~J. O`Neil Is Pritne Contractor For DTE Energy/Mich Con Upgrades

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Celebrating 24 Years of Service
Summer 2007
Washington-IO Compressor Station Upgrades
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O'Neil Is Pritne Contractor For
DTE Energy/Mich Con Upgrades
W]. O'Neil Company has been selected as the prime contractor for the DTE
Energy/Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Washington-l 0 Compressor Station
upgrades. Work consists of providing project
management, piping fabrication and installation, excavation, backfill, concrete, coating and structural steel work for the Dehydration Plant expansion, Line Heater No.4
addition and Vector Interconnect Meter Station upgrades.
1he project, located at 30 Mile Road
and M-53 Highway in Washington Township, includes the installation of one 114"
diameter x 27'-4" high dehydration tower
and switching skid, one 10 MMBTU/hr
forced draft indirect fired line heater, and
one complete bidirectional custody transfer ultrasonic meter run, complete with all
associated piping, valves and interconnecting piping.
All piping is being fabricated and preassembled in W]. O'Neil's Livonia shop. Due
to the high operating pressures of this gas
transmission piping (up to more than 2,000
psi), all welding and installation procedures
are subject to very stringent code requirements. DTE Energy/Mich Con provides
full time inspection services in our fabrication shop to oversee all aspects of the work.
There have been approximately 400
welds made, in sizes ranging from 30" diameter pipe size down to 2". Welding is per-
Above left: 24" diameter by 140' long gas transmission tie-in piping. TOp right: High
pressure manifoldfabrication. Bottom right: Metering area fabrication and assembly.
formed by qualified welders and, upon
completion, the owner employs a third party to perform radiographic inspection of all
welds to ensure conformance to very strict
standards. After x-rays, the piping assemblies are hydrostatically tested at one-and-ahalf times the operating pressure (more than
3,000 psi) to assure their integrity.
Once the prefabricated piping and
assemblies are completed, they are shipped
to the project site for installation by W].
O'Neil. Since the Washington-l 0 Compressor Station is an operating facility, the new
piping must be installed with a minimum
amount of disruption to the existing natural gas pipe lines. The new piping is installed
during predefined/prescheduled system outages. Some of these outages require W].
O'Neil to work around-the-clock to get the
facility back on line so DTE Energy/Mich
Con can provide natural gas to its customers.
As the prime contractor, W]. O'Neil must
implement the self-performing piping work
and schedule and coordinate the activities of
our excavation, structural steel, concrete and
coatings subcontractors.
W]. O'Neil Company is lip to the challenge of providing DTE Energy/Mich Con
with the high quality, on time project for
which they selected us.
WJ. O'NEIL COMPANY
35457 INDUSTRIAL • LIVONIA, MICHIGAN 48150
734-458-2300 • FAX 734-458-2305 • www.wjo.com
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How Praise Builds Positive Relationships Limit Your
There's a lot of power in praising people, according to Chris Widener, president of
Interruptions
Made for Success and Extraordinary Leaders. Widener says it's very important to
develop successful relationships
in life, and one great way to
do that is look for what is truly good in others and then tell
them about it.
Widener says we all have a
choice in our life approach, and
that approach can either be lifegiving or life-taking, meaning
that we can either choose to be
positive or negative forces in other peoples' lives. In other words,
you either spend YOut time and
energy building people up or
tearing people down.
Which kind of person are you?
What kind of manager do you
want to be? Do you know how to
build a person up?
Widener says praise is one
of the main ways you can build
someone up. When you praise
someone, and there has to be truth in that praise, something amazing often then takes
place. Something starts to grow and change in the other person, and your relationship
often becomes deeper and more fulfilling as a result.
Widener says to think about what kind of leader you want to be: one who builds
people up or tears them down? The choice is yours.
A Public Relations Tip
One of the ways to get more PR is to get some PRo
Press mentions, even little ones, tend to build PR momentum for you. If you are
just getting started using PR as a lead generation tool, you can't expect to land the big
feature story you are after right out of the gate. Think of journalists as a target market. Take some time to understand what they write about, read what they cover, and
find ways to gently begin to educate your targeted journalists by becoming a resource to
them for your industry or subject.
Send them easily digestible, immediately usable packets of information that you
know will be of interest to their readers. Don't sell-let them buy. Keep at it on at least
a monthly basis. Do this for about six months and you will notice that you are starting
to receive calls from journalists in need of a quote. Then the table may be set to start the
conversations about the big feature article!
-from the Duct Tape Marketing blog
Don't Leave The Office Without It
Remember to take home groceries that you purchased during your lunch hour by
stashing your car keys in the office refrigerator along with the food.
