Pennsylvania Stream and Wetland Regulatory Update

The programming focuses on regulatory, policy, market, and legislative issues affecting the North American water power industry. It includes educational programming, information exchange, and advocacy activities involving industry, government agencies, regulators, resource agencies, Tribes, and NGOs. Advocacy Day programming is intended to help industry representatives engage policymakers on Capitol Hill about water power policy priorities.

An in-person safety forum for EHS professionals across the oil and gas industry. Topics include converging forces in high-hazard, high-turnover industries; the gap between falling injury rates and rising fatal risk; the CLEARLY WORTHY framework for assessing critical risk and building safety culture; six lenses for identifying exposures that could kill or permanently harm; cognitive bias in individual, organizational, and leadership safety decisions; and designing safety systems for every brain, including neurodivergent workers. The program also addresses practical takeaways attendees can begin applying immediately. Wilkes University is providing 3 PDHs and .3 CEUs.

The technical program covers pipeline integrity management, in-line inspection (ILI), engineering assessments, geohazards, crack and dent assessment, seam-weld threats, repairs, and hydrogen transportation. Plenary topics include operator guidelines and specifications, technical knowledge management, assessing existing pipelines for hydrogen service, selective seam-weld corrosion, and PHMSA MAOP reconfirmation requirements. Parallel technical tracks address landslide monitoring and pipeline strain; crack characterization and management; ILI applications, analysis, and verification; hard spots; dent assessment; engineering assessment; hydrogen transportation; integrity management; difficult-to-inspect pipelines; materials verification; and repair technologies. Presentations include work on ILI run comparisons, risk-informed assessment choices under the PHMSA Gas Mega Rule, dent engineering critical assessment, non-intrusive pipeline assessment, material testing, and repair qualification. A panel addresses PHMSA repair criteria for hazardous-liquid and gas-transmission pipelines.

Annual national event for water power professionals. Programming includes CC Central exhibits and education, the Innovation Power House, plenary sessions, panel discussions, workshops, asset-owner-only sessions, technical presentations, roundtables, and hydro plant technical tours. The event brings together hydro asset owners and generators, C-suite and executive leadership, engineers, portfolio and general managers, plant operations personnel, manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, federal and state resource agencies, regulators, research entities, academia, nonprofit organizations, and financial entities.

The program includes technical sessions on safety, extreme conditions, interference, surface preparation and coatings, cathodic protection, onshore and maritime applications, and above- and below-grade topics. It also includes industry discussions and panels. The welcome address is by AMPP CEO Alan Thomas, followed by an industry keynote.

The Ohio Oil & Gas Association’s principal business meeting covers current issues impacting Ohio’s oil and gas industry through business sessions, breakout sessions, and a trade show. Agenda topics include the Debrosse Memorial Report on 2026 oil and gas activity in Ohio; an Ohio Natural Energy Institute program update; a Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management regulatory update; a Federal Political Perspective; and a State Legislative Leadership Discussion. The program also lists an Ohio Geological Society session and legal continuing-education sessions. Several session titles and breakout presentations remain TBD. The program includes the Oilfield Patriot Award ceremony and the Thomas E Stewart Legacy Award presentation.

Programming topics include permitting and regulatory pathways, federal policy updates, development on federal lands, environmental permitting and agency consultation, state and regional policy trends, and state and local policy barriers. Technical and applied topics include AI, GIS and outreach tools; agrivoltaics and solar on agricultural lands; land-use and conversion impacts; soil health, stormwater and SWPPP; vegetative screening and habitat; end-of-life, recycling and circularity; repowering existing projects; FAA, DoD and DOT updates; transmission siting and permitting; and energy storage siting and compliance. Community engagement topics include pre-project engagement, building engagement programs, coalition building and local approvals, listening to local leaders, model ordinances and decision-making tools, community benefits and financial support models, responding to moratoria and restrictive zoning, measuring community acceptance, misinformation and public perception, and clean-energy and data-center partnerships. The case-study showcase covers project development journeys, ownership and lifecycle transitions, responsible development, permit-compliance success stories, and emerging research and technologies. The conference is co-located with ACP PEAK, with distinct programming for each conference.

The workshop focuses on practical well integrity solutions across barrier design, remediation, qualification, and lifecycle risk management, emphasizing applications, new technologies, and process methodologies. Field lessons, technical perspectives, and interactive discussion connect engineering principles with real-world deployment challenges. Session topics include cement as a barrier, including establishing cement barriers in a complex onshore U.S. exploration well with a narrow pore-pressure/fracture-gradient window, cementing best practices, and wellbore cementing. Another session covers production-casing integrity risk management, detecting fluid- and cement-driven casing defects through the production life cycle, and artificial-lift decisions under wellbore constraints. An interactive case study has teams solve well integrity challenges and exchange lessons learned and best practices. Further topics include barrier qualification and P&A operations; rigless well integrity remediation; surveillance technology; integrated monitoring for CCS well integrity; corrosion and materials challenges in CCUS Class VI wells; thermal heavy-oil well design; quantitative risk analysis; DHSV strategies in subsea wells; FEP risk assessment using individual barrier evaluation; alternative barrier materials for conventional Australian well abandonments; Permian well integrity solutions; and sealants for flow through narrow pathways.

The conference theme is “Pipeline to Possibilities: Securing Energy, Shaping Futures.” Stakeholder Engagement & Outreach covers community and public engagement, API Recommended Practices 1162 and 1185, environmental justice, Tribal and First Nation considerations, emergency responder education, and damage prevention. Pipeline Operational Excellence addresses safety performance, in-line inspection lessons, pipeline safety management systems, safety culture, management of change, asset remediation, and operational and enterprise risk management. Technology, AI & Innovation includes inspection tools, engineering practices, control room technologies, artificial intelligence, API RP 1165, and emerging fuels. Workforce Training & Development covers succession planning, knowledge transfer, recruitment and retention, multigenerational workforces, operator qualification, inspector certification, and competency-based learning. Sustainability & New Fuels addresses CO2, hydrogen and other low-carbon fuels; safety, integrity, leak detection, corrosion management, emergency preparedness, methane emissions, and environmental stewardship. Other tracks address pipeline construction, project management, commissioning, major maintenance, contract management and trenchless technologies; leak detection systems and predictive analytics; SCADA/OT modernization, industrial control system cybersecurity, threat response and regulatory compliance; and alarm and control room management, including fatigue mitigation, controller training, management of change, records, and regulatory interpretations.