Katy, TX – March 13, 2022 – Percheron, LLC is pleased to announce the hiring of Ryan Wendland as Managing Director. Additionally, Percheron has hired Ryan Wendland as Managing Director.&nb...
What Title Fits Your Need?
The word “Title” has several meanings, 13 total definitions provided by Merriam-Webster to be exact. It can be the name of a book or publication; a name that describes someone’s distinction, rank, or ...
Connecting Those that Connect Energy to the World
A compass, legal pad, Allen Scale, and a stack of index cards. That’s what I was equipped with on my first day working as a Landman. And that was really it. I’d brought some transferable skills from m...
Let's Talk About INTEGRATION...and a bit of Football
Fall = football, and around the country people are cheering on their favorite teams! From your kiddo’s pee-wee games to Friday night lights, weekends dedicated to your alma mater or favorite pr...
Turning a vision into reality
Have you ever taken a kid’s drawing and said, “I can make something with this?” Then you use that drawing as the blueprint and make that vision a reality? That’s basically the job of a survey technici...
Navigating the new world of land acquisition and project siting
What do the following have in common? A pipeline right of way, an electric transmission line, a producing oil well, a renewable energy solar farm, a petrochemical facility, a carbon sequestration farm...
Is Your Engineering Consultant Speaking Your Language?
Author: KC Yost Have you ever gone to France and tried to communicate with a local using the French you learned in High School, while he tried to communicate back with the English he learned in grade ...
It's not all Engineering - How Important is Project Controls to the Engineering Process?
Author: Liam O'Toole I have had the great privilege of working in Project Management and Project Controls in Canada, the Middle East, South America, and in both the DJ Basin (Colorado) and the Delawar...
Think Integrated
Author: Aaron Yost My wife is a PGA Golf Professional. She’s also an adjunct distance-learning teacher at The Yost Household Kindergarten and Middle School for our 6 and 13-year-old’s, but that’s a st...
Is Land Administration the missing piece to your puzzle?
Author: Lori Fisher Through this strange year of 2020, puzzles seem to have made a serious comeback. One strategy to complete: identify the outside pieces and build the framework, then fill in t...
What Does A Three-Legged Stool Have To Do With A Pipeline Route?
Author: KC Yost I spent a good part of my childhood growing up on a farm in West Virginia, both on our farm and my grandparents’ farms. We had friends down the road who had a small herd of Guernsey ca...
Don't Put All Your Tools In One Box
We wait in anxious anticipation for the latest iPhone to arrive. We tell Alexa to turn off the lights, so we don't have to get up. Self-driving cars are becoming more of a reality than a sci-fi fantas...
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, it's the WingtraOne!
In today’s climate, service companies are tasked with 3 “simple” requests for each project: Fast, Accurate, and Cost-Efficient. Seems “simple” enough…… But with complexities that go along with any lan...
Leading In Challenging Times
Global Pandemic. Quarantine. Economic Crashes. Industry Turmoil. Social Unrest. How do you navigate the obstacle course that is 2020 while effectively leading? With uncertainty looming, business leade...
Percheron Building Engineering Division
HOUSTON, TX – June 12, 2020 – Percheron, LLC has hired KC Yost as Vice President, Engineering and Dany Jew as Vice President, Business Development to establish the company’s engineering services. KC a...
You Want Fries With That - YES, Integrate it!
Integrated vs. À La Carte Land Services - When you plan a multi-phase project, do you take the integrated or à la carte approach to your land services? No phase or stage of a project is an island unto...
Site Selection Got You Stalled?
How often do you find your project stalling while you search for just the right surface site location? Are you wasting time and money endlessly pursuing the perfect location without having the right t...
Which Type of Employer are You?
Right now & for the future If I asked you what type of employer you are, you’d probably say that you are an employer who is keeping your team safe. You’re an employer who is making sacrifices for ...
PROJECT SEQUENCING REVAMPED
The "do loop". As a project manager, designer, or team member, do you find yourself in a continuous “do loop” – running in never-ending circles – chasing environmental constraints that cause the redes...
The Land of Impossible. #solved
Got an Itch? You just can’t scratch that spot in the middle of your back. You know you can get to it – you just need to figure out how. The same is true in the workplace. A customer may ask you to acc...