New Employee Class Oct 22

The October class for new employees was well attended.  Tom Miesner, who taught the class received the following unsolicited e-mail from one of the participants...

Tom,

I really did enjoy the class.  It was best source of
information I have ever heard on the non technical level.  I had 9
years of natural gas experience and 5 years of fuel additive/lubricants
experience at (major company name) before coming to (large pipeline operator).  Have to admit
even visiting natural gas plant operations and working in the gas sales
marketing arena, your information was much more detailed… not having much
experience on the crude oil side, it was indeed good information for me to be
able to better visualize the services our contractors perform in the
field.   I could certainly relate to much of the FERC history with my
20+ years in the industry.

Thank you again for your knowledge and expertise!

Comments on the critique forms included the following:

• Great, really appreciated the materials on valves and pipe - about Equipment and Components.
• Great class! Thank you so much for the information, and especially the personal experiences stories!
• HDD process was very informative.  I have always wondered how this was done.
• Very awesome class.  Very informative.
• Good overview of pipeline economics, especially what an MLP is.
• Easy to follow slides with great pictures of the whole process - about Construction.
• Great explanation of regulations for pipelines.  The website slides will be helpful in navigating the sites when going on my own.
• I think this was a very well prepared class.  All of the information was understandable and interesting.
• Pictures were extremely helpful in this section - about Maintenance
• Found tanks interesting since we deal with tank construction - about Equipment and Components
• Interesting seeing how pipeline construction comes together.
• Excellent class.  Will help me in my contracts job in being able to understand work types and risks involved.