H. C. Price Co. is an experienced oil and gas pipeline contractor with a rich history in the development of modern pipeline construction techniques used world wide to this day, such as;

• Developed use of electrical welding of pipelines, the use of removable back up rings for use during welding, and the so called "stove pipe" method of pipeline assembly.
• Developed and pioneered the use of pipe coatings for protections against corrosion and for buoyancy control.
• Constructed the first "Big Inch" pipeline, during WWII in the Continental US.
• Constructed the first Arctic pipeline in North America, during WWII, in the NW Territories, CA.
• Constructed many major pipeline systems in northern Africa, the Middle East, and Iran during the 1970's.
• Constructed Section 3 of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System.
• First to introduce use of mechanized welding in the USA and the first to successfully use it on Duplex stainless steel in Prudhoe Bay in a production mode during bitter winter conditions.

During the 1990’s Price’s business became more prolific in the domestic pipeline market, building or participating in most of the major projects of since the early 1990’s. A list of some of these projects follows.

• Great Lakes 36” Expansion in 1991
• “PGT-PG&E” - 165-mile 42” northern California Spread expansion in 1992-1993
• Florida Gas Phase III Expansion - 300-miles of 30” and 36” in Florida and Louisiana during 1994
• MAPCO 500-mile 10” and 12” South Spread in New Mexico during 1995.
• “Express” Pipeline Project in Montana during 1996
• Northern Natural Peak Day 2000 Project in Minnesota during 1997
• “Destin” - 135-mile 36” Pipeline Project in Mississippi during 1998
• “PNGTS Pipeline Project” - 70-mile 24” in New Hampshire during 1998
• “Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Spread 2 Project” - 70-mile 24” in Maine during 1999
• “Alliance Pipeline Project, Spread 2” - 165-mile 36” in North Dakota during 1999 through 2000
• “Northern Border Pipeline, Project 2000” - Project 30-mile 30” in Illinois during 2001
• SONAT South System Phase II 28-mile 30 and 36” Looping Project in Mississippi and Alabama during 2002
• “Guardian”, a 140-mile 36” pipeline in Illinois and Wisconsin

Since the 1970's, H. C. Price Co. evolved into a major competitor worldwide, providing a wide variety of services, such as

• International turnkey design-build project services
• Oil field pipeline and facility maintenance services
• Power generation & substation facility construction
• Oil & gas facility construction
• Gas compressor station construction
• Meter and valve station construction
• Cross country pipeline construction

Price’s history began when Harold (Hal) Charles Price, Sr. founded an electric welding business in Bartlesville, Oklahoma during the late 1920’s. The company specialized in field welding of oil storage tanks. In conjunction with this operation, Hal Price was responsible for many innovations in electric welding including the first practical application of electric welding in pipeline construction. Over the years, Price grew from a welding subcontracting business into a major cross-country pipeline contractor who to this day remains a strong competitor, building and maintaining pipelines and various other oil & gas infrastructure throughout the United States and Canada (Article 1, Article 2, Article 3).

During the latter half of the 1960's, Price, as part of a joint venture with other major construction companies, entered the overseas pipeline construction market. These joint ventures completed many major projects in Mexico, the Middle East, Africa, and Iran. Price also built large cross country-pipeline projects and performed double jointing work in Canada and Mexico. Price’s pipe coating business (Article 1, Article 2) grew out of the pipeline construction operation. This coating business developed from a small domestic operation that began in the United States and evolved into a massive pipe coating operation with plants located throughout the world. Until 1980, the pipeline construction and coating operations were run by Harold C. Price, Jr. the son of the founder, and owned in large part by members of his family.

During 1980, the pipe-coating segment of the business was sold. H. C. (Charles) Price, III, and partners purchased the pipeline business. Construction of the Northern Border 42” Pipeline system and the numerous large expansions of the Alaska North Slope oil fields also began during this period, in the early 1980’s. They soon thereafter completed many successful projects in Alaska and continued to prosper with the expansion of the gas pipeline industry throughout the “Lower 48”, United States.

During 1998, Price purchased a major Canadian pipeline construction firm, OJ Pipelines, based in Edmonton, Alberta. A mechanized welding process for pipeline construction, used and marketed by OJ Pipelines as RMS Welding Systems, was included in the purchase of the company. Price utilized this mechanized welding system to weld 165 miles of 36”, X-70 pipe in North Dakota for Alliance in 1999/2000 and used it successfully on the Guardian Pipeline Project, a 140-mile 36”-inch diameter pipeline project running from near Chicago, IL north into southern Wisconsin.