Convention encompassing challenges facing oil and gas industry
By Billy Loftin
Wednesday, May 20, 2009AMARILLO, TEXAS — The Panhandle Producers Royalty Owners Association (PPROA) hosted its 80th annual convention in Amarillo this week to discuss the oil and gas industry, and what challenges and other issues members face.
Hundreds of producers, royalty owners and others interested in the oil and gas industry met Wednesday to listen to Buddy Kleemeier, chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
Kleemeier deals with Congress and different committees in Washington D.C. He spoke to representatives from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas about the Obama Administration and what changes may be implemented that effect oil and gas nationwide.