Arctic Directory: Merger of H.C. Price, Gregory and Cook forms North America's largest pipeline construction company 01/25/2009
With a heavy equipment stockpile of over 1000 units, Price Gregory International maintains a forward-looking commitment to support increased oil and gas projects
In 2008, H. C. Price Co. completed a merger with Gregory and Cook Construction of Houston, Texas. The new parent company is Price Gregory Services. The merger brings together two of the largest and mos...

AK-WA Connection 2008: Savvy merger paves way for contractor 11/30/2008
Price Gregory Services takes up where H.C. Price left off, offering wider range of infrastructure construction, related services
When longtime oilfield service contractors, Dallas-based H.C. Price Co. and Houston, Texas-based Gregory and Cook Construction Inc. merged in January to create Price Gregory Services Inc., few could hav...

40 Years at Prudhoe: Engineer recalls Prudhoe Bay early days 11/16/2008
Oil companies relied on cadre of talented individuals and contractors to design and build unprecedented Arctic infrastructure
From the start, developing the Prudhoe Bay oil field was a gargantuan task. In the words of O.C. Simpson, "It was a time of impossible demands and incredible feats." But Atlantic Richfield Co. and Bri...

Petroleum Directory: H.C. Price, Gregory and Cook Construction merge pipeline infrastructure businesses 07/20/2008
There's a new combination in the pipeline-infrastructure business, as Charles Price, chairman of H.C. Price Company, and Paul Gregory, president of Gregory and Cook Construction, Inc., have combined the...

Oil Patch Bits 03/09/2008
Udelhoven acquires TNM
In late 2007, Udelhoven Oilfield System Services Inc. (UOSS) acquired True North Management LLC (TNM). Both firms are Anchorage-based, providing project/construction management services to the Alaska,...

30 STRONG: TAPS: Young after 30 years 10/14/2007
Over past 10 years Alyeska achieved 99.5% pipeline mechanical reliability rate
It is an unrivaled engineering marvel compared by some with the Great Wall of China. It has safely and reliably delivered incomparable wealth in petroleum riches to the American people over three deca...

Alliance elects new directors 09/30/2007
At its Sept. 20 annual meeting in Anchorage, The Alaska Support Industry Alliance elected six directors to its board and named new officers, the association said in Sept. 26 press releases. Two of the...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Training exercise for pipeline workers 11/20/2005
The Fairbanks pipelines unions conducted their fourth joint pipeline training exercise in Fairbanks in October. The Alaska Works Partnership coordinated the exercise in conjunction with Operating Engi...

Flint Hills puts Alaska refinery project on hold 05/29/2005
North Pole refiner has until January 2007 to invest $100 million; says will announce clean-fuels project in next few weeks
Flint Hills has delayed awarding a $200 million contract to expand its North Pole refinery, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported May 25. The project would have allowed the refinery to produce low-s...

100 pipeline workers graduate 11/28/2004
The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the North Slope Contractors Association and the Alaska Petroleum Joint Crafts Council are graduating about 100 pipeline construction workers,...

MINING NEWS: New focus for Healy Clean Coal Project 08/08/2004
Negotiations officially over between AIDEA, GVEA; state now focused on new investors or shifting power assets to utilities
After years of contentious debate, lawsuits and sporadic negotiations, the two major players involved in the Healy Clean Coal Project, an experimental coal-fired power plant built with $300 million in...

H.C. Price lands contract to construct North Pole naptha-fired power plant 08/01/2004
Interior Alaska's electric provider Golden Valley Electric Association announced July 28 it signed a $74.9 million contract with H.C. Price Co. to build a new 60 megawatt naphtha-fired power plant in...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Pipeline contractor endures lull 01/26/2003
H.C. Price anticipates ANWR, NPR-A, gas pipeline for future work, company continues to branch out in power plant, facility construction
Although construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System originally brought pipeline building specialist H.C. Price Co. to the state more than 25 years ago, the company has contributed much more to A...

More money sought for Healy power plant retrofit 06/16/2002
Up to $125 million from DOE pending to replace experimental equipment
State and federal funds have poured nearly $300 million into an experimental design for a coal power plant in Healy, yet the facility sits idle while its owners scramble for more money to install conv...

H.C. Price: More than just a pipeline construction company 11/28/2000
H.C. Price's Alaska division has diversified from laying pipelines to constructing oil field facilities and power plants
If adventurous pioneering characterizes life in the Last Frontier, H.C. Price Co. fits right into the Alaska scene. Since its inception in the 1920s, H.C. Price has grown its business through the inno...

Alaska business execs make sales call to Royal Dutch Shell, The Hague 10/28/2000
World Trade Center's Robin Richardson says trip got the new operators of the Sakhalin project looking in the right direction: to Alaska
On Oct. 5, 15 Alaska business executives and a representative from the World Trade Center Alaska visited The Sak Group of Royal Dutch Shell in The Hague, Netherlands. Their mission was to brief the ne...

Increased oil company spending bodes well for Alaska businesses 10/28/2000
Phillips Alaska Inc. is anticipating higher oil production from the North Slope - as much as 15 percent higher over the next five years. "This winter we will execute one of our most aggressive explora...

Matthews promoted to vice president at H.C. Price Co. 07/28/2000
H.C. Price Co., an international construction company specializing in pipeline maintenance, power and process facilities, said July 17 that David L. Matthews has been promoted to vice president and Al...

BP awards Northstar grind and inject module contract to H.C. Price 01/28/2000
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. said Dec. 22 that it has awarded a contract to H.C. Price Co. for fabrication of a drilling waste disposal facility for the Northstar oil field. The facility will consist...