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14 Named to First-Ever PETEX Advisory Board!

President Larry Faulkner to Formalize Appointments in April

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NO. 479SPRING

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By

Susan Toalson

This spring, Tom Hatfield, dean of Continu-ing and Extended Education at TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, will con-

vene the first-ever Advisory Board in the history ofPETEX. The purpose of the Board is to provide ameans for increasing the value and reach of PETEXtraining and training materials for oil- and gas-related personnel. Part of the Board’s charge willbe to advise and assist PETEX staff membersregarding curriculum, promotion of courses andpublications, and program evaluation.

For the most part, the Board will comprise nonedu-cators who have experience and knowledge in thepetroleum industry, with Dean Hatfield serving as anex-officio member of the group. We want to keepmembership numbers somewhere between five andtwenty, with overlapping terms not to exceed threeyears.

The Board will meet at least two times a year, thetime, place, and date to be determined by agreementamong the members. The first meeting will be held inMay at IADC headquarters in Houston.

Dean Hatfield and I have put together a fine groupof individuals to serve on the Board. The qualificationswe considered were experience, availability, character,and the extent to which an individual is representativeof the industry. Larry Faulkner, president of UTAustin, will make formal appointments in April. ABoard chair will be selected at the May meeting.

Members of the Board follow:Calvin Barnhill is president of Northstar Ex-

ploration Company and is an instructor in thePETEX short courses. He will serve a three-yearterm.

Rick Bobigian has served as the executive vicepresident and director of Osprey Petroleum Com-pany, Inc., since October 1999, and is the manag-ing general partner in NGL Associates. He willserve a two-year term.

Bob Burnett, presently the international trainingmanager for GlobalSantaFe, is also chairman of theIADC’s Well Control Committee. He will serve athree-year term.

Ed Burbach is the deputy attorney general forlitigation for the Attorney General of Texas and aninstructor in the PETEX short courses. He willserve a three-year term.

Doug Elliot is founder of IPSI an affiliate of theBechtel organization. He will serve a two-yearterm.

David Fish has been employed by WelkerEngineering Company since 1978. Mr. Fish teachesfor PETEX in the Gas (Fluid) Measurement courseand in the Instruments and Controls course. Hewill serve a two-year term.

Ed Geissler is manager of Training and Devel-opment for Nabors Drilling International at thecorporate headquarters in Houston. He will servea three-year term.

Ron Hinn is the knowledge management lead forOccidental Oil and Gas. He will serve a two-yearterm.

Matt Isbell is the Central U.S. district engineerfor Hughes Christensen in Norman, Oklahoma.He will serve a three-year term.

John Lansing is a mechanical engineer work-ing in ultrasonic metering for Daniel. He will servea two-year term.

Dado Matkins is director of corporate trainingfor Transocean. He will serve a two-year term.

Gregg Perkin is a principal with EngineeringPartners International, Inc., and an instructor inPETEX short courses. He will serve a two-yearterm.

David Toalson is a principal in OPT Interna-tional LP headquartered in Houston. He will servea three-year term.

Introducing The University of Texas PETEX Advisory Board

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It is an honor to take on the role of the newdirector of PETEX and to begin to meet all ofyou at various conferences and committee meet-ings. Former director Ron Baker left me in greatshape in many ways, including having madewonderful friends. Ken Fischer, Calvin Barnhill,Dado Matkins, Gregg Perkin—all these guyshave been super in terms of helping me feelcomfortable in my new job.

When Dean Tom Hatfield first mentioned tome that Ron was retiring, I was serving as direc-tor of the Distance Education Center, a sisterunit to PETEX at The University of Texas,where I focused on delivering for-credit coursesin online environments. Dean Hatfield said thathe was looking for someone who could resurrectan organization that has suffered along withother oil- and gas-related businesses in atroubled economy. After almost 60 years ofsuccess in carrying out its mission through goodtimes and bad, he told me, the last drop in oilprices dealt a blow from which PETEX has yetto recover.

To accomplish the kind of resurrection he hadin mind, he said he needed someone who under-stands and has had experience in two key areas:1) high-performing organizations, and 2) teach-ing and training adults. This person would haveto understand not only return on investment,performance measures, threats and opportunities,a focus on results, and customer-driven excel-lence, but also how to best deliver quality train-ing in a variety of modes, including online,face-to-face, and through paper materials.

As I listened to the dean, I remember thinking,“This is the kind of challenge I love!” With mycredentials as a state and central Texas Baldrigeexaminer, and as a teacher and trainer of manyyears, it occurred to me that I fit the criteria thedean was describing. I had initiated some turn-around programs at the Distance Education Cen-ter based on systems-thinking strategies, includinga customer-focused business model, a balancedscorecard, and a process improvement cycle.

Could it be that what Ihad to offer was whatthe dean needed to helprefocus PETEX?

I polished my resumeand gave it a shot. Afew weeks later, I hadthe job.

