83:5 A quest for know-how leads pipeliners to Cushing . to learn how to fight fires, control oil spills Fires and oil spills have one thing This four-hour exercise also drew both of Neosho, Mo., were the first in common. Once they start, they 200 non-Shell spectators. This crowd to give fire-fighting a try. can be stopped. But first, you must primarily consisted of representa­ Holding 30-pound dry chemical know how to deal with them. tives of area oil companies and fire fire extinguishers, they advanced A quest for that kind of know­ departments, who came to study on a three-foot-high metal bin simu­ how led 40 Oklahoma and Missouri how Shell pipeliners deal with lating a crude oil storage tank fire. pipeliners to Shell Pipe Line's Cush­ emergencies. They were quickly bathed with heat ing, Okla., tank farm on June 8. as they neared the six-foot flames. Participating in one of the largest Snuffing out fires But they kept coming. Coached Shell-sponsored training exercise by a professional fire training in­ in the tank farm's history, they Kicking off the exercise, Jess structor, the two pipeliners quickly came to learn how to fightfires and Wilson, a maintenance foreman, drowned the flames in chemicals. how to clean up a crude oil spill. and Danny Woodcock, a pipeliner, Gordon Feller, supervisor of oil - movements and the organizer of the LEFf: Jess Wilson yells out training tips on training exercise, was pleased with his bullhorn the results of the demonstration. BOTTOM LEFT: Marty Jenkins gives fire­ "Pipeliners proved that extin­ fighting Ii try. guishers - and people who know BELOW; Working with other pipeliners, how to use them - provide an effec­ Terry Wood spreads o i.l -ahsorbent cloths to tive defense against pipeline-related help clean up an oil spiU on the tank farm I)ond. fires," says Feller. "Such demon­ strations show extinguishers can put out a small fire or keep it under control until professional firemen arrive. "We're sold on extinguishers at Wilson and Danny- Woodcock shove the "oil mop" motor into position near the oil spill. The mop, a portable spil1-absorbing machine, has only recently been introduced to Pipe Line's Oklahoma locations. Cushing because they've been used pulleys, one connected to the motor here will help us quickly clean up several times to keep little fires and the other anchored in the pond. spills off the water our pipelines from spreading to our crude oil The pulleys continually tugged a cross." storage tanks and triggering more clothesline-like rope back and forth Missouri's maintenance people destructi ve fires." across the pond on top of the water. had previously used the cleanup On each trip across the pond, the equipment demonstrated at Cush­ Soaking up oil rope soaked up more oil. Upon its ing but benefitted by participating return to shore, the rope passed in the exercise according to Wilson. The oil clean up exercise prepared through two rollers above the drum "We can use all the practice we pipeliners to dispose of a crude oil - rollers which squeezed oil into can get since we don't have too spill on water. the drum. many spills to work with." To create a realistic setting, a Wading into the pond, Terry Such spill cleanup training also barrel of crude oil was poured into a Wood, a Healdton, Okla., truck can make pipeliners' lives safer, tank farm pond. Then, the spill was driver, soaked up still more oil by according to Clarence Long, super­ surrounded with a "boom," a float­ spreading chemically treatecl cot­ visor of safety, health and training. ing barricade which kept the oil ton cloths, which like the mop, are " While people think of an oil spill from spreading across the water, or designed to pick up oil and leave as an environmental problem, flam­ reaching the shore. water behind. mabie spills can spark a fire. You Now, the stage was setfor Wilson Such efforts quickly paid off as enhance safety every time you clean and Woodcock to begin cleanup the pipeliners cleaned up the oil up a spill rapidly and efficiently." operations - with the use of an "oil within an hour. Long adds, "I think the partici­ mop," a portable spill-absorbing As a result of the exercise, Okla­ pants got a lot outofthe fire-fighting machine only recently introduced homa maintenance crews who clean and spill sessions, and I would like to Pipe Line's Oklahoma locations. up oil spills learned how to use to see more of them. When you're Standing ashore, they first shoved equipment they never operated talking about helping pipeliners the machine's electric motor, which before. cope with emergencies - before is supported by a metal drum, close "That lesson won't be wasted," they happen - there's no such to the spill.. Then, they cranked up says James Bell, Healdton's opera­ thing as having too much training." the motor to power a system oftwo tions foreman. "What we learned ... 