this program, NOIA has also 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. extended speaking invitations to Hospitality Suite several influential members of the U.S. Congress and the Obama 2:30 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. Administration, including Secretary Finance Committee of the Interior Ken Salazar, Senate Energy and Natural Resources 3:35 p.m. - 5:05 p.m. Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman Executive Committee (D-NM ), House Natural Resources (closed session) Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA), Virginia Governor Bob 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. McDonnell and Louisiana State Welcome Reception Secretary of Natural Resources Scott Angelle. Thursday, April 14: 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Confirmed speakers include Former Hospitality Suite White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Wall Street Journal Columnist 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Kim Strassel, The Honorable William Breakfast Reilly and Economic Forecaster Speaker: Robert Gibbs Brian Wesbury. Former White House Press Secretary These speakers will be featured at the Meal Functions and General 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Sessions. General Session: Legal Panel

2 Schedule

11:40 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Friday, April 15: Public Affairs & Education 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Committee Hospitality Suite

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Lunch Breakfast Speaker: Kimberly Strassel Speaker: Brian Wesbury Author, Member Wall Street Top Economic Forecaster and Wall Journal Editorial Board and Street Journal Contributor Columnist “It’s Not as Bad as You Think”

2:10 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 10:10 a.m. –11:15 a.m. General Session Government Affairs Committee: Speaker: William Reilly, Congressional Staff Panel Co-Chairman, National Oil Spill Commission 11:20 a.m. –11:45 a.m. General Session 3:10 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. BP Presentation Health, Safety, Security and Environment Committee 11:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Technology Policy Committee 4:05 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Board of Directors & Membership 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Committee Meeting Buffet Lunch

6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Reception

7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Annual Banquet Featuring: Capitol Steps

3 about the Speakers robert gibbs former white house press secretary

Robert Gibbs has been an advisor and strategist to President Obama from the early days of Obama’s 2004 Senate race to his sweep to the White House. Most recently, Gibbs has served as President Obama’s Press Secretary, presiding over daily press briefings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Robert Gibbs has traveled a long road with President Barack Obama, and his rapport and access to President Obama provides intimate and insightful commentaries. His leadership of President Obama’s campaigns makes him a valuable commentator on the upcoming 2012 elections.

Mr. Gibbs joined Barack Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign as Communications Director in mid-April 2004 and held the same title at the onset of the 2008 presidential campaign until becoming Senior Strategist for Communications and Message during the general election. During the four years of intense campaigning and close contact, Mr. Gibbs became an integral part of President Obama’s team. According to The New York Times, Mr. Gibbs advised President Obama on politics, strategy and messaging, and spent more time with him than any other advisor. On November 22, 2008, Mr. Gibbs was announced as the press secretary of the Obama administration, and assumed the role on January 20, 2009.

Mr. Gibbs also served as press secretary of John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and has previously specialized in Senate campaigns, having served as communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and for four individual Senate campaigns, including those of Obama in 2004 and Fritz Hollings in 1998. Gibbs was also the press secretary of Representative Bob Etheridge.

4 about the Speakers

kimberly strassel author, member of editorial board and columnist

Kimberly A. Strassel is an author and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. She writes a weekly column, “Potomac Watch” which appears on Fridays.

Strassel graduated from Princeton University in 1994 with a B.A. in Public Policy and International Affairs Before joining the Editorial Boards she was a news assistant for the European edition of the Wall Street Journal in Brussels (1994-1996) and a staff writer covering technology for the Wall Street Journal Europe in London (1996-1999). She moved to New York in 1999 to cover real estate before quickly joining the editorial page as an assistant features editor. She became a senior editorial writer and member of the editorial board in 2005.

In 2006, Strassel co-wrote Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws, which argues that government regulation interferes with marketplace initiatives to provide women with economic opportunity.

Strassel profiled Sarah Palin in a 2008 article entitled I Haven’t Always Just Toed the Line. The article originally appeared in the “Weekend Interview” section of The Wall Street Journal on November 1, 2008.

