MPA Annual Meeting

2017 MPA Annual Meeting Agenda

MPA Annual Meeting Registration

MPA Sponsorship Form– A sponsorship/donation of your choice will be instrumental in making this a successful event.  If your choose to sponsor, we will make sure you get recognition on the Annual Meeting program and on the Sponsors’ Board which will be on display throughout the Golf Tournament and Annual Meeting.  Please let the MPA office know if you plan on being a sponsor by Friday, August 11^th to be included on the printed material.

For sleeping room reservations (Aug. 28 and/or Aug. 29), please call 800-588-7666 or 406-252-7400 and ask for the Montana Petroleum Association room block to receive the rate of $129.00/night + tax.  The cutoff date for room reservations is July 31, 2017.

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LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER

John Harpole, President, Mercator Energy, LLC
“The Geopolitical Impact of the U.S. Shale Revolution”

John Harpole is founder and president of Mercator Energy LLC, a natural gas services, brokerage and energy market analysis company.  Mercator assists both producers and end users throughout the United States in selling and sourcing natural gas supplies.  Mercator is considered to be one of the largest natural gas brokers in the U.S., currently trading in excess of 1 BCF per day of natural gas.  Mercator also conducts specific research projects for client groups exploring the impact of industry trends on various regional markets.  Mercator’s analysis on “Poverty and Fracking” was featured in a Wall Street Journal editorial and on Fox News. 

During his career, Harpole has provided strategic advice and counseling to independent oil and gas producers, power producers, major electric and gas utilities, hedge funds and energy traders, retail and wholesale energy marketers, equipment vendors and large energy users typically at the CEO level.  He has also played a key role in developing innovative new business structures and in helping to transform energy and environmental policy at the state and federal levels. 

Harpole is an Advisory Board Member of the Western Energy Alliance (formerly IPAMS), the Leadership Program of the Rockies, University of Colorado’s Global Energy Management Program (GEM) and Energy Outreach Colorado.  He is also the moderator for the annual Wyoming Oil and Gas Fair and was recently invited to serve as a judge in the Daniels Fund Ethics Consortium Case Competition.  Harpole has also been named to the Denver Business Journal’s Who’s Who in Energy for years 2014-2017.

At the request of the Grand Junction Energy Partnership and 3 Western Slope counties, Harpole recently authored a white paper entitled, “From the Piceance Basin to the Pacific Rim” that focuses on potential partnerships between West Slope Colorado producers and Asian LNG consumers. 

Harpole has travelled to China twice in the last few years to instruct employees of PetroChina on the regulatory and marketing history of natural gas in the United States.