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OOGA Hosts 2014 Oilfield Expo, Technical Conference
Doug Evans (L) and Matt Thompson of Terex AWP/Genie talk about their Tier IV compliant GTH1544 telehandler.
(L-R): Highway Equipment Company’s Al Springer, Bob Bowers and Jason Shields are joined by Allied Construction Products’s Rich Steinbrenner to discuss their range of equipment for the oil and gas industry.
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he Ohio Oil & Gas Association held its Fourth Annual Oilfield Expo and Technical Conference at the I-X Center in Cleveland, Ohio, on Dec. 3 and 4. This year the Oilfield Expo Technical Conference was introduced to the schedule. Technical conference presentations covered a range of topics including legislative and regulatory updates, process material disposal management, and horizontal drilling techniques. More than 200 oil and gas industry suppliers, service providers and associations involved with shale oil and gas well development in Ohio exhibited this year. The key event sponsor was the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 18, with a number of additional sponsors, includsee OOGA page 4
(L-R): International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 18’s John Oberlin, Jack Klopman and Michael Bertolone welcome attendees to the event.
Carissa Koast of Stonebridge Oilfield Services shows off the company’s mascot, Nick the Gnome.
Ohio College Builds Indoor Flying Pavilion for Drones By Lisa Cornwell ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI (AP) An indoor flying pavilion for students to test and fly drones will be built at a college in southwestern Ohio.
Sinclair Community College officials say the 40-ft. high pavilion resembling a traditional aircraft hangar will be built adjacent to a building in Dayton that houses some of its education and training programs in unmanned aerial sys-
tems and aviation. The indoor pavilion will allow students to fly drones without having to deal with weather issues or Federal Aviation Administration restrictions on flying them outdoors, said Andrew Shepherd,
director of Sinclair’s unmanned aerial systems program. Congress has directed the FAA to integrate drones into civilian manned airspace by next fall. The agency currently allows unmanned aircraft to be flown only under
controlled conditions. Sinclair flies drones at the Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport and Wilmington Air Park under restricted flight conditions and has requests pending for FAA see PAVILION page 6