The Arkansas Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers will be holding its Monthly meeting on Wednesday – April 14th.

Date: April 14, 2010

Location: Fianna Hills Country Club (1 Essex Place, Fort Smith, AR 72908; 479-646-7861)

Time: 11:30 – 12:00 Social Time and Lunch, 12:00 – 1:00 presentation

Speaker: Thomas A. Daily

Topic: "Rules Gone Right (Finally)--Arkansas Comes From the Rear to Lead the Pack in Modern Well Density and Spacing Regulation".

Cost: $20 per person ($10 for Legion of Honor members)

SPEAKER BIO: Thomas A. Daily is a member of the Fort Smith, Arkansas, firm, Daily & Woods, P.L.L.C. He practices primarily in the area of oil, gas and mineral law, including title examination, administrative proceedings and mineral litigation. He is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Arkansas School of Law, teaching classes in titled Oil and Gas Regulation and Agreements, Title Examination and Oil and Gas Title Examination.

Mr. Daily was instrumental in the effort leading to the drafting and enactment of recent amendments to Arkansas’ pooling and unitization statutes (Act No. 964 of 2003), as well as the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission’s general rule B-43, which regulates unconventional gas drilling and production in Arkansas.

Mr. Daily is a graduate of the University of the South (B.A.) and the University of Arkansas (J.D.). He is a member of the American and Arkansas Bar Associations. He is a past President of the Arkansas Bar Association (2003-2004), having previously served as a member of its House of Delegates and Board of Governors, as well as chairman of the Association's Natural Resource Law Section. He is also a member of the Sebastian County and American Bar Association and is a Fellow of both the American Bar Foundation and the Arkansas Bar Foundation. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America; Best Lawyers in Arkansas and Mid-South Super Lawyers.

Mr. Daily is coauthor of Well, Now, Ain’t That Just Fugacious: A Basic Primer on Arkansas Oil and Gas Law, 29 U. Ark Little Rock L. Rev. 211, and is author of Lawyering the Fayetteville Shale Play—Welcome to My World, 44 Ark Lawyer No. 2, 11. He currently is the Arkansas reporter for both the Annual Survey of Law by the American Bar Association's Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Newsletter.

Mr. Daily is a frequent presenter of continuing legal education programs on mineral law subjects. He has presented several papers to the Arkansas Natural Resource Law Institute. He has often before served as chairman of that institute and is a recipient of its award for distinguished service.

Please invite your co-workers for this meeting. If you are planning to attend, you need to send an RSVP to me by 4/12. As always, you do not have to be a member to attend the meeting.

Visit the Arkansas SPE Section website at www.arkansas-spe.org/ to learn more about Arkansas SPE. Also note and visit the sponsors of the website, as all sponsorship monies go towards Arkansas SPE Section scholarships. If you are interested in contributing to this worthy cause and at the same time gain prominent advertising space on the website for your company, contact Jerry Rusnak (jerryr@jblllc.com).

SPE Arkansas Section mugs are available, courtesy of Halliburton and Schlumberger. They are on sale at the SPE Arkansas Section meetings (including the Study Group meeting) for $5. All proceeds go towards the Arkansas SPE Section scholarship fund.