August 1973: Go August 1977: In a letter Historical Note: During World War Devil reports that Shell Pipe to employees, Shell Pipe Line Line researcher Veet Kruka President Jack Hurley writes of II, S. S. “Syd” Smith, designer of has discovered a method of the “energy crisis” the country Shell’s Midwest products lines and expanding the capacity of was experiencing: “During this a crude oil pipeline without past year, Shell Pipe line’s key manager of the company’s products increasing the size of the line slogan was ‘Efficiency’ and in pipeline department, was credited or pumping facilities. The new 1977, I hope we can continue method uses a polymer injection that high goal of efficiency and for the development of the military’s to increase the flow of crude by energy conservation.” reducing friction and turbulence portable pipeline. The lightweight inside the line. 1979: The Texas-Louisiana steel line had rubber-lined metal Ethylene system is built between February 1, 1974: Mont Belvieu, Texas, and couplings that fastened with a single Shell Pipe Line President John Napoleonville, La. The 254-mile, Green retires and is replaced 12-inch products pipeline is bolt. The 20-foot pipeline sections by Shell Research Complex Vice bidirectional. could be assembled, moved, President Mike Papadopoulos. 1981: LOCAP, Inc., 58 miles reassembled and repaired easily. February 1974: Go of 48-inch crude oil pipelines, Devil reports: begins operating from Clovelly Smith even patented a series of “One’s a tank farm gauger to St. James, La. pumps that automatically turned at McCamey, the other is a utility pipeliner at St. James. What March 1981: The first on and off according to demand - makes these two employees oil from the Beta field, nine much like a garden hose supplies unordinary is the fact that they miles off the coast of Long are women. They are the first Beach, Calif., travels 17 miles water from a nozzle. The pipeline, two women employees that Shell via pipeline to the Beta Pump Pipe Line has hired to work in Station in Long Beach. taken up and re-laid, followed the field.” American troops as they advanced Tank Farm Gauger Ann 1984: Via the 30-inch, 502- Barnett worked at the McCamey mile Cortez Pipeline, Shell Pipe into Italy, France and Germany - a Tank Farm in West Texas, and Line begins moving a new type Utility Pipeliner Alberta Mitchell of product: Carbon dioxide. total of 11,000 miles. In October worked at the St. James Terminal 1946, Smith was awarded the in Louisiana. 1985: Construction began on the Choctaw Pipeline System, Medal for Merit from the president. June 1974: Shell Pipe a 91-mile, 20-inch carbon Line announces the reorganiza­ dioxide pipeline running from tion of the operating divisions. Jackson, Miss., to fields near West Texas and Rocky Moun­ McComb, Miss. tain divisions become Central Division. Southern and Texas 1986: Shell Pipe Line now Gulf divisions become Gulf has operations in 17 states. Coast Division. Products Pipe Line and Northern and Okla­ October 1986: A story Date unknown: An early look homa divisions are consolidated in Go Devil announces that into Mid-Continent Division. “a movement is afoot in Shell inside Shell Pipe Line’s clerical Pipe Line. Within the next few and accounting rooms at the February 1975: Shell months, every employee will be Pipe Line President Mike introduced to a process that will office in Cushing, Okla. Papadopoulos is named general require a career-long commit­ manager, Transportation and ment. That process is quality Distribution, and General improvement.” Manager of Transportation Jack Hurley becomes president of Shell Pipe Line.

17 18 January 1987: Shell vintage Thunderbird convertible are incorrect. Minor errors in the Pipe Line employees celebrate from location to location while equations caused the industry the company’s safest year to he mimes the words to a remake to inadvertently give away one- date: Two lost-time injuries, eight of the song, “I Love L.A.” tenth of 1 percent of all natural OSHA recordable injuries and gas and chemicals shipped six first-aid cases. 1989: Shell Pipe Line begins through industry pipelines since experimenting with the use of the 1930s. Using new equations January 1987: Go Devil satellites for remotely monitoring created by Gallagher and the reports that construction work is and operating pipeline systems. team of scientists, revenue from almost completed on the 20-inch The experiment­ began when the chemical and natural gas sales Choctaw CO2 pipeline from company’s microwave network were expected to increase by Mississippi to Louisiana. began showing signs of age. $1-7 million per year.

