Company breaking ground on area gas pipeline project
BEECH BOTTOM, W.Va. (AP) — Work is getting under way on a new $75 million gas pipeline through West Virginia.
The Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle says Tulsa, Okla.-based Sheehan Pipe Line Construction is breaking ground Wednesday on a line running from Canonsburg to Hopedale, Ohio.
BDC Director Pat Ford says the project will employ about 500 union workers, including welders, fitters and engineers.
Ford’s group also has a new tenant in the former Wheeling Corrugating factory in Beech Bottom.
Ohio-based Integrity Kokosing Pipe Line Services is creating a 2-acre staging yard for equipment, materials, office trailers and personnel.
Ford says Integrity has already begun construction of a natural gas pipeline near Wellsburg.
Its new 8- and 6-inch-diameter lines will gather gas from newly built well pads and feed it into existing pipelines.