Scott Neil is the former Vice President of Engineering for DCP Midstream, one of the nation’s largest processors of natural gas and transporter of natural gas liquids. In his current role, Scott led the 140 person Field Engineering and Reliability Engineering groups in the 5 regions for DCP: Rockies, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast, Permian and NGL Logistics. The team is responsible for technical support and minor project management for DCP’s 50 gas processing plants and gathering systems, 4 NGL Pipelines, and 7 Propane Storage and Distribution Terminals. The annual Maintenance Capital budget is $50 MM. He started his career with Phillips – one of the DCP predecessor companies and has worked across Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado through his career. While with Phillips he completed professional registration in Petroleum Engineering in 1985 and was deemed a Master of Process Technology, an internal Phillips accreditation recognizing Engineering Proficiency. Scott has worked in all phases of the technical side of the midstream business: Facility Engineer (13 gas processing plants and systems), Project Management (1 new gas processing plant and propane distribution terminal), Design (5 new gas processing plants, one 700 mile NGL pipeline) Project Development, M&A Economics/Rationalization, Operations Supervision and Leadership.Scott also guest lectures on Gas Processing Engineering at CSU and Petroleum Engineering at CU. He is a volunteer on the METEC Industry Advisor Board at CSU investigating qualitative means to measure methane emissions and sits on the Executive Technical Committee for the Gas Processors Association. Scott is a 1980 graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.