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...projects include designing and installing a corrosion-protection system for a plant in Louisiana owned by Sempra Energy, an energy utility company headquartered in San Diego. The pipeline runs for 50 miles and ties into a much larger pipeline grid heading up the East Coast. And in Hugoton, Kans., Schutt's team recently completed a job it had begun two years ago for BP. "The pipelines weren't damaged, but there wasn't enough of a force field on them," he says. Currently, Matcor's work is about 75% domestic, but it's looking to grow globally. One client...
...what he thought the oilmen wanted. He tried to diversify Cities Service, acquired Fesco, Inc., a maker of molded-plastic housewares, and agreed to acquire, pending stockholder approval, Akron Equipment Co., a tire-mold manufacturer. So far so good. But Burns had also urged that Cities Service buy out Hugoton Production Co., a Kansas-based producer of natural gas, and a uranium mining and processing firm called United Nuclear Corp. Both deals fell through, partly, it seems evident, because the Cities Service powers, whether right or wrong, were leery about committing too much money too fast to external expansion...
...sulphur empire. Cooking deals like popcorn, Odie was one of the founders of Texas Gulf Producing Co., which has large oil reserves in the Gulf states, was one of the powers in what is now Freeport Sulphur Co. He and Moody developed and owned the famed Hugoton natural-gas field in southern Kansas and Oklahoma-"a deal," says a friend, "that has never been equaled in the world -it was worth $6 billion...
When Angeline was three, in 1918, the Crowell farm failed, and the family moved to another farm near Hugoton, Kans...
...ready. The Texas Co. has a 38% interest in Carthage Hydrogl, Inc., is now building a $20 million plant at Brownsville, Tex. to produce synthetic gasoline and oil daily from natural gas. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana will shortly begin construction of an $80 million synthetic plant in the Hugoton gas fields of Kansas. The two plants will produce 14,000 barrels of oil daily...