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This Week in History
May 28 to June 3
May 28, 1923 - "Well of the Century" reveals Permian Basin
The 2002 movie "The Rookie" opens with nuns christening the drilling of a lonely West Texas well for the patron saint of the impossible. In fact, in 1922 one of the well's owners climbed to the top of the derrick and threw out rose petals given to him by a group of Catholic investors.
It takes 646 days of difficult cable-tool drilling before U.S. petroleum history is made in West Texas.
Near Big Lake, on the surrounding arid land once thought to be worthless, the Santa Rita No. 1 well strikes oil, discovers an oilfield - and reveals the vast Permian Basin.
Until now, experts have considered West Texas barren of oil.
Discovered after 21 months of cable-tool drilling that averaged less than five feet a day, the Santa Rita - named for the patron saint of the impossible - will produce for seven decades.
Within three years of the discovery by Texon Oil and Land Company, petroleum royalties endow the University of Texas with $4 million (legislators had given the land to the university when it opened in 1883). The Texas board of regents will move Santa Rita's drilling equipment to the campus in 1958, "In order that it may stand as a symbol of a great era in the history of the university."
Santa Rita No. 1, named the 'Oil Well of the Century' by Texas Monthly, was productive until 1990. Read "Santa Rita reveals Permian Basin."
Nebraska's annual oil production peaked at about 25 million barrels in 1962. Production in 2009 was 2,238,846 barrels or 6,134 barrels per day.
May 29, 1940 - Nebraska's First Oil Well
After more than a half century of dry holes, Nebraska's first commercial oil well is brought in by the Pawnee Royalty Company near Falls City in Richardson County.
The first publicized report of oil in Nebraska had been an 1883 newspaper account of a "vein of petroleum" discovered in the same county. Eager to become an oil-producing state, the Nebraska legislature had offered a $15,000 bonus for the first well to produce 50 barrels daily for 60 days.
The Bucholz No. 1 discovery well produces an average of more than 169 barrels a day in its first 60 days. Richardson County enjoys an oil boom for three years.
Today's Nebraska petroleum production is largely in the southwestern panhandle - where a discovery well came in for 225 barrels of oil per day at a depth of 4,429 feet in 1949.
Marathon Oil Company completed the well, the Mary Egging No. 1, five miles southeast of the town of Gurley. "The pioneer efforts in this area have resulted in a major contribution to the economy of the state," notes the Nebraska State Historical Society.
New technologies, including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, are bringing new exploration and production activity to the region. Independent oil and gas companies are showing great interest in the potential of the Niobrara Shale in Colorado, Wyoming - and southwestern Nebraska.
May 30, 1911 - First Indy 500 Winner 
By 1912, the Indianapolis 500 is the highest-paying sporting event in the world.
The first Indianapolis 500-mile race begins with a 40-car field; only a dozen will finish the grueling test of automotive technology. The winner averages almost 75 mph.
All the cars - except the No. 32 Marmon "Wasp" - have two seats. Drivers travel with "riding mechanics," who manually pump oil, notes an article in Smithsonian magazine. Created to showcase the new sport of automobile racing, early contests are more about engine endurance than speed.
Ray Harroun, driver of the winning Marmon Wasp, is more engineer and inventor than professional driver. He later develops a kerosene carburetor declaring, "Let the fuel people fight it out amongst themselves, I'll have a car soon that will burn anything they send."
Of the 4,200 automobiles sold in the United States in 1900 - just a decade before the first Indy 500 - gasoline powered less than 1,000. Learn more at "Cantankerous Combustion - 1st U.S. Auto Show." A record-setting motor is described in "The Blue Flame - Natural Gas Rocket Car."
May 30, 1987 - Million Barrel Museum Opens
The West Texas community of Monahans boasts of an oil museum like no other.
The Million Barrel Museum opens on a 14.5-acre site in Monahans, Texas. The museum's main attraction is a large elliptical oil storage tank built in 1928 by Shell Oil Company to store Permian Basin oil.
The experimental concrete tank - 522 feet by 426 feet - was designed to hold more than a million barrels of oil. The highly productive West Texas region lacked oil pipelines at the time.
