History / Company Overview
Rare Pro Woods is a vertically integrated forest product corporation in the oil and gas sector. One of America's biggest and reputable producers of hardwood flooring and Appalachian lumber since 2010.
HARRELSON HECTOR (CEO) the company's CEO, also an oil and gas expert dived into the lumber business and established Rare Pro Woods, guided its expansion from a 10-person operation on "the Hill" to over a 200-person organization that currently plays a significant role in the oil and gas industry. The company has evolved into the Rare Pro Woods that we know today thanks to Harrelson Hector’s innovative and persistent spirit. He further established himself as a leader in the oil and gas sector as a Senior Engineer/Oil Geologist and high-tech services industry leader. Rare Pro Woods has a history of growth and has been instrumental in expanding into new markets while advancing the hardwood industry in its entirety and setting the pace to a higher altitude.
In the hardwood industry, Rare Pro Woods is a privately owned company that has grown and overcome many milestones in her 10+ years of consistency and growth in the industry. In addition to serving as one of the biggest players in the lumber market, we also own and manage timberlands in vast areas. Because we are vertically integrated, we have complete control over the manufacturing process, allowing us to maximize the use of our natural resources while creating products of the highest caliber. That, in our book, is a significant Rare Pro Woods advantage.
Leadership
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Harrelson Hector
Kathryn Grafton
Mr Richard Crowdus.
Jeff. W. Butler
Richard Keech
Julie Goldschmidt
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Steve Taylor
David Fenzel
CAREER SUMMARY HARRELSON HECTOR (Chief Executive Officer) - has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas business and has served as the Chief Executive Officer and president of BWW Services (1997- 2005), Rare Pro Woods (2010 - Present)
Prior to establishing BWW, HARRELSON HECTOR was employed by Jetty Oil Company, McMoran Oil & Gas and Taylor Energy.
EDUCATION:HARRELSON HECTOR graduated classes in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming, Economic Geology at the University of Arizona and completed Undergraduate studies in Geology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His affiliations include The New Orleans Geological Society (past committee chair, member since 1980), the Lafayette Geological Society, the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, member since 1990, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, member since 1989, recruited into the Division of Professional Affairs (DPA), member since 1996, and duly certified as a "certified petroleum geologist" # 4787 within the organization, the Dallas Geological Society, the Southern Geophysical Society and the American Petroleum Institute.
CAREER EXPERIENCES:HARRELSON HECTOR has an extensive experience in Thailand in his career as an Independent oil and gas operator for over 20 years with experience in California, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Alaska domestically and Tunisia, France, Morrocco, Libya, North Sea, Egypt, Peru, Australia, and Argentina. Offshore Drilling, FEED, Construction, Installation, Project planning, Project sales Maintenance and Project control management. Petroleum Equipment trading, rental and leasing Involved in capital raising, acquisitions, divestitures, and taking companies public.
HARRELSON HECTOR was also a Contractor with Britany Oil & Gas Company, and sat on the Board of the publicly traded giant, Benchmark Oil & Gas AB in Sweden. Hands-on oil and gas expert with extensive experience in operations, and evaluating unconventional resource opportunities.
Specialties: Experience in evaluating, recommending and purchasing potential acreage for unconventional development in Eagleford, Wolfcamp, and Niobrara. Developing drilling opportunities in Cook Inlet of Alaska. Provide professional support relating to oil and gas operations to investment banking firms.
OTHER CAREER EXPERIENCES AND ROLES + SR/FEPMT Project Coordinator at Chevron, Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand
Project: Chevron TH FE central all projects support
Location: Bangkok
Position: Engineering Manager
Type: Project control, project management
Support Services Request and Coordinate resource to all brown field project in Gulf of Thailand o Administrator FE-PMT program for every ASSETs bothCPDEP/Non CPDEP projects.
Technical support internal project data analysis to FE engineering manager, project Services supervisor, Technical Service supervisor, ISA supervisor for overall project report such as man-hours, work loading, project scorecard Support PM/Discipline to manage SR/FEPMT on his/her projects as per Chevron Requirement.
Coordinating ongoing jobs that will be involved with FE department and ASSET department o Expediting pending jobs to be completed.
Project Manager role on topside modification for Infill typel and 3 project (Engineering, MOC, Procurement, Construction and Management) at SGWB, PLWC offshore remote platform and review document from Technip Engineering
* Develop infill report to be accompanied by SR/FEPMT o RC punch list screener and report.
