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Articles by Jack Buehrer

Pipeline Specialists Profit From Safety, Not Shale Boom

Jack Buehrer
October 3, 2012
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Photo Courtesy of EN Engineering EN Engineering's Mitch Hulet (left) and Tom Ziegenfuss say their pursuit of integrity management projects has led to the company's revenue more than doubling in the past five years. Related Links: New Report Slams PG&E in San Bruno Blast Some Leeway in New Pipeline Safety Law Amid the U.S. boom in natural-gas and oil production, it's easy to imagine a noticeable uptick in business for a pipeline engineering firm.EN Engineering, based in Woodbridge, Ill., however, has grown its business by focusing on safety for existing pipelines, rather than building new lines.The firm reports revenue growth
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Natural Gas Boom Drives Pipeline Upgrades

Jack Buehrer
May 7, 2012
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The spike in natural gas development has proven to be a boon to businesses of all sorts in states located on top of the country’s the largest shale formations and basins.
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Chinese Company Setting Up Pipe Plant in Texas

Jack Buehrer
May 7, 2012
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China’s Tianjin Pipe Corp. (TPCO) broke ground recently on a Gregory, Texas, $1.3-billion pipe manufacturing plant, which represents the largest investment in a manufacturing facility in the U.S., the company claims.“
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Laying New Pipe Can Take 18 Months

Jack Buehrer
May 7, 2012
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The construction of a large-scale interstate pipeline can take 18 months, while smaller, local distribution lines can take as few as six months.
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GAO Report Claims Christie Fudged ARC Tunnel Numbers

Jack Buehrer
April 23, 2012
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is once again defending his October 2010 decision to kill the nearly $9-billion Trans-Hudson Express passenger-rail tunnel project that was, at the time, the country's largest public-works project.The federal Government Accountability Office released on April 10 a report claiming that Christie—a vocal anti-debt Republican—had exaggerated New Jersey's share of the tunnel's cost.The tunnel, nicknamed the Access the Region's Core (ARC) project, was expected to double commuter-train capacity between New Jersey and Manhattan. In September 2010, Christie shut down construction, which had started a year before, to conduct a 30-day review of the project. Less
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Latest New York City Crane Fatality Puts Two Public Agencies at Odds

Jack Buehrer
April 16, 2012
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Photo by the New York Times/Hiroko Masuike Collapse of crane's lattice boom killed laborer and injured three others at site of subway line extension on Manhattan's West Side. Photo by N.Y. Daily News Investigators are looking at frayed cable and broken wire strands on the crane's hoist system for clues to the accident's cause. Investigators looking into the latest deadly crane collapse on a New York City construction site say a failure of the crane's hoist system is the likely cause of the accident, which left one dead and three others injured. But the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the state agency
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Booming U.S. Energy Market Spurs Pipeline Net Expansion

Jack Buehrer
April 9, 2012
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Two energy-industry heavyweights are teaming to expand the Seaway Pipeline to more than double its capacity to transmit crude oil from Canada and the northern U.S. to the Gulf Coast.
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Crane in Latest Deadly NYC Accident Had Passed Inspection

Jack Buehrer
April 4, 2012
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AP Photo Project in New York City where latest crane collapse killed a worker. Related Links: Former Regulator Testifies in N.Y. Crane Criminal Trial Lawyers Trade Contradictory Facts as N.Y. Crane Collapse Criminal Trial Restarts The crane that collapsed on the site of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s No. 7 line subway extension project in New York City had passed its most recent inspection in January and was set for another one this week, a source close to the project has told ENR.The collapse, which occurred April 3 shortly before 7:30 p.m. and killed one worker, was called a “freak accident”
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Apple Gets Boost From Sun for iCloud Data Center

Jack Buehrer
March 30, 2012
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With its newest data center in North Carolina, Apple is hoping to get a boost from the sun to power its rapidly growing cloud services. It's also banking on one of the nation's largest fuel-cell installations of its kind in an effort to get completely off the electrical grid. Rendering courtesy of Apple Apple's Maiden, N.C., data center will draw power from a 20-MW solar farm and a 5-MW fuel-cell installation. Related Links: Editors' Choice, Best Green Project: Facebook Data Center Having completed a $1-billion, 500,000-sq-ft data center in Maiden, N.C., in late 2011, the computing giant recently began construction
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Shell Looking at Western Pennsylvania Site for Marcellus Shell Ethane Cracker Plant

Jack Buehrer
March 30, 2012
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Shell Oil has agreed to a land option deal that would allow the company to build a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania.
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