The tank's concrete covered, 30-foot earthen walls slope at a 45-degree angle and once included a domed roof made of California redwood. Unfortunately, repeated efforts could not prevent oil leaking from seams. Shell abandoned the structure, which stood idle for decades. It briefly became a water park in the 1950s...but leaked again.
With the help of local teachers and historians, construction of the Million Barrel Museum began in 1986 - as part of the Ward County sesquicentennial. Today, the museum is the setting for barbecues, dances, cowboy poetry readings and fajita cook-offs.
A segment of the historic tank is now a 400-seat amphitheater. Read more in "Million Barrel Museum" from the December 2006 Petroleum Age.
June 1, 1860 - First U.S. Petroleum Book published
Reprinted in 2006, "Rock Oil" is available from the Oil Region Alliance in Oil City, Pennsylvania.
Less than a year after Edwin Drake's historic discovery of oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Thomas Gale publishes an 80-page pamphlet many regard as the first book about petroleum. His Rock Oil, The Wonder of the Nineteenth Century in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere describes the new, revolutionary resource.
"Those who have not seen it burn, may rest assured its light is no moonshine; but something nearer the clear, strong, brilliant light of day," Gale writes. "In other words, rock oil emits a dainty light; the brightest and yet the cheapest in the world; a light fit for Kings and Royalists, and not unsuitable for Republicans and Democrats."
In 1952, the Ethyl Corporation of New York republishes the book, noting "this first book about petroleum following the Drake well was written to satisfy public desire for more information about rock oil, its origin, geology, production, costs, uses, history, prospects; invaluable eyewitness descriptions of early oil wells."
June 1, 1940 - Dallas Artist exhibits West Texas
Artist Jerry Bywaters - a member of the Dallas
Nine- exhibits his newly completed Oil Field Girls in the Fine Arts Palace of San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition. His image of two enigmatic young women framed in a West Texas oilfield becomes one of Bywaters' best known works.
Dallas artist Jerry Bywaters painted Oil Field Girls in 1940 for the San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition. He titled its companion piece Oil Rig Workers (Roughnecks).
Almost 70 artists, including famed Mexican painter Diego Rivera, participate in the International Exposition's four-month "Art in Action" exhibition. Oil Field Girls will move on to the Dallas Museum of Art and eventually into the collection of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas.
"A canny mixture of reportage and editorial commentary, Oil Field Girls is a history painting that captures a surprisingly humane narrative of a specific time and place," notes the museum. The oil-on-board painting's companion piece, Oil Rig Workers (Roughnecks), also painted in 1940, is in a private collection.
June 1, 1944 - Energy Policy Research Foundation
The Petroleum Industry Research Foundation is established as a nonprofit organization devoted to economic research concerning the oil and natural gas industry. Now known as the Energy Policy Research Foundation, its publications, interviews and testimonies "provide assessments to help industry and government officials, the media, and the public understand the petroleum industry."
June 3, 1979 - Bay of Campeche Oil Spill
The Ixtoc I exploratory oil well in Mexico's Bay of Campeche blows out and ignites. At least three million barrels of crude will spill into the Gulf of Mexico. Pemex succeeds in reducing the flow to about 20,000 barrels a day, but the state oil company does not plug the well until March 1980. Considering the size of the oil spill, its environmental impact is limited, according to a 1981 report by the Coordinated Program of Ecological Studies in the Bay of Campeche.
"Nature played the biggest role in attacking the slicks as they floated across the Gulf. Ultraviolet light broke down the oil as it crept toward land. So did oil-eating microorganisms. Hot temperatures spurred evaporation," notes an article in New Orleans Times-Picayune. |
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Life After 12,500 Volts
It Can Happen To You
By Gary Norland
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May is National Electrical Safety Month and ENERGY worldnet, Inc. along with Gary Norland, Safety Presentations would like to raise awareness about potential electrical hazards and the importance of electrical safety.
