The 2017 AGA AWARDS REVIEW highlights industry specific awards and recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the natural gas industry. The recipients are formally recognized at AGA’s Annual Operations Conference. The selection process is based on criteria involving professional and personal commitment and dedication to improving the operations and engineering sectors of the natural gas industry through safety, accident prevention, research, and active AGA committee and event participation. Visit the Safety & Operations section at AGA.org to download the Awards Manual.

MERITORIOUS

SERVICE AWARD The AGA Meritorious Service Award, is presented each year to the "individual who has performed the most meritorious act in the gas industry in saving a human life during the prior calendar year." This year, AGA is proud to honor Michael Garcia and Miguel Hernandez of Pacific Gas & Electric .

What began as a routine meter maintenance job at a San Jose home turned into a rescue mission for Gas Control Technician, Michael Garcia and Measurement and Control Mechanic, Miguel Hernandez when smoke started billowing out of the house across the street, prompting the two PG&E workers to grab a fire extinguisher from their truck and pull an elderly man out of the destroyed home.

Mike and Miguel arrived on Turnberry Place in south San Jose late in the afternoon. While they were setting up, Miguel said he could smell smoke and figured he should check it out.

Initially thinking it might be a fireplace or a barbecue, he soon noticed the smoke was low to the ground. Then he heard a cry for help and immediately grabbed the fire extinguisher from the truck before setting out to investigate. The cry from help had come from a man whose father had fallen

asleep with the stove on and a fire had started.

Miguel ran to provide assistance and found the man lying by the door. Despite resistance, he knew they must act fast and quickly pulled the man from the home. Mike and Miguel put the elderly man on their kneeling pads close to the sidewalk, where neighbors took care of him and called 911. Then the two men split up and evacuated the homes on either side of the burning house.

Mike said he began going door to door to inform the neighbors of the fire and to get them to safety. The fire had already spread to a tree between the two houses. About that time, firefighters arrived.

Quick action, and a calm demeanor under pressure, saved a life that day and it’s those qualities - seen so often in our industry - that we celebrate today in recognizing Michael and Miguel with this year’s Meritorious Service Award.

GILD OF ANCIENT

SUPPLERS AWARD Cheryl Campbell, Operations Section

Chairwoman and Senior Vice President,

Gas at Xcel Energy, Inc., is honored with

this year’s Gild of Ancient Supplers

Award for her exceptional leadership and

service to AGA and the natural gas

industry.

The Gild of Ancient Supplers will make a

donation in Ms. Campbell’s name to the

Pikes Peak Humane Society

(www.hsppr.org).

SAFETY AWARENESS VIDEO

EXCELLENCE (SAVE) AWARD The annual AGA Safety Awareness Video Excellence (SAVE) Award recognizes the outstanding contributions utilities across the country make in natural gas safety communications.

Internal Video Category:

Consumer’s Energy for “Core Safety: Excavation”

External Video Category:

Xcel Energy for “Call 811 Before Your Dig”

Awards

Review

Inside this issue:

AGA Achievement Award 2

Awards of Merit 4

Gild of Ancient Supplers

Award 1

Industry Leader Accident Prevention Certificates 3

John B. McGowan, Sr. Research Award 2

Meritorious Service Award 1

Milton W. Heath Sr. Memorial Award 2

Safety Achievement Awards 2-3

Safety Awareness Video

Excellence (SAVE) Award 1

MILTON W. HEATH SR. MEMORIAL AWARD

The Milton W. Heath, Sr. Memorial Award, sponsored by Heath Consultants Inc., recognizes the individual who, in the past five years, has made an outstanding contribution to leak detection, prevention or repair. This year’s award is presented to Mike Snead of Washington Gas in recognition of his efforts in in advancing the programmatic leak survey program at Washington Gas, in addition to developing advanced mobile leak detection software.

