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By Chris Eversole The once outdated office building that housed Tate Publishing has become a hub of activity for Roan Resources, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company. No longer is the building, 127 E. Trade Center Terrace, serving as a sales and editorial center for a company that allegedly bilked thousands of authors out of millions of dollars. Instead, it’s providing 35 jobs for men and women who maintain Roan’s oil and gas wells throughout Oklahoma. Roan has replaced the shag carpet and salmon-colored walls that epitomized Tate’s tenure with new vinyl plank flooring and bright neutral-colored paint. The building, a couple blocks east of Mustang Road and a couple blocks north of State Highway 152, is a perfect location for the office staff and the workers who are dispatched from there to maintain wells, said Field Production Supervisor Darrell Rice. Many of the workers live in Canadian and Grady counties or in the southwestern part of the Oklahoma City metro, making their commute to work short, he said. The Mustang office takes over monitoring and maintenance once new wells are drilled. It also services “legacy” wells. Most of the new wells are horizontal wells that […]
