00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 274(RES)                                                                                        
01 "An Act relating to the qualifications of the members of the Alaska Oil and Gas                                         
02 Conservation Commission; and providing for an effective date."                                                          
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  AS 31.05.009 is amended to read:                                                                     
05  Sec. 31.05.009.  Qualifications of members.  Members shall be qualified as                                          
06 follows:                                                                                                                
07    (1)   one member shall be a  petroleum  [LICENSED PROFESSIONAL]                                                 
08 engineer  who                                                                                                          
09   (A)  holds a certificate of registration as an engineer under                                                       
10 AS 08.48 and, under regulations adopted to implement that chapter, has                                                  
11 qualified as a petroleum engineer; or                                                                                   
12   (B)  has earned a degree from a university  [WITH                                                                  
13 EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND] in the field of                                                                
14 [PETROLEUM] engineering  and has at least 10 years of professional                                                     

01 subsurface experience in the oil and gas industry in drilling, well                                                     
02 operations, reservoir engineering, or a combination thereof; for the                                                    
03 purposes of this subparagraph, a person meets the requirement of earning                                                
04 a degree in the field of engineering if the person obtains an undergraduate                                             
05 or graduate degree in engineering that meets the requirements for                                                       
06 program accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the                                                
07 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and the person                                                       
08 completes university or industry training specific to petroleum engineering                                             
09 that illustrates application of engineering principles to the problems                                                  
10 encountered and methods used in the petroleum industry, including                                                       
11 drilling, production, reservoir engineering, fluid flow through subsurface                                              
12 formations, and hydrocarbon transportation;                                                                             
13   (2)   one member shall be a geologist  who                                                                         
14   (A)  holds a certification as a professional geologist under                                                        
15 AS 08.02.011; or                                                                                                        
16   (B)  has earned a degree in the field of geology from a                                                             
17 university accredited in the field of geology and has a minimum of 10                                                   
18 years professional experience in the  [WITH EDUCATIONAL AND                                                            
19 PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND IN THE] field of petroleum geology ; and                                                       
20   (3)   one member  who  need not be  certified,  trained , or  [AND]                                           
21 experienced in  either  the  field  [FIELDS] of petroleum engineering or  the field of                            
22 petroleum geology.                                                                                                      
23    * Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  The provisions of AS 31.05.009, as amended by sec. 1 of this                            
24 Act, apply to persons appointed under AS 31.05.009 on and after the effective date of this                              
25 Act.                                                                                                                    
26    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).