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KIOGA Engaged During Legislative Interim What's Inside? 2020 November/DecemberJanuary/February What’s Inside? Chairman Lett er ......................4 Biden Administration ............12 2021 Congress .........................14 Edward Cross Message ........18 KIOGA in the News ............... 20 Membership .......................... 22 Electric Co-op CEO’s .............24 The Voice of the Federal Regulatory Policy ....30 KIOGA Webinar Series ......... 32 Kansas Independent DOE Report .............................34 Petroleum Industry Election 2020 ......................... 36 FOLLOW US ON: fb .com/kioga @KIOGAKansas KIOGA members have been partic- KIOGA Engaged ipating in legislative and regulatory During Legislative meetings focusing on issues import- ant to the independent oil and gas Interim industry. KIOGA has also engaged Preparing for Upcoming in interim committee hearings to 2021 Kansas Legislative cover the interests of the indepen- KIOGA has been busy prepar- dent oil and gas industry. Session ing for the upcoming 2021 regular Kansas legislative session. Many Continued on Page 8 2 KIOGA thanks the following KIOGA companies for their support through advertising in our Advertisers newslett er. Advertiser pg # .Buyers Guide ....................................27 CVR Refi ning ......................................2 David Morris, PA ............................... 7 Drill Baby Drill...................................34 Officers The Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Duke Drilling Company, Inc.............17 Association (KIOGA) believes in Evenson Auctioneers............. ............23 Foley Power Solutions......................39 David Bleakley - Chairman seeking common ground, through Insurance Planning...........................27 common sense solutions, to the KIOGA ...............................................11 Ed Nemnich - Northwest Vice Chair challenges facing the Kansas oil and Murfi n Drilling Co., Inc. ..................21 Charles Wilson - Southwest Vice Chair gas industry. Our bipartisan Paragon Geophysical Serv. Inc........13 approach provides a uniquely The Independent Oil & Gas Dir.......17 Alan Banta - South Central Vice Chair powerful voice for our members at Werth Wealth Management ...........13 the state and national level. Wildcat Resources, Inc. ..................23 Barry Hill - East Vice Chair Scott Fraŝzer - Treasurer Our work is critical. Your support is vital. Front Cover Photo Jeff Bloomer - Secretary Provided by: KIOGA Wichita Office 229 E. William - Suite 211 Unknown Staff Wichita, Kansas 67202-4027 316-263-7297 Edward Cross - President KIOGA Topeka Office 800 SW Jackson Street - Suite 1400 Kelly Rains - Operations Manager Topeka, Kansas 66612-1216 785-232-7772 Share Your Newsletter Encourage Others to Join Contact Wichita Offi ce for additional copies Gas Field Oil Field Oil & GasField 3 about the 1918 Pandemic and and the world is our challenge. other Pandemics across the We all have a part to play in globe through the years, they telling this story to our fam- have run their course and ended ily, grandchildren, friends and even without a vaccine (unfor- politicians. Many inaccuracies tunately, not before severe are being reported about the Message from health consequences for many United States being 100% free families). of fossil fuel by 2035 or 2050 As I write this Chairman’s while many other scientists and the Chairman Message, there is some good experts from around the world news on the Pandemic front have shown this is not possible. as we are closer to having a As KIOGA Members, we need David Bleakley vaccine available to the public. to work hard in educating the 2019-2021, Chairman KIOGA This, we understand, will be a public who in turn will urge the cautious and slow vaccination politicians to set real policies for process but with the possibil- the benefi t of all before the pro- THE PANDEMIC, OIL & GAS ities of multiple vaccines we gressive movement attempts to PRICES AND POLITICS will see a gradual return to put us out of business leaving some sort of normalcy for our no viable alternative to supply Fellow KIOGA Members: state, country and the world. the energy this country needs. Operation Warp Speed has Energy independence through It seems the Pandemic, Oil & Gas helped bring these vaccines fossil fuel is essential to our way Prices and Politics are very inter- to the world in a record time; of life and to the security of our twined this year. Those of us in the once they are administered, country. This source of afford- industry know politics and our prices the world will need Operation able energy that our industry have always been intertwined, but Lightspeed to restart the world provides will continue past 2035 the added Pandemic has spelled seri- economies so we can begin to and 2050 and be appreciated ous trouble to an extent we have not recover. Demand for oil and when the public and politicians seen before. To say this has been a gas will return, but it will take wakeup to this fact. difficult year would be a monumen- time for us to know which life- These are extremely diffi cult tal understatement. For most of us, style changes will be permanent times we are all going through, 2020 cannot end soon enough. We changes from the Pandemic and but we still have a lot to be look to, and are hopeful for, a better which changes will fade with thankful for this Thanksgiving. 