She is married to British-born journalist Matthew Rose.

5 5 About the Speakers william K. reilly co-chairman national oil spill commission

William K. Reilly is a Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners, LP, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable energy, and a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership. Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), president of the World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), president of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989), and director of the Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth from (1972-1973). He was head of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit at Rio in 1992. In May 2010, Reilly was appointed by President Obama to co-chair the National Commission on the BP Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

Mr. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund, Co- Chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy, Chairman of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and Chairman of the Board of the Global Water Challenge. He is a Director of the Packard Foundation and the National Geographic Society and a member of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force. He also serves on the Board of Directors of DuPont, ConocoPhillips, Royal Caribbean International and Energy Future Holdings, for which he serves as Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Advisory Board. In 2007 Mr. Reilly was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.

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brian wesbury top economic forecaster and wall street journal contributor

Brian Wesbury is chief economist at First Trust Advisors L.P., a financial services firm based in Wheaton, . The Wall Street Journal ranked Wesbury the nation’s #1 US economic forecaster in 2001 and USA Today ranked him as one of the nation’s top 10 forecasters in 2004.

Wesbury writes frequently for the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and is the economics editor of The American Spectator. He is also a frequent guest on FOX, Bloomberg, CNBC, and BNN Canada TV.

Wesbury is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of and is also an adjunct professor of economics at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Additionally, he sits on the Board of Managers of Three-Sixty Advisory Group, a Pasadena, California based consulting and private-equity firm.

Wesbury began his career in 1982 at the Harris Bank in Chicago. Former positions include vice president and economist for the Chicago Corporation and senior vice president and chief economist for Griffin, Kubik, Stephens, & Thompson. In 1995 and 1996, he served as chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

Wesbury received an MBA from ’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and a BA in economics from the University of Montana. McGraw-Hill published his first book, The New Era of Wealth, in October 1999. He has a new book, It’s Not As Bad As You Think published in November 2009 by John Wiley & Sons.

7 entertainment capitol steps

The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.

In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom (“Don’t quit your day job!”), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.

Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded over 30 albums, including their latest, Liberal Shop of Horrors and Barackin’ Around the Christmas Tree. They’ve been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.

8 Spouse Program

NOIA is pleased to offer the following seen view of Abraham Lincoln’s activities for the spouses and guests presidency and family life. of NOIA members in attendance at the Annual Meeting. Located on a picturesque hilltop in Washington, DC, President Lincoln’s As always, spouses and guests are Cottage is the most significant historic also welcome to participate in any site directly associated with Lincoln’s of the open sessions of the NOIA presidency aside from the White House. Annual Meeting schedule. During the Civil War, President Lincoln and his family resided here from June to Please do not forget to indicate your November of 1862, 1863 and 1864. selection of activities on the Meeting Registration Form in this brochure Guests will receive a private visit with or on the online registration form at a personal welcome by the Director, a www.NOIA.org. custom Cottage tour, and a post tour behind-the-scenes experience. The If you have any questions, please Director took great care in re-creating the contact Ann Chapman at (202) 347- room where Mary Todd spent most of her 6900 or [email protected]. time while at the cottage and will share with guests how fabrics were selected, antiques acquired, and the authenticity Thursday, April 14 process. President Lincoln’s Cottage 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. After a morning of touring, you will depart to lunch at one of Washington’s After a $15 million restoration by the best restaurants, Corduroy. National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private, non-profit organization, Note: You will depart the hotel at 10:00 President Lincoln’s Cottage is open a.m. and return at 2:00 p.m. The tour to the public for the first time, giving is $110.00 per person (including lunch). Americans an intimate, never-before- Reservations are required.

