Thursday, January 20, 2011
NALA LUNCHEON - FEBRUARY 10, 2011, Canonsburg, PA
The Northern Appalachian Landmans Association (NALA) will be holding its first ever luncheon meeting at The Hilton Garden Inn, 1000 Corporate Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317 on February 10, 2011, beginning at 11:30 AM. The luncheon will be preceded by a short social snack tray gathering followed by a luncheon buffet. The luncheon speaker for the event will be Sean Moran, Attorney with the Law Firm of Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rooney, PC from their Pittsburgh Office. Sean’s topic will be entitled “Marcellus Transactions, Titles and other Trends”. Elexco Land Services, Inc. will be the meeting sponsor. The cost for the luncheon will be $30.00 and you may respond with your reservation notice to Grace Brace at Jim Bourbeau Land Services and you can either send a check in advance to Grace or pay at the event but at least call Grace in advance to reserve your place. Call Grace at (814) 382-2500 or e-mail her at GBrace@jimbourbeau.com
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
NALA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND DIRECTOR WILL BE NAMED IN 2011
In conformance with NALA’s By-Laws, the Executive Committee of NALA, which is identified as the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary and the Treasurer will be replaced by a vote of the general membership in the June Quarterly Meeting in Warren, Ohio. Ian Lang, NALA’s current Secretary is chairing the Nominating Committee to identify candidates for the offices, which will be submitted to the membership at the March Quarterly Meeting in Pittsburgh.
Currently, Bernie Ulincy is completing a two-year term as NALA President, Christine Dickinson as the Vice-President, Ian Lang as Secretary and Jim Bourbeau as Treasurer, all for the full two-year term. Joe Haas is completing a term as director to AAPL and has indicated he will be stepping down from that role in June. All of the above positions except director shall be decided by a vote of the general membership in June while the new director will be nominated by the Executive Committee. Also, to fill out the Executive Committee for the upcoming new business year commencing July 1, 2011, it will be necessary to elect two additional individuals from the membership to fill out the two additional positions as Executive Committee members which will also be voted on in the June Meeting.
Ian Lang will be moving forward with his role to fill the upcoming positions and may be in contact with you in the near future. In the meantime if you wish to be considered for one of the available upcoming positions as stated above to help serve NALA in a leadership role feel free to contact him at (724) 749-5309 or at: ia_lang@hotmail.com.
NALA will only be as strong as its leadership. With your help it will continue to serve its members and all Land professionals in the northern Appalachian Basin well into the future.
Currently, Bernie Ulincy is completing a two-year term as NALA President, Christine Dickinson as the Vice-President, Ian Lang as Secretary and Jim Bourbeau as Treasurer, all for the full two-year term. Joe Haas is completing a term as director to AAPL and has indicated he will be stepping down from that role in June. All of the above positions except director shall be decided by a vote of the general membership in June while the new director will be nominated by the Executive Committee. Also, to fill out the Executive Committee for the upcoming new business year commencing July 1, 2011, it will be necessary to elect two additional individuals from the membership to fill out the two additional positions as Executive Committee members which will also be voted on in the June Meeting.
Ian Lang will be moving forward with his role to fill the upcoming positions and may be in contact with you in the near future. In the meantime if you wish to be considered for one of the available upcoming positions as stated above to help serve NALA in a leadership role feel free to contact him at (724) 749-5309 or at: ia_lang@hotmail.com.
NALA will only be as strong as its leadership. With your help it will continue to serve its members and all Land professionals in the northern Appalachian Basin well into the future.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
NORTHERN APPALACHIAN LANDMANS ASSOCIATION (NALA) SETS 2011 MEETING SCHEDULE
I am pleased to inform the NALA membership of a very important announcement regarding meeting dates and venues for the current calendar year. As you are all aware, your local Landmans Association has traditionally conducted quarterly dinner meetings throughout the southern tier of New York and the northern tier of Pennsylvania since its inception about 5 years ago. Those meetings have been held at various locations throughout the northern Appalachian region in an effort to better reach the core group of independent Landmen that were working in that region. Though that practice has served NALA and its independent core constituents well over time, it has become evident that recently as more and more company Landmen have relocated to the western Pennsylvania region NALA will need to expand its meetings and services over that additional area to reach out to that very significant contingent.
Recently the NALA Meeting Planning Committee convened its first meeting in Pittsburgh to ponder how best NALA can continue to serve its core independent contract Landman base throughout our region while also trying to reach out to the corporate Landmen now employed throughout the greater Pittsburgh Region. It was with unanimity that the committee decided that NALA should begin to hold monthly luncheon meetings in the Pittsburgh regional area while continuing to conduct its regular regional monthly dinner meetings as we’ve done in the past. Though this move will represent a challenge to cover both luncheons and quarterly dinners throughout the year, NALA has challenged a motivated core group of meeting planning individuals to pledge their time to assist in carrying out the logistics necessary to make these events happen.
Attached to this communication is a list of the meeting dates and locations for the monthly meetings beginning with our initial luncheon on February 10th at the Southpointe Hilton Garden Inn. You will note we will conduct our Quarterly Dinner Meetings in March at The Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel during the AAPL CPL/RPL Review and Exam; in Warren, Ohio, a new location for NALA on June 16th, followed by our annual Corning Golf Outing on September 15th and closing out the dinner meetings at the always beautiful Genetti Hotel in downtown Williamsport on November 10th at which we will also hold an education seminar.