February 1988: Shell May 1990: Kermit, Texas, April 1992: The Pasadena Pipe Line hosts its first “Quality Pipeline Operator Gene Heard (Texas) Control Center becomes Day” for Head Office employees becomes the second Shell Pipe Shell Pipe Line’s first control at the downtown Houston Hyatt Line employee to complete 50 center to be moved to the Hotel. years of service. (The first was Consolidated Control Center on Arthur Doherty, who retired the 16th floor of Houston’s Two February 1, 1988: in 1969 from the Pipe Line Shell Plaza. The remote operation for the Department in Los Angeles.) Michigan NGL and Crude Including Heard, only five Shell 1993: Shell Pipe Line Gathering pipelines is switched Oil employees have reached the employees complete the safest from the Kalkaska Control 50-year milestone. year in company history and Center to the Wood River earn the API’s safest pipeline Control Center. January 1991: Shell company award. Pipe Line management shares May 5, 1988: Former information on the corporation’s 1993: D. M. “Doc” Farrell, July 1949: Workers apply a Pipe Line President Joe T. reorganization plan. Shell Pipe Line’s original “safety Dickerson dies in Jackson, Miss. man” who worked from 1935- shiny, tar-like coating during Dickerson retired in 1959 after May 1991: A Shell 1972, died in Austin, Texas. construction of the Ozark 22-inch serving as president for five Offshore Inc. retiree fishing 1968: A sophisticated pipeline years. at Grand Isle, La., found a 1994: Employees working Pipeline. Creating the pipe for the beached hard hat imprinted with along the 632-mile, 40-inch wrapping machine quickly Ozark System required a steel September 28, 1988: Hank Savoy’s name. Savoy, a Capline Pipeline celebrate the covers a section of the Capline The control center in McCamey, meter measurement technician Line’s 25th anniversary. mill (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Texas, is consolidated­ to at Nairn, La., had lost the hat Pipeline. the Midland Control Center. six months earlier when a gust 1994: Shell Pipe Line Company) to operate continuously Midland’s first controller, Leo of wind blew the hat off the employees across the country for 85 days. To transport the pipe Sotomayor, cuts the ribbon to helipad of a Shell offshore celebrate the 75th anniversary mark the occasion. platform. The hat was returned of the completion of the Cushing­ to construction locations in the field, to a surprised Savoy. In addition Wood River 10-inch crude Since the mid-20s, Shell had December 24, 1988: to the 20-mile trip to shore, the line. The pipeline marked the a 60-car train left the Youngstown A manufacturing defect in the hard hat drifted 30 miles to the beginning of the corporation in used the Great Lakes to ship plant every 36 hours. Ozark Pipeline causes a rupture east before settling into the sand 1919. products from East Chicago to that releases 20,500 barrels at Grand Isle. of crude oil into Missouri’s 1994: Production begins at Michigan and northern Ohio. Gasconade River. August 1991: Go Devil the Auger platform at the world This worked well, except in reports that Jim Gallagher, record water depth of 2,860 1989: Shell Pipe Line Manager, Oil Movements­ feet. Auger’s structure is a winter when the lakes froze President Bob McMahan and Measurement, in leading a floating hull that supports a five- several West Coast employees group of 52 international story deck over an area the size over. In 1952, Shell solved star in the company’s first and scientists, discovers that two of two football fields. the problem by building the only music video, “I Love Q.A.” 60-year-old equations used to In the video, a flower-shirted calculate the flow of natural gas Wolverine Pipeline. McMahan drives a 1950s and chemicals through pipelines

