Oklahoma group presses forward after fire destroys headquarters Renkes When fire destroyed the headquarters of the Petroleum Equipment Institute in Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 11, it was not the disaster that PEI Executive Vice President Robert Renkes had been expecting. "In Oklahoma, we think tornado first, but it ended up being a fire," he told CEO Update. PEI is a $3 million-revenue organization whose members manufacture, distribute and service petroleum marketing and liquid-handling equipment. Fire gutted the building that the group had occupied since 1989, with flames so intense firefighters had to battle the blaze from the outside, according to news reports. No one was… Read More