New Series Continues To Roll-Out With Strong Participation From The Midstream Industry in Houston, November 2011

American Business Conferences would like to thank all the speakers and delegates who contributed to the recent success of the Eagle Ford Midstream Infrastructure Summit in Houston on November 30 December 1. The Summit is the 2nd in our highly innovative new series of Midstream Infrastructure Summits which started rolling earlier this year.

Glen Hart, President & CEO of Laredo Energy opened the Eagle Ford Midstream event, giving an insightful presentation on his company's plans for investing in their own infrastructure in the Eagle Ford. One of his key messages was to encourage E&P companies not to wait for infrastructure development, advising self-investment as the most effective and immediate way of ensuring midstream can keep up with production. Glen also highlighted the integral importance of incorporating reserve estimations into infrastructure development decisions saying that it's these evaluations that should dictate project parameters and consequently be utilized in preventing over-investment or under capacity developments. Stephen McNair went on to explain how Pioneer Natural Resources and Reliance Industries Ltd had collaborated to form his company, EFS Midstream, as an innovative means to developing take away capacity followed by John O'Shea, CEO of Tradition Midstream, who also chaired the day, quantifying the overall costs and timescales of infrastructure build out.

The conference rapidly moved on to more technical presentations on takeaway capacity specific to crude oil, NGL takeaway capacity, gas processing and takeaway and securing labour and manpower to ensure projects and solutions can be executed.

Day two focused on the break down of infrastructure upgrade strategies opening with a presentation from Rob Schaefer, Director NGL, Marketing & Logistics from Copano Energy presenting on fractionation capacity issues and including presentations such as that from Bob Kent, CITGO's VP Refining, examining the range of crude oil qualities coming out of the Eagle Ford and discussing how this can be built into business plans.

Throughout the event, vibrant networking sessions could be seen in the sponsor and exhibition area with queues of delegates lining up and eager to find out more from the speakers as they left the stage.

You can purchase the presentation materials for the summit by following this link: http://www.american-business-conferences.com/c76/eagle-ford-midstream-infrastructure-summit-2011

The Midstream series will continue in 2012 with our Bakken Product Markets and Takeaway Capacity, will analyze pipeline and rail market price differentials to drive forward immediate and long term solutions for moving Bakken crude, NGLs and Gas to market at the highest netback.