-from Bottom Line/PersonaL
Phones, e-mail alerts, chatty co-workersthe list of daily interruptions is almost
endless. And once interrupted, recent
studies have found that it is very difficult
to get back on task. So a better strategy is
to avoid the interruptions as much as possible during the workday. Here are some
suggestions for keeping your workday
working:
• Arrive at the office earlier than evetyone else if you have a flexible work
schedule. Tty to arrive an hour before
other co-workers start to trickle in. Use
that hour to answer e-mail that need
attending to and check your phone
messages. Then when you're ready to
start your work, you won't have the
task of getting to
these things
throughout
the day.
• Set one or
two times
a day to
deal with
your e-mail
and phone
messages
and stick
to them:
Don't constantly check your e-mail or
answer each message as it comes in.
This will distract you from achieving
your daily work goals.
• Go through your in-box and take care
of everything you possibly can as you
come to it. Tty not to lay anything aside
for later, which usually just creates piles
of things that you might be tempted to
procrastinate talcing care of.
• Be friendly, but don't start conversations that are liable to snowball into
long chitchats. Stay focused and get
on with your work. Learn how to end
conversations, by saying things like,
"Okay, nice talking to you. I'd better
get back to what I was doing or I won't
finish what I'm working on before
lunch," and such.
5uJIlmer2007
How Trivial!
How To Prepare For The Big Meeting
1) What zodiac sign is known as the
Water Bearer?
a) Pisces
b) Sagittarius
c) Virgo
d) Aquarius
You've got a big meeting coming up, and already you are dreading it. Why? Because
you know your performance in meetings is a career maker or breaker, and you hate the
pressure. However, according to Peter Murphy in Project Management magazine, there
are a few things you can
do to ensure your meeting performance puts you
in the best possible light:
• Be prepared. That
means you need to
be informed about
the matters to be discussed before the
meeting commences.
Being ready to intelligently discuss matters
at hand will lead to
feelings of confidence,
and will encourage your colleagues to view you as competent and relaxed.
• Run through a rehearsal of what you are going to say. TlY to visualize yourself successfully communicating your message, and actually enjoying doing it. Rehearse for about
20 minutes the night before when you are feeling positive and relaxed.
• Speak with enthusiasm. No one likes to listen to someone who is bored with what they
are talking about. If the subject does not inspire your enthusiasm, shoot for delivering
your message with some energy.
• Be ready for objections. Anticipate objections your colleagues might throw on the table
and prepare your responses.
• Be certain of yourself. That means you should not convey that you think you might
not be able to accomplish something. This requires honesty about your topic. If you
need to agonize over something, do it before the meeting and decide whether you can
truly present the subject in a positive or realistic manner. You want to be direct, ask
good questions and avoid affecting others negatively whenever possible.
2) "Slow but steady wins the race" is the
moral of which of Aesop's fables?
a) 'The Hare & The Tortoise"
b) "The Fox & The Goat"
c) "The.Ant & The Grasshopper"
d) 'The Lion & The Eagle"
3) Which state's capital is not named after
a former U.S. president?
a) Mississippi
b) Washington
c) Nebraska
d) Missouri
4) Which of these state pairs share a common border?
a) Arkansas & Alabama
b) New Hampshire & New York
c) Iowa & Illinois
d) Nevada & New Mexico
5) Approximately how long does it take
for light from the Sun to reach the
Earth?
a) 3 seconds
b) 47 seconds
c) 8 minutes
d) 2 days
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Just One More Thing
If you need to increase your daily productivity, you might want to give this easy
method a try: At the end of your day, do one more thing before you leave. This concept
is simple, says Jeffrey J. Mayer on SucceedinginBusiness.com, but it takes discipline.
Once you reach the end of your day and feel you have accomplished everything that
needs to be done, don't leave before you do one more thing. Make a phone call to a contact you've been meaning to get in touch with. File the papers that are piling up on your
desk. Write the memo you were going to do tomorrow.
At the end of the week you will have accomplished five more tasks than you would
have otherwise. At the end of the month, you'll have accomplished about 20 more tasks,
and over the course of a year you will have knocked out more than 200 extra tasks by
doing one extra thing per day.
Don't Lose That Number
Professional organizer Julie Morganstern says many employees make the mistake of
storing important telephone numbers in their cellphones. "That's fine until you lose the
phone or the battery dies," she says. To be safe, keep a paper version of the numbers. It
doesn't have to be a bulky address book; a simple sheet with the numbers listed is enough.
W}. O'NEIL COMPANY
35457 INDUSTRIAL· LIVONIA, MICHIGAN 48150
734-458-2300 • FAX 734-458-2305 • www.wjo.com
Quality
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• Industrial, Institutional, Commercial Mechanical Systems
overallpolicy is to provide
the highest quality service
and installation to all of
our clients. The quality
s),stem begins with top
level management and
proceeds to include
all emplo)'ees.
we will
implement andfurther
improve our policies to
assure ever)' project meets
the strictest
quality standards.
• Power and Process Piping
• Plumbing and Medical Gas Piping
• Automotive Paint and Robotics Systems
• Waste and Water Treatment Systems
• Plant Maintenance/Changeover
• HVAC Service
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