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JOHN B. MCGOWAN SR. RESEARCH AWARD The John B. McGowan Sr. Research Award, sponsored by Continental Industries, recognizes an individual or company who has

made an outstanding contribution to improving the natural gas system safety, delivery, design, construction, operation,

maintenance or efficiency through their research efforts. This year’s award is presented to Greg Penza of ULC Robotics, Inc, in

recognition of his initiative, ingenuity, innovativeness and engineering prowess - combined with his industrious imagination - all of

which are key personal attributes that helped identify new ideas for technology, trenchless solutions and updated processes

intended to improve efficiencies that have positively impacted the industry.

TRAILBLAZER AWARD

AGA's Trailblazer Award is reserved for those individuals who

have made a notable commitment in representing AGA on time-

sensitive matters of advocacy and/or technology outside the

general scope of technical committees in the AGA Operations

Section. These individuals championed their cause and benefited

the entire natural gas utility community. This year, AGA has the

honor of presenting this prestigious award to ten individuals.

For their significant contributions to enhance the safety and integrity of underground natural gas storage operations into the future, AGA recognizes:

Scott Rouze, Spectra Energy

Matt Rowan, DTE Energy

Ron Benefield, Spectra Energy

Steve Nowaczewski, TransCanada Corporation

Ray Harris, National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation

Craig Johnson, CMS Energy

Larry Kennedy, Pacific Gas & Electric

Anders Johnson, Kinder Morgan, Inc.

Charlie McConnell, Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc.

And for her significant contributions to the revisions of the AGA

Odorization Manual, AGA recognizes Rosemarie Halchuk of Xcel

Energy, Inc.

The following AGA member companies earned Safety Achievement Awards by experiencing the lowest motor vehicle accident rate for companies of their type.

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

Alliant Energy (Madison, WI)

Gas Natural Fenosa (Barcelona, Spain)

COMBINATION

Liberty Utilities (Oakville, ON, Canada)

TRANSMISSION

TransCanada (Calgary, AB, Canada)

SMALL MEMBER COMPANIES *

Rocky Mount Public Utilities (Rocky Mount, NC)

Columbia Gas of Maryland (Cumberland, MD)

* All companies with a fleet mileage less than 1,000,000 miles were considered a small member.

SAFETY ACHIEVEMENT

AGA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The AGA Achievement Award is being presented to Dr. Eric W. Lemmon of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for his outstanding research work that enables more accurate calculation of thermodynamic property values of natural gas.

When AGA approached NIST for assistance in revising AGA Report No. 8, the organization offered the services of Dr. Lemmon, who was also one of the major contributors to the 1994 edition.

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SAFETY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

Small: Maine Natural Gas (Brunswick, ME)

Columbia Gas of Maryland (Cumberland, MD)

Citizens Energy Group (Indianapolis, IN)

Medium-Small: ENSTAR Natural Gas Company (Anchorage, AK)

Medium-Large: South Carolina Electric & Gas (Columbia, SC)

Large: Duke Energy (Charlotte, NC)

COMGÁS (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Very Large: DTE Gas Company (Detroit, MI)

Mega: Enbridge Gas Distribution (North York, ON)

Gas Natural Fenosa (Barcelona, Spain)

COMBINATION

Small: Florida Public Utilities Co. (Chesapeake Utilities Corp.) (Fernandina Beach, FL)

Medium: NV Energy (Las Vegas, NV)

Large: LG&E / KU (Louisville, KY)

TRANSMISSION

Medium: Dow Pipeline Company (Angleton, TX)

Large: TransCanada (Calgary, AB Canada)

The following AGA member companies have earned Safety Achievement Awards by experiencing the lowest incident rate for the number of days away from work, restricted or transferred (DART) among companies of their size and type, based upon a maximum figure of 1,960 hours worked per employee.

2016 INDUSTRY LEADER

ACCIDENT PREVENTION

CERTIFICATES

The AGA member companies listed below have earned Accident Prevention Certificates by achieving a DART (days away from work, restricted or transferred ) incident rate below the industry average for their company type.

