Meeting Dates: April 27 – May 1, 2025
Location: Hyatt Regency Orange County (11999 Harbor Blvd, Garden Grove CA 92840)
Conference Theme: "Technology for Transition into the New Energy Frontier"
Conference Co-Chairs:
Ted Frankiewicz and Steve Cheung
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Kristian Jessen, USC and Bill Milliken (Retired from Chevron)
Field Trip Committee Chair:
Scott Hara
Website Committee Co-Chairs:
Larry Gilpin and Albert Pernia
Planning Status
Planning continues for the upcoming 2025 Western Regional Meeting. We received 234 paper submissions seeking a presentation slot at the meeting, most of very good quality. Less than half of the submissions could be accepted for presentation or as an alternate paper for the session to which it was assigned. The Technical Program Committee did a great job of reviewing the entries and assembling the best ones into a group of 15 sessions:
- Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage – 3 Sessions
- Hydrogen – 2 Sessions
- Machine Learning / Big Data – 2 Sessions
- Heavy Oil
- Reservoir Engineering and Modeling
- Energy Transition and the Regulatory Environment
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Case Studies – 2 Sessions
- Geothermal Energy
- Facilities and Related topics
There will also be two General Sessions with Panel Discussions on "Hydrogen" and on "The Future of Oil and Gas Production"
But wait, there’s more!
- Short Courses: We will be offering at least 3 or possibly 4 short courses. Check next month’s newsletter for the planned offerings.
- Field Trips: Planning is under way for 4 field trips: So Cal Gas’s Hydrogen House; CRC’s Island White Production Site in Long Beach Harbor; The Palm Springs Wind-to-Energy Farm; Geothermal Production near the Salton Sea.
Our Conference Committees are already hard at work and are in need of additional volunteers to help with Registrations, to secure Exhibitors for booths at the WRM and to find meeting Sponsors. All are needed to insure proper funding for the meeting and keep Registration Costs at a reasonable level. Registration for the meeting will open on or about January 1. More details will be given in next month’s LA Basin Newsletter.
Please contact one of the Meeting Co-Chairs if you would like to lead or to simply serve as a member on one of the committees listed below:
Conference Committees
WRM 2025 Co-Chairs
Ted Frankiewicz, Co-Chair
Process – Facilities Consultant
Steve Cheung, Co-Chair
Consultant
Technical Program Committee
Kristian Jessen, Co-Chair
Professor, USC
Bill Milliken, Co-Chair
Chevron, Retired
Volunteers Needed
Exhibits/Sponsorship Committee Chairs
Peter Yu
Volunteers Needed |
Registration Committee
William Stevenson
Southern California Gas Co.
Volunteers Needed
Field Trip Committee
Scott Hara, Chair
Retired
Volunteers Needed
Student Paper Competition
Behnoosh Salimbahrami
USC Post Doc.
2025 LA Basin Charity Golf Committee Chairs
Chairperson Needed
Volunteers Needed |
Finance Committee
Volunteers Needed
Short Course Committee
Steve Cheung
Volunteers Needed
Website Committee
Larry Gilpin
Albert Pernia
Web Page & IT Consultants
LA Basin Section Chair
Ian Johnecheck
Cordoba Engineering |