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Employee relations manager Ken Looney dies June 7 Employee Relations Manager Ken He returned to Shell Pipe Line and Looney died suddenly June 7. Mr. the Head Office in 1958 as Supervisor Looney was 55 years old and would of Training. In 1963 he was named have celebrated his 30th anniversary District Superintendent of the Colo- with the Shell organization next rado City District in the West Texas month—27 of those years being with Division. In 1965 he returned to the Shell Pipe Line. Head Office as Personnel Supervisor; Mr. Looney began working for was named Supervisor of Employee Shell Pipe Line at Newton, Kansas Relations in 1966, and later Manager in 1941. In his early career he worked of the Employee Relations Depart- as Pipeliner, Leadman, Assistant ment in 1969. Maintenance Foreman, and Pipeline Mr. Looney leaves his wife, Mary Maintenance Foreman in such places Ann; two sons, Kenneth W. Jr. and as Tonkawa, Pauls Valley, Osage, Gary; a daughter, Mrs. Jean Ann and Yarna, before becoming Area Kocian, all of Houston, and father, Safety Engineer at Gushing in 1951. George A. Looney of McAlester, In 1954 he moved to the Head Okla. Office as Assistant Supervisor of Safety and Training and remained there until 1955 when he was trans- JASHELL grabs ferred to Shell Oil Company's Pacific Coast E&P Area as Safety and Train- 'company of year' Ken W. Looney ing Representative in Los Angeles. award at Midland The JASHELL, a junior achievement company counselled by Shell Pipe Line and Shell Oil Company, has been named the "Company of the Go-Devil Year" in_Midland, Texas^ Competing Shell Pipe Line Corporation against 15 other JA companies in the Midland area, JASHELL was tops. Engineer Ron Herridge, West June 1971 Houston, Texas Texas Division, was an adviser along with two Shell Oil employees. Their team was designated the "Adviser Team of the Year" in Midland. SPL begins contacting public JASHELL began operations in Oc- tober last year when it capitalized $57 by selling 57 shares of stock. The along pipeline right-of-ways company employees, composed mostly of juniors from Midland and Lee High Beginning sometime in July, a se- The purpose of the program is to Schools, sold brass-based wooden lect group of employees will become solicit help from the people living or candle holders. In April, when the goodwill ambassadors for Shell Pipe working near our pipelines to prevent company was liquidated, they had Line. Armed with thermometers and them from being damaged. Our em- realized $1,060 in total sales with a information booklets, they will begin ployees will educate these people on net profit of $23.96, returning to contacting land owners and tenants, our safety record and tell them what their stockholders a 24% dividend. sheriffs, police and fire chiefs along to do if there are activities near the the right-of-ways of our pipelines. pipeline which might damage it. They The purpose of their visit is to ex- will also be briefed on what action Order desk diaries plain to these people where our pipe- to take if there is a leak or accident lines are in the ground, what they before July 1 cutoff carry, and what to do in case of a affecting the pipeline. leak or accident. The thermometers that will be If you want a Shell desk diary for The men responsible for supervis- handed out will have the division your personal giving this Christmas, ing this program in the different di- name and a telephone number to call you'll have to do your shopping early. visions are: Roger Bacon, Oklahoma in case of activity near the pipeline Orders for the 1972 edition must Division; E. M. Blevins, Northern or a leak. The American Petroleum be in by July 1. Cost to employees is Division; Doyle Campbell, Texas Gulf Institute booklet "Dig Our Message $1.50 each, which includes postage Division; Steve Hayes, Rocky Moun- and Not Our Pipeline," will also be and handling. The diary is used as tain Division; Gene Reeves, Southern Shell's corporate gift to its customers. Division; Grady Patton, Four Cor- distributed. Requests for the new diary will be ners Division, and Jim Waddell, West By maintaining good relations with filled in November. Checks may be Texas Division. These men will se- land owners and tenants, Shell Pipe sent to F. H. Roberts, Shell Oil Com- lect the employees in their division Line can continue to maintain a safe pany, Public Relations, One Shell to carry out this program. and efficient operation. Plaza, Houston, Texas 77002. Jim Boyajian Boyajian named Shell Pipe Line President John Green, right, recently presented Lowell Beck, Oil Scheduling Supervisor, with an API Award. The award, signed by Department of Trans- new PR manager portation Director D. H. Lord, was "in recognition of contribution in the