Seventy miles west of the Louisiana state line you’ll nd the small town of White Oak, Texas, home to roughly 6,500 people and wide open land. There, a 30 acre compound houses a nearly 130,000 square foot facility where roughly 200 people work two shifts a day to fabricate enormous pressure vessels for the oil and gas industry. Metal is bent and welded. Holes and edges cut, pipes tted together, nished and painted. The nal destination could be anywhere in the United States, the world even. For nearly a quarter century, the folks here, working for a family run company named Energy Weldfab have supplied the oil and gas industry with processing equipment. Like the state of Texas, the equipment needed by this industry is big. The metal can vary in thickness from less than 1/4 inch all the wa

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