The North Texas Golf Outing is scheduled for October 7, 2010 in the Dallas Area. Golf will be played at the Indian Creek Golf Club on the north side of Dallas.

The Scholarship Golf outing helps fund scholarships that are given to the children of employees of TGA member companies. In 2010, the number of scholarships increased to five per year and are given to entering freshmen.

The golf is always a great opportunity to meet other folks in the industry and enjoy a day of camaraderie, while supporting a great cause. Your registration includes green fees, cart, range balls and a great barbeque dinner which will be provided by ATMOS Energy and will be prepared by ATMOS’ world-famous “Big Tex” Barbeque team.

The location of the Indian Creek golf club is: 1650 W. Frankford Rd., Carrollton, TX 75007.

A map to the location is located here.

An information packet and registration form and hole sponsorships can be found here.

Stand alone (no golf) hole sponsorships and event sponsorship donation forms can be found here

If you would like to have your name in front of the group by sponsoring door prizes, you can find that form here

If you don’t play golf but would like to support the golf outing, volunteers are needed. You can find a sign-up form to help with the logistics of the outing here.

Come see us in Dallas and support a great cause!

The 2010 Distribution Roundtable is scheduled for September 16 and 17th in San Antonio.

The location of the roundtable will be:

CPS Energy Building

17281 Green Mountain Rd.

San Antonio, TX 78247

The registration form, tentative agenda and information form is located here.

The sponsorship form for the Distribution Roundtable can be found here.

Hotels near the meeting facility can be found here.

Join us in San Antonio to hear about Chapter 18 changes, regulatory updates, Federal updates, the latest services and equipment for the industry and a great opportunity to meet your fellow gas industry associates to network, share ideas and best practices.

Five classes have been scheduled for August, September and October.

Measurement and Regulator Basics
Texas Gas Service Building
Harlingen, TX
August 31, 2010
This Class has been canceled

Measurement and Regulator Basics
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Gas Building
September 2, 2010
Information and Registration Form

Measurement and Regulator Basics
Amarillo
Atmos Energy Building
September 7, 2010
Information and Registration Form

Measurement and Regulator Basics
Austin, Texas
Texas Gas Service Building
September 23, 2010
Information and Registration Form

Excavation Competent Person
Atmos Energy Building
Midland, Texas
October 6, 2010
Information and Application form

Watch here for additional classes

On March 27, 2010, The Railroad Commission of Texas passed a Resolution recognizing April as “Safe Dig Month in Texas.”

The unanimously supported resolution is as follows:

“WHEREAS, Each year, the nation’s underground utility infrastructure is jeopardized by unintentional damage by those who fail to call 811 to have underground lines located prior to digging. underisre consequences such as service interruption, damage to the environment, personal injury and even death are the potential results; and

WHEREAS, Designated by the FCC in 2005, 811 provides potential excacvators and homeowners a simple number to reach their local One Call Center to request utility line Locations at the intended dig site; and

WHEREAS, Through education of safe digging practices, excavators and homeowners can save time and money keeping our nation safe and connected by making a simple call to 811 before undertaking any digging project; waiting the reuired amount of time; respecting the marked lines by maintaining visual definition throughout the course of excavation; and finally, digging with care aroung the marks; and

WHEREAS, All parties agree that safe diging is a shared community, state, and national responsibility and to know what ,is below, call 811 BEFORE you dig.

NOW, THEREFORE We do hereby proclaim on behalf of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the month of April, 2010 as TEXAS SAFE DIGGING MONTH and encourage excavators and homeowners throughout Texas to always call 811 before digging.

ADOPTED, this 23rd day of March, 2010.”

(sealed and signed by Victor G. Carrillo, Chairman; Elizabeth Ames Jones, Commissioner; and Michael L. Williams, Commissioner).

A copy of the Resolution can be found here.

SOURCE: The American

How ironic that during the ‘drill, baby, drill’ demonstrations as gasoline prices spiked in 2007 and 2008, a silent revolution with natural gas was already underway that will make those concerns largely irrelevant.

The 20th century was the century of oil. Wars were fought over it, and the outcomes of the century’s biggest conflicts hinged on the stuff. In World War I, for instance, Churchill’s conversion of the British Navy to oil gave the crown’s ships supremacy over German vessels. In World War II, when the Nazis and Japanese each failed to secure supplies of oil, they were doomed. Later, President Ronald Reagan, CIA Director William Casey, and America’s Middle Eastern partners manipulated global oil production to bankrupt the Soviet Union and win the Cold War. In the first half of the century, oil policy served as the catalyst for military victory. In the second half, oil helped propel the greatest economic expansion in the history of the world, and liberated mankind from the tyranny of immobility.

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PHMSA has issued the final rule on Control Room Management. The rule requires control room management procedures to be developed by August 1, 2011 and implemented by February 1, 2012. The final rule can be found here.

December 4, 2009

Today, PHMSA released the final Distribution Integrity Management Rule (DIMP). The rule can be found here. The effective date of the regulation is February 2, 2010. There is a comment period on the rule and comments are invited on the provisions for reporting failures of compression couplings. The comment period ends January 3, 2010. At the end of the comment period, PHMSA will publish a document modifying the provisions of DIMP or a document stating that these provisions will remain unchanged. The Texas Gas Association has compiled an executive summary of the rule which can be found here and will be having regional meetings to introduce and discuss the rule and the requirements of the rule beginning in January of 2010.

Many of the advancements made through racing and hot rodding have been passed down to the passenger car segment. Nothing quite stimulates innovation like pushing a vehicle to its limits. AFVTech, an alternative-fuels conversion company, is building a compressed natural gas (CNG) hot rod based on the classic ‘33 Ford coupe.

Equipped with a hand built LS7 engine (the same motor found in the Z06 but massaged to run on higher-octane CNG), AFVTech expects their Green Rod to make 600 horsepower. Read here.

Source: gas 2.0

Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills. It is an important fuel source, a major feedstock for fertilizers, and a potent greenhouse gas.

Natural gas is often informally referred to as simply gas, especially when compared to other energy sources such as electricity. Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, it must undergo extensive processing to remove almost all materials other than methane. The by-products of that processing include ethane, propane, butanes, pentanes and higher molecular weight hydrocarbons, elemental sulfur, and sometimes helium and nitrogen.

Source: here
Learn more: here

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