19 20 1938: D. M. “Doc” Farrell, April 1995: Midland, Texas Control Center moved to Shell Pipe Line’s original safety Houston. It was the last of six man (from 1935·1972), leads regional Control Centers to be transitioned. an on-the-job safety meeting July 1996: Shell Pipeline in Cushing, Okla.’”Farrell was installed the 18/24-inch Mars the famous safety man to all Oil Pipeline to move the oil from the Mars oil platform, a $2.1 the old timers,” said Shell Pipe billion oil and gas project in the Gulf of Mexico standing 3,250 Line retiree Wayne Kinison of feet high from the seafloor, to Houston, who had worked many LOOP’s Clovelly storage facility. 1996: To celebrate five safe Mars was the largest oil and gas of his 42 years of Shell service discovery in the Gulf of Mexico working years, the offshore in two decades. alongside Farrell. “A long time Gibson, Louisiana employees ago, the superintendents in the August 1997: were surprised by a hot air The Gibson, Louisiana work field were sort of like kingpins group started up and began balloon fly-over. and there wasn’t a whole lot operating the new Enchilada Pump Station, the Offshore of pressure on them to keep Area’s first electric-driven, offshore pump station. This first employees accident-free. They venture into the gas pipelining figured if somebody got hurt, business, was the Mississippi Canyon Gas System (MCGS) they’d go get another man to and was followed by the Garden Banks Gas Pipeline (GDGP). do the job. But Doc really had people thinking about safety and 1998: Shell and Texaco Pipeline formed Equilon Pipeline everybody knew that he meant Co. which owned and operated business. He had a big impact over 12,000 miles of pipeline. This was part of Equilon on Shell Pipe Line. In 1937, a Enterprises LLC, a joint venture 56 percent Shell-owned and 44 Shell Pipe Line employee wrote percent Texaco-owned, which 1997: Engineering and the following about Farrell: secured a 13 percent share of the domestic refining market operations staff at the Enchilada “When Doc first came around, and 14.6 percent of the U.S. gasoline market. Pump Station. L to R: Jason we didn’t pay him much mind Dollar, Andy Martin, Greg and kinda laughed when he Landry, Dennis Cazenave, Terry left. But Doc Farrell was just as Nolan, Wally Boudreaux, Robert stubborn as the rest of us. We Stevens. darn well learned that he was serious and meant business. He taught us how to be safe.”

21 22 April 2003: The first August 2005: annual Krispy Kreme Invitational Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana Doughnut Eating Contest was resulting in personnel impacts held, hosted by the Control and major damage to offshore Center. Jim Bertus was crowned platforms, such as Mars. Krispy Kreme King after consuming 12.5 doughnuts in 5 September 2005: minutes. He immediately went Hurricane Rita hit Texas, home to recuperate. inflicting damage to onshore assets, infrastructure, and 2003: Construction of the personnel homes. Repairs from 74-mile long, 18” diameter both hurricanes reached over offshore Nakika crude pipeline $500 mln. was finished from Mississippi Canyon 474 to the Main Pass 69P platform.

2003: The Jackalope pipeline from ST301 to SS332 was laid as part of the Amberjack Offshore Crude system.

