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Over 5,000 Massive Steel Pipes Being Unloaded In Walnut Hill, Trucked North
February 1, 2010
Over 5,000 pieces of 80-foot long steel pipe are being unloaded from railroad cars in Walnut Hill and transported through Atmore and surrounding communities by truck.
It’s all part of a $2.46 billion Florida Gas Transmission Company project to expand its natural gas pipe system to meet the growing energy needs of the Gulf Coast and Florida. The current portion of the project involves about 483 miles of pipeline being installed in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida with about 365 miles parallel to existing pipeline.
In the North Escambia area, the pipeline runs from Baldwin County into Escambia County north of Atmore, skirts Flomaton and crosses into a small portion of the very northeastern corner of Escambia County (Fla.) near Century and into the northern part of Santa Rosa County.
“It’s a massive project,” said John P. Barnett, public information director for Florida Gas Transmission Company. “In terms of dollars and scope, it really is big.”
The massive pipes are manufactured at Berg Steel Pipe Corporation in Panama City and transported by train. The pipe is being unloaded from an Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway line near the intersection of Arthur Brown Road and Corley Road in Walnut Hill. From there, it is being trucked north of Atmore by Dun Transportation of Sherman, Texas. As the project progresses, the pipe will be trucked to other portions of the pipeline in the three county area.
The numbers are impressive. Unloaded in Walnut Hill over a six month period will be a total of:
- Over 5,000 sections of 80-foot long, 36-inch diameter pipe
- Over 600 railroad cars
- Over 2,000 truckloads
Barnett said all of the pipe is being installed adjacent to existing pipeline on existing right of ways in Escambia County in Alabama and Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida.
“There will not be any surprises for landowners,” he said. “The pipeline is being installed next to the existing pipeline, and all of the landowners were notified last year.”
Another interesting fact: The machine being used to unload the pipes from the railroad cars to the trucks uses a powerful suction to life the pipe — no ropes, no cables, no magnets.
Pictured above: Over 5,000 80-foot sections of steel natural gas pipeline are being unloaded from over 600 railroad cars in Walnut Hill. Pictured below: Sections of pipe are then transported by truck north through Atmore. NorthEscambia.com and submitted photos, click to enlarge.
Railroad buff Larry Seale of Cantonment contributed some of the photos for this story.
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23 Responses to “Over 5,000 Massive Steel Pipes Being Unloaded In Walnut Hill, Trucked North”
This is for the people lookink for work these are the places to help you get on this job
1 International union operating engineers
2 Laborers international union
3 International brotherhood of teamsters
4 If you are a welder you need to contact Local 798 welders union
Whatever trade you are in ther will be a local union hall in your state somewhere .
i guess i dont understand why some people are mad about this although i do understand that local people want good paying jobs but in this line of work you just cant hire one white guy that speaks spanish and 100 mexicans to do the work and what i mean by that is Flordia is a right to work state thats why labor jobs pay is dirt cheap there but you the people of flordia could change that if you really wanted to one by joining the unions and strengthen the work force or you could get your local politicians and construction company to stop hiring illegal people to work for the companies that would rather hire cheap labor over good labor these men and women travel all over the united states to do this dangerous work it may be in the mountains in the west or the swamps and hills to the east but you should not knock them because they chose to be union and travel into your state . and yes local people do get hired but these people are part of a union trade . The welder that asked how to get on this line you need to contact local 798 welders union and they will direct you what you need to do.
whoa……this is America, and we’ve all rambled around to make money….so if you work out of town for 6 months it’s no different than relocating…when we do work out out town we pay taxes so your towns can have programs to train or to feed the poor (food stamps). You HAVE to have skilled people on these projects that KNOW the work. LIVE UNION WORK UNION…….
SW.
Union workers wives, just kidding, take a deep breath.
Would love to answer that, but Williams going to tell me to stick with the topic and I would be getting further a way. It’s his web site not mine, I respect that.
Bill,
Define greed. What is the cut-off point?
Okay they’re union; so what. These pipeline employees travel with the jobs; not unlike any other construction employee. If you want to work for them get qualified and go where the work is.
The 366 mile pipeline is contracted to Sheehan Pipe Line Constuction, Price Gregory and U S Pipeline and they are all union contractors.
SW, …..I don’t have a problem with profit, just greed.No matter who is making it.
All, I don’t recall seeing in this report about these jobs being union. More than likely, this job was bid on some time back by a pipeline company who is approved to work for FL Gas.
Your Neighbor, be careful when you say gas wells; gas wells are drilled the same way as oil wells. The drilling process as a whole is much more environmentally clean compared to years past, however. I have been arguing (the same as you) that point for years-drilling will not hurt the beaches; too many environmentally conscious things are in place to prevent that.
Bill, don’t look at Exxon’s profit, look at their profit margin. It is only 9-10%%. (cnnmoney.com). On the same note, GE was 9.5%, Comcast was 7.4, IBM was 11.9, and AT&T was 10.3; after all the bills were paid only 10% of their total earnings was profit. Do you feel the same way about IBM and AT&T who made more and GE who made about as much? I don’t think any of these companies took any government money last year, either.
Is it not okay for a company to make money?
Union wife, you don’t have to yell. Have a great day.
City Slicker, you tell’em brother.
