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MEETING PROGRAM

THE PHOENICIAN

October 18-20

Scottsdale, Arizona

2007 FALL MEETING

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WELCOME, NOIA MEMBERS AND GUESTS

E ver y s ix months, when the NOI A membership gathers for our twice-yearly meetings, it seems as though the industry

is at a turning point, with policy changes pending that could alter the governance of offshore energy resources. One year ago, we celebrated the lifting of moratoria on Bristol Bay and “181 South” and the availability of 8.3 million acres for leasing in the Gulf of Mexico. Six months ago, we discussed how changes in Congressional leadership were leading to new legislative approaches to energy and tax issues. Today, the policy environment remains ever-shifting and our direct participation in the decision making process is vital for the future of the industry.

For this meeting of the NOIA membership, I have the privilege of welcoming you to a new venue: The Phoenician. I hope the coming days will provide us another excellent opportunity to exchange

information and ideas with policymakers and thought leaders across a range of issues. As always, I hope the meeting will also offer an excellent opportunity for networking among the senior executives from all sectors of our industry.

Therefore, on behalf of our association’s leadership, I welcome you to the 2007 NOIA Fall Meeting.

Lawrence R. DickersonPresident & COO, Diamond Offshore Drilling

and 2007-2008 NOIA Chairman

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SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17:

4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.Pre-RegistrationBallroom Foyer

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18:

7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.RegistrationBallroom Foyer

7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Hospitality SuiteBallroom Foyer

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Jeep ExpeditionMeet at Ballroom Porte Cochere

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Horseback RidingMeet at Ballroom Porte Cochere

8:15 a.m. – ConclusionGolf TournamentMeet at Golf Course

10:30 a.m. – ConclusionTennis TournamentMeet at Tennis Courts

3:15 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.Finance CommitteeBallroom F

4:10 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.Executive CommitteeEagle Room - Lobby Level

6:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.Reception / DinnerBallroom Patio / Ballroom EFGSpeaker: Stuart Varney, Co-Host of CNBC’s Wall Street Journal Editorial Board with Stuart Varney“A New Day in America: Its Economy, Its Politics, Its Culture”

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SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19:

7:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. RegistrationBallroom Foyer

7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Hospitality SuiteBallroom Foyer

8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.BreakfastBallroom EFSpeaker: Michael Duffy, TIME

Magazine“The Race of a Lifetime”

9:55 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.Health, Safety, Security and the

Environment CommitteeBallroom GPresentation by Shell Exploration and Production Company:Phil Smith, Manager, Regulatory

Affairs & Incident Command;Kelly Bowen, Senior Staff Civil

Engineer; Walter Duplantis, HSE Team

Leader

10:55 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.General SessionBallroom DSpeaker: The Honorable Stephen

Allred, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.LunchBallroom EFSpeaker: Dr. Bob Arnot, Foreign

Correspondent and Author“From the Frontlines of Terrorism”

1:45 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.General SessionBallroom DSpeaker: Geoffrey Orsak, School

of Engineering, Southern Methodist University

“Engineering Education and its Impact on US Competitiveness”

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.Public Affairs and Education

Committee MeetingBallroom G

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3:25 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.Technology Policy Committee MeetingBallroom ESpeaker: Thomas N. Totten,

Manager of Marine Strategic Planning, J. Ray McDermott

6:15 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Reception, Jokake Cookout and

DancingJokake InnFeaturing: The Dina Preston BandPlease note: Dress code for this outdoor event is resort wear.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20:

7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Hospitality SuiteBallroom Foyer

8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.BreakfastBallroom EFSpeaker: Patrick Buchanan,

Author, Political Analyst and Commentator

“A View from Washington”

9:55 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.General Session Sponsored by the

Government Affairs CommitteeBallroom DSpeaker: Randall Luthi, Director, Minerals

Management Service

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.Board of Directors / Membership

Committee MeetingBallroom G

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.Buffet LunchBallroom Patio

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STUART VARNEYCO-HOST OF CNBC’S “WALL

STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL

BOARD WITH STUART VARNEY”

Veteran business journalist Stuart Varney serves as a business contributor and substitute host for FOX News Channel’s (FNC) “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” He joined the network in January 2004.

Since joining FNC’s business team, Varney has contributed to the network’s weekday and weekend business programming including: “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” “Bulls & Bears,” “Cavuto on Business” and “Cashin’ In.”

Prior to joining FNC, Varney most recently served as the host of CNBC’s “Wall Street Journal Editorial Board with Stuart Varney.” Before that, he was a co-anchor of CNN’s “Moneyline News Hour.” Varney helped launch CNN’s business news team in 1980 and hosted many of their fi nancial programs including, “Your Money,” “Business Day” and “Business Asia.” His reporting and analysis of the stock market crash of 1987 helped earn CNN a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism.

A graduate of the London School of Economics, Varney began his broadcast journalism career as a business anchor for KEMO-TV in San Francisco.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

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MICHAEL DUFFYASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

TIME MAGAZINE

Michael Duffy is TIME’s assistant managing editor and has been at the center of the

magazine’s coverage of politics and presidents for ten years.

Since 1997, Duffy has overseen 20 correspondents, the newsmagazine’s largest news gathering operation. He is the co-author, with TIME’s Dan Goodgame, of Marching in Place: the Status Quo Presidency of George Bush, published in 1992 by Simon & Schuster.

Duffy, 41, joined TIME in 1985 as a Pentagon correspondent and was assigned to cover Congress a year later. Duffy spent six years covering both the Bush and Clinton White House for TIME and in 1995 won the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. In 1996, as TIME’s national political correspondent, Duffy co-authored 13 cover stories with TIME’s Nancy Gibbs. In 1997, he worked nearly full-time on campaign fi nance scandals with TIME’s Michael Weisskopf and Viveca Novak and in March of 1998, the trio won the 1998 Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting, awarded annually by the Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center.

