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A quest for know-how leads pipeliners to Cushing

. . . to learn how to fight fires, control oil spills

Fires and oil spills have one thing in common. Once they start, they can be stopped. But first, you must know how to deal with them.

A quest for that kind of know­how led 40 Oklahoma and Missouri pipeliners to Shell Pipe Line's Cush­ing, Okla. , tank farm on June 8. Participating in one of the largest Shell-sponsored training exercise in the tank farm's history , they came to learn how to fightfires and how to clean up a crude oil spill.

This four-hour exercise also drew 200 non-Shell spectators. This crowd primarily consisted of representa­tives of area oil companies and fire departments, who came to study how Shell pipeliners deal with emergencies .

Snuffing out fires

Kicking off the exercise, Jess Wilson, a maintenance foreman, and Danny Woodcock, a pipeliner,

both of Neosho, Mo., were the first to give fire-fighting a try.

Holding 30-pound dry chemical fire extinguishers, they advanced on a three-foot-high metal bin simu­lating a crude oil storage tank fire . They were quickly bathed with heat as they neared the six-foot flames.

But they kept coming. Coached by a professional fire training in­structor, the two pipeliners quickly drowned the flames in chemicals .

Gordon Feller, supervisor of oil

movements and the organizer of the training exercise, was pleased with the results of the demonstration.

"Pipeliners proved that extin­guishers - and people who know how to use them - provide an effec­tive defense against pipeline-related fires ," says Feller. "Such demon­strations show extinguishers can put out a small fire or keep it under control until professional firemen arrive.

"We're sold on extinguishers at

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LEFf: Jess Wilson yells out training tips on hi s bullhorn

BOTTOM LEFT: Marty Jenkins gives fire­fighting Ii try.

BELOW; Working with other pipeliners, Terry Wood spreads o i.l-ahsorbent cloths to help clean up an oil spiU on the tank farm I)ond.

-Wilson and Danny Woodcock shove the "oil mop" motor into position near the oil spill. The mop, a portable spil1-absorbing machine, has only recently been introduced to Pipe Line's Oklahoma locations.

Cushing because they've been used several times to keep little fires from spreading to our crude oil storage tanks and triggering more destructi ve fires. "

Soaking up oil

The oil clean up exercise prepared pipeliners to dispose of a crude oil spill on water.

To create a realistic setting, a barrel of crude oil was poured into a tank farm pond. Then, the spill was surrounded with a "boom," a float­ing barricade which kept the oil from spreading across the water, or reaching the shore.

Now, the stage was setfor Wilson and Woodcock to begin cleanup operations - with the use of an "oil mop," a portable spill-absorbing machine only recently introduced to Pipe Line's Oklahoma locations.

Standing ashore, they first shoved the machine's electric motor, which is supported by a metal drum, close to the spill.. Then, they cranked up the motor to power a system oftwo

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pulleys, one connected to the motor and the other anchored in the pond.

The pulleys continually tugged a clothesline-like rope back and forth across the pond on top of the water.

On each trip across the pond, the rope soaked up more oil. Upon its return to shore, the rope passed through two rollers above the drum - rollers which squeezed oil into the drum.

Wading into the pond, Terry Wood, a Healdton, Okla., truck driver, soaked up still more oil by spreading chemically treatecl cot­ton cloths, which like the mop, are designed to pick up oil and leave water behind.

Such efforts quickly paid off as the pipeliners cleaned up the oil within an hour.

As a result of the exercise, Okla­homa maintenance crews who clean up oil spills learned how to use equipment they never operated before.

"That lesson won't be wasted," says James Bell, Healdton's opera­tions foreman. "What we learned

here will help us quickly clean up spills off the water our pipelines cross."

Missouri's maintenance people had previously used the cleanup equipment demonstrated at Cush­ing but benefitted by participating in the exercise according to Wilson .

"We can use all the practice we can get since we don't have too many spills to work with."

Such spill cleanup training also can make pipeliners' lives safer, according to Clarence Long, super­visor of safety, health and training. " While people think of an oil spill as an environmental problem, flam­mabie spills can spark a fire. You enhance safety every time you clean up a spill rapidly and efficiently."

Long adds, " I think the partici­pants got a lot outofthe fire-fighting and spill sessions , and I would like to see more of them. When you're talking about helping pipeliners cope with emergencies - before they happen - there's no such thing as having too much training." ...

Saluting pipeliners'

graduates ... from the Class of '83

College Grads Janet Lee Axmann-Creech, daughrerofGeorge F. Axmann , s uperin tendent, Western Dis­trict, Odessa, Texas, received a bachelor's degree in fine arts­graphic design from Lamar University. She plans Lo get a master's degree in graph ic design.

Axmann-Creech

Douglas Baugh, son of Don N. Baugh, communications technician, Patoka, TIl., was awarded an associate's degree in we lding and meta llu rgy technology from Olney Central College.

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Mark Wayne Byrd, son of William H. Byrd, Jr. , commun­ications supervi sor, New Or­leans, La. , received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana State Univer­sity - where he was named to the Dean's List. He now works for Shell Pipe Line as an elec­trical engineer in Midland, Texas.

Byrd

Becerra Butcher

High School Grads

Cherylin Jo Becerra, daugh­ter of F. John Becerra, head pipeliner, Fremont, Calif., grad· uated from John F. Kennedy High School. Cherylin partici· pated in varsity track, choir, band, orchestra, the Guitar Club and the Honor Society. She also worked on the high school yearbook and partici· pated in an Association of Christian Schools speech meet. She plans to attend Ohlone College.

Kim Butcher, daughter of Lloyd G. Butcher, maintenance foreman, Coalinga, Calif., grad· uated from Coalinga High School. Kim was a lead vocalist in a school band. She plans to attend beauty college.

Robert Piemme Crivellari, son of John J. Crivellari, Jr., accounting assistant, Houston, Texas, graduated from Alief Hastings High School, where he lettered in football for four years. He also was named the Most Outstanding Soccer Play· er at the Houston area North Shore Tournament and was se· lected for an All· District "first" soccer team. He will go to Bell­haven College.

John Deuel, son of James P. Deuel, Central Division man­ager, Midland, Texas, graduat· ed from Robert E. Lee High School. John was a member of the National Honor Society,

and has participated in the Texas State Mock Trial compe­tition. He also is a recipient of a Shell Companies Foundation scholarship, which he will use to pursue a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and com­puter engineerin g at Rice University.

Bradley Charles Ewing, son of Robert A. Ewing, Mid-Con­tinent Division technical super­intendent , Indian apolis, Ind., graduated from Carmel High School. A member of the wres­tling team, he was li sted on the honor roll and participated in the school play. Bradley also was the school's TV station weatherman. He plans to major in radio and TV broadcasting at Butler University .

Travis Todd Griffith, son of James E. Griffith, Jr. , station attendant, Garfield Station (Texas), graduated from Bas· trop High School. A member of the football team for two years, Travis was named Most Out­standin g Vocational Student for 1982-83 and Most Dependa­ble Senior Boy. He al so was nominated as Mr. Bastrop High School. He will attend Texas A&M University.

Burl Everette King, son of Lyle E. King, station operator, Osage Station (Wyo.), graduat· ed from Newcastle High School. Burl was a member of the marching band. He has enlist· ed in the Marine Corps and will begin basic training at San Diego, Calif., before beginning college under the Marine avion­ics program.

Crivellari

Cindy Ann Louviere, daugh­ter of Dennis P. Louviere, oper­ations supervisor, Sorrento , La., graduated from Ascension Cath­olic High School. Listed on the honor roll for four years, she was secretary of the National Honor Society and a reporter for the Music Club. She also be­longed to the basketball team, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Library Club and the Booster Club. She will at­tend Nicholls State University.

Kimberly Kay Moore, daugh· ter of F. Leon Moore, pipeliner· welder 1, Hobbs, N.M., grad· uated from Hobbs High School. Kimberly plans to attend New Mexico Junior College.

Randall Lee Perkins, son of H. E. Perkins, oil movements supervisor, Roxana, IlL, grad­uated from Roxana High School. A vice president of per­sonnel for the Mississippi Val­ley Junior Achievement, he received a Junior Achievement merit citation as an officer-of­the-year semi·finalist. He was a member of the German Club and Calculus Club and partici· pated in high school golf, bas­ketball, bowling and volleyball. Randall will major in chemical engineering at the University of Missouri at Rolla, Mo.

Kerrie Jane Prince, daugh· ter of James R. Prince, opera· tions supervisor, Gibson, La., graduated from Moore High School. A member of the band and student council , Ken-ie was

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listed in Who's Who in Ameri­can High School Students in 1982. She will attend South­western Assemblies of God College.