* SPOC FE central department to support cost saving program.
* Support technical queries (TQ) for FE departments
CONSULTANT Consulting GeologistReview and recommend areas for development of oil and gas shale opportunities. Specialist in basin evaluations, unconventional resource review and has a wide range of oil and gas experience including drilling, workovers, property acquisitions, economic projections and integrating all aspects of the upstream business.
Rare Pro Woods is a Privately Owned Company with over 10 Years Growth in the Hardwood Industry. We own and manage timberlands and are one of the largest lumber buyers in our region. By being vertically integrated, we are able to manage the entire manufacturing process, producing the finest quality products while making the best use of our natural resources. We believe that’s an important Rare Pro Woods advantage.
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We work hard to be a different kind of company—one that does the right thing, because it’s the right thing to do. This applies not only to how we treat our environment, but to everything we do at Rare Pro Woods.
We are one of only a few major flooring manufacturers to own and manage our own timberland and to employ a full time forestry staff. They put together 100-year plans for the forest we own. We think it’s the right thing to do for the future of our company, our employees, and our families.
At Rare Pro Wood Products, we manufacture kiln-dried Appalachian red oak, white oak, ash, hickory, hard maple, soft maple, cherry, aromatic cedar, poplar, and basswood lumber. Our lumber comes from our own saw mill and saw mill partners within a 150 mile radius of our operations. Rare Pro Woods lumber is used in the manufacture of Rare Pro Woods residential hardwood flooring and is also sold to other lumber users in the United States and exported to select countries.
Our largest division turns the "flooring grades" of Appalachian hardwood lumber into fine "Made in the USA" solid and engineered residential flooring. We take great pride and satisfaction in the fact that our flooring is enjoyed in homes across North America. The sawdust generated in our manufacturing processes is used to provide heat and steam to fuel our operations, or goes to supply our wood pellet fuel facility.
The excess wood fiber and sawdust collected throughout the flooring manufacturing process supplies our state-of-the-art Wood Pellet Fuel division, where we produce premium grade clean-burning wood fuel pellets. Here, more than 50,000 tons of wood fiber and sawdust generated each year, instead of going to a landfill, goes to making an economical and environmentally-friendly alternative energy source. This, in turn, helps decrease our country’s dependence on fossil fuels. Rare Pro Woods brand pellets are sold across the U.S. through major pellet distributors and retailers for use in pellet stoves.
Rare Pro Woods Flooring
Rare Pro Woods is a major U.S. manufacturer of prefinished solid and engineered flooring in Appalachian species. You will find our brand in fine retailers across North America.
Our vertically-integrated advantage means that Rare Pro Wood Products supplies the kiln-dried lumber to our flooring division for the manufacture of Rare Pro Woods brand residential hardwood flooring. This gives us tremendous quality control over the final product. We currently offer over 150 skus of prefinished flooring in a complete line of species, styles, widths, and colors—giving homeowners a vast array of options to meet their personal tastes.
Rare Pro Woods Pellet Fuel
Rare Pro Woods is one of North America’s Highest Quality Manufacturers of Premium Wood Pellet Fuel. In support of our “Waste Not" philosophy and our commitment to the environment, we recognized an opportunity to turn our excess wood fiber and sawdust into a clean-burning, efficient, and economical biofuel product. We built a modern manufacturing facility that is fully automated and currently produces 50,000 bags of pellets per week. That’s more than 2,500,000 bags of pellets per year.
Now more than 50 tons of wood fiber and sawdust generated by our manufacturing processes—instead of ending up in a landfill—is converted into premium grade pellet fuel.
Rare Pro Woods brand pellets are sold across the U.S. through major pellet distributors and retailers for use in pellet appliances.
Our Facilities
Rare Pro Woods’s plants are strategically located in the Appalachian Mountain region of the United States. Some of the finest lumber in the world comes from this region. The lumber is considered superior because of the benefits inherent in the location and the land.
The climate is a main factor in producing the naturally superior quality—the area’s warm summers and cool spring and fall seasons ensure that the growth of the trees is gradual. Slower growing trees result in tight growth rings, consistent grains, and strong fibers that lead to strength, durability, and beauty. Rare Pro Woods’s corporate headquarters and manufacturing are located in Rare Pro Woods, FL, with lumber production facilities in Orlando, FL and Crossville, TN.
We work hard to be a different kind of company—one that does the right thing, because it’s the right thing to do.
420 South Orange
Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801, USA