Event Description

Meeting Registration Fee
Member: $295 (optional activities are extra)
Non-member: $350 (optional activities are extra)
Guest: $150 (excludes breakfast, breaks, lunches and optional activities)
Meetings only: $160 (excludes reception, banquet and optional activities)
Late Fee: $50 (after 3/15/12)
Registration Deadline: 3/23/12

Optional Activities
Golf: $95 (limited availability)
Red Rocks Geological Tour: $30 (limited availability)

Marriott City Center
1701 California Street
Denver, CO 80202

To make reservations please call 1-800-266-9432 or
go on-line to
http://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=5140539
and request the COPAS room block
Room Rate: $179 per night (based on availability)
- Internet service available for $12.95/night
- Rooms available three days pre and post meeting dates (based on availability)
- Rate offered through 03/26/12 (based on availability)
The hotel is close to light rail, the downtown arts district and sports arenas.

For more information click here

COPAS MPACT JV presents:
Oil and Gas Operations for the Accountant
***You may register for this class when registering for the COPAS meetings, or by going to www.copasmpact.com***

Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Location: Marriott City Center
                  1701 California St.
                  Denver, CO 80202
Time: 8 am to 5 pm
Cost: $300
Instructors: TBA
CPE Credits: 8 hours of CPE credits are awarded

This course will identify the primary functions and operations necessary for an oil and gas company to obtain leases, drill wells, and produce and transport product. Participants will be exposed to the operational processes and the associated invoices and/or other documentation. Participants will obtain a good working knowledge of oilfield activities and their purposes, understand product transportation and sales infrastructure, and be able to translate the acronyms on daily drilling reports.

Activities discussed include:

• Geological
• Land Brokerage Work
• Lease Acquisition Activities
• Drilling Activities:
  • Surveying and staking the well site
  • Building the roads and location
  • Rig mobilization
  • Types of drilling rigs and purposes; rotary, top drive, etc.
  • Rig components and functions
  • Bottom hole assemblies
  • Bits and other down hole devices
  • Onsite support facilities
  • Specialty labor and services
  • Types and purposes of well logs
  • Casing and tubing installation and associated equipment
  • Fishing tools and activities
• Completion Activities:
  • Perforating
  • Stimulation methods; acidizing, frac jobs, specialty labor and services
  • Wellhead components
  • Surface equipment
  • Artificial Lift Equipment
• Production Activities:
  • Measurement
  • Pumper / Gauger activities
  • Chemicals
  • Salt Water Disposal
  • Workovers
  • Recompletions
• Transportation and Sales:
  • LACT or tank gauges
  • Gas meters
  • Gathering systems
  • Transportation systems
  • Compression
  • Processing

If you would like to pay by check, complete the online registration and select the pay by check method,
please fill out the registration form and mail a check payable to
COPAS
445 Union Blvd., Ste. 207
Lakewood, CO 80228