In today’s Meet the Cabot Crew post, we’d like you to meet Craig Almquist, a Facilities Engineer at Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation. Craig has worked with Cabot for two years and is enjoying his time here.He is responsible for designing, selecting and maintaining any Cabot-owned surface facilities (i.e. pipeline, compression, gas conditioning equipment, and measurement and regulation equipment.) For most of the past year, he’s been working to install a CNG station in Springville Township to fuel Cabot’s fleet of pickup trucks.Q: So Craig, where are you from?I grew up in Oakmont, a suburb of Pittsburgh along the Allegheny River, but I also lived in New Orleans for seven years and then in Charleston, West Virginia for 23 years before coming back to the area. Growing up here in the Pittsburgh area, I became accustomed to winning a World Series every 10 years or so. Now that I’m back I figure it’s time for that to resume!Q: We are, too. Given that you’ve lived elsewhere, what is your background in the industry?I have 32 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, having worked as a company man on the drilling rigs, as a production engineer, as a reservoir engineer, and now as a facilities engineer, but the majority of my time was working as a planning engineer for a natural gas utility, on the transmission and storage aspects.Q:You seem to have a lot of experience in engineering. What do you like about your position? I get to build things, solve problems and coordinate with lots of different people in order to come up with the best solution for what we are trying to accomplish. At Cabot, I always like working with our field personnel – there’s so much to learn from them and they are always so helpful. And we’ve got a great engineering/operations team here in the office, too.6) What makes Cabot different from other companies you’ve worked with?At Cabot, I have the chance to take a project from start to finish. Also, I think that hard work gets rewarded more so here than most places. If Cabot does well, the employees get to share in the success.Thanks, Craig. We love Cabot, too. If you enjoyed reading about Jim Novacek last week and about Craig Almquist today, take time to read next Monday’s post, in which we’ll highlight the Department of Facilities as a whole.
Bill serves as an External Affairs Coordinator for Coterra Energy. He is focused on building community knowledge and support for the organization and industry at large.
Before his time with Coterra Energy, Bill was the original Field Director for Energy in Depth’s Northeast Marcellus campaign. Within this two-year position, Bill worked to engage, educate, and mobilize supporters of Marcellus Shale development across New York and Pennsylvania. Bill received his B.S. in Management, a B.A. in History, and an MBA from Misericordia University.