Catherine Ann Scioneaux, daughter of Paul R. Scioneaux, Sr., oil movements controller, St. James, La., graduated from St. James High School. Cathe­rine was a member of the Band Club, 4·H Club and Future Farmers of America. She plans to attend trade school.

Tisch Ann Scott, daughter of Robert G. Baldwin, operations foreman, Kalkaska, Mich., graduated from Kalkaska High School. A cheerleader for three years, Tisch placed second in high school bowling competi­tion for northern Michigan in 1981. In addition, she partici· pated in the junior and senior plays and was a mem ber of the high school homecoming and Miss Kalkaska courts during her senior year. She plans to major in business administra­tion at a junior college.

Ewing

Pedcins

Swelstad

Eric John Swelstad, son of Ron L. Swelstad, operations foreman, Columbus, Ohio, graduated from Hilliard High School. Listed on the honor roll , Eric was photography editor of the school newspaper. He a lso was a member of the Weight Lifting Club and participated in several school plays. He plans to major in photography a nd cinema at Ohio State University.

Griffith

Prince

Wilson

Erin J. Wilson, daughter of Jesse W. Wi lson, maintenance forem an, Neosho, Mo., gradu~ ated from Neosho High School. Erin was a member of the Art Club, Library Club, Pep Club and Fellows hip of Christian Athletes. She will major in eco­nomics and finance at South­ern State College.

King

Scioncaux

Wilson

Paul Richard Wilson, Jr., son ofPaulR. Wilson,assistanl oil movements s upervisor, Mc­Camey, Texas, graduated from McCamey High School. Paul participated in football a nd basketball. A summer employee of S hell Pipe Lineat McCamey, he will attend college this fall.

Louviere

Scot.t

Winslow

Lawrence Frank Winslow, son of Lawrence A. Wins low, materi a l control supervisor, Mandeville, La., graduated from Mandeville High School. He was a member of Future Business Leaders of America and participated in the school's career fair and regional literary fair. He will participate in the pre-dentistry program at South­eastern Louisiana University.

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viewpoint:

Access to Government Lands The federal government is the single largest landowner in th e United States. It own s or manages a third of the entire land mass, mostly in the western states and Alaska. In addition , the govern­ment controls almost 97 percent of our offshore s ubmerged lands known as the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

The u.s. Geological Survey es­timates these offshore acres con­tain 17 to 44 billion barrels of oil a nd 117 to 231 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Shell estimates about one-h alf of the U.S. oil and gas yet to be discovered is in the OCS.

Shell, a nd the oil ind ustry, sees these government lands as the an­swer to reducing our dependence on foreign sources. Yet, for the most part, the industry h as delayed ex­ploring a nd producing on these lands, chiefly because some groups fear th e en vironment will be h armed.

Shell believes these present-day fears are unreasonable, since they are based on actions taken by the oil industry long ago.

Since 1859, n early 2.75 million wells have been drilled in the Unit­ed States in search for a nd produc­tion of crude oil and natural gas. In the early days of that search , litt le thought was given to th e environ­ment and to the consequences of drilling and production activities . The image of the gusher spewing oil over the land beca me the symbol of oil operations, a lthough an actual gusher was rare.

In modern times, finding and producing oil and gas h as become highly scientific and environmen­tally sound. Yet, the image of the gusher prevails in the minds of many Americans, and some of the public's environmental fear stems from this false impression.

Much ofthe public's fear focuses on petroleum exploration offshore. But the search for oil a nd gas off our coasts isn 't new.

Offshore operations began in the

late 1890s, from piers extending from th e shore. In 1954, the first lease sale concerning federal waters was held. Since then, about 50 mil­lion acres have been put up for bids and 22 million of those acres have been leased. This is only 2 percent of the OCS.

A good environmental record

To date, an estimated 9 billion barrels of oil and almost 62 trillion cubic feet of natural gas have been produced from about 26,000 wells drilled in state and federal waters in th e United States. Yet, as a result of the care taken, there has been only one offshore accident in the United States in which significant amo unts of oil reached shore.

That accident - in California's Santa Barbara Channel- occurred more than 14 years ago . Studies by government agencies, industry groups and the academic commun­ity have determined damage th ere was temporary , and the area has long since returned to normal.

In the Gulf of Mexico, the most h eavily explored and studied off­shore area in the world, there have been no significantly harmful en­vironmental effects reported from drilling in U.s. waters. In fact, a lthough drilling operations began there over 35 years ago, the fish catch in the Gulf of Mexico has tripl ed since 1950. While the in­creased catch is mostly a result of new technology and a larger fishing fl eet, it does indicate oil and gas activities there h aven't harmed the commercial fish population.

Onshore, petroleum exploration and production activities are also handled in an environmentally safe manner. Just like offshore, gov­ernment regulations apply to opera­tions on federa l lands. And strict precautions are taken to ensure that effects on the environment a re minimized.

The record is good, but public fears remain. The result h as been a

number of environmental laws and regulations, some of which are sound and n ecessary, but there are others which unnecessarily restrict oil and gas operations and reduce the potential to recover energy re­sources . To a large extent, these restrictive measures continue to h amper access to a nd the develop­ment of oil and gas on government la nds .

The United States clearly has been moving in the right direction in recent years . Market forces are once again beginning to reflect the real cost of finding and producing domestic oil. As a result, th e rate of decline in oil and gas production in this nation appears to have slowed.

We are, in short, turning the cor­ner that could lead to a return of national energy security. But, just as easily, we could slip back into our old ways of extravagant energy policies a nd increased dependence.

Time for change

To h elp America continue to move toward greater en ergy security, while protecting govern men t lands at the same time, the federal gov­ernment can:

• Make more lands available for oil and gas development.

• Reduce the number and severi­ty of lease restrictions which hamper or prevent exploration and development.

• Expedite the processing of fed­eralleases and drilling permits.

If we wait until our energy sup­plies run low before we locate and start producing our yet-to-be-dis­covered resources, it's certain that we will become more dependent on foreign sources for our energy sup­plies.

But with some careful chan ges in government policies to increase ac­cess to new energy supplies, we can move toward greater energy security and a clean environment. ...

i'ipeiinei'eapie West Texas employees salute retiring trio Three Central Division employ­ees with more than 100 years of company servi<:e between them were recen tly h onored at retire­ment parties in West Texas.

Leonard Eagan, a mechani ­cal technician at McCamey, was given a certifica te of a p­preciation recognizing his 31

Leonard and lin Rae Eagan

years of service to ShelL He also was presented an oil paint­ing and a chain saw a t Mc­Camey's park.

Leonard and his wife, Ita Rae, wil1 retire at Lone Grove, Okla. , - where Leon ard plans to raise cattle and build grandfather clocks.

Cortez Line work draws praise Shell pipeliners have done a lot of work on the 500-mile Cortez carbon dioxide line to protect the environment and meet fed­eral envi ronmental guidelines.

These efforts have been rec­ognized by the Farmington, N.M., office of the Bureau of Land Management (B LM) , which oversees many federal lands being crossed by the line.

A letter which was recently sent to Don Barry, Shell's Cor­tez project m a nager, by the F a rmington BLM office says:

"During construction of the (more than) 150 miles of pipe­line through the Farmington Resource a rea, you (Shell ) and your contractor have recon­toured the right-o f-way, re­shaped arroyo crossings, built fences, tested archaeological

sites and maintained an excel­lent working relationship with our office.

"Assuming your efforts at re­seeding th e right-of-way are as successful as your pipeline con­struction operations ... it will be difficult to tell that a 3D-i nch pipeline was ever pla ced through the area."

The line, which wi.1I extend between Cortez, Colo., and the Denver City, Texas a rea, is now being completed. It will carry about 330 million cubic feet of carbon dioxide a day to the Denver Unit of West Texas' Wasson oil fie ld.

Shell Oil 's Western Explora­tion and Production Operations will use th e carbon dioxide to recover more oi l from the Den­ver Unit.

Charles Prater, a storekeeper at the Odessa warehouse, re­cei ved a certificate of apprecia­tion for more than 36 years of company service. Other gift::; , which were presented at the Goldsmith Community Center, included a gas-operated weed cuttcr and a digital coffeepot.

Charles and his wife, Vir­ginia, are retiring at Hamlin, Texas, so Charles can be a "gentleman farmer. "

Mack Dawkens, who has been on inspcction assignmentatSt. Louis, Mo. , was awarded a cer­tificate of appreciation recog­nizing his 37 years of company service. He also received a rod and reel at his McCamey party.

But Mack won't have any time to fish for a while. He and his wife, Lena, are staying busy building a retirement home at Tow, Texas.

