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How to Navigate the New Colorado Clean Air Regulations for Pneumatic Devices
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM MDT
Category: Breakfast Speaker Series

How to Navigate the New Colorado Clean Air Regulations for Pneumatic Devices

Join us for our first virtual Lunch & Learn of 2021 featuring WestGen Technologies

  • Review of the Regulation Changes
  • Impact on Colorado Producers
  • Alternative Approaches to Zero Emission 
  • What’s on the Horizon – Changes in other Jurisdictions

 Thanks to our sponsor all registrations for the event will be FREE, regardless of membership status. Registration has now CLOSED.


About Our Sponsor:

Westgen is a cleantech company committed to changing how the energy industry is viewed worldwide by developing practical solutions that reduce environmental impact and provide better results through a superior design.  We developed the award-winning EPOD solution to provide cost effective instrument air to remote well-sites to eliminate methane venting from pneumatic devices, while reducing capital costs, reducing operating costs, improving reliability and generating carbon credits for oil and gas producers.   


About Our Speakers

 

Connor O’Shea is a Mechanical Engineer by background with over a decade of experience working for Shell Canada. Early in his career he built expertise in planning, project management, economic assessment, and hands on operation & optimization of Upstream Assets in Production Engineering, Well Delivery, and Field Development roles.

In 2015 Connor was hired into the role of Business Advisor to Shell Canada President/VP Unconventionals and concurrently completed with distinction an Executive MBA at Cornell and Queen’s Universities. During this time Connor worked directly with the Executive Team to develop and implement Shell’s Focus to Win strategy. Since then, Connor has held Commercial roles at Shell and in his last role was responsible for sales of over $150 mln of natural gas liquids annually.

In early 2019, Connor stepped away from Shell to start Westgen Technologies, a remote power generation technology company focused on solving the problem of methane gas venting from pneumatic devices. Now in its third year, Westgen has grown to be an established clean technology solution provider with sales across Canada and the USA.

Connor is a member of the United Way GAIN non-profit consulting services team, serves as President of the Calgary Smith (Queen’s) Business Club, and acts as a Business Development Coach for community economic development organization Momentum.

  Donovan Volk joined Westgen as the Sales Director in 2020 to accelerate the company’s growth and expansion in Canada and the US as a leading cleantech provider of hybrid solar-gas power generation and instrument air solutions.  Donovan has over 30 years of experience across multiple industries, including oil & gas, telecommunications, and publishing.  He has held leadership positions in the areas of software development, product management, operational excellence, and sales & marketing effectiveness.  Donovan is regularly sought to participate or lead executive panels and round-table discussions as well as deliver presentations on business excellence, marketing and operational leadership.  His blend of experience and insight allows him to make pragmatic recommendations of how to make businesses run better.