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Since
1903, Sheehan Has Completed Over 23,000 Miles Of Pipelines. Every
field of endeavor has a pioneer or two, and the pipeline industry must
certainly include John Sheehan among its earliest and most knowledgeable
leaders. Born in
1852, he joined many young men at the turn of the century who
went where the oil was. In 1903, he and his "gang" laid some of the
first pipelines in the rugged, developing oil fields of Indian Territory,
working for industry leaders such as Josh Cosden
and Harry Sinclair.
John
Sheehan's hard work and guiding spirit took his new company all across the
nation as the search for oil reached a frenzied pace. Sheehan soon formed
strong ties with the early pioneers of the oil industry in America and
constructed thousands of miles of pipelines for companies like: Empire Pipe
Line Company, Prairie Oil & Gas Company and Stanolind
Pipeline Company. John
Sheehan was succeeded by his two sons, Ray and John B. Sheehan. They carried
the company through the growth years of the pipeline grid. The company
participated in the birth of the major cross country gas transmission lines
from the Hugoton Basin to the Midwest and the East Coast. As World War II
broke out, Sheehan was a major contributor to the completion of the historic
War Emergency Pipeline. Robert D.
Sheehan, the son of John B. Sheehan, managed the company for over 52 years.
Bob Sheehan made the company a truly national contractor, working for almost
every major oil and gas transporter across the
country. The fifties and sixties saw the installation of most of the nation's
grid of cross-country pipelines. Bob Sheehan took his company from the
deserts of the Southwest to the mountains of the East participating in all
aspects of this pipeline expansion.
R. David
Sheehan, Jr. carried forward the family tradition of company management. In
the seventies and the eighties, David began assisting his father in running
the company. Although this was certainly not a boom period in the industry,
Sheehan began a long period of growth. The company took on bigger and bigger
projects and entered the nineties as one of the nation's
largest and most diverse pipeline contractors. Although
the "gangs" have been replaced by "spreads", David has
kept the Sheehan name in a steady drive towards perfection by maintaining old
customs and adding new endeavors. He has built the company into one of the
nation's largest pipeline contractors with an investment in equipment
exceeding $30 million. Over 250 major pieces of equipment and over 250 trucks
now handle the jobs horses and oxen once performed. But the pioneering spirit
that typified Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Company in John Sheehan's day
still remains, seasoned by more than 100 years of experience. |
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