District office moves to Bakersfield July 1 was moving day at Cali ­fornia's Northern District of· fice. The office, which has been at West Coast Division's Calia­la tank farm for more than a decade, was re-Iocated to the Bakersfield tank farm.

John Holden, West Coast's technical superintendent, ex­plains why. "The move was nec­essary because of both in­creased pipeline operations activity near Bakersfield and Shell California Production's heightened oil production in the area."

Bruce Johnson, Northern Dis­trict's superintendent, and Do­retta Deshields, the district's secretary, were the only employ­ees re-Iocated to Bakersfield.

Goodrich crew helps set up training unit Four members of the Goodrich, Texas, maintenance crew have helped improve the education of pipeliners in the Houston area.

These Shell Pipe Line employ­ees are Buddy McKinnie, main­tenance foreman; pipeliners Ken Hambrick and Wayne Sample; and Clyde Payne, a pipeliner-truck driver.

They helped hook up new fa­ci lities at the PETEX School of Petroleum Measurementon the campus of North Harris County College.

The fa cilities, which include a llO-barrel crude oil storage tank and metering equipment, will demonstrate equipment malfunctions in measurement equ ipment and ways to correct those problems.

The pipeliners' time was do­nated by Shell Pipe Line. Both Pipe Lineand Shell Oil - and a dozen other companies - con­tributed equipment for the new facilities.

The oil measurement school is s pon sored by the American Petroleum Institute.

Tykeliner Rick and Ann McColley, Sr. Clerk, Newcastle, Wyo., are the parents of a daughter, Erin Jo , who was born May 2. She meas­ured 7 pounds, 2lh ounces, 19lh inches. Erin Jo has a sister, Molly, 2.

Sympathy Joseph H. Fry. who retired from Shell Pipe Line Corp. in 1962, died May 22. He is sur­vived by his widow, Willie. who resides at 41 North Main, Box 709, Miami, Okla., 74354.

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Personnel Central G. D. Bilbo Mid-Continent SPLC Welcomes from Elect. B,

Changes J. D. Faulkner Nairn, La., to

M. M. Jenkins Elect. A Head Office from Mtr. Meas. Pipeliner, Neosho, Mech. A, Odessa, P. C. Cancienne Mo., to Zionsvil1e,

Head Office Texas, to Mtr. from Laborer, Ind. R. J. Egizi Meas. Tech. Gibson, La., to Fine!. Splst.

Pipeliner (6) J. J. Parrish Treas.-Fin. Supp. T. W. Ferguson Term. Op., East ·PLO·Fin. Repts. &

R. L. Britton from Mech. C, W. D. Dison Chicago, Ind. , to Anal. Pipeline Engr., Goldsmith, Texas, from Uti lity Dispatch Gauger from Indianapolis, to Mech. B Pipeliner, A. P. Harvey Ind., to Oil Liberty, Miss. West Coast Sr. Clerk Movements J. G. Lucus to Sta. Attndnt. . Land

from Mech. A, Yazoo & Environmental R. I. Goodman Denver City. M.C.Cox from Accountant, Texas, to Mech. C. J. Hebert from Comms. B, C. E. Manning Treas.·Fin. Supp. Tech., McCamey Mech. Tech., Bakersfield, FincJ. Spclst. ·PLO·Property Acctg. , St. James, La., to Calif. , to, Treas. ·Fin. Supp.-to Pipeline Accnt. J. S. Shumate Carrollton, Miss. Comms. Tech. PLO·Fin. Repts. &

from Pipeliner Anal. T. E. Grimes Welder 2nd, Odessa, B. J. Hicks D. R.Herman from Accountant, to Pipeliner from Pipeliner (6), from Pipeliner, S. M. Steeples Treas. ·Fin. Supp. Welder 1st Pasadena, Texas, to Long Beach, Clerk ·PLO·Stock Acctg., Pipeliner (12) Calif., to Treas.-Fin. Supp.-to Pipeline Accnt. M. H.Tubbs Engrg. Assist. , PLO·Gen. Aeetg.

from Pipeliner. W. H. McInroy Anaheim M. C. Siegman Brownfield. Texas, Mech. Tech., M. Van Woerkom from Purchasing to Safety Rep., Napoleonville, La., B. T. Johnson Accountant Analyst, Purchasing, Midland to St. James from Ops. Treas.-Fin. Supp.-to Wood River Complex, Supervisor, PLO-Stoek Acctg. Roxana, Ill. Gulf Coast P. L. Pearson, Jr. Sewaren , N.J., to

from Mechanic A, Dist. Supt., R. N. Woodliff Nairn, La., to Bakersfield , Calif. Oil Mvrnt. Scheduler

M.D. Biddle Mech. Tech. Oil Movements. from Mechanic A, Pasadena, Texas, R. E . White Central to Mech. Tech., from Mechanic A, Napoleonville, La. Gibson, La., to

Mech. Tech. M. W. Byrd Engineer Midland, Texas

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D. L. Dalzell Retirements A. C. Griffin R.A. Meek Laborer GCD - Napoleon- CD - Eunice, N.M. Brownfield, Texas ville, La. 10 years

Central 30 years K. A. Folmer C. B. Merkford Laborer P. S. Huntoon, Jr. GeD - Pasadena, Hendrick 8ta. J. H . Coomer HO - Houston, Texas (Texas) Camms. Tech. Texas 10 years

McCamey, Texas 20 years R.F. Green May 31 H. D. Miller Laborer R. H. Allen CD - Hendrick Eunice, N .M. L. O. Eagan GeD - Liberty 8ta ., Sta., Texas

Mech. Tech. Miss. 10 years M. A. Cuccia S. N. Hatch McCamey, Texas 15 years GeD - New Orleans, Laborer June 30 H. W. Popp La. McCamey, Texas H.L.Dummer GeD - Pasadena, 30 years

C. N. Prater CD - Osage Sta., Texas D. W. Hooker Storekeeper Wyo. 10 years Laborer Odessa, Texas 15 years McCamey, Texas June 30 B. J. Rush

D. L. Gravois CD - Eunice, R. W. Kephart West Coast GCD - Gibson, La. N.M. Laborer 15 years 10 years McCamey, Texas

R. W.Lee E. L. Weber

Gulf Coast WCD - Los Angeles, CD - Hobbs, Calif. N.M. 15 years 10 years

R. C. Carbo Pipeline G . J. Melancon, Sr. L. L. Beck Accountant GCD - Norco, La. HO - Houston, New OrJeans, 15 years Texas La.

W. M. Merritt 25 years

West Coast CD - Midland, Texas

N. D. Kliewer 15 years

K . L. McMillan Pipeliner Comms. Tech. S. M. Daniher Long Beach, Bakersfield, Calif. MCD-Argo, Calif. June 1 Ill.

10 years

Service J. D. Johnson

Anniversaries MCD - Zionsville, Ind.

G. Christy, Jr. 10 years

E. J . Ward N . S. Williams CD - Farmington, C. H. Kerby, Jr. MCn - Indianapolis, HO - Houston, N.M. CD - Big Spring, Ind. Texas 35 years Texas 45 years 25 years

10 years

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A glance backward It is 1959. Paul Scott, a chem­ist, tests a Shell-developed ki­netic vapor pressure recorder­con troller at the S hell Pipe Line Technical Development Labora­tory in Houston. The controller automatically injects petroleum products - such as butane -into pipelines so they can be blended with crude oil. The de­vice replaced a manual injection process. (Scott has remained active in the development of new pipeline technology until his retirement as a Shell De­velopment research associate on July 1, 1983.)

Cover Pa rticipating in a Cushing, Okla., training exercise, pipe­liner Marty Jenkins uses an air-generating power blower to push crude oil toward an "oil mop." The mop then pulls oil out of the water.

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Harnessing the sun

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Two Louisiana pipeliners are con­vinced solar energy is made-to-order for fighting pipeline corrosion deep within the Louisiana swamps where con ven tional electricity is not read­ily available. In this particular environment, solar energy works econ omically, efficiently and with virtually no need for main tenance.

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At some locations, solar energy now supplies electricity to protect our pipelines from corrosion , just as conventional electrical lines have done for more than 50 years. This electric current makes pipelines last longer because it neutralizes the natural corrosive electric current in marshy soil, curren t which litera lly eats away a pipe's metal walls.

Corrosion Supervisor Ray Plasczyk and Corrosion Technician Butch Matherne first looked into bringing solar energy to Louisiana in 1980 - after a loca l electric company asked for $300,000 to move in the construction eq uipment nec­essary to extend a power line through the swamps.

"I looked for a less expen sive power source and quickly found solar energy filled the bill," says P lasczyk. "Purchasing and install­ing solar-powered equipment would cost about $30,000 - one-tenth of what the electric company wanted. And electricity, which the sun sup­plies for free, would have cost $500 a year from the electric company."

