Pioneer Natural Resources opens Pawnee facility
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Photo Credit: Joe Baker
PAWNEE – Pioneer Natural Resources hosted a grand opening event June 5 for their new facility, a complex of office buildings and yard space recently built to meet the ever growing needs of the company.
According to information at the company’s web site, Pioneer Natural Resources is a large independent oil and natural gas company focused on helping meet the world’s energy needs.
The facility includes 81,000 square feet of office and other building space in buildings on a 35-acre site located about two miles south of Pawnee. About 200 employees work at the facility.
“Pioneer, through our predecessor company Parker and Parsley, we have been here in south Texas since 1986,” said J.D. Hall, Pioneer Natural Resources vice president of south Texas operations. “We’re not new to the community, we are just new to the significant growth that we have experienced here in recent times.”
More at http://mysoutex.com/view/full_story_landing/22880344/article-Pioneer-opens-Pawnee-facility?instance=karnes_regional_news .
[font color=green]I imagine that this is a big deal in Pawnee considering that the community was a bunch of shacks located at the intersection of a farm-to-market road and Texas Highway 72. The community had a couple hundred residents and a small store with a post office that always appeared to be closed. There was an elementary school, but the students went to Kenedy for high school.
The HQ for Pioneer Natural Resources is located at Williams Square in Irving (where the mustang statues are located). I used to work in the same building as their HQ.[/font]