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION COMPANY

Small

Citizens Energy Group (Indianapolis, IN)

Columbia Gas of Maryland (Cumberland, MD)

Maine Natural Gas (Brunswick, ME)

Michigan Gas Utilities Company (Monroe, MI)

National Gas & Oil Cooperative (Newark, OH)

Roanoke Gas Company (Roanoke, VA)

Medium-Small

Chesapeake Utilities Corp (Dover, DE)

Dominion Hope Gas (Clarksburg, WV)

ENSTAR Natural Gas (Anchorage, AK)

Knoxville Utilities Board (Knoxville, TN)

Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation - Integrys (Rosemount, MN)

North Shore Gas Company (Waukegan, IL)

Summit Utilities (Littleton, CO)

UNS Gas Inc (Tucson, AZ)

Medium-Large

Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corp (Fort Smith, AR)

Columbia Gas of Virginia (Chester, VA)

Intermountain Gas Company (Boise, ID)

South Carolina Electric and Gas (Cayce, SC)

The Gas Company, LLC (Honolulu, HI)

Large

Alliant Energy (Madison, WI)

Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania (Canonsburg, PA)

Comgas (Sao Paulo, BRAZIL)

Duke Energy (Charlotte, NC)

PSNC Energy (Gastonia, NC)

TECO Peoples Gas (Tampa, FL)

Very Large

Columbia Gas of Ohio (Columbus, OH)

Dominion East Ohio (Cleveland, OH)

DTE Gas Company (Detroit, MI)

NW Natural (Portland, OR)

Peoples Natural Gas (Pittsburgh, PA)

UGI Utilities Inc (Reading, PA)

Washington Gas Light Company (Washington, DC)

Mega

Enbridge Gas Distribution (Scarborough, Ontario)

Gas Natural Fenosa (Barcelona, Spain)

ONE Gas Inc. (Tulsa, OK)

Public Service Electric and Gas (Newark, NJ)

Southern Company Gas (Atlanta, GA)

Union Gas Limited, a Spectra Energy company (Chatham, Ontario)

Xcel Energy (Minneapolis, MN)

COMBINATION COMPANIES

Small

Central Hudson Gas & Electric (Poughkeepsie, NY)

Gainesville Regional Utilities (Gainesville, FL)

Montana Dakota Utilities (Bismarck, ND)

Medium

Delmarva Power & Light (Wilmington, DE)

Liberty Utilities (Oakville, Ontario)

NorthWestern Energy (Sioux Falls, SD)

NV Energy (Las Vegas, NV)

Orange & Rockland Utilities (Pearl River, NY)

PECO, an Exelon Company (Philadelphia, PA)

Vectren Corporation (Evansville, IN)

Large

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co (Baltimore, MD)

Consolidated Edison Company of New York (New York, NY)

Consumers Energy (Jackson, MI)

LG&E / KU (Lexington, KY)

Northern Indiana Public Service Corp (Merrillville, IN)

Puget Sound Energy (Bellevue, WA)

TRANSMISSION COMPANIES

Medium

Dow Pipeline Company (Angleton, TX)

EQT Midstream (Charleston, WV)

Questar Pipeline Company (Salt Lake City, UT)

Large

Columbia Pipeline Group (Houston, TX)

Dominion Transmission, Inc. (Bridgeport, WV)

Enbridge GPP (Houston, TX)

Spectra Energy Corp. (Houston, TX)

TransCanada (Calgary, Alberta)

AWARDS OF MERIT The individuals listed have earned AGA Awards of Merit for their active and continuous service to the AGA Operations Section through participation on technical committees, as well as leadership in AGA events. The awards are based on a cumulative point system.

DIAMOND AWARD OF MERIT (125 POINTS)

Richard R. Lonn, Southern Company Gas

GOLD AWARD OF MERIT (75 POINTS)

Charles D. Dolezel, CenterPoint Energy Michael H. Jones, PE, Philadelphia Gas Works Phillip J. Murdock, P.E., Atmos Energy Corporation Daniel A. Norden, BGE, An Exelon Company Thomas R. Reburn, Spire Inc. Kevin D. Swiger, PE, NiSource Inc. Steven J. Troch, BGE, An Exelon Company Timothy J. Wojcinski, NiSource Inc.

