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)