December 2003: 2005: 54 miles of the Seg 1 2005: “Sugarville”, Shell Pipeline’s The Butte, Poplar, and Little Endymion 30” Offshore Crude Missouri systems in Montana system from SP89E to Grand Isle temporary camp for staff, families, and Wyoming were sold. became operational. and pets impacted by Hurricane 2004: A year of downsizing December 2005: By this Katrina, was set up in St. James, LA. saw SPLC divest of assets time asset sales of Avery Island- including Ozark, West Tulsa, Sugarville had hundreds of travel 2013: Aligning a 90° bend June 1999: The Olympic July 2000: Equilon Houma 10”, Bayou Sale-Erath Kamo, Eldorado Tank Farm, gasoline pipeline, partly owned Pipeline purchased the Chase 10”, Golden Meadow-Houma trailers, supplies, food, a cafeteria, during a re-route of the Capline Cushing Tank Farm, Patoka West and operated by Equilon, a Pipeline System (El Dorado, 12”, Cocodrie Storage, Erath Tank Farm, Osage, Capwood, joint venture between Shell and KS to Aurora, CO), including North Tank Farm, Cocodrie- a laundromat, and crews to help pipeline to accommodate Patoka 22”, 2 Rivers, East Line, Texaco, ruptured in Bellingham, a tank farm and 3 distribution Houma 12”, Ventura Crude, North Line, St. Louis 6”, St. employees in the cleanup of their an interstate expansion in Washington. The gasoline terminals. Brea Crude, Thums-Beta Crude Louis ATF, E Chicago, Aurora, vapors from the failed pipeline lines, Ventura Crude Gathering, homes. Tim Stanley was elected Mississippi. Chase Colorado, Chase Kansas, exploded and three people died October 2001: Shell Oil San Miguelito, Taylor Lateral, El Dorado Products Terminal, in the accident. This was an signed a deal to buy Texaco and the remaining shares Mayor due to his knowledge and Orion N, S, and W, Aldine industry defining event which Inc.’s 44% share of Equilon of Olympic Pipeline were Products, Boyer 16”, Boyer- experience with travel trailers. led to regulatory, safety, and Enterprises LLC. concluded. Chase 8”, E. Houston Products operational changes. Terminal, Glenpool/Explorer May 2002: Equilon Receipt, Hearne Pipeline and 1999: Christie Cain was Pipeline Company began doing Terminal, Galena Park to E featured in the newspaper City business as Shell Pipeline Houston Pipeline, and the Business as a woman who is Company (SPLC). Odessa-El Paso Pipeline. successfully working in the male- dominated oilfield industry. : As the onshore asset Christie was the first female 2004 footprint was shrinking, the Pipeliner in the Gulf of Mexico offshore pipeline infrastructure Business Unit. She spent 10 was growing. The 53-mile years in the Army, so offshore Magnolia 14” from GB783A work seemed like a good career to GB128A and the 71-mile choice. Holstein crude and gas pipelines from GC645 to SS332B were built.

23 24 2006: Construction began 2012: Commercial Group employees August 2010: First tank 2013: SPLC adopted a horse on the Bengal 24” pipeline and in Shell Pipeline to be painted through the Houston Police the Garyville Pump Station to held a volunteer day to build a with the 811 logo at Colex Department’s Adopt a Horse transport gasoline from Norco, fence and mulch a playground for in Pasadena, TX. A tank at Program. The contest to name LA to Baton Rouge, LA. Bakersfield, CA, was similarly the horse was won by Carrie a Neignborhood Center. L to R: Ken painted. Hodgins who dubbed him 2006: The Seajack 20in “Digger – 811”. Zimmerman, Allen Moscon, Tom pipeline construction began from November 2010: Greg 2013: Shell retirees involved in SS332 to ST301. Gates Smith is named President of 2013: Operatorship of the Shell Pipeline Company; he had Capline Pipeline ended after 45 original Capline construction who 2007: As a result of damage been preceded in that role by years. Celebrations were held in from a ship anchor drag during Mary Mujica. The previous year St. James, LA and Patoka, IL. attended operatorship open house. a hurricane, Mars Deepwater Electrical Technicians Bill Webb Pipeline was repaired with spool and Phil Freeman presented August 2014: The 10th L to R: Carl Jolliff, Delbert Petty, Don piece jumpers installed in 2,750 a box that contained a Taylor annual Mark Keller (CPM Baugh, Tom Rippee, David Feather, feet of water on both oil and gas Mod 30 controller, hand held Analyst) Memorial Basketball export pipelines. This project programmer, and the associated tournament was held. Over Larry Thompson, Willard Patterson. won the British Institute Project circuit that Smith designed for the years, the hard-played of the Year in 2007. the Patoka, IL Tank Farm in tournaments and a silent auction 1987. in his name raised over $50,000 2008: Hurricane Ike damage to help battle cancer. resulted in the EI331A platform 2007: The national, public 2011: Continued expansion bypass being completed on the of Dry Gas business with new October 2014: Auger system the following year. campaign to call 811 – “Call Before Convent pipelines in Louisiana. Shell Midstream Partners, L.P., a master limited partnership (MLP) You Dig” started with Shell. 2006: Publication of the Go 2008: Despite threatening 2012: The flow direction in formed by Royal Dutch Shell, hurricanes, the Tahiti 20/24” the crude pipeline from Houma announced its initial public Devil newsletter, originally Pipeline underwent construction to Houston (HoHo) was reversed offering (IPO) making it the first created in 1941 as a and began production in 2009. to support customer needs in MLP sponsored by a super major Louisiana. energy company. Assets include communication forum for staff, 2009: To support Shell Zydeco, Mars, Colonial, and Chemical’s booming Dry Gas Bengal. resumed after a multi-year business, the Texas City pipelines hiatus. and various connections were built.