training and education of pipeline personnel as instructor or coordinator for at least six terms at James Boyajian has been named THE SCHOOL OF PIPELINE TECHNOLOGY." Mr. Beck taught an Oil Movements class Public Relations Manager of Hous- at the school in Baytown. Foreign students made up about half his class, representing ton. He will be responsible for the countries from all over the world. public relations of Shell Pipe Line, Western E&P Eegion Office, Hous- ton Refinery, and Houston Chemical Pipeline Briefs Plant. According to Pipe Line Industry —Mifr-B-ayajian— was—^ernscrly—Man- ^TnTTglizirfeTtKerAs^ocfatTorrof^Oil Pipe ager of News and Publications, Gen- Lines reports that pipe lines are still eral Offices in Houston. He joined the most popular oil carriers. Of all Shell in 1956 as a writer in the Head crude and products transported in Office Public Relations Department the U.S. during 1969, 46.81 percent in New York. He later worked as were moved through pipe lines, 28.22 Public Relations Representative in percent by motor carriers, 23.35 per- Chicago and Los Angeles before com- cent by water carriers, and 1.62 per- ing to Houston in 1970. cent by railroads. In 1968, pipe lines Mr. Boyajian succeeds Robert H. accounted for 46.47 percent of the Stine, who was appointed Acting total. Manager of Public Relations in the Tonnage of crude and products New York Head Office. carried by pipe lines increased 4.57 percent, compared with total demand increase of 5.4 percent. Two SPL retirees die * •:•:- * W. H. Osborne, Senior Engineer in Two retirees of Shell Pipe Line, John Houser Technical Services, published an ar- J. P. Wallace Jr. and George Fields, ticle, "How To Improve Supervisory died during May. Control" in the May issue of Pipe Line James Preston "J. P." Wallace Jr., Houser named Industry magazine. His article dealt 74, died May 17 in a Kerrville hos- with how to use a computer effectively pital. Mr. Wallace was employed by Go-Devil editor in supervisory control systems in pipe Shell Pipe Line in 1930 as a Gauger. John Houser was named the new line companies. He retired March 1, 1957 as a Station editor of the Go-Devil effective May Engineer in Austin, Texas. He is 10. Born in Chicago, Mr. Houser at- GRADUATES cont'd survived by his wife Mrs. Lynette tended The University of Texas at Kitchens Wallace. Ullo, Assistant Operating Foreman Austin and graduated with a Bachelor at Farmington. Larry is a graduate George D. Fields, 72, died May 18 of Journalism degree in 1966. Since of Farmington High School where he in Vancouver, Washington. Mr. then he has been an associate editor was a member of Orchestra, Presi- Fields worked for Shell Pipe Line of the monthly Texas Parks & Wildlife dent of Band, and lettered in tennis. from 1934 until he retired in 1958 magazine, editor of the bi-monthly He plans to attend the San Juan as Tank Foreman Gauger "B" at employee magazine of Schlumberger Branch of New Mexico State Uni- Udall. He is survived by his wife Well Services—Sonde Off, and tech- versity and major in business ad- Mrs. Pauline Avis Fields. nical editor for Wilson Industries, Inc. ministration. Refinery Boosts Output Of Nonleaded Gasoline The Anacortes refinery has begun a $25-million quality improvement program that will result in more non- Prominent signs leaded motor gasoline from the same around the Shell service station crude throughput. let the would-be The process, which involves a cata- thief know right lytic reformer and a naphtha hydro- away that during nighttime hours treater, will be carried out in a closed the station oper- system. Environmental considerations ates on an exact were emphasized in the plant design, change basis only including strict limitations on noise and that there is no one on the and light emissions. premises who has The improvement in gasoline access to any quality achieved by the new facilities cash. can be described as rebuilding the molecule. Low-octane components are re- formed catalytically by using a plati- num catalyst to increase the octane. While this refining practice is well established and used generally throughout Shell, it has not been necessaiy up to now to use it at Ana- cortes. 'Exact Change Goes Nationwide Increasing amounts of nonleaded Hold-up men lose interest when a payment has to be in the exact amount gasoline will be required by low-emis- safe stands between them and their or by an acceptable credit card. sion cars in coming years. Shell was objective, a Shell Oil Co. test shows. For the customer who ignores the among the first to announce and man- The result of the test? Shell has be- notice and demands change after fill- ufacture a nonleaded fuel, and the come one of the first major oil com- ing up, Shell has an answer.

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