From: "Getto, Leila" <leila_getto@ios.doi.gov>
To: "Copan, Jay" <JCopan@wgc2018.com>
Cc: "Sandison, Sarah" <ssandison@thecwcgroup.com>, Alice Murrie <amurrie@thecwcgroup.com>, WGC - Kayleigh Kowalewski <kkowalewski@thecwcgroup.com>, "Cunningham, Allison" <ACunningham@ngvamerica.org>, "Lowe, George" <GLowe@aga.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Secretary Zinke at WGC
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:21:51 +0000
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Great, thank you! I will reach out to them tomorrow.
Leila Sepehri Getto U.S. Department of the Interior Immediate Office of the Secretary Deputy Director, Scheduling and Advance Direct: 202-208-5359 Cell: 202-706-9435 Email: leila_getto@ios.doi.gov
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Copan, Jay JCopan@wgc2018.com wrote:
HI again Leila. I am copying in Sarah Sandison of our conference organizer, the CWC group. Sarah is based in London, but will soon be in DC for the duration. Sarah is handling all things related to the keynote speakers. Am also copying two of her colleagues, who are responsible for the event logistics -- Alice Murrie and Kayleigh Kowalewski. Both Alice and Kayleigh are already onsite in DC, and I know they met with Secretary Perry's team today.
Lastly, I am including George Lowe and Allison Cunningham with the American Gas Association.
Sarah/Alice/Kayleigh will get back to you shortly, but Sarah is on a 5 hour time differential right now, so it will probably be tomorrow morning, although at this point, she may be still working tonight.
Thanks again for this great news.
Jay Jay Copan Executive Director, 27th World Gas Conference Special Advisor to the President, International Gas Union Jcopan@wgc2018.com +1 919 740 7799
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From: "Getto, Leila" <leila getto@ios.doi.gov> Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 2:01 PM To: Jay Copan <jcopan@wgc2018.com> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Secretary Zinke at WGC
Hi Jay! Thanks for your patience. We're confirmed for June 29th at 8:30am. Do you have a security contact that I can pass onto the Secretary's security detail? And who would be the logistics contact for me to work with moving forward? Thank you!
Leila Sepehri Getto U S Department of the Interior Immediate Office of the Secretary Deputy Director, Scheduling and Advance Direct: 202-208-5359 Cell 202 706 9435 Email: leila getto@ios.doi.gov
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Copan, Jay <JCopan@wgc2018.com> wrote: Hi Leila. Just wanted to follow up on my email to you from last Thursday, to see if you had any new update regarding Secretary Zinke at the World Gas Conference?
Thanks again for your help here,
Jay Jay Copan Executive Director, 27th World Gas Conference Special Advisor to the President, International Gas Union Jcopan@wgc2018.com +1 919 740 7799
From: Jay Copan <jcopan@wgc2018.com> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 4:45 PM To: "leila getto@ios.doi.gov" <leila getto@ios.doi.gov> Subject: Secretary Zinke at WGC
Leila, per our discussions, we would be pleased to have Secretary Zinke deliver Opening Remarks at the Friday, June 29 keynote session for the upcoming World Gas Conference. Secretary Zinke's remarks would be prior to a panel discussion entitled,
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"Innovation to Drive the Energy Industry Forward." The entire focus of our Friday session (s) relates to the opportunity for innovation to drive the natural gas industry forward over the coming decades. All of our keynote sessions and through our closing luncheon session are really focused on the future and what happens next.
Secretary Zinke is being asked to deliver 10 minutes of remarks, at 8:30 am, prior to a panel discussion taking place. The Secretary would not be expected to be part of the panel, and he would be able to leave the Convention Center immediately after his remarks, should he so desire. He is likewise welcome to stay as along as he would like.
We believe that Secretary Zinke would be uniquely positioned to focus on the innovative aspects of the US gas industry; innovations which have taken the industry from a position of potentially becoming one of the world's largest importers of natural gas (pre 2008 focus on shale gas development) to a position as potentially one of the world's largest exporters of natural gas (thanks to the recently realized and discovered abundance of natural gas in the US). Clearly, the innovations developed by the US gas industry have been critical in making this incredible transformation of the industry.
With the panel following the Secretary focused on innovative aspects in a wide variety of areas, not always totally related to the gas industry, we believe that Secretary Zinke's remarks would really set the stage for understanding the role that natural gas, and in particular US natural gas, can play in "driving the energy industry forward."
I hope this is helpful and will help in convincing Secretary Zinke that the opportunity to speak at the first World Gas Conference in the United States in 30 years is a unique one. It will be decades before this event returns to the United States.
Thanks for your help. Please let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Jay Jay Copan Executive Director, 27th World Gas Conference Special Advisor to the President, International Gas Union Jcopan@wgc2018.com +1 919 740 7799
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