Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1954 Page: 4 of 6
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Baytown Briefs • May 21, 1954
U. S. Oil Industry To Spend $4 Billion
Money Slated For Expansion,
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An employee education
plan concerning public rela-
tions of the Oil Industry, sug-
gested by James N. Beasley,
Jr., acting manager of Employee
Relations at the Refinery, has been
given widespread attention among
oil companies.
THE OBJECTIVE of the
Beasley Plan is to inform and
Rodeo At Crosby Tomorrow
If you like to watch hard riding
cowboys in action, don’t miss the
rodeo at the Crosby Fair Grounds
today and tomorrow at 8 p.m.
You’ll see some of your fellow
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activate industry personnel in the
Oil Industry Information Com-
mittee, which has among its ob-
jectives the creation of good pub-
lic relations for the industry.
Beasley contacted officials of
64 companies in Texas, each hav-
ing 300 or more workers, listed
benefits of having informed em-
ployees and suggested ways to
explain OIIC.
SERVICE EMBLEMS
Ten Years
Barge, William Dr., Jr.—SR-43
Boyett, Victor E.—Pipe
Porter, Carlton A.—Pipe
Rawlinson, Cecil R.—Pipe
Reed, Homan Y.—Cracking Coils
TRANSFERS
Bowers, Robert A.—Instrument to
SR-43
Campeau, Joseph L.—Treating to
Boilermakers
Cutbirth, Roy L.—Rigging to SR-10
Holleman, William C.—Light Ends to
Labor
Kling, Jackie R.—SR-10 to Accounting
Wells, Lucius O.—Compound to Labor
Wooley, Alfred C.—Treating to
Boilermakers
RETIREMENTS
Hooper, Robert A.—Hydroformer
Williams, Eugene W.—Plant Protection
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TWO HURDLES CROSSED. Employees al SR-43 have a
climbed over Iwo hurdles on their way to a new safely record. I
On April 30 ihey completed one million manhours without a
disabling injury and at midnight on Humble Day they had
worked a full year safely. Now they are moving toward a I
goal of beating their previous record of 409 days without a •
disabling injury set from December 16, 1947 to January 29, Si
1949. At Briefs presslime, Wednesday, they had reached 368 m Sde
days and were still going strong. Holding the placards sym-
bolizing one million safe manhours are, left to right, I. W.
Gordon, Pipe department; H. D. Hardison, Carpenters’; A. IL i
Dunkerly, insulators; A. Leibham, Riggers; W. E. Watson, I
Garage; P. J. Corbett, Labor department, and G. P. Knudson’
Machinists.
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lars will be spent by the U. S.
oil industry in 1954 to expand
and develop its resources and
facilities to meet the increas-
ingly heavy demands of both the
present and the future. This is ac-
cording to a release recently put
out by the American Petroleum
Institute.
THIS IS the greatest single
sum of money ever earmarked for
such purposes in any one year of
petroleum history, the report said.
The biggest slice of this 1954 in-
vestment will be spent in the
United States. Only a little over
600 million dollars is scheduled
for foreign use, leaving the bulk
of more than 4 billion for ex-
pansion, modernization and de-
velopment in this country.
This constitutes a record in it-
self, for this is the first time that
oil’s capital programs have ex-
ceeded four billion dollars do-
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pression of faith in the future;
3) oil companies are endeavoring mi
to discharge their responsibilities UU
with traditional foresight, and 4)
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Employees in the Instrument
department held a safely party
last Friday to celebrate the com-
pletion of 11 consecutive years
without a disabling injury.
THIS NEW record was set by
an average of 105 employees who
worked more than 2,663,743 man-
hours.
Following brief congratulatory
talks by Company representatives,
Joe Matthews, instrument tech-
nician, who has recently returned
from South Africa, showed color
slides on his trip which included
a “safari” through the jungles
and wild game country.
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at the same time they are keeping
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TANK MAKES LIKE TANKER. That’s No. 357 Tank
you see floating through the west lank farm. It’s being moved
about 150 feet westward to make room for a new No. 356
Tank. Water was pumped into the area enclosed by fire walls
to form a small lake around the tank. Then the 35,000-barrel
tank, which settled about 15 inches into the water, was pulled
like a barge to the new site where a concrete ring had been
poured for it. When the water was pumped out of the area,
the tank settled into place. The floating method has been used
on several occasions in transporting tanks for short distances.
Linemen moved power lines out of the way, Riggers used
winches to control the tank as it was moved, and employees
in the Labor department handled the flooding of the area,
which took about 22 hours.
THE SIZE of these financial |
commitments, and the fact that
they are orily a one-year segment
of the industry’s continuing proc-
ess of modernization and expan- l
sion, points up four major factors:
1) they are indicative of the ।
highly competitive nature of the
oil business; 2) they’re an ex-
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More than four billion dol- mestically in any calendar year.
The 1953 home peak was 3 billion
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 02, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1954, newspaper, May 21, 1954; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417452/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.