With the oil and gas industry operating at near record levels, companies in Texas, the Southwest, and all across America are increasingly turning to Marketplace Chaplains, the country’s original and largest workplace chaplaincy organization.

Among non-OPEC countries, only Russia, the United States as a whole, China and Canada would exceed Texas’ oil production, making the state the world’s sixth-largest producer.

The state’s production, driven mainly by the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas and the Permian Basin in West Texas, will reach about 3.4 million barrels per day, propelling Texas past Iraq and Iran, said Greg Leveille, Manager for Technology Program-Unconventional Reservoirs at ConocoPhillips in a recent report in the San Antonio Express-News.¹

Martin Resource Management, based in Kilgore, Texas, is one of the many companies experiencing the boom of the oil and gas industry in their home state. As a result, they are concerned about the toll busyness is taking on their employees and their family members.

Martin uses Marketplace Chaplains to care for employees in dozens of locations, concentrated in the South and Southwest but stretching as far as Tampa, Florida, to Stockton, California. “This is the best thing I’ve ever done for my company,” said Ruben Martin, President and CEO of Martin Resource Management.”

Some of the Texas-based oil and natural gas energy client companies include Pioneer Natural Resources, in Irving, J-W Energy Company in Dallas, Wood Group Mustang and Hilcorp Energy in Houston. All have turned to this workplace chaplaincy service to help their employees.

“Wood Group Mustang is engaged in a highly competitive oil and gas industry where people vote with their feet where they work. Partnering with Marketplace Chaplains has helped us live up to our core value,” one company executive said. “With the help of Marketplace Chaplains, our reach is extended through their vast network of chaplains,” another added.

Marketplace Chaplains are on far-flung job sites, at dangerous locations on the water, on the ground, and in corporate offices meeting the needs of others.

“In these busy and economically successful times in the oil and gas business, these forward thinking company leaders have found that the use of trained, caring, compassionate Marketplace Chaplains are one of their best assets in dealing with their valuable natural resources… their employees and family members,” said Richard S. De Witt, Executive President and COO of Marketplace Chaplains.

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1          http://petroforceenergy.com/texas-oil-production-moving-world-ranking/