2025 AGENDA

2025 Permian basin water in energy conference

The University of Texas Permian Basin facilitates collaboration and innovative strategy development for the improved use, recovery, and recycling of water in the oil industry. The PBWIEC is a program of The University of Texas Permian Basin and housed at the University’s Shepperd Leadership Institute, allowing students at UT Permian Basin to directly benefit from the conference proceeds.

 

2025 Conference AGENDA

 

Day Start Time End Time Session Name
Wednesday 7:15 AM 8:00 AM Check-In + Breakfast Begins at Bush Convention Center
Wednesday 8:00 AM 8:30 AM

Welcome

  • Sandy Woodley, Ph.D., President, UT Permian Basin
  • Robert Crain, Executive Vice President, Texas Pacific Water Resources; and 2025 Board Chairman
  • Shelby Landgraf, 2025 Conference Master of Ceremonies
Wednesday 8:30 AM 9:00 AM ExxonMobil Keynote
Wednesday 9:00 AM 9:45 AM

Railroad Commission & Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Update

  • Catarina Gonzales, Commissioner, The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Wednesday 9:45 AM 10:45 AM

Beneficial Reuse Updates 1

  • Adrianne Lopez Billings, Research and Development Manager, Texas Pacific Water Resources
Wednesday 10:45 AM 11:00 AM Break
Wednesday 11:00 AM 12:00 PM Beneficial Reuse Updates 2
Wednesday 12:00 PM 1:15 PM

Lunch & Keynote Speaker

  • Dan Pickering, Chief Investment Officer, Pickering Energy Partners
Wednesday 1:15 PM 2:15 PM

Injection Capacity in Permian Basin Systems: The Delaware Basin

  • Moderator: Kelly Bennett, Co-Founder and CEO, B3 Insight
  • Dr. Katie Smye, PhD, Principal Investigator, Center for Injection and Seismicity Research
  • Cody Comiskey, Earth Science Advisor, Chevron
  • Kirby Lindsey, Vice President of Strategic Projects, Oxy
Wednesday 2:15 PM 2:30 PM

Break – Woman in Water Award Presentation

Following the award presentation, we kindly invite our #WomenInWater attendees for a group photo at the main stage in honor of Women’s History Month
Wednesday 2:30 PM 3:30 PM

Injection Capacity in Permian Basin Systems: The Midland Basin

  • Moderator: Kelly Bennett, Co-Founder and CEO, B3 Insight
  • Dr. Katie Smye, PhD, Principal Investigator, Center for Injection and Seismicity Research
  • Annan Pascoe, PE, Vice President of Subsurface, Deep Blue
  • Dr. Stefan Hussenoeder, PhD, Geoscience Technology Advisor, ExxonMobil
  • Hannah Chittenden, Geoscience Manager, Diamondback Energy
Wednesday 3:30PM 4:00 PM

Railroad Commission Rules and Regulations Update

  • Paul Dubois, Assistant Director for Technical Permitting, The Railroad Commission of Texas
Wednesday 4:00PM 4:15 PM Break
Wednesday 4:15 PM 5:00 PM

Keynote Speaker

  • Colin P. Fenton, Senior Managing Director and Head of Commodities Research, 22V Research
Wednesday 5:00 PM 10:00 PM Networking Social in Centennial Park
Thursday 7:15 AM 8:00 AM Check-In & Breakfast Begins at Bush Convention Center
Thursday 8:00 AM 8:30 AM

Welcome

  • Shelby Landgraf, 2025 Conference Master of Ceremonies
Thursday 8:30 AM 9:00 AM

Keynote Speaker

  • David Capobianco, CEO and Managing Partner, Five Point Energy
Thursday 9:00 AM 9:45 AM

Full Cycle Water Management

  • Alan Van Reet, Operations Director, Pioneer Natural Resources Company
Thursday 9:45 AM 10:30 AM

A Deep Dive into Midstream Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Scott Mitchell, CEO, Deep Blue
Thursday 10:30 AM 10:45 AM Break
Thursday 10:45 AM 11:30 AM

State and Federal Standard on Beneficial Reuse

  • Adrianne Lopez Billings, Research and Development Manager, Texas Pacific Water Resources
Thursday 11:30 AM 12:15 PM New Mexico Legal and Regulatory Landscape
Thursday 12:15 PM 1:30 PM

Lunch & Keynote Speaker

  • William Murphy, Jr., CEO, University Lands
Thursday 1:30 PM 2:30 PM

Texas Legal and Regulatory Landscape

  • Paul Tough, Partner, McElroy, Sullivan, Miller & Weber, LLP
  • Adam Friedman, Partner, McElroy, Sullivan, Miller & Weber, LLP
Thursday 2:30 PM 2:45 PM Break
Thursday 2:45 PM 3:30 PM Cogen Power: The Role Water Desal Can Play in Data Centers and Micro-Grids
Thursday 3:30 PM 4:00 PM

Closing

  • Shelby Landgraf, 2025 Conference Master of Ceremonies

keynote speakers

Dan Pickering

Dan Pickering Headshot

Day 1 Lunch Speaker

Dan Pickering is the Chief Investment Officer at Pickering Energy Partners (PEP). PEP is a financial services firm focused on Investments and Advice in the energy sector – both traditional oil and gas and energy transition. Prior to PEP, he served as the President of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., and Chief Investment Officer of TPH Asset Management. He has spent 29 years as an Energy Portfolio Manager, Researcher, and Analyst, first at Fidelity Investments, then as Head of Research at Simmons & Company and as the founding partner of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.

He currently serves as the Portfolio Manager for several of PEP’s energy equity strategies, is on the Investment Committee of PEP’s energy co-investment and private equity strategies and serves in various business development and oversight roles across the firm.

Dan is the Board Chair of Merge Electric Fleet Solutions and also serves on the Advisory Boards for the Houston CFA Society, Capital Creek Advisors, Dynamo Energy Hub, Midway Companies, as well as the Posse Foundation, the Board of Trustees for Texas Children’s Hospital and the Texas Children’s Hospital Foundation.

He holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the Missouri School of Science and Technology and an MBA from the University of Chicago.