The luncheons will rotate between the Southpointe Hilton Garden Inn and the Pittsburgh North Four Points Sheraton during the months that we are not holding our quarterly dinner meetings. As explained earlier, the schedule of meetings for 2011 is set out on the attachment. It is hoped that by setting these meeting dates and locations for the year it will assist you to plan your schedules around the meetings you will want to attend.
In short, your local association is changing to better meet the needs of the Marcellus Landman by staying true to its roots with the dinner meetings while also reaching out to the company Land professionals that are stationed more permanently in the greater Pittsburgh region. Our luncheons will generally begin with a brief social period beginning at 11:30 with snack trays followed by a buffet luncheon and closing with a luncheon speaker who will cover various topics of interest to the Land professionals throughout the region. Meetings should last till around 1:30. Costs will be held to around the $30.00 range. Our dinner meetings will generally revolve around an educational or social event, as they have in the past.
I am hoping to follow-up with another notification to you all within the coming weeks about the meeting specifics with speakers and topics as we get them scheduled. I will try to keep you better informed throughout the year so we can all benefit from the increased meeting scheduling.
Throughout the year be checking back on the NALA website (www.nalalandman.org) from time to time which is where we will be listing many of our meeting updates and notices as well as much regional and national news of interest to the Land professional. All in all, I am very excited as we begin this new year with the networking opportunities ahead and the anticipation of the knowledge to be gained from attending meetings where topics of much land, legal and technical interest are shared. I look forward to seeing you all at many of our meetings throughout the year.
Sincerely,
Bernard J. Ulincy, CPL
NALA President
Recently the NALA Meeting Planning Committee convened its first meeting in Pittsburgh to ponder how best NALA can continue to serve its core independent contract Landman base throughout our region while also trying to reach out to the corporate Landmen now employed throughout the greater Pittsburgh Region. It was with unanimity that the committee decided that NALA should begin to hold monthly luncheon meetings in the Pittsburgh regional area while continuing to conduct its regular regional monthly dinner meetings as we’ve done in the past. Though this move will represent a challenge to cover both luncheons and quarterly dinners throughout the year, NALA has challenged a motivated core group of meeting planning individuals to pledge their time to assist in carrying out the logistics necessary to make these events happen.
Attached to this communication is a list of the meeting dates and locations for the monthly meetings beginning with our initial luncheon on February 10th at the Southpointe Hilton Garden Inn. You will note we will conduct our Quarterly Dinner Meetings in March at The Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel during the AAPL CPL/RPL Review and Exam; in Warren, Ohio, a new location for NALA on June 16th, followed by our annual Corning Golf Outing on September 15th and closing out the dinner meetings at the always beautiful Genetti Hotel in downtown Williamsport on November 10th at which we will also hold an education seminar.
The luncheons will rotate between the Southpointe Hilton Garden Inn and the Pittsburgh North Four Points Sheraton during the months that we are not holding our quarterly dinner meetings. As explained earlier, the schedule of meetings for 2011 is set out on the attachment. It is hoped that by setting these meeting dates and locations for the year it will assist you to plan your schedules around the meetings you will want to attend.
In short, your local association is changing to better meet the needs of the Marcellus Landman by staying true to its roots with the dinner meetings while also reaching out to the company Land professionals that are stationed more permanently in the greater Pittsburgh region. Our luncheons will generally begin with a brief social period beginning at 11:30 with snack trays followed by a buffet luncheon and closing with a luncheon speaker who will cover various topics of interest to the Land professionals throughout the region. Meetings should last till around 1:30. Costs will be held to around the $30.00 range. Our dinner meetings will generally revolve around an educational or social event, as they have in the past.
I am hoping to follow-up with another notification to you all within the coming weeks about the meeting specifics with speakers and topics as we get them scheduled. I will try to keep you better informed throughout the year so we can all benefit from the increased meeting scheduling.
Throughout the year be checking back on the NALA website (www.nalalandman.org) from time to time which is where we will be listing many of our meeting updates and notices as well as much regional and national news of interest to the Land professional. All in all, I am very excited as we begin this new year with the networking opportunities ahead and the anticipation of the knowledge to be gained from attending meetings where topics of much land, legal and technical interest are shared. I look forward to seeing you all at many of our meetings throughout the year.
Sincerely,
Bernard J. Ulincy, CPL
NALA President
Monday, January 3, 2011
LANDMAN TRAINING: University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, May 2-5, 2011
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will be offering
Landman Training for those individuals interested in
becoming a landman and for those professionals who
want to gain a better working knowledge of the business
of being a landman.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
- Geology
- Oil & Gas Real Estate Law
- Understanding ContractsTitles & Abstracts
- Landowner Negotiations
- Experienced Landman Panel
Monday 5 /2/11 thru Thursday 5/5/11
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Swarts Hall Room 162
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
$995 Per Participant
Includes all materials
(Breakfast and lunch provided)
This training program is being funded through the North Central
Workforce Investment Board and the PA Department of Labor and
Industry’s Industrial Partnership Training Grant - 75 % of the fee may be
paid by the PA Gas & Oil Extraction Industry Partnership if you qualify.
Pre-Registration: Contact Laurie
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
300 Campus Drive
Bradford, PA 16701
Phone: 814-362-5078
Fax: 814-362-0914
E-mail:contined@pitt.edu
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