The low costs convinced Plasczyk to give solar energy a try.

The next step was to figure out what kind of solar-powered system would do the job. Harold Layne, a Shell Oil senior staff corrosion en­gineer, and Solavolt International,

LEFl': Hay Plasczyk (left) and Butch Matherne find solar panels - which draw e lectricity from the sun - require little attention.

RIGHT: Russell Foster inspects the bat­te ries which store the sun's energy. That energy is released to provide power whtm the sun isn't shining.

It's not easy to get electricity to fight pipeline corrosion in Louisiana's swamplands - an area where conventional electricity is hard to come by_

But Shell pipeliners find that solar energy fills the bill.

a solar energy firm owned by sub­sidiaries of Shell Oil a nd Motorola, designed a system that would give Plasczyk what he wanted.

The four-volt system would pro­vide 24 hours a day of DC curren t through an underground cable near a crude oil pipelin e. The current would be conducted through several cylindrical graphite anodes and down the sides of the pipe to help keep it from rusting.

According to the design, the solar-

powered system would provide elec­tricity in two ways. One, during sunny days, the system's 14 win­dow-like silicon panels wo uld draw electric current directly fro m the sun.

Two, at night, and under cloudy s kies, electricity - taken fro m the panels during sunny days a nd stored in 22 automotive-type bat­teries - wo uld be retrieved until more sunshine is available. The batteries enable the system to op-

erate for up to two weeks of s unless days.

Installation of the system was carried out in November 1980in the middle of a sea of mud and water. First, a s ix-foot-tall wooden plat­for m was erected to h old the batter­ies, sili con panels a nd other equip­ment. Then, the batteries were placed in a water-tigh t, fiberglass case, a nd the panels were pointed so uth to capture a maximum amoun t of the sun 's rays.

A week later, the completed sy­stem was generating electricity, and Matherne was given the responsi­bility of keeping it working. He freq uently went to the isolated fa­cility in the middle of a swamp (near New Orleans) to see if any maintenance work was needed. It seldom was.

"After nearly three years, a ll I've had to do is add water to th e batter­ies once," he says. "With this kind of performance, I'd like to see a lot more solar units out here,"

Largely because of such glowing repor ts abo ut the system's per­formance and the low costs of solar energy, more new systems are mak­ing their appearan ce a longside crude oil pipelines in Louisiana's swamplands.

One system was completed in J une near Port Sulphur, La., under Matherne's s upervision . Working with him on the project were Jim Hoecherl, a relief foreman; A. J. Scioneaux) a corrosion technician; a n d Russell Foster and Tony Cochran , both pipeliners.

Three other systems are sch eduled for completion before th e end of the year. And Plasczyk expects still more solar-powered eq ui pment will be introduced at isolated Pipe Line locations, both in Louisiana and elsewhere, in the years to come.

HSolar power isn't economical in areas where conventiona l electric­ity is easily available, but it sure cuts en ergy costs in out-of-the-way places," P lasczyk says ....

Midwestern pipeliners have transformed a crude oil pipeline in the St. Louis area into one carrying Shell's jet fuel . ..

From the refinery to the runway

Carl Lutz, Jr. , gets a taste orurben pipe line construction as he works on the congested lurf near the St. Louis a irport.

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8t. Louis ' international airport is a big place, but a third of its com· mercial jet fuel now comes from a single pipeline - a line which was recently rebuilt, and cleaned out to do this job.

The Shell line didn 't always carry jet fuel. Up until 1980, it trans· ported crude oil as part of a now· mothballed Cushing, Okla. , to Wood River, Ill. , pipeline system.

It took 12 Shell employees to get the line ready to carry jet fuel. Working from March until August, they first linked 19 miles of existing lQ·inch pipeline, some dating back to 1918, to three miles of new line between the airport and Shell Oil's Wood River manufacturing complex.

Shell Pipe Line's Menard Nehrt and Harold Grossman, both senior inspectors, were in charge of bury· ing this line beneath crowded land· scapes.

N ehrt worked near the St. Louis airport, guiding pipeline construc· tion along a narrow ll·foot strip of land between Interstate 70 and a number of other local construction projects . "We didn't have much room, but we managed by working closely with people on other crews," says Nehrt. "We scheduled much of our work around their projects."

Grossman faced similar problems at Wood River, where the line had to snake through a maze of storage tanks, buildings and other pipelines without disrupting the complex's operations.

Like Nehrt, he worked with local folks to get the job done. "By coor· dinating our pipeline activities and those at Wood River, we avoided delays that would 've slowed our progress to a craw 1, delays we didn't need," he says .

Grossman and other Shell people had a good reason to work rapidly. St. Louis ' a irport, now the nation 's 14th busiest airport, needed Shell's 5,000 barrels of jet fuel a day as

Cons tl'uction pavf;!d the way for jet fuel - 5,000 barre ls a day - to begin its 22·milf;! pipeline journey from thf;! busy Wood Ri ver complex.

soon as possible to help satisfy the energy appetites of an ever-growing n urn ber of a irliners coming in to the facility_

Meeting the need for speed, many pipeliners put in seven-day work weeks, occasionally staying on the job 24 consecutive hours or more. The fast pace continued in spite of heavy spring rains which drove the n earby Mississippi River out of its banks a nd onto some work sites in

both Missouri a nd Illinois. " If high water kept us from work­

ing in one place, we just went to another," says Dan Porras, a Shell Oil engineer assigned to the pro­ject. "No matter what, we kept moving."

By mid-J une, new line construc­tion was completed. Now, pipeliners were ready to clean out the old crud e oil line a nd remove I.h e paraf­fin a nd wax which had originally

Although it's a fter midnight, Harold Grossman (left) and Joe Esparza are s till on the job near Wood RivCl·. With flas hlights in hand, they extract a pipe lin e ·cleaning pig from the jet fuel line.

accompanied oil and accumulated inside.

"Some of this stuff was several inches thick because it had built up for 20 years or more," says Nehrt. " It had to go, or it would get in the jet fuel a nd conta minate the product."

The first step in the cleaning operation , finding the right chemi­cal solvent to wash away the paraf­fin a nd wax, was carried out by Paul Scott, a Shell Development research associate. After complet­ing a battery of la boratory solvent tests, Scott recommended aromatic process oil, a particularly powerful solvent, for the job.

Scott a lso supervised the cleaning of the line. He watched as the sol­vent, chemical detergents, water and nine pipeline-cleaning pigs were loaded into the line at St. Louis . He was at Wood River when they came out, pushing an esti­mated 12-14 tons of paraffin and wax sludge a head of them.

Following the cleanup, electrical eq uipment was installed at both ends ofthe pipeline under the direc­tion of Lloyd Whitworth , a Pipe Line electr ical inspector. This equipment a llows Pipe Line's oil movements controllers at the Wood River terminal to monitor and con­trolline operations - a ll the way to St. Louis - via the terminal's com­puter system.

Then , the pipeliners working on the project returned home. In addi­tion to those previously mentioned , they were: Mack Dawkins , senior inspector; Carl Lutz, Jr., utility in­spector; a nd Jeff Smith , material inspector. Others dealing with the line were Tom Green, project lead­er, a nd Jerry Kyrish, senior engi­neering assistant, both of Shell Oil ; and Leroy Franklin , a senior lab technician, a nd Joe Esparza, a re­search technician , both of Shell Development.

Meanwhile, the "new" pipeline has proved itself, carrying Sh ell jet fuel more economically than the tank trucks which fo rmerly did the job.

Although few of the St. Louis airport's commercial passengers probably know that the line exists, it now quenches the thirst of enough airliners to keep three million air passengers a year fl ying high . ...

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P. J . Rogers: a man with two messages ...

Keep safe and keep laughing by Dillon Scott

Always on the lookout for an in­teresting story, the Go Devil heard of a pipeliner who spends his time and money teaching others about safety. While that's a little unusual for a field gauger, his style of teach­ing is even more so. We went to Hobbs, N.M., to talk to Central Division's P. J. Rogers.

Go Devil: P. J., why is your method of teaching safety so unique? P. J.: Hey, that reminds me. Do you know how to catch a unique bird?

Go Devil: Excuse me? What did you say? P. J.: Do you know how to catch a uniq ue bird?

Go Devil: Well .. . no, actually 1 don't. P. J.: "Unique" up on him!

Go Devil: Okay, but getting back to my question ... P. J.: Do you know how to catch a tame bird?

. Go Devil: No, 1 guess 1 don't know that one either. P. J.: The " tame" way! Now, what was that question again?

Go Devil: Never mind.

