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U. S. Steel Tubular Announces 2009 Chief Roughneck Award

11/06/2009 - U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. announces Harold Korell, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Southwestern Energy, as the recipient of its Chief Roughneck Award for 2009.

U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. announced Harold Korell, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Southwestern Energy Co., as the recipient of its Chief Roughneck Award for 2009. The announcement was made at the 80th annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
 

The prestigious Chief Roughneck Award was created in 1955 to honor the lifetime achievements of petroleum industry leaders.
 
Today, U. S. Steel Tubular Products continues to present this important award, which is widely recognized as one of the industry's highest honors.
"Harold Korell personifies this award with his exemplary career and leadership in the energy industry," said Douglas R. Matthews, President of U. S. Steel Tubular Products and Vice President of Tubular Operations for U. S. Steel, as he presented Korell with the traditional Chief Roughneck bronze bust and hard hat. "Throughout his career, Harold's formula for success has had a lasting, positive impact on the companies he has worked for as well as the energy industry as a whole."

 
Korell joined Southwestern Energy Company in 1997 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He served as the company's President from 1998 to 2008 and as CEO from 1999 to May 2009. Elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2002, he later became Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors (May 2009).
 
Under Korell’s leadership, Southwestern Energy accumulated 575,000 acres in the Fayetteville Shale natural gas play in Arkansas and Oklahoma and has since achieved a record level of natural gas production in the Fayetteville Shale of one billion cubic feet per day.
 
U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc., a subsidiary of United States Steel Corp., is the largest tubular products manufacturer in North America, with total annual production capability of 2.8 million net tons. Energy industry customers utilize U. S. Steel Tubular Products' casing, tubing, line pipe and couplings to help them locate, retrieve, transport and refine the oil and natural gas products that fuel the world.