Gary Norland shares the story about his life and the tragedy he experienced due to his lack of situational awareness. Gary says he, "wants to make sure that everyone understands that safety is a choice. We too often expect nothing to happen to us unless someone else causes the accident. At times this is the case, but more often we are injured for one reason or another due to our own negligence. When you lose your awareness of a situation, you take a risk of being involved in an accident that may have been avoidable."
Gary's Story about Life After 12,500 Volts:
After several years of traveling and working various jobs in construction; such as laborer, equipment operator, Lineman, Project Superintendent and electrician, I was excited to go to work every day at a new job as a union maintenance electrician for a local pulp and paper mill, no more travel, a good income and stability.
The job that day was investigating why a 200 amp 12,500 volt power line was shorting out and shutting down a section of the mill the night before. I was a healthy 6' 3" 240# man who loved his work, my attitude was getting the job done. Besides it was Friday afternoon and I had plans. We had an hour and forty minutes to get the job done before the end of the day," Let's go guys I got plans, I don't have time for overtime."
While the power house electrical crew and others watched from the ground, I was running a test on the power line with a consultant also in my bucket truck. The conversation on the ground and in the bucket truck was "what are you doing this weekend? The weather is supposed to be nice." As I leaned over the bucket rail to stretch my back, my whole world changed. I never saw it coming, a sharp pain and a buzzing sound in my right ear and a blood curdling scream coming from my mouth. I had leaned back and touched the supposedly de-energized power line with my right earlobe. Every muscle and organ in my body convulsed and contracted, and my heart stopped. This caused me to collapse, falling back into the power line and hitting it a second time with the back of my head. In less than a second, life changed as I was being cooked alive. Fire and electricity was shooting out of me in fifteen places resulting in electrical burns over 37% of my body.
My first memory was in the emergency room feeling as though I was still on fire. And the smell, it's something my wife will never forget, that smell of burned flesh and hair.
Three weeks later lying in a hospital bed in the burn unit at Harborview Medical Center, they told me that I had suffered permanent brain and spinal cord damage from the high voltage electrical trauma and would never walk again. But then again, I'm not supposed to be alive. When I was released from intensive care I had my first surgery. It was 7 years before I finally went 12 months in a row without a surgery. I've had so many surgeries now that I lost count, well over fifty.
With a new zest for life and an attitude to match, let me tell you what I can do with only 40% use of my legs and a few extra pounds in metal parts. I spend time camping and four wheeling with family, an occasional golf game with friends, or a motorcycle trip with my wife. But above all, my mission is to promote safety and spare others the trauma I had to endure.
My story of 12.5 Still Alive, Life After 12,500 Volts, talks about the ripple effect an injury has on a person, there family, coworkers and community.
The message and story is straight from my heart and I tell it like it is. This is REALITY!
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!
To learn more about Gary Norland's story or to contact him visit his website at http://www.garynorland.com/. |
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Making A Difference
Relay For Life Team - Decatur Fire Department
By Tony Pileggi, ENERGY worldnet, Inc. IT Contractor
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Tony Pileggi - Firefighter pictured to the right |
32 members of the Decatur Fire Department and their families all came together to participate in this year's Wise County Relay for Life event. Thanks to Energy worldnet, Inc. and my other sponsors we exceeded our fundraising goal and turned in over $6,300.00 with the event raising $100,000.00.
For our fundraiser we didn't raffle anything or sell anything, we wanted to do something that would get people behind us and at the same time try to come close to representing the weight and burden that a cancer patient must go through. From 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, myself and the rest of the team walked for several miles. We also did special laps for those who contributed to our fundraising goal as we walked in full bunker gear while breathing from an SCBA. This was to make that representation of the weight a cancer patient carries. We walked two laps each at a time with all that gear which added about 75 lbs. I believe we walked at least 20 miles between us all in full gear with Energy worldnet, Inc. being our largest single sponsor.