Lets all hope that once it’s built that maybe some local jobs will come out of it. Maybe!
Dont blame the unions for your politicians ineptness. Our local politicians and the chamber of commerce have never tried to bring meaningful employment to your area. Of course they will pat themselves on the back when another call center opens up with 30 or 40 minimum wage jobs….meanwhile Alabama breaks ground on another car plant or steel mill. In this area you have only a couple of choices for employment that you can get ahead on , medical field or local federal state government. Until we get politicians that actually see the plight of our citizens it will remain this way.
LETS ALL GET UP TUESDAY MORNING AND GO TO WORK AT THE POWER PLANTS THE LOCAL UNION WORKERS ARE BUILDING OUT OF TOWN. DRESS WARM BECAUSE IT IS O BELOW AND 4 FOOT OF SNOW AT ONE OF THE NEW COALL BURNERS BEING BUILD. LETS GO TAKE A TEST WITH 200 TO 300 HUNDRED QUESTIONS ON IT TO MAKE SURE WE KNOW WHAT WERE ARE DOING IN THE NUK PLANT BROWNS FERY IN NORTHERN. ALABAMA. LETS TAKE MONEY OUT OF EACH OF OUR CHECK GIVE TO WHAT EVER UNION HALL YOU ARE WORKING OUT OF TO PROVIDE ANY PERSON WHO WANTS TO LEARN A SKILLED TRADE WE CAN DO THIS ON THE WEEKEND AT THE UNION HALL FREE AND GET ON THE JOB TRAINING FOR 14 TO 18 DOLLARS PER HOUR ON A JOB THAT THE UNION HELPED US GET IN OUR LOCAL AREA UNTIL WE KNOW ENOUGHT TO TRAVEL THIS MEANS THESE OUT OF TOWN UNION WORKERS ARE GIVING MONEY TO THE LOCAL UNION HALLS THEY ARE WORK OUT OF .LOCAL WORKERS ARE HIRED FIRST THEN IF NEED MORE HIRE OUT OF TOWN .WHEN THE JOBS ARE ALMOST FINISHED THE OUT OF TOWN WORKERS ARE LET GO FIRST. AND YES SOME OF THE POWER PLANTS IN NOTHERN ALABAMA ARE PROVIDING POWER IN LOCAL AREAS. GO TO BETCHTEL.COM TO SEE WHAT SOME OF THESE SKILLED UNION WORKERS ARE DOING FOR THE WORLD . THESE JOBS ARE BID ON BY THE UNIONS. AS WELL AS COMPANYS THAT USES NON UNION WORKERS. GO TO BETCHEL.COM TO SEE WHAT SKILLED JOBS ARE HIRING AND JOBS WITH A DEGREE ARE BEING OFERED. THINK OF THESE UNION WORKERS WHEN YOU GET UP TO A WARN HOME IN THE MORNING.
I’ll tell you what we ought to do, we ought to somehow protest this project in OUR town without so much as even offering us any kind of employment opportunities. IT OUGHT TO BE AGAINST THE LAW! It’s kinda like somebody just walking into your house and sitting down at your table and eating your dinner and not even so much as knocking on the door. While we are all starving to death around here. Legally I’ll bet there is something that can be done. There’s lots of loopholes in the law.
THANKS FOR THE INFO, WILLIAM. IT IS SAD THAT NO LOCAL PEOPLE ARE GETTING JOBS OUT OF IT. AS FOR THE POTHOLES, THEY ARE ON EVERY ROAD UP HERE IN THE NORTH END AND IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THEY WILL GO AWAY ANY TIME SOON.
Judy,
thats why washngton makes back room deals with unions. Buying votes.
seems like i heard a portion of a story on FOX NEWS recently saying that alot of these “saved or created” infrastructure jobs are slated to go to the out of town UNION members, not the local workers (in desperate need of local jobs)…go figure!
I’d like to show pictures of these trucks SPEEDING up and down Arthur Brown road and the HUGE potholes they are causing. These guys must be doing at least 60 mph in front of my house on Arthur Brown, all day long.
I hope Florida Gas Transmission is going to fix the roads they are destroying.
No local jobs, that was taken care of a year ago with large contractors. What I want to know is where is the gas going. To Florida from AL, MS and LA ! Don’t forget that Florida doesn’t want offshore drilling for the largest gas fields in the United States. It just might run off the tourist because of the view and oil spills. It’s a gas field idiot ! Not oil ! I’m sorry for the local welders and others that could use the work from this project not being contacted by Florida Gas. They should have already posted skilled labor for hire prior to hearing this news.
Yes, they will need welder/pipefitter’s,, local skilled tradesman need jobs
can somebody find out re: jobs for local’s?
ExxonMobil Posts $19.4 Billion Profit in 2009, Down From $45.2 Billion in 2008 . It’s still profit.
Hope the pipe line can product jobs.
For the people looking for jobs — As far as I know, there are no direct local jobs created. The companies are from out of town and bring their own crews with them, traveling the hundreds of miles of the install.
NEED A JOB!!! There got to be a need for welders, pipe fitters and people to run the constrution equipment. If anybody knows, PLEASE POST where to apply.
Thanks William. We’ve wondered what the pipes were for and where they were going.
Where can I go to apply for a job with any of this construction that is going on. It kills me all this work going on right here at home and no local folks getting any of the action.