August 2015, Vol. 242, No. 8

Features

NAPCA Convention Hears of Need for More Gathering Pipe

The 51st annual convention of the National Association of Pipe Coating Applicators (NAPCA) was held April 15-18 at The Hyatt Regency Scottsdale, AZ Gainey Ranch, with over 200 attendees. The convention’s business sessions heard updates from several speakers, including Rich Hoffman, executive director of the INGAA Foundation, who stressed to the group that “even in a downturned economy, safety has got to be the most important thing that we do.” Hoffman said while the distance covered by new pipelines in the last 10 years has become shorter, that is largely because the Marcellus and Utica shale plays “took away the need to transport to the East.” He pointed to

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