8:55-9:00 AM: Welcome & Opening Remarks
Bud Tippens | President | Tippens Oil Investments, LLC
9:00-10:00 AM: Deep Water Oil vs. the Permian Basin: Who Wins
Eric N. Smith | Professor of Practice | Tulane University
10:00-11:00 AM: Geology for Landmen
Louis Gilbert | President | Louis Gilbert & Associates, Inc.
11:00-11:10 AM: Break
11:10-12:10 PM: Legal Update
Sara Lewis | Partner | Wall, Bullington & Cook, LLC
12:10-12:40 PM: Lunch Begins
12:40-1:40 PM: Discussion of the New State Lease Form and Royalty Assistance Program
Jamie S. Manuel | Assistant Secretary | Louisiana Office of Mineral Resources
1:40-2:40 PM: Key Take-Aways of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Year One
Sam Wheeler, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA | Manager | Bourgeois Bennett, LLC
2:40-2:50 PM: Break
2:50-3:50 PM: Coastal Zone Lawsuits
Terrence K. Knister | Member | Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett
Kristina M. Lagasse | Associate | Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett
3:50-4:50 PM: Louisiana’s Risk Fee Statute: Where are we? Where are we going?
Scott R. Patton | Partner | Bradley Murchison, LLC
4:50 PM: Closing Remarks & Adjourn
5:15 PM: PLANO Social Hour*
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