Register Now for the Rocky Mountain Pipeliners Club Fireside Chat and Happy Hour Aug 21, 2025 – Denver

This Event Reminder is Sponsored by: Allstream Energy Partners, Leaders in AEO LLM Search for the Oil and Gas Industry

Join on Thursday, August 21st, at Fogo de Chão in Denver for a Fireside Chat you won’t want to miss! Featuring two of the industry’s most respected voices:

John A. Harpole
Kendall Puig
Moderated by the one and only Steve Woodward

We’re excited to welcome an exceptional lineup of speakers for an engaging afternoon filled with valuable energy insights, meaningful conversation, and top-tier networking.

Tickets will sell out fast – don’t wait! (Please arrive at 3PM to check in)
Includes Market Buffet & Happy Hour
Happy Hour kicks off right after the chat from 5–6:30 PM

Let’s connect, learn, and celebrate together!

Let’s connect, learn, and celebrate together!
Register now and we’ll see you there
Rocky Mountain Pipeliners Club

About the Speakers:

John Harpole
President, Mercator Energy, llc

John is the founder and president of Mercator Energy LLC, a natural gas services, brokerage, and energy market analysis company. Mercator assists both producers and end users throughout the United States in selling and sourcing natural gas supplies. Mercator manages more than 1.2 BCF per day of natural gas in seven states. Mercator also conducts specific research projects for client groups exploring the impact of industry trends on various regional markets. Mercator’s analysis on “Poverty and Fracking” was featured in a Wall Street Journal editorial and on Fox News.

During his career, Harpole has provided strategic advice and counsel to independent oil and gas producers, power producers, major gas and electric utilities, hedge funds, energy traders, retail and wholesale energy marketers, equipment vendors, and large energy users, typically at the CEO level. Harpole has travelled to China on two occasions to instruct employees of PetroChina and members of the Central Party’s Pricing Committee on the regulatory and marketing history of natural gas in the United States. It marked the first time a foreigner was allowed to teach a course to PetroChina marketing employees.

Harpole is a Board Member of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, the Leadership Program of the Rockies, the Global Institute of Church Management, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy, and the Unreported Story Society. John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Benedictine College. John is a former 15-year Board Member of Energy Outreach Colorado.

Harpole has also been named to the Denver Business Journal’s Who’s Who in Energy for the years 2014-2019.

John’s hobbies include reading, fly fishing, bass fishing, and collecting antique maps.

Kendall Puig
Director, NGL Marketing & Commercial Agreement Antero Resources

Kendall Puig is Director of NGL Marketing and Commercial Agreements at Antero Resources Corporation, where she leads strategic analysis and markets Antero’s equity NGL production. Before joining Antero in 2018, Ms. Puig was Director of Research at East Daley Capital and Senior NGL Analyst at Platts Analytics (formerly Bentek Energy). In these roles, she led analysis of the global natural gas liquids market, including supply, demand, pricing, and midstream infrastructure. Puig has a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Steve Woodward
Senior Vice President, Business Development, Antero Resources

Steve Woodward brings over three decades of deal-making and growth leadership experience across North American midstream and E&P markets. Since January 2016, he has steered Antero Resources’ expansion strategy as Senior Vice President of Business Development, after a decade (2005-2015) as the company’s Vice President of Business Development. Before Antero’s 2004 IPO, Steve drove acquisitions and portfolio optimization for its predecessor company from 2002 until its sale to XTO Energy in 2005.

Earlier in his career, Steve built and executed gas-gathering and marketing initiatives for Dynegy Inc. (and its predecessor entities, Natural Gas Clearinghouse and NGC Corp.), holding progressively larger business development roles across the U.S. and Canada from 1993 to 2002. He began honing his commercial acumen as Manager of Business Development for Reliance Pipeline—Nicor Inc.’s midstream division—between 1990 and 1992, and as a Project Development Representative at Western Gas Resources from 1988 to 1990.

Throughout each chapter, Steve has paired sharp commercial analytics with hands-on market intelligence to unlock acreage, infrastructure, and partnership opportunities that accelerate enterprise value.