July • 1954 for Its Annual Convention September 7-10
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*.»; H-17340 C-l Drilling Machine Stopping Machine H-17505 Flanged Tee Makes 2"tol2"cuts through gate valves Used to insert, expand and ex- Used when making a large connection in any size cast iron or steel main - dry tract steel wedge line stoppers. on a steel main. Permits locating valve or under pressure. Power-operated with Other models available for in- on lateral line in most convenient place. H-600 Air Motor or H-602 Gasoline serting stoppers ranging from Drilling and plugging of tee is done Engine Drive Unit. Hand-operated %" through 8"under pressure. under pressure. Sizes 3",4",6'and 8". model also available. Similar machines available in smaller sizes. These products ore j'usf a portion of the complete selection of H-17790 Machine Inserted gas equipment, supplies and Service Valve Tee specialties offered hy Mueller Co., H-17490 Designed for inserting directly into steel Save-a-Valve Drilling Nipple or cast iron mains under pressure, using designed and manufactured Permits removal of valve when connec- the Mueller"B"Tappmg Machine. Built-in fo traditionally high standards. tion is abandoned. Used when making valve gives complete control of the a connection to steel pipe under pres- service at the main. Copper-encased sure. Inside thread in nipple permits in- neoprene gasket makes pressure-tight sertion of a plug under pressure. Com- joint against pipe. pletion cap makes double leakproof seal. ;:..::....;;;; --."• . MUELLER CO. H-11104 ^- "O" Ring Seal Gas Curb Stop H-11170 Inverted bronze key is precision ground I LubOseal Gas Meter Stop to a gas-tight fit in a heavy cast iron "0"rings are located at top and bottom of body. Tight seatage is accomplished with precision-ground and lapped key, assur- stainless steel spring under key plus ing gas-tight seat. Lubricant is automatic service line pressure. Seals located ally pressure-fed to longitudinal grooves above and below gasway give positive in key, assuring positive lubrication. assurance against top or bottom leaks. MUELLER RECO RD Oeei Of all the inquiries received by our Sales Division regarding the advertise- ments describing our "D-4", "E-4" Drill- ing Machines and our No-Bio Fittings and the No. 4 Line Stopper Unit, one was of particular interest to the MUELLER RECORD. The letter was written by Mr. C. Hayashibe who is chief of the Construc- tion Department, Osaka Gas Company, Ltd., Osaka, Japan. The company is located at No. 1 Hiranomachi 5-Chrome, Higashiku, in Osaka. The firm has two branch offices, one in Kyoto, Japan, and another in Kobe, Japan. Mr. Hayashibe's letter, a testimonial of the power of American trade journal advertising, reads as follows: "We have read with great interest your THIS MONTH'S COVER advertisements on your "D-4", "E-4" This thirty-inch natural gas pipe line Drilling Machines and also the No-Bio crossing over the Red River near Natchi- Fittings and the No. 4 Line Stopper Unit toches, Louisiana, forms a spectacular in the April number of GAS JOURNAL web in the sky. The pipe line is the prop- and the May number of GAS. erty of the United Gas Corporation. A "We shall be much obliged if you description of United Gas Corporation's would send us catalogs and complete vast operations and the part it plays in information on these products. the great Gulf South begins on page 4. "With anticipation of your kind favor . ." Catalogs and complete information on this equipment have been sent to Mr. Hayashibe. In addition, copies of the May issue of the MUELLER RECORD which dealt in some detail with the No. 4 line stopper unit also were mailed. * * * The Pacific Coast Gas Association has chosen a beautiful and appropriate site July • 1954 for its annual convention September 7-10. WALTER H. DYER, Editor The P.C.G.A. will go to Vancouver, B C., a picturesque resort area, for its 61st MUELLER Co. annual meeting. It will be the first time MANUFACTURERS OF WATER AND CAS the P.C.G.A. has ever held a convention DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE PRODUCTS in Canada. FACTORIES DECATUR, ILL. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Vancouver seems particularly appro- SARNIA, ONT. CHATTANOOGA, TENN, priate for the event for it was just 100 SALES OFFICES NEW rORK CITY SAN FRANCISCO years ago that the little village which was to become Vancouver was then TRADE MARK known as "Gastown." MUELLER Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. City officials intend to make the area Member Industrial Editors Association of Chicago "Gastown" all over again and hope to and International Council of Industrial Editors help this P.C.G.A. convention be re- membered as a pleasant one. JULY 1954 WJ* A section of 20-inch natural gas pipe line being laid into the Gulf of Mexico. A Titan In The Industry United Gas