Texas Monthly and Rice’s Baker Institute host panel on Texas’ shale oil and gas boom Nov. 19

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David Ruth
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Jeff Falk
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Texas Monthly and Rice’s Baker Institute host panel on Texas’ shale oil and gas boom Nov. 19

HOUSTON – (Nov. 7, 2013) – A panel of leading experts on the Texas energy industry will gather at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Nov. 19 to discuss the impact and future of the shale oil and gas boom in the state. Texas Monthly’s TM Talks event is free and open to the public and is hosted by the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies.

The event is an extension of the magazine’s November cover story, “Oil Boom.”

Who: Panelists Loren Steffy, Texas Monthly (moderator); Arthur E. Berman, director, Labyrinth Consulting Services Inc.; Kenneth Medlock III, senior director, Center for Energy Studies at Rice’s Baker Institute and adjunct professor and lecturer in Rice’s Economics Department; and Scott W. Tinker, director, Bureau of Economic Geology, the University of Texas at Austin.

What: TM Talks on “Will the Shale Boom Last? How Should We Use It to Prepare for the Future?”

When: Tuesday, Nov. 19, 6-8 p.m.

Where: Rice University, James A. Baker III Hall, 6100 Main Street.

Steffy’s story about the shale boom is online at www.texasmonthly.com/story/george-mitchell-and-fracking-changed-the-barnett-shale-and-the-world.

Registration is required by Nov. 14 at www.texasmonthly.com/rsvp/tmtalksboom.

Members of the news media who want to attend should RSVP to Jeff Falk, associate director of national media relations at Rice, at jfalk@rice.edu or 713-348-6775.

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