Meeting of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Committee on Energy Statistics
with the
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
April 9-10, 2015
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Max Auffhammer, Chair, ASA Committee on Energy Statistics.
9:05 a.m. Opening Remarks, Adam Sieminski, EIA Administrator.
9:45 a.m. Benchmarking NEMS, David Daniels, Office of Energy Analysis. ASA Leads: Frauke Kreuter and Jack Schuenemeyer.
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Transforming the RECS: New Methods and Questions, Tom Leckey, Chip Berry, and Bill McNary, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA leads: Lynne Stokes and Rachael Shwom.
12:00 p.m. Lunch -- (Committee members, presenters, and EIA senior staff)
1:45 p.m. EIA-930 Survey: Automated Collection of Hourly Business Process Data, Bill Booth, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA Leads: Bob Stine and Fred Joutz.
2:15 p.m. Estimating U.S. Freight Energy Consumption, Nick Chase, Office of Energy Analysis. ASA Leads: John Weyant, Leon Clarke, and Anna Alberini.
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Crude by Rail, Arup Mallik, Tony Radich, Mindi Farber-DeAnda, Office of Energy Analysis, and Tom Broene, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA Leads: Max Auffhammer and Andy Kydes.
4:15 p.m. Update - Collecting Oil and Natural Gas Production Data: Expansion of the EIA-914, Jim Kendell, Office of Energy Statistics.
5:30 p.m. Dinner (Committee members and EIA senior staff)
Friday April 10, 2015
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Max Auffhammer, ASA Committee Chair
9:05 a.m. Update - Rethinking the Petroleum Supply Program, Doug MacIntyre, Office of Energy Statistics.
9:30 a.m. Update – Interactive Data Products & EIA’s Open Data Program, Mark Elbert, Office of Communications.
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Update - Confidence Intervals for WPSR (Weekly Petroleum Status Report), Samson Adeshiyan and Bin Zhang, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA Leads: Michael Cohen and Nancy Kirkendall.
11:15 a.m. Update - Statistical Methodology, Role of SDSI, Nanda Srinivasan, Office of Energy Statistics.
11:45 p.m. Additional comments, topics for 2015 Fall meeting
12:15 p.m. Adjourn
Lunch in 6E-069 (ASA Committee, presenters, and EIA senior staff)