Fall 2013 ASA Meeting on Energy Statistics

Meeting of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Committee on Energy Statistics

with the

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

November 14-15, 2013

Washington, D.C.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

8:30 a.m.    Open Meeting, Nancy Kirkendall, Chair, ASA Committee on Energy Statistics

8:35 a.m.    Opening Remarks, Adam Sieminski, EIA Administrator

9:05 a.m.    Change in AEO/IEO cycles, John Conti, Office of Energy Analysis

9:35 a.m.    Finding EIA data and Online Data Visualizations (Response to committee suggestions) -- Mark Elbert, Office of Communications.

10:20 a.m.  Break

10:30 a.m.  Research in Support of Improved Consumption Surveys: A Program Update, Tom Leckey, Chip Berry, Carolyn Hronis, Danni Mayclin, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA leads: Max Auffhammer, Nancy Mathiowetz, Mike Cohen, and Izzy Melendez

12:15 p.m.  Lunch -- (Committee members, presenters, and EIA senior staff)

1:45 p.m.    Transformation of EIA’s Statistical Processes and Systems, Steve Harvey and James Ellis, Office of Energy Statistics

2:30 p.m.    Estimating Weekly Coal Production at EIA, Sundar Thapa, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA Leads: Lynne Stokes and Michael Toman

3:15 p.m.   Break

3:30 p.m.   Big Data, Bill Booth, Office of Energy Statistics, Michael Schaal, Office of Energy Analysis, and Robert Stine (Wharton)

5:15 p.m.   Adjourn

5:45 p.m.   Dinner (Committee members and EIA senior staff)

 

Friday November 15, 2013

8:30 a.m.    Open Meeting, Nancy Kirkendall, ASA Committee Chair

8:35 a.m.    Updates from Spring meeting
                   Rethinking the Presentation of Integrated Statistics, Mary Joyce, Office of Energy Statistics
                   Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids Nomenclature, Michael Kopalek, Office of Energy Statistics

9:00 a.m.    Natural Gas Prices and Industrial Production, Vipin Arora and Elizabeth Sendich, Office of Energy Analysis. ASA leads: Stephen Brown and Fred Joutz

10:00 a.m.  Break

10:15 a.m.  Drilling Efficiency Product Update, Jozef Lieskovsky and Sam Gorgen, Office of Energy Analysis. ASA Leads: Jack Schuenemeyer and Joel Horowitz

11:05 a.m.  Shale Gas and Tight Oil Decline Curves, Troy Cook and Dana Van Wagener, Office of Energy Analysis. ASA lead: Jack Schuenemeyer and Andy Kydes

12:00 p.m.  Additional comments, topics for 2014 Spring meeting

12:15 p.m.  Adjourn

Lunch in 6E-069 (ASA Committee, presenters, and EIA senior staff)