Humor is a way of life for P. J. If there's a funny side to a situation, he'll find it, and quickly point it out to whoever's around by way of a pun or a joke. It's this high degree of humor that makes P. J.'s method of teaching safety unforgettable.

"That's the whole point behind using humor - to get the message across," says P. J. "If a person hears something funny , it tends to stick with them longer. If there's a safety message connected with it, maybe they' ll remember that, too."

Just as humor is a way oflife for

LEFT: Although P. J. Rogers is serious about the importance of safety, he doesn't use 8 solemn approach to teach others about safety. He writes original jokes and limericks to create funny - and unforget­table - safety messages.

P. J., sO too is safety. His respect for it goes back many years, even before 1941 when he started work with Shell Pipe Line in Denver City, Texas , 25 miles northeast of Hobbs.

Growing up around oil fields in Oklahoma and Texas where his father worked, P. J. says he learned early that "safety is a mental state - you've got to be educated in it to appreciate it."

He carried this belief with him through his years with Shell, work­ing around west Texas in such towns as Brownfield, Midkiff, Mc­Camey, and Driver (P. J . says it used to be named Hatticall, because they "had to call" it something) . Wanting to share his knowledge of safety with other Shell pipeliners, P. J. volunteered to speak at safety meetings held weekly for mainte­nance gangs. He even built an as­sortment of eye-catching props to use with his audience. One such prop was a lighted box displaying an x-ray of a broken collar bone, graphically demonstrating what happens when safety is overlooked.

Today, P. J. is an even more vigorous champion of safety. While continuing to instruct safety at weekly Shell training meetings , he has become active in his comm unity teaching first aid to groups such as the Red Cross, PTA, and Boy Scouts.

He recalls a particular time: "I had asked a group of Boy Scouts what safety meant to them. After a minute or so, an ll-year-old boy in the back raised his hand and said, 'Safety's so you don't get hurt.' 1 haven't heard it explained a better way since."

As evidence of his commitment to safety in his own job, P. J. has racked up an impressive driving record - no preventable accidents in nearly 34 years. This is a re­markable achievement consider­ing he now drives nearly 45,000 miles a year between 70 tank bat­teries in west Texas and eastern New Mexico.

Even at home, P . J. practices safety and has earned the nickname of "Overcautious Pauley" from his wife (P. J . says before she married

him, his wife thought the only thing in the house having to do with safety was a safety pin).

A particular enjoyment for P. J. is writing, and he uses this talent to create or rewrite limericks and slo­gans (or as P. J. says, "bathroom poetry") espousing the benefits of being safe. And not just in work­related areas, but health , home, and auto, also. An example:

There once was a driver named Bill who was healthy and happy until he got reckless, alas, and stepped on.. the gas and passed on when he passed on a hill.

Besides appearing on bulletin boards throughout the division, P. J.'s work has been published in the National Safety News maga­zine, and is handed out at training sessions in a safety column called "Mother Goose on the Job." Why Mother Goose? "We all read nursery rhymes as kids, so why not use a format everyone is familiar with," says P. J . Another example:

Baa, baa, black sheep, you left the safety fold. You let your mind stray off to sleep and now you Ire knocked out cold.

The lesson for all black sheep, safety is all wool. So help yourself and help to keep your sack of safety full.

Several cigar boxes stuffed with his "poetry" represent years of P. J.'s time devoted to spreading the word of safety. He feels it's time well-spent. "It may sound corny, but 1 wanted to do something good for humanity. The Good Book says we are our brothers' keepers - and 1 want to help keep them safe." For P. J. personally, there's a practical reason to observe safety: " to keep all my toes and fingers."

P. J. plans to continue his cru­sade of safety for as long as possi­ble, because as he sees it, " the more you hear about safety, the less you hear about accidents." ...

Dillon Scott is a writer in Shell's Public Affairs office in Houston.

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On hand to give Nate Kliewer (left) a proper sendoff were West Coast Division 's Paul Molnar and retirees Roy Sheldon and Leonard Clear.

Farewell fete hosted for Kliewer Nate Kliewer , a communica­tions technician at Bakersfield , Calif., was a guest at a recent Bakersfield retirement party­his own.

The party , which attracted 75 people, signaled the end of Nate's 3D-year Shell career, which began as a telephone electrician at Martinez, Calif. , in 1952. During the festivities , Na te's Shell friends presented him with a cord less telephone, while his children handed him

a new shotgun. Following the party, Nateand

his wife, Lilette, left for a river trip to Idaho, courtesy of one of their daughters , who is picking up the tab.

But the Kliewers faced a lot of work when they returned as J

they had to oversee the con­struction of a new home in Shafter, Calif., where Nate plans to stay busy hunting, fish ­ing and working as a gentle­man farmer.

Lambeth's retirement noted Harold G. Lambeth, a senior accounting assistant at Mid­land, Texas, was recently honored at a retirement party which attracted 50 friend s and relatives. The event marked the end of Harold 's 3D-year Shell career, which began as a gen­eral clerk at Colorado City, Texas, in 1953.

During the Midland party, Harold received a portable telephone-clock-radio, and his wife, Eloise, was presented a reading lamp, a crystal cake stand and a hanging plant.

The Lambeths will s pend much oftheir time at their Mid­land home, where Harold ex­pects to spend a lot of time in his woodworking shop. How-

ever, Harold and Eloise also will spend many hours away from home in their travel trailer.

Harold and E loise Lambeth

Cortez Line is 'training ground' for Shell engineers Twenty-two Shell engineers from all over the country now know a lot more about pipeline construction. They took part in a Shell-sponsored training pro­gram which gave them a chance to observe and participate in the construction of the massive 500-mile Cortez carbon dioxide line.

The program, which began in June 1982, ended about two months ago. During that time, civil, mechanical and electrical engineers from Shell Pipe Line's four divisions and S hell Oil's General Engineering Depart­ment went to construction sites in Colorado and New Mexico for on-the-job training stints of about four weeks each.

"While some engineers in this program had less than ayearof Shell experience, others had worked for Shell for as much as 10 years ," says Ken Green , a Shell Oil staff engineer who helped supervise the program.

"They all seemed to get a lot out of their stays here because Cortez is one of the largest and most complex pipelines Shell has ever built. A lot more people and a wider variety of equip­ment were involved here than on most jobs.

"While each engineer spent many hours observing work activities , they also served as construction inspectors to get an in-depth understanding of construction techniques and quality control requirements . We think this added knowledge will reap big dividends in help­ing engineers meet the chal­lenges of future projects. "

Nearing completion near Albu­querque, N.M., the 30-inch Cor· tez Line is expected to begin operating next summer between Cortez, Colo.., and Denver City,

Texas. It wiLl carry about 330 million cubic feet of carbon di­oxide a day which wiLl be used to recover more oiL from the Denver Unit of West Texas' Was· son oil field .

Grads'issues up for grabs If you didn't get all the grad­uates ' issues you wanted, you can have some of the extra copies we have at the Go Devi l office. All you have to do is contact us via the address or phone number on the back cover.

But you need to get hold of us soon as we only have a limited number of the special issues -and they are going fast.

Bostic cited by National Guard

Mike Bostic, a communications sergeant in the Mississippi Na­tional Guard, was recently honored by the Department of the Army, which presented him with the Army Achievement Medal.

The certificate that accom­panied the medal commended him for achieving "outstanding res ults from his communica­tions section during every phase of annual training" during the last two years. The certificate also s ays , " Bostic's devotion to duty isin keeping with the high· est traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army National Guard. "

Mike is a Gulf Coast Division electrical technician based at Liberty , Miss.

A, I), Ditmar, West Coast Division's manager (left), gives Jim Pen land one of th e muny gifts .Jim received at his retirement plll'ty,

Cookout crowd salutes Penland The Caliola , Ca lif. , mainte­nance crew cooked up something special for Jim Penland's re­tirement party. Catering to a crowd of 125 at Visalia's Mooney Grove Park, they prepared mouth-watering barbecued beef with all the trimmings.

Hut Jim, West Coast Divi­sion's former Northern District superintendent, came away from the affair with more than a fu 11 stomach. He recei ved sev­eral gifts including a golf bag

and cart and a depth finder guaranteed to help locate even the most elusive fish. Jim's wife, Betty, was presented a gold necklace.

When the party was over, Jim and Retty headed into the Sierra Nevada Mountains - where they are planning to build a retirement home. Their moun ­tain retreat wi ll be about 3,000 feet above sea leve l between Jackson, Colif., and Lake Tahoe.

Pipeliner's canine captures title Chico Man, a registered Chi· huahuaowned by utility gauger Paul Vance, recently earned one of the top titles at Oklahom a's biggest all-Chihuahua dog show.