Corporation Is World's Largest Handler of Natural Gas FOR THE NATURAL GAS industry, has been one of the prime magnets times have changed drastically since the drawing industry to the South and 20's, when gas literally couldn't be given Southwest in the last couple of decades. away. Amarillo, Texas, trying hard to Billions have been spent in the rush to make use of gas from the Panhandle build plants in the area where this field soon after its discovery in 1923, economical, versatile "wonder fuel" is offered natural gas free for five years to available. Still other billions have been any manufacturer, provided he would invested by the natural gas industry to give employment to 50 people. There find and develop adequate gas reserves, were no takers. to build pipelines, powerful compressor Today the nation's industry clamors stations and distribution systems, es- for this fuel in ever increasing volumes. sential for moving gas from wells to Most observers agree that natural gas eager consumers. MUELLER RECORD As much as any other resource, largest expansions by a single company natural gas has helped to create the in the history of the industry, involved New South—the thriving industrial, the laying of 1,735 miles of pipeline of commercial and agricultural empire that various sizes, including many miles of stretches from the Texas prairies to the 30" main transmission lines; construc- Atlantic Ocean. tion of new compressor stations, dehy- dration plants and other facilities. Virtually all the South's electric power today is generated from gas, and the The new lines have increased the max- demand for residential use of the fuel imum delivery capacity of United's pipe- is at a record high. As Lt. General Ernest line system from approximately three O. Thompson, chairman of Texas' Rail- billion to some four billion cubic feet a road Commission, recently put it: "You day. Construction of pipeline across the could not successfully tie the housewife Southern countryside is no easy matter. of America to a coal scuttle and an ash Pushing through swamps and dense can when clean, convenient natural gas forests, spanning several wide rivers is available and her home can be heated with suspension bridges, and laying sub- and even temperatures maintained by a marine lines beneath others, construction thermostat on the wall." crews completed the major portion of this project in a record-breaking 18 The abundance of natural gas and months. A notable phase of the project natural gas liquids are largely responsi- was the laying of some 25 miles of un- ble for the phenomenal development of derwater pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, to the South's $3,000,000,000 petrochemical open markets for offshore natural gas industry, with its heavy concentration of developed in fields off the coast of Lou- new plants in the Texas and Louisiana isiana. Gulf Coast region from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana. About United Gas has invested more than 85 percent of the nation's petrochemical $500,000,000 in facilities during its 24 operations are now located in the South, and additional large sums already have Aerial view of United Gas Building (large been earmarked for more plants and building) at Shreveport, Louisiana, •which large-scale expansion of present ones. houses the general offices of United Gas Corporation, United Gas Pipe Line Company The South's other newly acquired in- and Union Producing Company- dustries—the steel mills, oil refineries, cement plants, paper mills, and others of various types and sizes—virtually all use natural gas as a fuel because of its premium quality and low cost. One of the titans of the natural gas industry is the United Gas Corporation. This company's far flung system criss- crosses the Gulf South, an area that reaches from the International Boundary at Laredo, Texas, to Pensacola, Florida, and includes major portions of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, plus sections of southern Alabama and northwestern Florida. Like most of the natural gas industry, United's most spectacular growth has come in the last 15 years. To meet the ever rising demands of the gas-hungry South, and incidentally strengthening its own position as the world's largest handler of natural gas, United Gas began a three-year, $250,000,000 expansion pro- gram in 1951. The project, one of the JULY 1954 years of operation. The company was organized in 1930, when more than 40 associated companies were welded into United Gas Corporation. Some of the original companies which became a part of United Gas had started out manufac- turing gas from coal, a half century before the discovery of oil and gas at Spindletop in 1901 ushered in the petrol- eum era in the Southwest. In its first year, United had 100,000 customers and some 8,500 miles of trans- mission, distribution and field pipe lines.