SILVER AWARD OF MERIT (50 POINTS)

Richard T. Bye, CenterPoint Energy Mark S. Chepke, NiSource Inc. Mark Clayton, CenterPoint Energy Kevin S. Dugan, Vectren Corporation Hart Gilchrist, Intermountain Gas Company Gregory H. Goble, Lyall Chuck Lang, Liberty Sales & Distribution, LLC Robert D. Mims, Southern Company Gas Edward Newton, Southern California Gas Company Joe Patten, Dominion East Ohio Daniel W. Peace, Sensus Michael D. Ramsey, NiSource Inc. James P. Reinmann, PE, Dominion East Ohio Angela Serrano de Rivera, New Mexico Gas Company John B. Wyckoff, PE, New Jersey Natural Gas Company

BRONZE AWARD OF MERIT (25 POINTS)

Chris R. Anderson, Southwest Gas Corporation John R. Anderson, Emerson Process Management Regulator

Technologies Michael R. Anderson, National Fuel Gas Distribution

Corporation Elisabeth M. Barr, SEMCO Energy Gas Company Bernard E. Beaudin, Southwest Gas Corporation Elizabeth Beck, Vectren Corporation Mike Bermel, San Diego Gas & Electric Co./Southern

California Gas Co. Nicholas Biederman, Gas Operations Innovation Alliance Mary Jean Brady, WGL Holdings, Inc. (Retired)

BRONZE AWARD OF MERIT (25 POINTS) CONT...

Christian R. Castronova, PE, Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Paul F. Chapman, NW Natural Kelly J. Christopher, Southwest Gas Corporation Leo Thomas Cody, Liberty Utilities Company Allison Crabtree, PE, Duraline/PolyPipe Virgil L. Deanes, Jr., Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division Todd Duffield, WEC Energy Group Gene Eagle, Ameren Illinois Scott T. Edgerton, New Jersey Natural Gas Company Calvin R. Favors, Florida Public Utilities Company James R. Geromette, DTE Gas Company Alex Goforth, Southern Natural Gas Company James L. Gruennert, WEC Energy Group Jeffrey D. Hansen, Dominion Questar Alan D. Hatfield, PE, BRAEMAR ENGINEERING James E. Haught, ONE Gas, Inc. Matthew Adam Helmers, Southwest Gas Corporation Kevin James Hemingway, DNV GL William F. Hermstedt, Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company Hal Higgins, Alagasco Michael Hodge, Washington Gas Light Company Craig R. Johnson, Consumers Energy Company Linda Kellner, New Jersey Natural Gas Company Keith Kittinger, CenterPoint Energy Peter G. Kucmas, KROHNE Oil & Gas LLC Ron McCarthy, Siemens Industry, Inc. Donald D. McClain, Madison Gas and Electric Company Charles C. McConnell, Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc. Glenn R. McMurray, Norton McMurray Manufacturing Co. Michael D. Melvin, PECO, An Exelon Company Mark Miller, Mobile Gas Paul A. Mondimore, Philadelphia Gas Works (Retired) Neil M. Moser, Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. Robert D. Noelker, Laclede Gas Company Martin P. Petchul, PE, Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. Scott Powell, Atmos Energy Corporation Paul D. Randolph, P.E., Knoxville Utilities Board Kerry F. Shampine, PE, NW Natural Robert R. Smith, PE, New Mexico Gas Company Fikret Su, National Grid Eric S. Swartley, UGI Utilities, Inc. Robert M. Thomas, Peoples Natural Gas Dennis F. Unites, GEI Consultants, Inc. Russell L. Vallejo, Southwest Gas Corporation Jeff West, Dominion Questar Tonya L. Wyatt, Emerson Automation Solutions Charles Yarbrough, Atmos Energy Corporation John M. Yogerst, Madison Gas and Electric Company Dave Zak, Ameren Missouri