Competing against dozens of other dogs - including the No. 6-ranked Chihuahua in the na­tion, Chico Man was named " Best of Variety" at a Tulsa

show spon sored by the Chihu a­hua Club of Oklahoma.

This latest honor comes as no surprise to Paul, who works at Oklahoma's Boyd and Pauls Valley stations. Although Chico Man, the first dog that Paul ever entered in competition, is on ly two years old, he a lready has earned seventeen separate dog s how titles.

Mrs, Paul Vance (right) is the r ecipien t of a "Best of Variety" ribbon for Chico Man 's appearance at a Tulsa chihuahua show.

Tykeliners Joyce and John Bridgeman, meter measurement technician, Nairn , La. , a re the parents of a son, John Condon Bridgeman, III. John, who was born July 7, weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces.

Paula and Bill Coburn, Jr., corrosion technician, Norco, La., announce the hirth oftheir third child, Cody Christopher. Cody, who was born May 27, measured 7 pounds, 7 ounces, 20 inches. He has a sister, Courtney, 6, a nd a brother, Jeremy, 4.

Teni and Les Franklin, opera­tions assistant, Wood Ri vcr, 111. , have their first child , Trevor Keith. Trevor, who was born July 14, measured 6 pounds, 15 ou nces, 201}l inches.

A. J. and Cheryl Leonard, clerk II , Norco, La., are the parents of the ir first child , Adrian Joseph, I V. Adrian was born Aug. 16, measuring 7 pounds, 11 ounces, 19;~ inches.

Jeffrey and Ramona J. Martin, senior clerk, Wood Ri ver, IlL , have a second child , Jessica Lee. J essica was born July 1, measuring 7 pounds, 5

ounces, 20Y:.! inches. She has a brother, Benjamin Edward, 18 months.

Sandy and Randy Robi­chaux, draftsman H , New Orleans, La. , announce the birth oftheir firstchild, Aimee Marie. Aimee was born Aug. 18, meas­uring 7 pounds, 6 ounces, 21 inches.

Therese and Wayne Thomp­son, pipelineI', Baker, Mont., have a new daughter, Jennifer Rose . Jenniferwas born Aug. 7, measuring 6 pounds, 5 ounces, 19 inches. S he has a brother , Adam ,3.

Diane and Marty Tripp, meter measurement A, Norco, La., are the parents of a son , Dustin Matthew. Dustin was born March 16, measuring 7 pounds, 11 ounces, 20 1/" inches. He has a sister, Sh annon , 10, and a brother, Kent, 3.

Sympathy Terry Wayne Ferguson, me­chanic B, Goldsmith, Texas, died July 24. A Pipe Line em­ployee for five years, he is sur­vived by a son, Terry Allen Ferguson , of Seagraves, Texas.

Friends honor retiring Boyer About 100 of Richard Boyer's friends and co-workers con­verged on Knott's Berry Farm in Jun c to attend Richard 's re­tirement party.

During the event, Richard , an Anaheim , Calif. , oil move­ments contro ller, received a ce­ramic bowl and pitcher and a

service award recognizing- his 41 years of Shell service.

He a lso was presented with a n electric trolling motor which he expects to use a lot at his favorite fishing spots. Richard and his wife, Mildred , will live in Anaheim during their re­tircment years.

Hays handed parting gifts Steve Hays, a pipeline special­ist at Norco, La. , was the guest of honor at a recent retirement party marking the end of his 32-year Shell career.

During the party, which at­tracted 59 friends and relatives to the BeUeTerreCountry Club, Steve was presented a cordless telephone. His wife, Crystal,

received an opal and a gold necklace.

Steve and Crystal will spend their retirement years at their present home in Kenner -where they look forward to spending a lotoftime with their g randchildren.

Steve a lso is planning to do a lot more hunting and fishing.

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Changes from Mgr., Measure· from Oil Mvmts. from Buyer, Dist. Gauger, ment, Oil Mvrnts. , ConL, Norco, La. , Indianapolis, Ind., from Fremont, to Sr. Staff Engr. , to Sr. Ops. Assist. to Purch. Supvr. Calif., to Shell Oil , Engrg.- Bakersfield

Head Office Prods. K. D. Morris A. L. Levin

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Opers. Support Midland, Texas, to R. D. Oeser Patoka, Ill. , to Houston, Texas Corresp. Secty. II from Laborer, Sr. Mech. Tech.

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to Sr. Land Agent 6-12, Hobbs , N.M. , N. A. Schwab Indiana polis, Ind., to Pipeliner from Prod. Stot. to Dist. Engr., Head Office

E.Kelly Attn., Sorrento, Zionsville, Ind.

from Secretary 1, M. L. Ives La. , to Mech. C

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D. E. Nowstrup Mvmts. Cont. A Cont. A, Norco, La., Dist. Supt., Accntng.

Pipeline Engr., to Oil Mvrnts. Cant. Cushing, Okla.

from Opers. Sup., C . M. Wilks G. W. Birmingham

to Indianapolis, from Clerk I, M. K.Tripp West Coast Accountant

Ind. Hobbs, N .M. , to from Mtr. Meas. B, Fin. Supp.-PLO·Gen. Clerk II Norco, La., to Mtr. Accntng.

V. M. Parsons Meas. A O. D. Deshields

from Dis t. Supt., Gulf Coast Sr. Clerk, C. Bornsheur

Cushing, Okla., to H . L. Wilson from Coalinga, Sr. Fin. Analyst

Mgr., Measurement, from Corrosion C, Calif. , to Fin. Supp.-PLO·Prop.

Oil Mvrnts. R. E. Boswell, Kilgore, Texas, to Bakersfield Accntng.

from Pipeline Engr., Corrosion B New Orleans, La. , to G. D.Dowing C. E. Fletcher Sr. Engr. Mid-Continent from Office Analyst

Assist., Bakers· Purchasing

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Assist. W. C. Houston Sr. Pipeline Wood River, Ill. Midland, Texas CD - Seminole, Men - Marysville, Spclst. Aug.! Texas Mich. Ops. Support

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A glance backward It is 1967. Tugboats transport a huge production-drilling plat­form off the Louisiana coast. The Shell Oil platform, which will be the largest ever erected in the Gulf of Mexico, is headed for South Pass (Block 62). The platform will soon be linked to Shell ' s onshore Main Pass (Block 69) facilities by a 27-mile pipeline which is being con­structed by Shell Pipe Line.

Cover Not too long ago, Shell Pipe Line had no solar-powered equip­ment. Then, in 1980, Louisiana pipeliners tapped the sun as a source of electricity to fight pipeline corrosion at a single swamp location - where con­ventional electricity wasn't economical. Solar energy worked, and it is now being introduced at a growing number of Louisiana swamp locations.

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Keeping the Cortez Linl For 15 months, 60 Shell inspectors criss-crossed 500 miles of construc­tion right-of-way to make sure the ' Southwest's big Cortez Line became a reality.

Now, the inspectors' jobs and the pipeline are approaching comple­tion, and the line will soon carry its first shipment of carbon dioxide (C02) from Cortez, Colo., across New Mexico and on to Denver City, Texas.

The C02 will be injected into the Denver Unit of the Wasson oil field in an enhanced recovery effort to coax an additional 280 million bar­rels of crude oil out of the ground, oil that can't be recovered any other way. Use ofthe C02 should length­en the life ofthe Den ver Unit - and guarantee the Cortez Line a job -for about 25 years.

Before the 30-inch pipeline could

do its job, however, the inspectors had to do theirs.

They kept pace with fast-moving construction crews, manually checking every foot of ditch dug to hold the line and every piece of pipe placed in the ground, making sure that construction complied with Shell specifications. Inspectors also were responsible for seeing that the metering facilities and three pipe­line stations which will control line pressures between Albuquerque and Denver City were built to com-

playing a key role in ...

on the right track pany standards.

To carry out their jobs, inspectors had to deal with such problems as:

• Shifting sand dunes that forced pipeliners to move construction equipment off their trucks and onto tractors.

• Heavy summer rains and sandstorms which filled pipe­line ditches and required extra ditching work.

• Ancient Indian artifacts, which when found on the extensive

federal lands crossed by the pipeline, had to be removed or avoided by re-routing the line (to comply with federal regulations).

"Whether we were crossing moun tains or deserts, there was always some new obstacle to over­come, some new problem that de­manded immediate attention," says Chief Inspector Bobby Tharp.

Getting to the site of these prob­lems - or more routine inspection duties - wasn't easy because con­struction was spread out over as

much as 100 miles at a time. "Con­sequently, it was nothing unusual for most of our inspectors to log as much as 50,000 miles by pickup during the project just to see every­thing there was to see," says Chief Inspector Wayne Harvey.

