Wednesday, April 29th

Today's Agenda
1st Period: Take Action Project Proposal Work Time
2nd Period: Guest Speaker (see below)


5th and 6th Period
A. Take Action Project Tune (small group critique)
B.  Refine Take Action proposal
C. Implement Take Action project
D. Refine sense of place writing if time (SEE resources below)

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Guest Speaker-- expert in the oil/gas industry: Steve Struna with Bayswater Exploration and Production LLC
Steve's powerpoint

Bayswater Exploration and Production LLC is a Denver, CO based oil and gas development company that was established in 2004. The company owns and operates oil and gas properties throughout the Rocky Mountains, the Midcontinent Region, California, and the Permian Basin. Bayswater’s strategy is three-fold:

1) to acquire low risk working interests in producing oil and gas fields in North America based upon a thorough subsurface understanding of the field and a plan to redevelop and improve the field performance. Bayswater either holds the enhanced asset longer term or sells to another operator. (“New Opportunities in Old Fields”);

2) to acquire and drill low-risk non-producing acreage in repeatable, low cost, development areas (“Drilling Factory”);

3) to assemble prospective acreage positions with significant resource potential, utilizing both internal and external prospect generators and to achieve financial returns by selling those prospects to industry partners while retaining upside through over-rides and carried interests (“Prospect Generation and Sales”).

About Mr. Struna
Mr. Struna has over 32 years of petroleum industry experience in engineering, operations, finance, planning, and general management. Prior to joining MHA, and launching Bayswater Exploration & Production he held a wide variety of positions with BP, Amoco, Tenneco, Graham Resources, and Schlumberger. His most recent assignments with BP and Amoco included: Vice President and General Manager, Onshore Gulf Coast USA; North American Natural Gas Executive Leadership Team member with responsibility for the redesign of BP’s entire onshore US operations base; President, Central Alberta Midstream – Calgary; Vice President and General Manager, Amoco Canada Gas Gathering and Processing – Calgary; Senior Manager, Corporate Finance - Chicago; Resource Development Manager, Central North Sea – London. Project manager, Armada Platform and Development, Central North Sea U.K. Mr. Struna received his BSc Degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in 1981, an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 1985, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1990. He is a registered professional engineer and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.


Sense of Place Resources:

• **Minilessons Stations (good examples of excerpts from student writing focused on specific skills)
  
•  Sense of Place Essay Task Statement, Rubric + Examples and Sources for Inspiration 
• Google Doc Folder to all project resources
  
• Quick link to writing mini-lessons folder 
  
• Elements of Nature Writing handout + Metaphors/Similes/Analogies/Alliteration/Assonance
  
• List of poetic devices
• Categories of Sense of Place: Relationships to Place and Community Attachments