Tulsa Pipeline Company Finds Success in Keystone Project
Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Co. thriving at 110
BY ROD WALTON World Staff Writer
Friday, February 08, 2013
2/8/2013 7:12:25 AM
Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Co., 110 years old and going strong, is a family enterprise once again.
The Tulsa-based company, perhaps the oldest in the industry nationwide, already has booked $230 million worth of work this year. The backlog doesn’t even include anticipated construction on the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, whenever that gets federal approval.
“We’ve always stayed focused,” said David Sheehan, a fourth-generation co-owner, former CEO and current chairman of the board. “We’ve always stayed in the pipeline construction business.”
Sheehan Pipe Line surely has expanded into other facets of the pipeline trade, including hydrostatic testing and valve changing. The company’s bread and butter, however, has remained a pipeline builder since before John Sheehan moved operations from Pennsylvania to Tulsa to be near the Glenn Pool fields in 1903.