Prior to coming to TIME, he was a staff reporter for Defense Week. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Duffy graduated from Oberlin College in 1980 and lives outside Washington with his wife and their three sons.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

C. STEPHEN ALLREDASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR LAND

AND MINERALS MANAGEMENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

C. Stephen Allred was confi rmed by the United States Senate as the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management on September 30, 2006. Steve retired as the Director of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality on June 30, 2004, after a career which included over 40 years of public and corporate experience. He was appointed to this position by Governor Dirk Kempthorne in July 2000, having served as administrator of the Division of Environmental Quality from January 1999 until it became a state department.

An Idaho native, Mr. Allred earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture Engineering and Master of Science Degree in Water Resource Engineering from the University of Idaho. In 1967, after earning his Master’s Degree, he served in various positions within the Idaho Department of Water Resources and its predecessor agencies before becoming its director, a position he held until 1981.

For the next 17 years, he was employed with Morrison-Knudsen Corporation. As president of Morrison-Knudsen’s Environmental and Government Services Group, Mr. Allred was responsible for executive management, profi t and loss, sales and marketing, and operating activities. Under his leadership, the in-house consulting group blossomed, with more than 2,500 full-time employees, projects located worldwide, and annual revenues of more than $500 million.

He and his wife, Sally, have two grown children.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

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BOB ARNOTFOREIGN CORRESPONDENT AND

BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Dr. Bob Arnot is a physician and the host of the new series, Dr. Danger, in which he travels to some of the world’s most dangerous

hotspots, exposing viewers to the frontlines of major foreign confl icts and developments. From the genocide in Darfur to the crises in the Middle East, Arnot has seen it all.

Arnot served as the former chief medical editor and special foreign correspondent for NBC News. As a special correspondent, Arnot has covered numerous world-changing events, including the Gulf War, Iraq War, and wars in Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, and Kosovo. He has reported on epidemic diseases from ebola in Central Africa to AIDS in Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Malawi, to cholera in Bangladesh, Somalia, and Turkey. He has also reported from Pakistan prior to the United States’ military response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Arnot serves on the board of directors of both Save the Children and the United States High Commission for Refugees, and uses his work with these organizations to educate and infl uence world leaders and average citizens, in the hopes that they will contribute to humanitarian efforts.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Arnot received a bachelor of science degree from Dartmouth College in 1972 and a medical degree from McGill University.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

GEOFFREY ORSAKDEAN, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Geoffrey C. Orsak is dean of the SMU School of Engineering, and is one of the nation’s key leaders in engineering research and education and its impact on economic development and global competitiveness.

In his professional roles as Dean of the Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and Executive Director of the federally funded Institute for Engineering Education at SMU, Dr. Orsak has founded and created a number of nationally recognized programs, including The Infi nity Project and Visioneering, that today reach millions of students across our country with innovative math and science based engineering curricula and educational experiences.

Dr. Orsak is a frequent contributor to national and regional media stories as well as op-ed articles on advances in engineering, math and science education, and economic development - having been featured in over 100 newspaper and magazine articles and TV spots in outlets including U.S. News & World Report, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Associated Press, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, National Public Radio, Austin American Statesman, San Antonio Express News, ABC, CBS, Fox, and TXCN amongst others.

Dr. Orsak received his B.S.E.E., M.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

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PATRICK BUCHANANAUTHOR, POLITICAL ANALYST

AND COMMENTATOR

Patrick Buchanan is a leading political analyst, commentator, and former Director of Communications for the Reagan White House. In 1992, he challenged George Bush for the Republican nomination and almost upset the President in the New Hampshire primary. In

1996, he won the New Hampshire primary, and went on to fi nish second to Senator Bob Dole, having received three million Republican votes.

A journalist by profession, Buchanan writes a syndicated column of political and social commentary. He also has been the co-host of Crossfi re, a nightly interview program on the Cable News Network, and a panelist on the weekly news programs The McLaughlin Group and The Capital Gang. In 1993, he formed The American Cause Foundation, which addresses both political and cultural issues. Buchanan co-hosted the Buchanan-Braden Program, a three-hour daily radio show with liberal columnist Tom Braden, and delivered daily commentary on the NBC radio network from 1978 to 1984.

In addition to his syndicated column, Buchanan has authored a number of books including the New York Times best seller, A Republic Not an Empire, and a Washington Post bestseller about growing up in the nation’s capital, Right From the Beginning, and his newest book Where The Right Went Wrong. He also has written for over two decades for the Nation, Rolling Stone, National Review, Conservative Digest, Skeptic, and American Spectator.

Buchanan is a graduate of Georgetown University, and is married to the former Shelley Ann Scarney.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

RANDALL LUTHIDIRECTOR, MINERALS

MANAGEMENT SERVICE

Randall B. Luthi was appointed Director of the Minerals Management Service on July 23, 2007.

Luthi, a former speaker of the Wyoming State House of Representatives, was a rancher and attorney in private practice from Freedom, Wyoming. He previously served in the Department of the Interior and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Luthi was fi rst elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives in 1995, and served as speaker in 2005 and 2006.

He served in Washington in career positions as Senior Counselor for Environmental Regulations in NOAA’s Offi ce of General Counsel from 1990 to 1993, and as an attorney in the Department of the Interior Offi ce of the Solicitor from 1986 to 1990.

In addition, Luthi worked as a legislative assistant in the offi ce of U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming. In this capacity, Luthi provided counsel on legal and legislative issues including oil and gas taxation.

Luthi graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in administration of justice, and earned a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1982.

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