Hevle.com – drew@work

I get to spend my time equally in the office and out in the field. Working for a pipeline company demands that you travel out to see the pipeline. I really enjoy getting out of the office, but the travel is too much sometimes.

officecam

This is a picture of me circa 11/2001, I lost my Taco Bell mug (foreground) sometime last year. I had had it for more than 10 years. I still have a pretty cluttered desk.

helmetcam

This is me circa 7/2003 at our compressor station in Cleveland, Texas. Behind my right ear is a rectifier on a pole, and the gray towers sticking up in the background are slug catchers, which prevent any liquids in the pipeline from getting into the compressors.

El Paso values statement:

We will conduct our business in a bold and imaginative manner and commit to working together with trust, caring, integrity, and openness in a safe, fun, and exciting environment with respect for and empowerment of each other to achieve extraordinary results for our shareholders, our customers, and ourselves

Dates:

6/18/29:	EPNG’s (El Paso Natural Gas) first pipeline from Jal, New Mexico to El Paso, TX placed in service
3/31/92:	EPNG IPO spin-off from Burlington Resources
4/16/97:	El Paso Natural Gas buys natural gas assets of Tenneco (Tennessee Gas Pipeline), changes name to El Paso Energy
8/4/97:	Drew’s first day at El Paso
12/1/97:	Drew becomes staff corrosion engineer for Southern division
9/29/99:	El Paso merger with Sonat (Southern Natural Gas)
12/1/99:	Southern and Offshore divisions merged into the Gulf Coast division
7/27/00:	El Paso merger with Coastal (American Natural Resources and Colorado Interstate)
3/30/01:	Operations group moves from downtown to Greenway Plaza
12/7/01:	Enron collapse
12/14/01:	El Paso changes ticker symbol to "EP", name to El Paso Corporation
2/11/03	CEO Bill Wise resigns
7/17/03	El Paso names former Halliburton COO Doug Foshee as its new CEO and president
11/19/2003	El Paso settles with California; FERC finds no wrong-doing

bold and imaginative

I like to play the occasional practical joke at the office, not to the level of Cockeyed, but I also find fake signs funny. I especially like doing it when no-one will ever believe that I’m responsible. Take a look at my pranks page for some of the things I’ve done around the office.

working together

Here’s a picture of the people I work with, we went on a paddle-wheeler trip up the Mississippi one evening when we had meetings in New Orleans.

From the left: Cedric Logan (Birmingham), Chuck Bucy (Maitland, MO), me, Gary Busch (Detroit), Marion Williams (Houston), Jennifer Beishir (Houston), James Fairchild (Houma, LA), Don Beaumont (Pensacola, FL, retired), guest, Mike Brockman (Houston), Mark Whittington (Birmingham), John Chin (Detroit), Bryce Emery (Houston), Mike Hill (Boston), Mark Showler (Houston), Bob White (Detroit), Ricky LeJeune (Houma)

trust, caring, integrity and openness

Take a look at my pranks page.

safe, fun and exciting

This is what a pipeline right-of-way looks like. See the gap in the trees near the horizon? This is the Tennessee Gas Pipeline in east Texas near Jasper.

Not real exciting, but that’s how corrosion engineers like to see it. Pipelines are the safest form of transportation in the world. Our pipelines transport natural gas from the areas of production to the markets.

extraordinary results

drew’s compensation

Take a look at this correlation! What the company needs is to give me a big fat raise, and the stock price will go through the roof.

Last updated 8/2/04.

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