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]]>BERTHOUD, Colo., April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Blackeagle Energy Services (“Blackeagle”), a leader in the utility and energy industries, has been awarded the Distribution Contractors Association (“DCA”) Arthur T. Everham Safety Award. The DCA established the award in 1986 to recognize contractors with exceptional safety programs. Blackeagle receives the award for 500,000-2,000,000 man-hours in 2018.
Find out more about Blackeagle’s commitment to safety: https://www.blackeagleenergyservices.com/why-black-eagle/safety/
Presented annually, the prestigious award is named for Mr. Everham, who founded a construction company in the early 1950s to serve the oil and natural gas industries. When he joined DCA, he advocated for safety in an industry that, at the time, was rife with hazards. After his passing, the DCA named its safety award for him.
“Safety is essential to our work family and vital to our business,” said Blackeagle CEO Joe Colletti. “Since winning the safety award for the first time three years ago, we have implemented new techniques to improve our ability to identify potential hazards in advance and rewarding our employees to correct them on the spot. This is a program we call the ‘Good Catch’ program and it has helped us get better from when we were just good.”
Judging criteria includes:
Blackeagle’s SVP, Scott Yenzer stated: “It was an honor to receive the award on behalf of our hardworking and courageously caring team. We know that the culture of caring about each other drives the safety in the field and our field teams are the true heroes and recipients of this award.”
“This award validates the effectiveness of Blackeagle’s performance management system, of which safety is a key component,” said Blackeagle Director of Environmental Health and Safety Earl Worth. “We build safety into our core standard operating procedures, starting with our rigorous employee selection and training process, which includes pre-employment integrity testing, skills-based onboarding and operator qualifications. We reinforce safe behavior with our good-catch recognition program, safety audits and weekly craft-level performance scorecards that span the life of our projects and reinforce our safety culture.”
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]]>“We have a culture of caring at Blackeagle where every individual looks after one another,” said Scott Yenzer, Blackeagle’s SVP, who continued, “Working 4 million man hours without a lost time incident demonstrates our commitment to operating at the highest standards of care and performance.” Blackeagle’s Safety Director, Earl Worth, added, “We are extremely proud of our employees who work in challenging environments every day and stay safe by applying our safety systems, including the ‘Good Catch’ program where they proactively identify potential losses, record and correct them immediately.” To get your next project safely executed by Blackeagle. Click here: https://www.blackeagleenergyservices.com/why-black-eagle/blackeagle-difference/.
The energy industry exists and executes projects from remote regions of the United States to the down town of its largest metropolitan cities. Blackeagle’s ability to work safely and without incident on these high-profile projects has been a tremendous value to their customers. “One safety metric is Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR),” said Earl Woth. “While the construction industry sits at an average of 3.6 TRIR, Blackeagle has achieved world-class safety performance with a 0.00 TRIR and averaged 0.27 TRIR over the last 5 years.”
About Blackeagle Energy ServicesExceeding client expectations since 1986, Blackeagle Energy Services is a premier provider of services to utility/energy companies and specializes in building and maintaining our nation’s energy infrastructure with pipeline and facility construction, integrity management, field maintenance and fabrication. Headquartered in Colorado, Blackeagle has hub offices in Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. It operates in 17 states from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf States and across the Great Plains.
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]]>Blackeagle Energy Services (“Blackeagle”), a leader in the utility and energy industries, has been awarded the Distribution Contractors Association (“DCA”) Arthur T. Everham Safety Award. The DCA established the award in 1986 to recognize contractors with exceptional safety programs. Blackeagle tied for first place among companies that worked 470,000-1,000,000 man-hours in 2016 without a recordable safety incident.
Presented annually, the prestigious award is named for Mr. Everham, who founded a construction company in the early 1950s to serve the oil and natural gas industries. When he joined DCA, he advocated for safety in an industry that, at the time, was rife with hazards. After his passing, the DCA named its safety award for him.
“Safety is at the heart of everything we do,” said Blackeagle President and CEO Rick Barrett. “It is central to our planning, execution and feedback systems. Our employees always put safety first and understand that safety is vital to themselves, our customers, the communities where we work and the success of our company. They deserve all the credit for this award because of their diligence on the job.”
This year 44 contractors were considered for the Arthur T. Everham Safety Award in four categories based on the number of hours worked without an incident. To determine the winners, DCA thoroughly reviews Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) logs and safety documentation.
Rigorous judging criteria include:
“This award validates the effectiveness of Blackeagle’s performance management system, of which safety is a key component,” said Blackeagle Director of Environmental Health and Safety George Bunker. “We build safety into our core standard operating procedures, starting with our rigorous employee selection and training process, which includes pre-employment integrity testing, skills-based onboarding and operator qualifications. We reinforce safe behavior with our good-catch recognition program, safety audits and weekly craft-level performance scorecards that span the life of our projects and reinforce our safety culture.”
About Blackeagle Energy Services
Exceeding client expectations since 1986, Blackeagle Energy Services is a premier provider of services to energy companies and specializes in building and maintaining our nation’s energy infrastructure with pipeline and facility construction, integrity management, field maintenance and fabrication. Headquartered in northern Colorado, Blackeagle has major field offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Ohio. It operates in 17 states from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf States, across the Great Plains and into the Northeast.
For more information, please visit www.www.blackeagleenergyservices.com.
About Distribution Contractors Association
DCA is a member-centered association. Members participate in a variety of committees and annual activities that ultimately benefit the entire industry. Members look to the association as an advocate for safety, a venue for networking and a voice in labor relations. The domain of DCA’s contractor members is within city gates, where the final link for pipeline, cable and duct systems is made to individual residences and industrial complexes. Contractor members of the DCA are contractors who provide specific distribution construction services, including fiber optic, cable and duct installation, and the installation, replacement and rehabilitation of gas pipelines.
For more information, please visit www.dcaweb.org.
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]]>That additional production needs to find its way to the ultimate end-users, and that offers significant opportunities for companies like Blackeagle Energy Services to help build out infrastructure.
“All capital is flowing to the Permian Basin, and that’s not only a short-term, but long-term trend,” said Todd Erickson, vice president of corporate development with the Colorado-based company. Long-term, “even if oil is at $45, $50 or $55, this area will still be viable. It’s not about exploration anymore. It’s about technology and those incremental advances that let producers get oil out of the ground more economically.”
Erickson was in town recently to visit Blackeagle’s yard near Midland International Air and Space Port, acquired late last summer with the purchase of certain of Brazos Rock Inc.’s Permian Basin assets.
“For our company, that was a big move and is a big part of our growth,” Erickson said.
The company, founded 30 years ago as an energy construction company working with utilities and in refined product transmission as well as integrity management, made the move as part of a diversification effort. The effort began in 2014 as crude prices began to crumble. As Erickson put it: “In 2014, we saw the writing on the wall and didn’t want all our eggs in one basket.”
To expand its base, the company identified oil and natural gas as having the most growth. Blackeagle opened an office to serve the Marcellus and Utica natural gas shale plays, building and maintaining natural gas transmission lines, distribution mains and facilities including regulator, compressor and town border stations. Integrity management services include making lines “piggable” through retrofit efforts and pressure testing.
To provide crude producers with the same services, “strategically, if you want in oil and natural gas construction, you need to come to the Permian Basin,” Erickson said. Corporate officials are aware of the lagging infrastructure in the Delaware Basin, he added.
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