Our walk helped to encourage many others to give to the fundraiser and allow us to keep people going all night. Most important, the event has helped to continue to give hope to those who must face the fight of cancer. |
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The Value of an LCMS
Part Two of a Series
By Jeremy Green, Regional Account Executive
Sometimes I like to reminisce about the way things used to be. I remember when businesses were localized and team members typically worked out of the same locale. Of course, that was before the invention of the cell phone, email, wireless internet, and mobile apps. Now, organizations are no longer bound geographically. Our world has changed. Depending on your company, it's now a regional, national, or global market that you do business in every day. Those that embrace technological innovation are thriving, and those that are not are having difficulty surviving. How can you both survive and thrive in today's business landscape? According to Peter Drucker, "Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." Change is difficult, but nowadays it's a prerequisite and must become part of your company's DNA.
In the past, most companies trained their workforce in a traditional instructor-led classroom format. While there are some undeniable benefits in the one-on-one interaction between a skilled instructor and a student, by its very nature, this process is inconvenient, inconsistent, and inefficient. In this day and age, most companies are also compelled to accomplish more with fewer resources. One of the great aspects of a Learning and Content Management System (LCMS), like that of ENERGY worldnet, Inc., is that it facilitates convenience of schedule, ensures consistency of training, and makes both process and cost efficiency a realistic possibility.
As the only major OQ provider to have its own LCMS, ENERGY worldnet, Inc., is also able to provide our clients with a whole suite of administrative and course authoring tools that can make your life so much easier than our competitors. You can assign tasks by groups, job titles, and projects - which will save you lots of time and ensure accuracy. Automatic email requalification notifications and reminders sent to our clients every Monday morning so that you can see the big picture without even having to login. You can enter real-time performance evaluation details and results via our Online Evaluator tool. Managing your training events, locations, instructors, and participants is made easy with the Scheduling tool. We provide options for online training and evaluations as well as printed materials for classroom settings. One of the greatest benefits of an LCMS is the ability to do training (many courses available in Spanish as well) and evaluations at your convenience, such as during inclement weather, project delays, and down time.
An "Evaluation" as defined in 49 CFR 192.803 and 195.503, "must follow an objective, consistent process that documents the individual's ability to perform the covered task, including the ability to recognize and react to AOCs" (DOT/PHMSA). An LCMS ensures that your workforce is being qualified (via training and evaluations) by an objective, consistent process. More than anything else, though, our LCMS allows a business to manage their training schedule instead of their training schedule managing their business!
Works Cited:
DOT/PHMSA Glossary of Terms, http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/oq/glossary.htm |
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Western Regional Training Seminar
July 16-18, 2012 in Angel Fire, New Mexico
Beat the heat and make plans to join us in Angel Fire, New Mexico, this summer for the ENERGY worldnet, Inc. Western Regional Training Seminar.
ENERGY worldnet, Inc. will be offering the following activities, training and more at a great location.
Monday, July 16, 2012: Golf Event at the Angel Fire Resort & Country Club
Rise above the ordinary at Angel Fire Resort Golf Course and Country Club. The longer-playing layouts of the front nine wind through two unspoiled canyons of aspen and spruce. The signature 6th hole features a tee box soaring 200 vertical feet above the green- 250 yards away. The back nine offers mountain meadow play with rolling fairways, meandering streams and plenty of bunkers to challenge every level of golfer. This includes green fees and a shared cart.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012: Master Evaluator Certification Program
Breakfast and Lunch are provided. Topics to be covered include: Regulatory Updates, New EWN features for Trainers and Evaluators, Master Evaluator Certification Program (MECP). This does serve as the initial or 3 year renewal MECP class. An evening reception will follow.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012: EWN System Administrator Training
Breakfast and Lunch are provided. Topics to be included are: Surviving a PHMSA Integrated Inspection, New EWN System/Administrative Features, Admin Training: Navigation, Global Settings and User Administration, Admin Training: Organizational Tools, Assignments and Evaluations, Admin Training: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping
Register today for the best rates! Registration rates go up after June 16.
Accommodation information through Angel Fire Resort is located on the website.
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EWN Upcoming Events
Upcoming Training Events in Decatur, Texas
Click here to register for June events.
MASTER EVALUATOR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Tuesday, June 12, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
BASIC SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING
Wednesday, June 13, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR COURSE
Thursday, June 14, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
MASTER TRAINER PROGRAM
Thursday, June 14, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
INTRODUCTION TO THE INDUSTRY
Friday, June 15, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
Click here to register for July events.