"Our inspectors a lso covered a lot of ground by foot, with many of them walking as much as 350 miles

BELOW: Stretching across (and over) 500 miles of southwestern countryside, the COD­

struction project that made the Cortez Line 11 reality was a big job. That's why dozens of Shell inspectors (like those shown on Page 4) were assigned to keep an eye on the 500-mile project.

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While inspectors like Ben Montoya (left) kept an eye on the construction of the Cortez Line from the ground, others - including Wayne Harvey (right) - boarded airplanes to inspect hundreds of miles of line at a glance.

Chief inspectors Joe Hall (left) and Dave Lewis meet face-to-face with Vince Cobb, construction superintendent, and Ken Green, a staff engi­neer, to discuss the building of the Cortez Line. Inspectors also relied on radios and field telephones to link them with othel· Shell people working on the project.

of this line. That way, they could get a closeup view of a wide range of the work being done here."

Airplanes, too, played an impor­tant role in allowing inspectors to cover the line since they offered a quick view of several hundred miles of the pipeline right-of-way. From the air, inspectors could survey work that was still in progress as well as cleanup efforts along the pipeline, all at one time.

Still, inspectors couldn't always be everywhere they wanted to be. They often relied on mobile tele­phones and radios in the field to keep up with faraway develop­ments. This is why microwave tow­ers (usually some of the last facili-

ties installed during a construction project) were erected along the route of the Cortez Line before construc­tion began.

Capable of carrying radio and telephone signals hundreds of miles a way, these towers linked inspec­tors along the line with each other, with Shell engineers, and other con­struction specialists at the project office in Albuquerque and Head Of­fice in Houston.

"The ability to communicate was important," says Construction Su­perintendent Vince Cobb. "It al­lowed a lot of people to work together to solve existing problems, anticipate and eliminate potential problems and finish the project on

schedule." Most pipeline construction was

completed in September near Al­buquerque, releasing all but a few inspectors for other jobs in Pipe Line's four divisions and Shell Oil's General Engineering Department. The inspectors who remain in Col­orado and New Mexico will join pipeliners at several West Texas lo­cations in operating and maintain­ing the Cortez Line in December­when the filling of the line with C02 begins.

By next April, the line will begin carrying an initial 330 million cubic feet of C02 a day - one of the big­gest jobs ever made possible by Shell inspectors. ...

Counting With Computers Keeping track of oil moving through pipelines

was no easy job. Until now.

Computers aren't new to Doug Mitchell, a field gauger at Mc­Camey, Texas_ What is new are the ways a recently introduced comput­er system helps him do his job.

Over the past two years, Mc­Camey and 17 other Shell Pipe Line field locations - as well as six di­vision and Head Office locations -were tied into the new system to give them a better way to "gauge" the amount of crude oil coming in and out of their pipelines.

The computer network is called the Product Volume System (PVS).

This is how the system works: First, a computer terminal is set up at a field location, and it is linked by phone lines to a Head Office com­puter. Then, the terminal is used to record and transmit information from a field gauger's run tickets (an actual count of the volume of oil either received or delivered out of a pipeline).

By tying into PVS, field locations now have a crude volume informa­tion system that's fast, accurate, and easy to use - a distinct im­provement over the previous ac­counting system.

Under the previous system, run tickets were written in the field, mailed into Shell's Information Center in Houston, and then key­punched into a computer.

However, between the time the ticket was written and the moment it was entered into a computer, problems could occur. Some infor­mation could be left off tickets, tickets could be lost or delayed in the mail, and errors could be made during the keypunching operation.

by Dillon Scott

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Today, those problems are a thing ofthe past, since a ticket's informa­tion is entered directly into a com­puter by field people trained to use PVS. The system lets PVS opera­tors know instantly when informa­tion is missing or calculated incor-

Having information on Pipe Line's oil shipments at his fingertips makes Blackie Freeman's job 8S operation superv isor for the Pasadena, Texas, terminal a lot easier.

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Cheri Merkord (top left) enlers information gathered by field gaugers into a Pasadena computer terminal - information that is transmitted instantly to Frances Muckelroy and Linda Strickland (far right) at Head Office, 30 miles away.

rectly. And the whole procedure takes a fraction of the time it used to.

Just as PVS makes crude volume accounting at field locations faster and easier, so too does it improve financial accounting at Head Office.

"With the previous system, it was usually a month after the business occurred in the field before we knew exactly what transactions had been made," says Head Office's Jim Brodigan, manager, Financial Sup­port. "With PVS, once we've re­ceived the information, we can tabulate it in about four days and know who we've received oil from, who we've delivered to, and who owes us money.

"In that regard, we've got a defi­nite edge on the rest ofthe pipeline industry. I don't know of another company with a sophisticated system like ours - one that pro­vides information quickly and

accurately. " Frances Muckelroy, senior ana­

lyst, Stock Accounting, was re­sponsible for setting up PVS. To do this, she talked with field people to find out what they wanted and needed, and then worked with Shell's computer programmers to design the new system.

Once the system was ready to use, Muckelroy, a pipeline user rep­resentative, went to field locations where computer terminals were in­stalled to train local people who would use them. "There were a few bugs to work out at first," she says, "but we worked together to smooth them out.

"The contribution of Gordon Feller, supervisor of oil movements at Cushing, Okla., was particularly invaluable. He was the first to im­plement the system."

What do field people think of PVS today? "It's great," says Ray Dehnel, whose job as senior office

assistant at McCamey requires using the terminal. "In the past, much of my time was spent thumb­ing through files looking for tickets_ Now, I can call up ticket informa­tion on the terminal in seconds_ And it's all at my fingertips."

As a timesaver, PVS has proved invaluable. Crude volume informa­tion, once it's entered into the com­puter, is immediately available for use by any Shell organization with access to a terminal. This is a real benefit for the many people who must know where and how much valuable crude is in Pipe Line's network at all times.

And with millions of barrels of oil moving through a vast network of pipelines every day, having an effi­cient system for keeping track of those barrels can mean the differ­ence between making and losing money. "With PVS," says Brodi­gan, "Pipe Line definitely has a money-maker." ...

Pipe Line honors 30-year safety award winners

Nine Pipe Line employees have earned one of the nation's highest industrial safety honors, the Joseph A. H olm es Individual Safety Award.

It wasn't easy to come by. Each recipient worked 30 years without a single lost-time accident.

The awards, which were handed out at Pipe Line's fall safety din-

Corros io n Technic ian J. T. Nutt (l e ft) is all s miles as he receives a ne w hunting knife - com­pliments of Pipe Line - in recognition of 30 years of working without a a s ingle lost-time accident. The gift is presented by R. A. Plasczyk, Jr., Gulf C09St Division's corrosion s uperv isor.

Senior Operations Ass istant D. W. Campbell (right) and Western Dhttrict Manager R. J. Van Lncre show off the big gift Campbell received along with his 30-yenr Joseph A. Ho lmes In­dividual Safe ty Award. The box contains a sleeping bag.

ners, consisted of a silver lapel pin, a wallet-sized safety certificate and a hardhat decal. Award winners also received a Shell gift - such as a sleeping bag or a barbecue grill.

The Holmes Award, which is de­signed to promote safety in mining, petroleum and related industries, has been given to Shell pipeliners since 1956. Since 1970, about 100 pipeliners have earned this honor.

The award is sponsored by the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Associa­tion, a part of the federal Mine, Safety and Health Administration. The association was founded in 1916 to honor Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, the first director of the Bureau of the Mines and one of the first to initiate safety practices in the min­ing industry.

Shell pipeliners who recently re­ceived this distinguished award are:

D. W. Campbell Pasadena, Texas

J . L. Hanson Long Beach , Calif.

D.L.Joplin Long Beach, Calif.

R. A. Hauptmann Anaheim, Calif.

J. E. McKinnie, Jr. Goodrich, Texas

R. A. Moran Long Beach, Calif.

J. T. Nutt, Jr. Austin, Texas

R. A. Plasczyk, Jr. New Orleans, La.

J. E. Springer Kilgore, Texas

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SlipelineSleople

Co-workers mark Ward's 45th year with Shell

In 1938, Ed Ward signed on for what he thought would be a short stint with Shell. Today, Ed is still on the job, and he's reached a special milestone only a handful of pipeliners have reached before - his 45th service anniversary.

In honor of this milestone, Ed was recently treated to a coffee by his co-workers at Indianapo­lis' Mid-Continent Division of­fice. During the affair, he received his 45th service anni­versary award, a tie tack boast­ing five diamonds.

Ed, Mid-Continent's adminis­trative supervisor, began his Shell career as a stenographer at Zionsville, Ind. " I was only 18, and f figured I would work for Shell a year and make some money for m y education," he recalls.

