West Company of Midland, Inc.

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  Mr. Macon McDonald

  Mr. McDonald is President of West Company of Midland, Inc. and has more than 32 years experience in the engineering and surveying fields.
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  Mr. J. Frank Newman

  Mr. Newman is West Company of Midland, Inc.’s Executive Vice President and he has more than thirty years of surveying experience including twenty-five years of boundary surveying in Texas.
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  Mr. Craig Alderman

  Mr. Alderman is the Vice President of West Company of Midland, Inc. and has twenty-one years surveying experience in New Mexico, California, and around the West Texas area.
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Wade A. Mertz, R.P.L.S.

Professional Surveyor

I would hate to put anyone through the agony of reading my bio so let’s just say I’m still kicking.

Education

3 years at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas

Registration/Affiliations

Registered Professional Land Surveyor – State of Texas, Registration No. 4082

 

 

Personal Information:

Nickname: “MOTT” from my granddaughter
Measurements: 5’11” – 185 lbs.
West Company B-day: 2008 April? I think? (See dislikes)
Years of Experience: 35 years
Likes: Spending time with my family.
Dislikes: The speed at which time seems to slip by. (boy is it slipping by)
Where were you born? Corpus Christi, Texas
Pets?.About 60 Longhorn Cattle. 

Favorite TV Show: The E-Trade Commercials with the babies (does that count?) and Deadliest Catch. (It all counts Wade)
How did you end up at West Company? A nine month job turned out taking a little longer than expected.
Hobbies: Hunting, Fishing, Ranching, Losing golf balls

 

Professional Experience

Wade has more than thirty (30) years of experience in surveying electric lines, pipelines, oil and gas well locations, roadways, acreage tracts and wind farm projects. His area of expertise includes Boundary Surveys, Right-of-Way Surveys and Easements, GPS Surveying and Processing, Locations Surveys and Preparation of Maps and Plats. Mr. Mertz also has extensive experience supervising field crews in the day to day operation of surveying electric lines, pipelines and various other route surveys, both preliminarily and during construction.

He began his career in surveying in 1971 with Rogers Exploration as a rodman during summer breaks while attending college. He joined Luchini Engineering Company in 1978 as a party chief and became a partner in the business in 1983. In 1987 he became owner of the company. He has supervised the surveying of thousands of well locations; supervised the surveying of thousands of miles of pipeline right-of-ways; worked with a state licensed land surveyor on numerous patent, deed of acquitence and vacancy surveys across West Texas; supervised the surveying of a number of ranches across West Texas; supervised GIS mapping projects for numerous petroleum companies and testified as an expert witness in boundary dispute cases; some of his lifetime projects include:

• Surveyed approximately 1000 square miles for mapping purposes in Hudspeth County, Texas for Coastal States Oil Co.
• Supervised the surveying and preparation of right-of-way plats for +80 miles of gas gathering system for Western Gas Resources, Inc. in Martin, Midland and Upton Counties in Texas.
• Supervised the surveying of approximately 160 square miles of unitized oil fields for Parker & Parsely Petroleum Co. in Midland, Martin, Glasscock and Upton Counties in Texas.
• Supervised the surveying and subdivision of portions of the Blackstone-Slaughter Ranch in Pecos & Terrell Counties, Texas.
• Supervised the surveying and preparation of boundary survey plats for numerous urban, suburban and rural properties in West Texas.
• Supervised the surveying and preparation of right-of-way plats for approximately 25 miles of 24” gas line for Western Gas Resources, Inc. in Sterling County, Texas.
• Supervised the surveying and preparation of ALTA land title plats for approximately 70 square miles for the construction of the Langford Wind Turbine Project in Tom Green, Irion and Schleicher Counties in Texas.