Decatur Utilities- Decatur, AL.

 

Poore's Propane Gas Service, Inc.- Dover, DE.

 

Terra Contracting, LLC-Kalamazoo, MI.

 

Excel Utility Contractors, LLC-

St. James, MO.

 

Cronk Contracting- Raymore, MO.

 

Corsair Construction, LLC- Pinehurst, TX

 

M & M Welding and Ditching- Dalhart, TX.

 

Little Big Inch Pipeline Company(LBI)- El Paso, TX.

 

Southeast Gas Transmission- Crystal Springs, MS

 

14026 - EWN-CBT-Reporting Protocols

 

13937 - EWN-CBT-Shutdown of a Pipeline - Liquid

 

13936 - EWN-CBT-Start-up of a Pipeline - Liquid

 

11839 - EWN-CBT-Repairing Steel Pipe

 

14025 - EWN-CBT-Inspect Internal Pipe Surfaces

 

11828 - EWN-CBT-Installation of Underground Casings and Vents

 

11385 - EWN-CBT-Plastic Fusion: Butt

 

10916 - EWN-CBT-Installation and Maintenance of Casing Spacers, Vents and Seals

 

13051 - EWN-CBT-Abnormal Operating Conditions: Gas AOCs

 

13892 - EWN-CBT-Inspect and Test Isolation Devices

 

14050 - EWN-CBT-Visually Inspect Pipe and Pipe Components

 

13939 - EWN-CBT-Manually or Remotely Open or Close Valves or Other Equipment

 

Updated Existing Spanish Courses Available Too!

 

2315 - EWN-CBT-Purging of Gas Facilities

 

2312 - EWN-CBT-Pressure Testing of Facilities

 

2304 - EWN-CBT-Pipe-to-Soil Potential Surveys

James and Amos Densmore of Meadville, Pennsylvania, were granted a patent for their "Improved Car for Transporting Petroleum," the Railroad oil tank cars.

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Founder of Skelly Oil Company, William Grove Skelly, and one of Oklahoma's great oilmen, died in Tulsa at the age of 78. William was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 1878. He began his petroleum career as a 15-year-old, $2.50-a-day tool dresser in Venango County (tool dressers sharpened cable-tool bits among other duties on the floor of wooden derricks).

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After failing as an oilman in the booming Pennsylvania oilfields, John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Abraham Lincoln. Just one year earlier, Booth had left the stage and drilled oil wells in Venango County.

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James Abercrombie and Harry Cameron file a patent for a hydraulic ram-type blowout preventer to end dangerous and wasteful oil gushers. Their revolutionary concept uses rams - hydrostatic pistons - to close on the drill stem and form a seal against the well pressure.

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The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum opens in Canyon, Texas, on the campus of West Texas A&M University, about 15 miles southwest of Amarillo. Its Don D. Harrington Petroleum Wing - named for a legendary Panhandle oilman - tells the story of the oil boom years in the Texas Panhandle during the 1920s and 1930s. Two floors of exhibits educate visitors about the oil and natural gas business.

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A large crowd gathers at the Cudahy Oil Company's Nellie Johnstone No. 1 well near Bartlesville, in the Indian Territory that will become Oklahoma.

 

George Keeler's stepdaughter, Miss Jenni Cass, drops a "go devil" down the well bore to set off a waiting canister of nitroglycerin - producing a gusher that heralds the beginning of Oklahoma's oil and natural gas industry. As the discovery well for the giant Bartlesville-Dewey Field, the Nellie Johnstone No.1 ushers in the oil era for Oklahoma Territory. By the time of statehood in 1907, Oklahoma will lead the world in oil production.

 

Source: American Oil & Gas Historical Society, aoghs.org

Know What's Below - Always Call 811 Before You Dig

 

 

If you are planning a job that requires digging, even if you plan to hire a professional, a call to 811 is required before you begin working. 811 is a free, FCC-designated national one-call number that connects a caller from anywhere in the country to the appropriate local one-call center. The one-call center will then alert the appropriate underground facility owners so they can dispatch locators to mark the approximate location of their lines with paint or flags.

 

Each year more than 165,000 underground utility lines are unintentionally damaged nationwide, and one in three are caused by failure to call 811 before digging. Also, according to a recent Common Ground Alliance survey 69 percent of homeowners think digging without calling 811 would not lead to any negative consequences, despite there being 100 billion feet of utility lines buried underground in the United States.

 

Unintentionally striking a line can result in inconvenient outages for entire neighborhoods, harm to yourself or your neighbors, and repair costs.

 

Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a call to 811. Installing a mailbox, building a deck and planting a tree or garden are all examples of digging projects that should only begin a few days after making a call to 811.

 

Here's how it works:

 

1. One free, simple phone call to 811 makes it easy for your local one-call center to notify all appropriate utility companies of your intent to dig.

 

2. Call a few days prior to digging to ensure enough time for utility lines to be properly marked.

 

3. When you call 811, a representative from your local one-call center will ask for the location and description of your digging project.

 

4. Your local one-call center will notify affected utility companies, who will then send a professional locator to the proposed dig site to mark the approximate location of your lines.

 

5. Once lines have been properly marked, roll up those sleeves and carefully dig around the marked areas.

 

To find out more information about Call 811 or the one-call utility notification center in your area, visit www.call811.com.

EWN Presents Overview of 9 Inspection Protocols

  

ENERGY worldnet presented an overview of the 9 inspection protocols/elements to over 100 pipeline and utility owner-operators at the North Dakota/South Dakota Operator Safety Training Seminar. The presentation was made by EWN Chief Operating Officer Geoffrey Isbell on April 3rd, and reviewed the 9 protocols covered in PHMSA Form 14 and Form 15 which are utilized by state and federal inspectors to ensure operator compliance with the requirements of 49 CFR 192 and 195. The conference was hosted by the North Dakota Public Service Commission on April 3rd and 4th, 2012 in Bismarck, ND.

EWN Upcoming Events

  

Congratulations to EWN's Recent Training Graduates!

  

Master Evaluator Certification Program (MECP):

  

M & M Welding and Ditching, Dalhart, TX:

Jason Moore

Jason Stewart

 

Two Rivers Pipeline, Odessa, TX:

Mauro Rodriguez

 

Driver Pipeline Company, Irving, TX:

Ruben Rizo

 

 

Beaver Pipeline Construction, TX:

 

Suzanne Hyde

 

 

 

Basic System Administrator Training:

 

Diamond H Trenching, Inc., Ponder, TX:

Elecia Pitman