25 26 April 2016: The American

Petroleum Institute awarded

Shell Pipeline Company LP the

Occupational Safety Performance

Award for Large Operator Pipeline

Companies. L to R: Kevin Nichols,

Brian Sitterly, Jeff Whitworth, Mike

Thompson. 2016: Shell Pipeline August 2018: establishes PipelineER, the The last of 7 Control Center first ever Volunteer Emergency consoles was “cut-over” to Response Organization. operate on the OASys SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data July 2016: The Control Acquisition) system. The Vector Center finalized its transition SCADA system had operated from Two Shell Plaza, where it continuously since 1992. had operated since 1992, to the new Woodcreek Control 2018: Shell Pipeline builds After ringing the bell on the January 2015: Center. The relocation was the Mattox oil export pipeline Shell Midstream Partners executed flawlessly and the to support Appomattox, a New York Stock Exchange, CEO (NYSE: SHLX rang in the New last communication to TSP deep-water oil and gas project, was “Houston we have NO Shell’s largest floating platform Peggy Montana (front row) leads Year by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock problem”. in the Gulf of Mexico located the applause for Shell Midstream Exchange. Members of the approximately 80 miles offshore SHLX management team, the September 2017: Louisiana at a water depth of Partners. Chairman of the Board and Hurricane Harvey impacted 7,400 feet. select team members as well as Houston and personnel/assets three Shell Pipeline Company in east Texas. The response 2019: The Houma (SPLC) employees joined in on to support staff in their Tanks Expansion Project is the momentous occasion. recovery was impressive and commissioned which included inspirational. the construction of two 2015: The 350-mile 250,000 barrel crude tanks. Houston-to-Houma (HoHo) March 2018: Following Construction included improving crude oil pipeline system was months of planning and 3 approximately 10 acres of incorporated as Zydeco Pipeline months of execution, the swamplands to conditions December 2015: Tammy Company LLC and operates as hydrotest of the Zydeco pipeline favorable for building and was successful. maintaining the storage tanks. Pimley, Terri Howell and Tina a subsidiary of Shell Midstream Operating LLC. Brignac won the Holiday “Non- March 2018: 2019: Construction began 2016: Was a year of John Hollowell retired as on the 97-mile Falcon Ethane Alcoholic” Drink contest that was building scale for Shell EVP Shell Pipeline and Chief Pipeline System in southwest Executive Officer of Shell Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and held in the New Orleans office. Midstream Partners. It acquired interest in Proteus Oil Pipeline Midstream Partners GP LLC. West Virginia. Not only were they the winners Company, LLC, Endymion Oil He was succeeded by Kevin Nichols. for their delicious drink but they Pipeline Company LLC, and Cleopatra Gas Gathering also won the best decorated Company, LLC. May 2018: Shell Midstream Partners made booth. February 2016: its largest deal to date by The new order-to-cash system acquiring a stake in Amberjack Synthesis became operational, Pipeline Company LLC for $1.22 replacing Energy Xchange. billion.

27 28 For 100 years, Shell Pipeline has been delivering America’s Energy. With this enviable foundation, we are well positioned to become the Midstream engine for Royal Dutch Shell in the US.

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