2026 31st Annual Cushing, OK Pipeline Appreciation Festival & Golf Tournament
Pipeline Appreciation/ Oil & Gas Vendor Golf Tournament
Participating Pipeline Companies:
31st ANNUAL CUSHING, OK PIPELINE APPRECIATION FESTIVAL (Formerly BBQ N Blues)
Pipeline Appreciation/Oil & Gas Vendor Golf Tournament
For 2025, changes have been made. Last Year, the name of our festival was changed to "Cushing, OK Pipeline Crossroads Festival". The Golf Tournament will be Wednesday, June 11 & Thursday, June 12, and will have 4 rounds with 120 teams spread through those 4 rounds in two days. The Friday night has been deleted. Oil & Gas Vendors are welcome to sponsor a booth outside the clubhouse during the Golf Tournament. Oil & Gas Vendors can choose to do day and/or night, or both days and/or nights to have their 10 x 10 booth space. If you are a Pipeline or Oil & Gas Vendor company and want to participate, please call the Cushing Chamber at 918-225-2400.
For 31 years, the Cushing Chamber has been celebrating our local Pipeline Companies with our Pipeline Crossroads Festival. In the beginning, we hosted a Private Party on Friday Night for participating Pipeline Companies, where their employees and their families came together for food, fun, and music; like a Company Picnic. Throughout Friday night, the Pipeline Companies were also busy smoking brisket to serve to the public during the main portion of the Festival on Saturday. This was done on the World’s Largest Permanent Smoker, and each Company attached a custom smoker box to one of the Fifteen arms that extend from the Permanent Smoker. Saturday was a fun day of learning more about our local Pipeline Companies, full of Blues music, BBQ, rides and Attractions. The Participating Pipeline Companies also had a Kansas City BBQ Society Cook-off and a People's Choice Contest. The Participating Pipeline Companies’ Corporates and customers fly in from all over the World to participate and get to know our community a bit better. However, since 2020 due to Covid, the Saturday Public Portion has been discontinued, and so has the Friday Night Private Party.
Over the years, this Festival has evolved from a 3 day festival into a 2-day Festival for the participating Pipeline Companies, with a Golf Tournament during the second week in June on that Thursday and Friday, After Hour Mixers to network and Oil & Gas Vendors are able to have a 10 x 10 booth space for marketing their company at the Golf Tournament both days and/or during the After Hour Mixers on Thursday night.
In the last 15 or so years, Oil and Gas supplier businesses have been invited to join in on the Thursday & Friday events and make some business happen while doing it. Oil & Gas Vendors sponsor different events of the 2-day Festival at the Golf Tournament.
From some of the Oil & Gas Vendor sponsorships, the profits after all Festival bills are paid, are split 50/50 with the Pipeline Crossroads of the World Scholarship program and the Cushing Chamber. Every year we award up to 14 - $2,500 scholarships to participating Pipeline Company employee children that are Seniors in High School that will be attending Trade School or College in the Fall of that year. This includes their region. Any profit left over is put into a CD for future scholarships. The Chamber puts theirs back into the business Community, our local youth, and our local economy, which in turn makes our community of Cushing, OK a better place to Live, Work, Play, AND do business.
Pipeline Crossroads Pipeline Appreciation/Oil & Gas Supplier Golf Tournament
The Golf Tournament has grown into the largest Golf Tournament in Oklahoma per player, unofficially, because it is not a “sanctioned” Golf Tournament. But, this "Stat" has been verified by Golfer Oklahoma Today Magazine. It is always the second week in June, during that week's Wednesday and Thursday. There are 120 teams spread over 4 Rounds total: two (2) rounds on Wednesday, and two (2) rounds on Thursday. Oil & Gas Vendor businesses are Hole Sponsors, setting up at each of the 18 Holes with beverages, food, swag, and fun. The Tournament is another way we celebrate and thank our local participating Pipeline Companies, with the majority of the teams composed of Pipeline Employees from the local terminals to their Corporate Execs, as well as their customers, that have flown in just for this 2-day Festival. Oil & Gas Vendor businesses also have teams in the tournament. You never know who you will run into or meet while enjoying this amazing Golf Tournament!
Terms and Conditions: Hole Sponsorships roll over every year, until a participating Oil & Gas Vendor business Hole Sponsor tells the Cushing Chamber they no longer want the Hole sponsorship. Then, the Hole sponsorship opens up to our waiting list. Waiting list starts anew every year when we open up Pipeline Crossroads sponsorships in late February/early March. Our Cushing Chamber member Oil & Gas Vendor businesses on the waiting list are given first rights to claim the Hole Sponsorship; if none of our Members want it, then it opens up to Non-Member Oil & Gas Vendor businesses on the waiting list. For team placement in the Tournament, after the participating Pipeline Companies have entered their teams in the tournaments for 2 weeks, our Chamber member Oil & Gas vendor sponsors have a chance to place teams into the Tournament for two weeks. Any team slots available in the rounds after their four weeks are then opened to non-member participating Oil & Gas Supplier sponsors. Pipeline companies not listed as a "Participating" Pipeline Company and Oil & Gas Vendor businesses must be a sponsor in either the Golf Tournament; Clay Shoot Tournament; and/or the Wednesday or Thursday Night After Hours Mixers in order to place team(s) in the tournaments. Teams are a separate cost from sponsorships; no sponsorships include team entries in the tournaments.