MASTER EVALUATOR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Tuesday, July 10, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
BASIC SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING
Wednesday, July 11, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
ADVANCED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR COURSE
Thursday, July 12, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND AUTHORING (2 day class)
Thursday- Friday, July 12- 13, 8:30 am- 3:00 pm
ENERGY worldnet, Inc. Annual Conference and Expo
Registration for the ENERGY worldnet, Inc. Annual Conference and Expo is now open!
We invite you to join us in October for this event.
Please click on the link below to learn more about the conference. On this dedicated website you can learn about the scheduled speakers, agenda, special events and information about accommodations.
http://conference.energyworldnet.com
We have also included a link below to go straight to registration.
We have 2 special offers for those who register early:
1. The first 5 registrations will receive a one night stay at a local hotel.
2. Register before July 1 and the registraton is free for a guest- this 2 for 1 offer will end soon so be sure and register early!
Please contact us if you have any questions.
Register Now!
Look for us at the following Industry Events
The Energy Association of Pennsylvania Operations Conference in Grantville, PA, on May 30 - June 1, 2012. Stop by our booth and visit with Jeremy Green.
The Northeast Gas Association Gas Operations School in Smithfield, RI, on June 4-8, 2012. ENERGY worldnet, Inc, will be exhibiting and will also be conducting EWN System Administrator Training for NGA Operators and Contractors.
Geoff Isbell will attend the ASME B31Q Technical Committee Meeting in Portland, Oregon, on June 12-13, 2012. The committee will be reviewing proposed updates to the B31Q task standards. The meeting is open to guest participants.
The Tennessee Gas Association Annual Conference in Nashville, TN, on June 13-15, 2012. ENERGY worldnet, Inc. will be exhibiting at this conference.
The Missouri Association of Natural Gas Operators Annual Conference at Lake of the Ozarks, MO, on June 27-29, 2012. EWN will exhibit at this conference- be sure to make time to visit with Jeremy Green if you are attending.
The Southern Gas Association 2012 Operating Conference & Exhibits will be held in Fort Worth, TX on July 23-25, 2012, at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel. ENERGY worldnet, Inc. will be exhibiting - stop by and visit us at Booth #104.
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Where in the World is the EWN TEAM?
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Pictured from left to right: Geoff Isbell - EWN, Lt. Richard Garza - Wichita Falls Police Department, Jeff Henderson - West Texas Gas. Not pictured: Dennis Scott - Pipeline Plastics |
ENERGY worldnet, Inc. participated as one of 72 teams at the annual Atmos Energy Golf Tournament to benefit United Way. The fundraiser tournament was held as four-person scramble format at the at the Lakes Course and Creeks Course at the Indian Creek Country Club in Carrollton, TX on October 18, 2012. ENERGY worldnet, Inc. was also a hole sponsor for the event on the Lakes Course. The event hosted 288 golfers on 72 teams and raised over $35,000 for the benefit of United Way. The EWN Team included Geoff Isbell of EWN, Jeff Henderson of West Texas Gas, Dennis Scott of Pipeline Plastics and Lt. Richard Garza of the Wichita Fall Police Department. The EWN Team finished 6 under Par with a score of 64.
Thanks to all of the other sponsors, volunteers, Atmos employees and golfers that made the event such a huge success and an absolutely wonderful day.
ENERGY worldnet, Inc. exhibited at the CGA Excavation Safety Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, NV in March 2012. The CGA event brings together stakeholders from throughout the industry to share ideas, learn from the experts and gather information on industry trends and technologies. The CGA event is both educational and entertaining, including the showcasing of the 811 Chopper built by Paul Teutul, Jr. of American Choppers and the appearance of "Elvis Presley" and "Marilyn Monroe"...where else but Vegas! The 2013 CGA Excavation Safety Conference & Expo will be held on March 12-14 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Learn more at www.cgaconference.com.
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Sincerely,
ENERGY worldnet, Inc.
Phone Support: 1-855-396-5267 (toll free) or 940-626-1941
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