4 g&,u Saluting pipeliners' graduates ... from the Class of '83 Janet Lee Axmann-Creech, Douglas Baugh, son of Don Mark Wayne Byrd, son of College Grads daughrerofGeorge F. Axmann, N. Baugh, communications William H. Byrd, Jr., commun­ superintendent, Western Dis­ technician, Patoka, TIl., was ications supervisor, New Or­ trict, Odessa, Texas, received a awarded an associate's degree leans, La., received a bachelor's bachelor's degree in fine arts­ in welding and metallurgy degree in electrical engineering graphic design from Lamar technology from Olney Central from Louisiana State Univer­ University. She plans Lo get a College. sity - where he was named to master's degree in graphic the Dean's List. He now works design. for Shell Pipe Line as an elec­ trical engineer in Midland, Texas. Axmann-Creech Baugh Byrd Becerra Butcher Crivellari DcueJ High School Grads Cherylin Jo Becerra, daugh­ and has participated in the Cindy Ann Louviere, daugh­ ter of F. John Becerra, head Texas State Mock Trial compe­ ter of Dennis P. Louviere, oper­ pipeliner, Fremont, Calif., grad· tition. He also is a recipient of a ations supervisor, Sorrento, La., uated from John F. Kennedy Shell Companies Foundation graduated from Ascension Cath­ High School. Cherylin partici· scholarship, which he will use olic High School. Listed on the pated in varsity track, choir, to pursue a bachelor's degree in honor roll for four years, she band, orchestra, the Guitar electrical engineering and com­ was secretary of the National Club and the Honor Society. puter engineering at Rice Honor Society and a reporter She also worked on the high University. for the Music Club. She also be­ school yearbook and partici· longed to the basketball team, pated in an Association of Bradley Charles Ewing, son the Fellowship of Christian Moore Christian Schools speech meet. of Robert A. Ewing, Mid-Con­ Athletes, the Library Club and She plans to attend Ohlone tinent Division technical super­ the Booster Club. She will at­ College. intendent, Indianapolis, Ind., tend Nicholls State University. graduated from Carmel High Kim Butcher, daughter of School. A member of the wres­ Kimberly Kay Moore, daugh· listed in Who's Who in Ameri­ Lloyd G. Butcher, maintenance tling team, he was listed on the ter of F. Leon Moore, pipeliner· can High School Students in foreman, Coalinga, Calif., grad· honor roll and participated in welder 1, Hobbs, N.M., grad· 1982. She will attend South­ uated from Coalinga High the school play. Bradley also uated from Hobbs High School. western Assemblies of God School. Kim was a lead vocalist was the school's TV station Kimberly plans to attend New College. in a school band. She plans to weatherman. He plans to major Mexico Junior College. attend beauty college. in radio and TV broadcasting Catherine Ann Scioneaux, at Butler University. Randall Lee Perkins, son of daughter of Paul R. Scioneaux, Robert Piemme Crivellari, H. E. Perkins, oil movements Sr., oil movements controller, son of John J. Crivellari, Jr., Travis Todd Griffith, son of supervisor, Roxana, IlL, grad­ St. James, La., graduated from accounting assistant, Houston, James E. Griffith, Jr., station uated from Roxana High St. James High School. Cathe­ Texas, graduated from Alief attendant, Garfield Station School. A vice president of per­ rine was a member of the Band Hastings High School, where (Texas), graduated from Bas· sonnel for the Mississippi Val­ Club, 4·H Club and Future he lettered in football for four trop High School. A member of ley Junior Achievement, he Farmers of America. She plans years. He also was named the the football team for two years, received a Junior Achievement to attend trade school. Most Outstanding Soccer Play· Travis was named Most Out­ merit citation as an officer-of­ er at the Houston area North standin g Vocational Student the-year semi·finalist. He was a Tisch Ann Scott, daughter of Shore Tournament and was se· for 1982-83 and Most Dependa­ member of the German Club Robert G. Baldwin, operations lected for an All· District "first" ble Senior Boy. He also was and Calculus Club and partici· foreman, Kalkaska, Mich., soccer team. He will go to Bell­ nominated as Mr. Bastrop High pated in high school golf, bas­ graduated from Kalkaska High haven College. School. He will attend Texas ketball, bowling and volleyball. School. A cheerleader for three A&M University. Randall will major in chemical years, Tisch placed second in John Deuel, son of James P. engineering at the University high school bowling competi­ Deuel, Central Division man­ Burl Everette King, son of of Missouri at Rolla, Mo.