Agenda

2025 South Dakota/North Dakota Pipeline Safety Operator Training Agenda

 

Updated 01/13/25

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

 

8-8:45 a.m.

Welcome & Introductions
Mary Zanter, Pipeline Safety Program Manager, South Dakota PUC

 

8:45-10 a.m.

Drug and Alcohol Regulations

Wayne Lemoi, PHMSA

10-10:30 a.m.

Refreshment & Networking Break

10:30-11:15 a.m.

Regulation Updates - PHMSA TQ

11:15.- Noon.

Excavation Damage

David Applebaum, PHMSA

Noon-1 p.m.

Conference Lunch

1-2 p.m.

Cyber Security

2-2:45 p.m.

Welding - API STD 1104 21st Edition Revisions - PHMSA TQ

2:45-3:15 p.m.

Refreshment & Networking Break

3:15-3:45 p.m.

North Dakota Update

Caleb Simburger, Gas Pipeline Safety Program Manager/Inspector, North Dakota PSC

3:45-4:30 p.m.

Biogas RNG - NorthWestern Energy

4:30-6:30 p.m.

Reception hosted by Exhibitors

 

 

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

 

8-9 a.m.

Pipeline Safety Management Systems for the Small Operator – APGA, SIF

9-9:30 a.m.

Refreshment & Networking Break

9:30-10:30 a.m.

Distribution Integrity Management

10:30.- 11:30 a.m.

Flow Testing for Underground Leaks

Darren Letterman, PHMSA

 

Inside Gas Leak Detection

Heath Consultants

11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Lunch on own

1-2:30 p.m.

TBD