Meeting of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Committee on Energy Statistics
with the
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
November 6-7, 2014
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Nancy Kirkendall, Chair, ASA Committee on Energy Statistics
9:05 a.m. Opening Remarks, Adam Sieminski, EIA Administrator
9:45 a.m. EIA Process Team with Focus on Statistical Methodology, Role of SDSI, Tom Leckey and Nanda Srinivasan, Office of Energy Statistics ASA Leads: Fred Joutz, Max Auffhammer
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Update - Energy Consumption Subgroup, Tom Leckey, Carolyn Hronis, and Chip Berry, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA leads: Max Auffhammer, Mike Cohen, Frauke Kreuter, Lynne Stokes, and Rachael Shwom
12:15 p.m. Lunch -- (Committee members, presenters, and EIA senior staff)
2:00 p.m. Confidence Intervals for WPSR (Weekly Petroleum Status Report), Bin Zhang, Office of Energy Statistics ASA Leads: Robert Stine and Joel Horowitz
3:00 p.m. Electric Power & Renewable Energy Emerging Issues, Stan Kaplan, Office of Energy Statistics
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Estimating Resource Costs in Unconventional Plays, Jack Schuenemeyer, ASA Committee, EIA lead: John Staub, Office of Energy Analysis
4:30 p.m. Update - Collecting Oil and Natural Gas Production Data: Expansion of the EIA-914, Jim Kendell, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA Lead: Jack Schuenemeyer
5:45 p.m. Dinner (Committee members and EIA senior staff)
Friday November 7, 2014
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Nancy Kirkendall, ASA Committee Chair
9:05 a.m. Update - Rethinking the Petroleum Supply Program, Doug MacIntyre, Office of Energy Statistics
9:15 a.m. Updating EIA Standards, Samson Adeshiyan, Office of Energy Statistics ASA Leads: Frauke Kreuter, Lynne Stokes
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Disclosure/Suppression – Controlled Tabular Adjustment, Ramesh Dandekar. ASA lead: Mike Cohen
11:15 a.m. Data Confidentiality for Colorado Utilities, Jake Bournazian, Office of Energy Statistics ASA Lead: Mike Cohen
12:05 p.m. Additional comments, topics for 2015 Spring meeting
12:15 p.m. Adjourn
Lunch in 6E-069 (ASA Committee, presenters, and EIA senior staff)