9 Spouse Program friday, April 15 After tea guests will depart the Guarisco 19th Century Art, Antiques, and Gallery and walk to the Christian Heurich Architecture House Museum located just three blocks 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. away on one of our city’s most beautiful tree-lined neighborhood streets. You will depart the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and walk to our first destination, the famed The Heurich Mansion was built in 1892- Guarisco Gallery. One of the largest 19th 1894, during DuPont Circle’s golden century galleries worldwide, Guarisco era as the city’s premier residential Gallery currently holds an extensive neighborhood, by German immigrant, inventory of exceptional quality original American citizen, brewer, real estate 19th and early 20th century European magnate, and philanthropist, Christian and American paintings, watercolors and Heurich (HI-rick). A distinguished sculpture with over 600 paintings from example of Richardsonian Romanesque every major school within the 19th and architecture, this Category Two Landmark early 20th century, including Romantic, on the National Register of Historic Barbizon, Victorian, Belle Époque, Places enjoys a reputation as the most Impressionist and Post-Impressionist intact late-Victorian home in Washington works. D.C., and has been featured on A&E’s “America’s Castles” and HGTV’s “Dream There you will receive a docent lead Builders.” Guests will receive a private tour by the gallery’s curator and then docent lead tour of the house and learn participate in an informal discussion over the fascinating history behind the houses tea. The curator will share with you how most treasured antiques. to begin an art collection, how values of paintings are established, restoration of a Note: You will depart the hotel at 10:00 piece of artwork, etc. The discussion will a.m. and return at noon. The tour is cater to the seasoned buyer as well as the $90.00 per person. Reservations are new collector. There will also be time for required. one-on-one questions for the curator.

10 Logistical Details

Hotel Address & By Phone: To reserve a room by phone, Contact information please call the Ritz-Carlton Washington, The Ritz-Carlton DC reservations line at (800) 558-9994. 1150 22nd Street, NW Be sure to say you will be attending the Washington, DC 20037 NOIA Annual Meeting and use Group (202) 835-0500 (Tel) Code (see below) to get NOIA pricing. (202) 835-1588 (Fax) Group Code (DELUXE ROOM): Attire NOINOIA Business attire is appropriate for all Annual Meeting events, meals and online: Visit the NOIA homepage receptions. at www.noia.org and click on the hotel reservation link. Single Event Registration If you would like to upgrade to club level If your schedule permits you to attend or a suite, please contact Kevin Shields at only select meal functions such as the (202) 947-5557. Thursday lunch or the Annual Banquet, please contact Ann Chapman to obtain a registration form for individual events.

Hotel Reservations NOIA Annual Meeting Registration does not include hotel accommodations. Please make your hotel reservations directly with The Ritz-Carlton.

Hotel Reservations must be made by March 21, 2011.

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To register: Visit the NOIA website online at www.noia.org or complete and send this form with payment by March 21 to Ann Chapman, NOIA, 1120 G Street, N.W., Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005 • Phone: (202) 347-6900 • Fax: (202) 347-8650

Please print or type

Name:______Badge Name:______

Company:______Title:______

Address:______

City/State/country/Zip:______

Phone:______Fax:______E-mail:______

Arrival Date:______Departure Date:______

Spouse Name: ______Spouse Badge Name: ______

Home Address:______

Registration fees The Annual Meeting registration fee is $1,100.00 for members and $1,050.00 for spouses. Please send a check or pay by credit card.. mastercard visa american express name as it appears on card:______credit card number: expiration date:______

PLEASE NOTE: Cancellations prior to March 21 — full refund Between March 21 and April 5 — 50% refund After April 5 or “No Show”— no refund Credit card cancellations are subject to a $75.00 processing fee. spouse program To participate in a spouse tour, please check the boxes below and send tour fees along with registration fees. Reservations for spouse tours can also be made by calling the NOIA office at (202) 347-6900.

Please indicate the tours you wish to take: PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S COTTAGE - Thursday, April 14 ($110 charge; reservations required) 19TH CENTURY ART, ANTIQUES & ARCHITECTURE - Friday, April 15 ($90 charge; reservations required)

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