Q&A

The Decade That Changed The Pipeline Industry

Cliff Johnson, director of Public Affairs at NACE International, The Corrosion Society, recently assembled a panel of NACE pipeline corrosion control experts to answer a series of questions on how recent regulations and developments are affecting the pipeline industry.

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Claudi Santiago – GE’s Envoy To the World’s Oil & Gas Industry

To have been a fly on the wall when GE Chairman and CEO Jack Welch picked up the phone in 1997 and called one of his rising young stars, a fellow named Claudi Santiago, about heading a new business segment that would later be called GE Oil & Gas.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | Sneak Preview from March's Issue

A Builder + A Problem Solver = Cleve Hogarth

Cleve Hogarth has always prided himself as a problem solver and a builder. Along with integrity, can there be any traits more important to someone in the oil and gas business?

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | February 2010 Vol. 237 No. 2

Focus On Error Factors In The Control Room Urged By Industry Veteran

Charles Alday is a man on a mission to raise familiarity in pipeline companies of the human factors that can combine to produce extraordinary pipeline operations.

November 2009 Vol. 236 No. 11

Salt Cavern Gas Storage Facility Planned For Central Utah

Magnum Gas Storage, LLC, says it is working to firm up support for a project to construct the first large-scale, high-deliverability, multi-cycle salt cavern natural gas storage facility in the western United States.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | November 2009 Vol. 236 No. 11

AGA’s Chris McGill Speaks Out On Challenges, Price Volatility And The Role Of LNG In The Nation’s Energy Future

Chris McGill is the Managing Director Policy Analysis at the American Gas Association (AGA), which represents 202 local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.

Authored by: Rita Tubb, Managing Editor | October 2009 Vol. 236 No. 10

Dominion President And CEO Gary Sypolt Discusses Dealing With Challenges And Change

INGAA Foundation Chairman Gary Sypolt is the newly named chairman and CEO of Dominion Energy, one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | September 2009 Vol. 236 No. 9

Welspun Tubular Plant Finds Hearty Welcome In Little Rock

There might be better times to open a pipe mill, but don’t tell that to the folks at Welspun, the India-based conglomerate that cut the ribbon on its $150 million plant in the Arkansas city of Little Rock last April.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | September 2009 Vol. 236 No. 9

Tom Blades Drives Siemens Oil & Gas Division Into World-Class Player

One could justifiably say that the job of CEO of Siemens’ fledgling but fast-growing Oil & Gas Division was designed specifically for Tom Blades.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | September 2009 Vol. 236 No. 9

The Customer Has Always Been King To Dick Hannan

In the natural gas industry, it is not always easy to win the respect of your peers. It requires a lifetime of hard work, integrity, curiosity, intelligence, and the willingness to stare right at a challenge and conquer it.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | September 2009 Vol. 236 No. 9