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VIRTUAL MEETING
3/19/2026
First Speaker: 9:30 AM
Second Speaker: 10:30 AM
VIRTUAL MONTHLY PASH MEETING
PASH Committee is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: PASH March Meeting
Time: Mar 19, 2026 09:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
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First Speaker
Deb Retzloff
Presentation Title:
COPAS Leadership Governance: Committee Charters (Why Does It Matter?)
Delivery Method: Virtual
Description: This presentation will provide an overview of the importance of Committee Charters at the COPAS and Society level to provide governance over Committee membership and activity requirements.
Learning Objectives:
Understand how committee charters provide governance for COPAS leadership
Identify critical differences in the types of voting conducted by COPAS committees
Understand and implement required revisions to Society Committee Charters to sync with COPAS Committee Charters and local Society governance procedures
Approved Field of Study: Accounting
CPE Credit: 1 hour
Deb graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in December 1980. Deb began her career with Mobil Oil in February 1981.
Deb retired from ExxonMobil in February 2013 after 32 years of service and is currently an independent consultant. During her career Deb served over 25 years in joint interest accounting and auditing functions, including training development for two SAP implementations. She is also a COPAS Energy Education (CEE) instructor (and developed the JIA – Joint Interest Audit modules).
Deb joined COPAS through the Dallas Society in 1995 and served as the Joint Interest Committee Chair for that Society until her move to Houston in 2000. She has been an active member of PASH since that time, having served two terms on the PASH Board of Directors. She served as PASH President in 2008-2009. Deb served on the COPAS Board of Directors beginning in 2009 and ended her 2nd term on the Board at the end of 2015. She served as COPAS President during 2014.
Deb has participated in nine COPAS publication drafting teams. Six of those she led (MFI-21, AG-23, MFI-21, MFI-21 AD-1, MFI-57, and MFI-57 AD-1) and participated on several other projects (AG-28, COPAS 1998 – PTAP; COPAS 2012 AP – Deepwater, and MFI-38, Materials Manual). Deb was the COPAS Eagle award recipient in Fall 2018 and COPAS Ring of Honor recipient in Fall 2023.
In her spare time, Deb loves to read, scrapbook, and listen to light jazz and Christian music. She is a commissioned Stephen Minister and leads several women’s Bible studies in her community. Deb divides her “happy place” between her mountain home in Vallecito, Colorado and the Texas home she & her husband designed and built in Montgomery. She shares her life and love with husband Harold and miniature dachshund Maddie who keeps Mom in line.
Time - 9:30-10:30 am
Second Speaker
Robert M. Park
Presentation Title: Subsurface Trespass
Delivery Method: VIRTUAL
Description: Oil and gas jurisprudence is a balance of private property rights and the public interest in mineral extraction. Trespass in Texas means entry onto the property of another without the property owner’s consent or authorization. When Courts are faced with a subsurface trespass, the balancing of rights will hinge on the presence of several factors. The rights and remedies of trespass in the oil & gas sector will be presented.
Learning Objectives:
Describe property ownership
Discuss the remedies for trespass
Define mineral estate and ownership
Approved Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge
CPE credit: 1 CPE hour
A native Texan, Mr. Park, grew up in Austin. He is a transactional attorney with Uhl, Fitzsimons, Jewett & Burton, PLLC, whose practice focuses primarily on Texas oil and gas law, including drafting and negotiating leases, surface use agreements, seismic permits, pipeline agreements, disposal well contracts, royalty and mineral transfers, and royalty audits. He also has experience in the purchase and sale of commercial real estate, water rights, and in the sale and donation of conservation easements.
He received his undergraduate degree from Texas State University in 2007. Mr. Park is a J.D. Summa Cum Laude graduate of St. Mary’s School of Law in San Antonio where he was an associate editor for the Law Journal, a member of Phi Delta Phi and a member of the St. John M. Harlan Society. He was admitted to the bar in 2011. In 2014 and 2015, he received the Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star award. In 2016, he received his Board Certification in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Time - 10:30-11:30 am
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