Dane Manuel Email & Phone Number

Beaumont, Texas, United States

May 2013- Measurement technician in Empire, Louisiana. Worked crude oil measurement for inland platforms and Chevron tank farmFebruary 2014- Transferred to sunset, Louisiana. Offshore measurement technician conducting measurement duties on 19 offshore platformsJuly 2015- joined Texas HCA as a tech leader. Performed jobs that included anomaly repairs after ILI pig runs, performed in-line inspection pig runs, pipeline cut outs and tie ins. April 2020- Kicked out of HCA due to favoritism. Started in Beaumont as maintenance tech leader. Performed jobs such as valve replacements, valve rebuild, manifold change outs, ROW maintenance and repairsJanuary 2022- while in Beaumont, became integrity tech leader.

Port Barre, Louisiana, United States

Welder helper for multiple welders performing fabrication for Spectra Energy Bobcat storage. New construction of five natural gas compressors and pressure reduction skid for salt dome well storage

Opelousas, Louisiana, United States

Welder helper and straw boss for 2.5 miles of 16” pipe and fabrication for Spectra Energy BobCat storage.

Collins, Mississippi, United States

Welder helper and general all-around labor hand for DDS. Work included fabricating new 8” line to connect two tanks at Collins Pipeline ExxonMobil tank farm. Fabrication new sump line for ExxonMobil. Setting and pulling pumps for Colonial Pipeline. Gauging tanks for Colonial and ExxonMobil. Tank seal inspections for ExxonMobil. New manifold for Colonial Injection site. Welding TORs on Colonials pipeline for DRA injection.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Welder helper for multiple welders running a 36” mainline for Enterprise Products through the swamps and cane fields of south Louisiana

Mount Vernon, Alabama, United States

Welder helper for multiple welders and straw boss for job. Building new compressor station for Florida Gas Transmission in Mt. Vernon Alabama

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

First pipeline job as my dads welder helper. He left and I stayed with the crew becoming a laborer hand. We set new pump suction and discharge lines at Loop LLC for Shell. I helped set a new above ground prover at Colonial Tank Farm in St. Francisville, LA. Also helped install new meter runs for Shell at Norco

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering

What started as a passionate drive for a mechanical engineering degree turned into me realizing I was not cut for college.