I moved into theoffice early in Februaryand have begun the

hard work of any new leader, imprinting mymanagement style and imposing some majorchanges that will bring immediate results. Weare thinking innovatively and trying new things.For example, we’re closing the Kilgore officethis spring, and putting all of the short-coursestaff in the Houston office. We are also lookinghard at how we can get closer to each of you bylistening to what you need and respondingquickly and efficiently. In doing that, we real-ized that some key processes appeared to besluggish, so we’ve mapped those processes andare now reengineering them to be sleek andsystemic and customer focused.

Probably the boldest initiative so far, andlikely the one that will have the biggest long-term payoff for PETEX, is the appointment byUT President Larry Faulkner of the first Advi-sory Board in PETEX history. Dean Hatfieldwill convene the Board in May to help me aswell as my staff better understand a competitiveenvironment that’s a new experience for an or-ganization accustomed for many years to littleor no competition at all. This group of industryleaders will help us restore PETEX to the vigor-ous, valued contributor to the industry it oncewas. (Please see the related article on page 1.)

I am proud to have been chosen to carry onthe tradition of quality training and materialsyou have come to expect from PETEX, and Ilook forward to working with all of you to helpmake this happen.

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HYDRAULICSHYDRAULICSHYDRAULICSHYDRAULICSHYDRAULICSFOR PIPELINEFOR PIPELINEFOR PIPELINEFOR PIPELINEFOR PIPELINEOPERATORSOPERATORSOPERATORSOPERATORSOPERATORS

The School of Hydraulics forPipeline Operators was held

twice in March for the LouisianaOffshore Oil Port (LOOP) LLC, inCut Off, Louisiana. Both classes weremade up of 12 individuals, acombination of schedulers, oilmovement controllers, operationstechnicians, and supervisors. Popularhydraulics instructor GeraldMoreland taught both classes. Aswell as serving as director ofHydraulic Consulting Services forAdvantica,Gerald also teaches in theregularly scheduled class in theHouston Energy Training Center.

LOOP was organized in 1972as a Delaware corporation, and thenconverted to a limited liabilitycompany in 1996. Ashland Inc.,Marathon Ashland Pipe Line LLC,

Murphy Oil Corporation, andShell Oil Company are LOOP’sparent companies.

The port facility is located in theGulf of Mexico, 18 miles south ofGrand Isle, Louisiana, in 110 feet ofwater. LOOP is the only port in theU.S. capable of off-loading deepdraft tankers known as ultra largecrude carriers (ULCCs) and verylarge crude carriers (VLCCs). Alongwith off-loading crude from VLCCs,LOOP also off-loads smaller tankers.

The port consists of three single-point mooring buoys used for theoff-loading of crude tankers, and amarine terminal consisting of a two-level pumping platform and a three-level control platform. The onshoreoil storage facility, twenty-five milesinland at the Clovelly facility, isconnected to the port complex by a48-inch diameter pipeline. It providesinterim storage for crude oil before itis delivered via connecting pipelinesto refineries on the Gulf Coast and inthe Midwest.

The oil is stored in eightunderground caverns of a naturally-occurring salt dome. The cavernsare capable of storing up to 48million barrels of crude oil (a barrelof oil is equal to 42 U.S. gallons). In1996, a cavern was dedicated to theMARS stream coming in from thedeepwater Gulf of Mexico. TheMARS crude oil system uses thesame distribution system used bythe foreign barrels.

Four pipelines connect theonshore storage facility to refineriesin Louisiana and along the GulfCoast. LOOP also operates the 53-mile, 48-inch LOCAP pipeline thatconnects LOOP to CAPLINE atSt. James, Louisiana. CAPLINE isa 40-inch pipeline that transportscrude oil to several midwesternrefineries.

LOOP is connected to over 50percent of the U.S. refinery capacityand has off-loaded over 6 billionbarrels of foreign crude oil since itsinception.

Editor: Kathryn RobertsContributors: Susan Toalson, Bill Brantley

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Instructor Gerald Moreland teaches students in the School of Hydraulicsfor Pipeline Operators at the LOOP facility in Cut Off, Louisiana.

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The Petroleum ExtensionService conducted theSchool of Gas (Fluid)

Measurement at the Richmondterminal in Richmond, California,April 5–8, 2004.

Sixteen students attended theclass from various parts of Californiaand represented several companiesincluding ConocoPhillips, Chev-ronTexaco, Berry Petroleum Co,CPN Pipeline, and Dick BrownMeasurement Services. Conoco-Phillips hosted the group.

John Rice of Consistent GasConsulting, Don Stamp and PaulKizer of ABB Totalflow, TonyChaput of JW Williams, MikeSaunders of MPS Systems, BrianDewald of Nu Flow MeasurementSystems, and David Naizer of YZSystems taught the class. BillBrantley Jr., manager of trainingfor PETEX, coordinated the school.

This was an excellent session! Aspecial thanks goes to all of theexcellent teaching staff for makingthe school a success.

For more information abouthaving a school brought to yourfacility, please call TrainingManager, Bill Brantley, at (903)984-8689, or the Houston TrainingFacility, at (281)-443-7144.

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Instructor John Rice covers the basics of measurement in PETEX’s Gas (Fluids)Measurement course in Richmond, California.

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