2026 GOLF TOURNAMENT
GOLF HOLE SPONSORS:
Basin Environmental
FlowChem
Badger Daylighting
Universal Surveying and Mapping
Enduro Pipeline Services
Optimal Pipeline Solutions
Jensen Mixers
Sunbelt Actuation
Amspec
Intertek
ACME Environmental
25/8 Safety
Great Plains Bank
Epumps
Clifford Power Systems
Firetrol Protection Services, Inc.
Inserv
Vanco
2026 GOLF TOURNAMENT GOLF CART SPONSORS:
The HR Group
SpeedPro
GRDA/City of Cushing
Holiday Inn Suites of Cushing, OK
2026 GOLF TOURNAMENT BOOTH SPONSORS:
Amerapex
Tulsa Inspection Resources, LLC
Horizon Valve Services
Meter Check Measurement Services, LLC
PIPELINE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
So, after all of the bills are paid for the Tournaments and all of the other Festival events, what happens to the profits? Great Question!
Profits are split 50/50 with the Pipeline Crossroads of the World Scholarship Program and the Cushing Chamber of Commerce. The Pipeline Crossroads of the World Scholarship Program is open to the participating Pipeline company Employees' Senior Students in High school that will be continuing their education after graduation at a Trade School or College/University. This includes the participating Pipeline company Employees in each of the Pipeline Companies' regions. Whatever region the Cushing, OK Pipeline terminal is in, all of that region's employees for that Pipeline Company are eligible to apply for the scholarship. Each year, we give away up to 14 - $2,500 scholarships. If more than 14 students apply, a representative from each of the participating Pipeline Companies will blind judge the applications and choose the top 14 applications. In 2025, 13 students applied for a scholarship. Each will receive a scholarship that will be sent directly to the Trade School or College/University that they will be attending in the Fall of 2025. All applicants must have an immediate family member who is employed by one of the participating Pipeline companies and must be attending the Trade School or College/University in the Fall of the same year that they graduated High School. Any amount left over after scholarships are paid in full is placed into a CD, in case something happens to the Festival the scholarship program will continue for many years.
The other 50% of profits are split with the Cushing Chamber of Commerce. The Cushing Chamber of Commerce is a business membership Organization and we are not a division of the City Government; we are a 501(c)6 Non-Profit Organization, a business membership organization. We are a collective voice of the business community and a connector, convener, and champion for our business community. We specialize in being an advocate for pro-business policies; help businesses grow and thrive; offer many different programs associated with Business Development & trainings; Workforce development; Leadership Development; Youth Workforce & Leadership development; and much more. When Businesses are growing and adding to their workforce, it is in turn helping the community as a whole with a greater quality of life. Also, the business community has an outlet in the Chamber of Commerce to join together and be a strong, collective voice to advocate for their businesses. There are many other things that the Cushing Chamber does for the business community and the community as a whole; please check out our website to find out more! Please get educated on what your local Chamber of Commerce does and how Chambers help the business community and the community as a whole. For more information, please feel free to reach out to the Cushing Chamber President & CEO Tracy Caulfield, IOM.
2026 PIPELINE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WINNERS:
Blayze Christy - Premier Trading & Transportation
Cale Collum - Deeprock Energy
Kennedy Goodwin - Deeprock Energy
Chance Jacob - Premier Trading & Transportation
Abby Jones - Premier/Deeprock Energy
Slayde Nuss - Premier Trading & Transportation
Draden Puckett - Premier Trading & Transportation
Coy Sand- Deeprock Energy
Phenix Simmons - Plains
Paisley Sparks - OneOK
Delaney St. Clair - NGL
Brayden Trogdon - Energy Transfer
Jagger Willing - Plains
So, whichever part of the Festival you participate in, know that you are doing something great for your business by participating in one of the best "Outside-The-Box" Trade Show around, built for your business to have fun, while making lasting business relationships with our local Pipeline Companies and other Oil and Gas Suppliers. In the Chamber World, we say to our Member businesses, based and proven by many Studies: "People do business with those that they KNOW, LIKE, & TRUST." Our Pipeline Appreciation/Oil & Gas Industry Trade Show Festival is built around that saying.
This is a private event for the Pipeline Industry & their guests and OIl & Gas Supplier Industry ONLY. For more information and/or to participate in the 2025 30th Annual Cushing, OK Pipeline Crossroads Festival (Formerly BBQ N Blues), please call the Cushing Chamber office at 918-225-2400 or email Tracy@Cushingchamber.org.
Sponsorships open in March 2025. All Communications are done through mass email Blasts. Sponsorship deadline to be involved for the 2025 Festival is May 16, 2025 to guarantee marketing/advertising portions that come with sponsorships; hard deadline is May 30 with no guarantee of marketing/advertising opportunities that are associated with sponsorships./strong>