Driver Pipeline flirts with HDD record; completes a 1.13-mile (1.8 km) bore — through rock — in one straight shot.

The project traversed two affluent Fort Worth, Texas, suburbs, beneath the immaculate fairways and sculptured greens of two golf courses, tree-lined streets and posh neighborhoods … and ranks among the longest continuous bores in trenchless pipeline history.

Driver Pipeline, one of the country’s largest pipeline construction companies, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, announced the opening of its fifth regional office to be located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The new facility, located on U.S Highway 49, about 2.5 miles north of the Interstate 59 intersection, is strategically located near the major southeast and northeast liquid and gas petroleum transmission pipelines. The new facility is also located close to the areas high number of salt dome storage facilities, as well as most of the major drilling and production companies servicing the region.

Driver Pipeline, one of the country’s most successful pipeline construction companies, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, announced the addition of marketing specialist Renee Ardoin to the Company’s Gulf Coast Division located in Pearland, Texas.

In its 19th year, the Dallas 100™ Awards, presented by the SMU Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, recognized the fastest growing, privately held companies in the Dallas area and Driver Pipeline Company is number 8 on the list.

Safety in the workplace is a culture, a commitment that starts at the top and permeates an entire organization. Companies with successful safety records take nothing for granted, especially safety. Responsibility starts at the top with an understanding that everyone must be accountable. That’s especially important in the pipeline industry where job safety is critically important.

The world has changed and the nation’s pipeline system has played a major role in those changes. An oil and gas resource delivery network that was once dependent on road and rail transportation now flows from wellhead to city and coast to coast at the touch of a button.