2021 and pray we never see another time as we return to pre-pan- In the end, we will survive, and pandemic in our lifetimes or in our demic days. we will prevail. children’s lifetimes. COVID-19 has Last, but not least, is the affected everything in our lives: the effect of politics on our indus- way we work, live, eat, breathe as well try, our standard of living, and Keep the faith, as see our neighbors, coworkers and the security of our nation. The David Bleakley family members. There is no sugar- education of the general public KIOGA Chairman 2019-2021 coating this one -- 2020 has truly been to the facts that the renewables an awful year. such as Solar and Wind can not However, there is a glimmer of light supply the necessary energy at the end of the tunnel. In reading required to run our country 4 SAVE the DATES 84th Annual Convention August 15-17, 2021 Hyatt Regency 400 W Waterman St. Wichita, KS 67202 316-293-1234 29th Annual Midyear Meeting April 14-16, 2021 Clarion Inn & Convention Center 1911 E. Kansas Ave Garden City, KS 67846 620-275-7471 5 Tentative 2021 Kansas Legislative Session Calendar • January 11th - Session opens. • February 1st - Last day for individual members to request sponsored bill draft s. • February 8th - Last day for non-exempt committ ees to request bill draft s. • February 10th - Last day for individual bill introductions. • February 12th - Last day for non-exempt committ ee bill introduction. • February 22nd - Last day for committ ees to meet. • February 25th - Turnaround Day, last day for non-exempt bills in house of origin. • February 26th – March 2nd - No session. • March 19th - Last day for non-exempt committ ees to meet and consider bills. • March 24th - Last day for debate of non-exempt bills in either chamber. • March 25th-26th - No session. • March 29th-30th - Conference committ ees meet. • March 31st - Last day for conference committ ees to agree. • April 2nd - Last day for conference committ ee agreements, First Adjournment. • April 3rd - 25th - Spring Break. • April 26th - Veto session opens. • May 12th - Projected session adjournment. 6 KIOGA Mark your Calendar Event Name Date Location Annual Suppliers Party December 2, 2020 Wichita, KS KIOGA Board/General Membership Meeting December 2, 2020 Wichita, KS Energy Council Env. Issues Conf. December 3-6, 2020 Point Clear, AL 2021 Kansas Leg. Session Starts January 11, 2021 Topeka, KS Kansas O&G Day Legislative Reception January 20, 2021 Topeka, KS NAPE Summit Week (in-person) February 10-12, 2021 Houston, TX NAPE Summit Week (Virtual) February 9-26, 2021 AESC 2021 Annual Meeting February 16-19, 2021 Montgomery, TX Great Bend Oil & Gas Hall of Fame April 10, 2021 Great Bend, KS KIOGA 2021 Midyear Meeting April 14-16, 2021 Garden City, KS KIOGA 2021 Annual Convention August 15-17, 2021 Wichita, KS TITLE EXAMINATION DRILLING & DIVISION ORDER OPINIONS KANSAS & NEBRASKA DAVID A. MORRIS, PA ATTORNEY AT LAW 8100 E 22nd N Bldg 600 Suite M WICHITA, KANSAS 67226 EMAIL ADDRESS; [email protected] TELEPHONE: 316.686.9998 FAX 316.681.0153 7 From Page 1 Legislative Interim Continued supply shock. KIOGA also encour- 2021 Kansas Legislative as receiving recommendations for policy aged the committee to include a Session changes in light of the pandemic. Cross recommendation that any evaluation provided comments to the committee KIOGA Engaged During of future KCC oil and gas industry based on the Crude Oil Market Dynamic Legislative Interim fee and/or penalty changes follow Challenges white paper he prepared. the rule of law and proceed through In addition to comments from Cross Several KIOGA members have been the regulatory rule making process on the oil and gas sector, the Special participating in legislative and regulatory that allows participation by affected Committee heard from representatives meetings focusing on issues important to stakeholders and not promulgated from the Financial Services sector, the Kansas oil and gas industry. through Agency orders that bypass Insurance sector, agriculture sector, the rulemaking process. health care sector, retail and real estate KIOGA Testifies Before Kansas development sector, restaurants and Interim Special Committee on KIOGA Legislative Interim
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