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February 21, 2017 - Gibsons Energy held a ribbon cutting event on February 9, 2017 at their location just off Loop 500 in Center, 1524 Shelbyville Street, and helping to celebrate their new membership with the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce were the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors.
Andi Foster, Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Ambassador President, introduced the company and welcomed them as a member. Leonard Dupuis, Gibsons Regional Manager, was introduced and he enlightened everyone he is the Regional Manager for Gibsons of all the Haynesville and North Louisiana area.
"We're actually a reclamation company for oil based cuttings, we're a service company. We service the rigs that run the equipment, frac tanks, pumps," said Dupuis.
In the past, Dupuis says, oil based cuttings would go to landfills and be buried in the ground. What Gibsons does is recycle the diesel from the cuttings, re-sell it and prevent it from going into the ground as used to occur.
Dupuis remarked he has a great staff and he introduced Dawn Ellington, Customer Service Rep; Denise Mathews, Office Manager; Bobby Head, Plant Manager; John Davis, Process Head.
"Gibsons bought CHI in December 2012. Gibsons is about a $6 billion to $8 billion company based out of Canada and the United States, publicly traded," said Dupuis.
According to Dupuis, Doug Wilkins is the president of U.S. Operations and Joey Shaw is the company's vice president based out of Louisiana. The company is hoping to employ 150 by February 2018, which Dupuis says Wilkins has all the intentions of seeing the company grow.
"We do want to participate in like the truck pull and whatever other activities that we can do for the community, we'll be glad to do," said Dupuis.
Gibsons does business with a lot of companies like as XTO and Chesapeake to name a couple. Dupuis said since October 2016, when they serviced around 28 rigs in the area, their service load has increased to closer to 50 rigs at the time of the ribbon cutting with the anticipation of being at around 75 rigs in 90 days from that time judging by the recent increases. They service East Texas and the West Louisiana area.
