Every December, The Crude Life looks back at some of the year’s best highlights, personality profiles and news nuggets of note. This year, the Year In Review enters it’s 10th year. Here is today’s feature is Distribution NOW’s Grand Opening celebration in Odessa, Texas, which, along with Midland are the epicenter of the Permian Basin.
“This is a DNow investment, continued DNow investment in Midland Odessa and the Permian Basin,” CEO David Cherechinsky said on stage at the press conference. “We have about 200 people here in Midland Odessa, 300 people in the Permian… we have multiple business units including our distribution business, which we are growing here today.”
Cherechinsky’s words hit home with the entire DistributionNow team who has been extremely busy of late satisfying customer needs and stocking up to help them thrive in these volatile supply chain conditions.
“This is an investment in our future,” Cherechinsky said. “We are going to invest more. We are going to build on the momentum we’re generating in our company.”
Additional facility expansions in the Bakken, for example, were foreshadowed as well as improvements to other areas throughout the country. However, on this day, the news of the DistributionNOW Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting percolated all throughout the Permian.
The day started at 9am with The Voice of West Texas Kris Moore and the entire crew at 550AM KCRS interviewed Area Director – Sales & Operations for the Permian Basin Josiah Black and Harlow Tripp, MBA, Vice President – US Sales and Operation, about their new facility and investment into the Permian Basin.
“This is a tremendous investment for the community and energy industry,” Black said. “DistributionNOW is very excited for the future of energy in America. We have enough supply and innovation to responsibly harvest our reserves to help power the world right now.”
Tripp continued the conversation about the Permian and even shared the news and even brought some Bakken news too.
“We have another facility we just finished up on the Bakken,” Tripp said. “So we are getting prepared and ready for the next chapter in energy development.”
After the interview with 550AM KCRS West Texas, Black and Tripp were immediately on the Bakken airwaves. Both by name and location.
The two appeared on the popular Bismarck (ND) radio show 1270 AM SuperTalk’s Talk of the Town with Steve Bakken, which airs across the Bakken oil field.
After a couple more local Permian radio interviews, the DistributionNOW team gathered in anticipation for the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting event.
The Crude Life was at the event recording radio and podcast interviews, including exclusive interviews with City of Odessa Mayor Javier Joven and City of Midland Mayor Patrick Payton.
Mayor Joven sees more investments coming like the one from DistributionNOW.
“Basically they have retooled the Halliburton facilities back into a regional distribution center,” Joven said. “You know the old industry is retooling itself since we’ve had the downtown and the nature of issues like inflation. So you see the creativity of how you have to survive.”
Midland Mayor Payton sees the new facility in Odessa as a big win for Midland too.
“For all of us just the economic evolution, a lot of people talk about diversification, but any diversification we have has to be connected to the oil and gas industry,” Payton said. “Most people do not understand how many companies and organizations are involved in oil and gas. From distribution warehouses of goods and services to the people who are making the roads so you can get out to the rigs and frac locations, so anything the two (Mayors and cities) of us can do, as Secretary Evans calls it, ‘in the heartbeat of the most secure and safe oil and gas region in the world’ then we have to do it alongside that industry and see what we can do to improve it.”
The event was well attended with corn hole games, ping pong and food trucks to keep people entertained while enjoying fellowship and tours of the location.
DistributionNOW operates primarily under the DistributionNOW and DNOW brands. Through its network of approximately 195 locations and 2,600 employees worldwide, NOW Inc. offers a comprehensive line of products and solutions for the upstream, midstream and downstream energy and industrial sectors. Its locations provide products and solutions to exploration and production companies, energy transportation companies, refineries, chemical companies, utilities, manufacturers and engineering and construction companies.
For more information on the DistributionNOW Odessa location, contact their Sales Team at 432-638-1224.
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