" But my boss talked me into sticking around, and I've never been sorry. I've made a lot of great Shell friends , and I've had a lot of good jobs."

In the last 45 years, Ed has been a clerk, a training assis­tant, a corrosion engineer and an accounting supervisor.

And h e still isn ' t planning re­tirement. " I don't know what tomorrow will bring," says Ed. "But as things stand now, I'm certainly not ready for a rock­ing chair."

Ed Ward cuts up a special cake, one served up by his Indianapolis friends to mark his 45th service anniversary,

Go Devil Correction

In the last issue of the Go Devil, a "Retirements" head­fine was omitted in our "Mileposts" section. As a result, several people were not properly identified as recently retired Pipe Line employees.

The retired employees include:

• H ead Office'sJ. M.Ayres, J. A. Edinbo,gh, O. W. Gray, J . D. Hickman and J . H. Williams.

• Central Division's H. G. Lambeth.

• Gulf Coast Division 's S. B. Hays.

• West Coas t Division 's R. E. Boyer and J. M. Penland.

We apologize for any in­convenience this error may have caused our Go Devil readers.

Editor

Dillon Scott (above) rep laces Les Cole 8S Go Devil editor.

Scott will edit Go Devil

Hi. I'm Dillon Scott. Beginning with th e next issue, I'll be the new editor of the Go Devil.

I graduated from The Uni­versity of Texas in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Before tha t, [ served in the Air Force, and spentmostofmy en­listment in Clovis, N .M.

I joined Shell Oil ahout two years ago as a writer, handling assignments such as speeches - and stories for several of

Shell 's publications. I've written a few Go Devil

articles, so I know a little about how Pipe Line operates. But I still have a lot to learn. And I'll be calling on many of you to help melearn. At the same time, I'll help you learn about Pipe Line, by keeping you up-to-date about what's going on in the company through the GQ Devil.

I look forward to working with you.

More 'people' items needed We appreciate all the news peo­ple have been sending us for Pipeline People, but we've a l­ways got room for more.

If you or a member of your family has received an award, won a contest - or done some­thing else you want people to know about - we would like to know about it. Contact the Go Devil reporter for your area (re­porters' names are listed on our back cover), and your news will be<passed a long to us.

And we a lways can use good photos. While clear, color shots a re usable, we prefer black-and­white pictures since they re­produce better.

While limited space may keep us from using some items, we'll do a ll we can to get your news and photos in the Go Devil.

Thanks for your help.

Grads'issues available Although we've received a lot of requests for extra copies of our recent graduates' issues , we still have some copies left.

If you would like extra copies, just contact us via the address or phone number on the back cover.

Tykeliner Debby and Denny Davis, oil movements controller, Norco, La., are the parcntsofthcirscc­ond chi ld, BridgeUe Renee. Bridgctte was born Sept. 2, measuring 7 pounds, 20 inches. She has a sister, Tricia , 12.

O lga and Stephen P. For­rester, pipeliner, Odessa, Texas, announce the birth of their first chi ld, Jason Price. Jason was born June 24, meas­urin g 7 pounds, 8 ounces, 20% inches.

Sympathy Bobby Gene Craig, oil move­ments scheduler, Anaheim, Calif., died Sept. 9. A Pipe Line employee for 33 years, he is survived by h is wife, Laverne, who resides at 7209 Hayes Cir­cle, Buena Park, Calif., 90620.

Katherine Lawton, a 20-year Pipe Line employee who retired in 1965, died Sept. 8. She is sur­vived by a daughter, Katherine Pollock of Munster, Ind., and two sons, Wi lliam and Gene Lawton of Whiting, Ind.

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Bilei'asls

Personnel Gulf Coast SPLC Welcomes Retirement c. L. Nicholas WeD - Los Angeles,

Changes Calif. T. H. Kohlhaus Head Office Central 20 years from Comms. B,

Head Office Fayette, Texas, W. J. Wallace to Comms. Tech. 1. G. King, Jr., R.J. Knocke HO - Houston,

Accountant Ops. Foreman Texas R. T. Showalter L. P. Lamaison Treas.-Fin. Supp.- Big Spring, 20 years from Oil Mvmt. from Lead PLO-Gen. Acctng. Texas Controller, PipelineI', St. Sept. 1 W. R. Barker Wood River, Ill. , James, La. , to Central weD - Bakersfield, to Oil Mvmt. Mech. B, Gibson Calif. Scheduler,

Service 15 years Oil Mvrnts. R. G. Robichaux M. J. Clark

from Draftsman Comms. C Anniversaries W.C. Boyd

Central II, New Orleans, Midland, Texas HO - Houston, La., to Sr. Texas Draftsman Gulf Coast S. Virga 15 years

W. K.Bays MCD - East Chicago, from Comms. C, R. E . White Ind. G.J.Braud Hobbs, N.M., Mech. Tech. , D. K. Beard 35 years OeD - St. James, to Comms. B from Gibson, La. , Mech. C La.

to Nairn Gibson, La. P. M. Molnar 15 years D. W. McCracken WCD - Anaheim, from Comms. A, Mid-Continent G. R. Furst Calif. J. E. Butler McCamey, Texas, Comms. B 30 years CD - Hamlin, to Comms. Tech. 8t. James, La. Texas

M.D.Bowen H. F. Fellows, Jr. 15 years M. R. Ybarra from Pipeliner, K. J. Thibodeaux GCD-Norco, from Mech. B, Union, Mo. , to Elect. C La. J. G. Dominguez McCamey, Texas, Oil Mvmts. Cant., Gibson, La. 20 years CD - Hendrick to Mech. A Wood River, Ill. 8ta., Texas

15 years

J.F. Green MCD- Union, Mo. 15 years

J. M. Jennings MCD - Patoka, Ill. 15 years

F.G. Mesa CD - McCamey, Texas 15 years

A. W.Mims MCD - Healdton, Okla. 15 years

J. J. Cipolla MCD - East Chicago, Ind. 35 years

O. R. Boughton MCD - Indianapolis, Ind. 25 years

W. F. Quick MCD - Ray StD., Okla. 15 years

E. A. Renner MCD - Kalkaska, Mich. 15 years

L. D.Shamp MCD - Indianapolis, Ind. 15 years

J . D. Andrew, Jr. CD - Eldorado, Texas 10 years

D. W. Meyer MCn - Indianapolis, Ind. 35 years

/ F. E. Muckelroy HO - Houston, Texas 25 years

E.n.Brown HO - Houston, Texas 10 years

M. L. Bohannon MCn - Dyersburg , Tenn. 10 years

L. H. Cafiero, Jr. GCD - St. James, La. 10 years

O. G. Castaneda, Jr. GCD - Pasadena, Texas 10 years

H. E. Schaller MCD - East Chicago, Ind. 35 years

G. E. Smith MCD - Lima, Ohio 25 years

T. M. Davis MCn - Wood River, Ill. 10 years

T. D. Feller MCD - Wood River, III. 10 years

M. L. Franklin MCD - Wood River, III. 10 years

O. F. Hopi CD - Newcastle, Wyo. 10 years

L. H. Whitworth MCD - Wood River, III. 35 years

G. R. Johnston GCD - Liberty Sta. , Miss. 10 years

B. A. Moreno cn - Roberts 8ta., Texas 10 years

G. Powers HO - Houston, Texas 10 years

B. D. Brown CD - Goldsmith , Texas 30 yca,rs

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.. Cynthia Bailey .. Felecia D. Moore

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Gu lf Coast Division

.. Pat Hopson Ann McColley

New Orleans ................ Gail Melton

Head Office General Engineering . .... Art LaRochelle

Mid-Continent Division Indianapolis .. .... . . . Laurie Burch Eastern Dist.rict . . . . .. Shirley Abbott Central Michigan ....... S ue Sparks Cushing . . ............. Carol yn Maynard Wood River . . . .. Ramona Martin

West COBst Division Anaheim .. Dine Moore Bakersfield . . ..... .. ... Doretta Deshields Long Beach. . . .. .. ... Connie Sanford

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A glance backward Itis 1972. More than two miles of concrete-coated pipe arc piled up near Norco, La. , to pave the way for a historic crossing of the Miss issippi River - the first time eight pipelines have been built simultaneously across the river. The Shell pipelines will carry natural gas from wells near Gibson, La., to the Shell Chemical plant at Norco.

Cover For 15 months, 60 Shell inspec­tors criss-crossed 500 miles of right-of-way to keep a careful eye on the construction of the big Cortez Line - a pipeline which is now virtually com­pleted. Largely as a result of such efforts, the line soon will be ready to carry its first ship­ment of carbon dioxide from Cortez, Colo., to Denver City, Texas.