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Pitt-Des Moines Division Awarded $24 Million in Oil and Gas Contracts in Texas.


THE WOODLANDS Woodlands refers to several places:
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, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1999--

PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and  Engineered Construction, a division of Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. (AMEX AMEX

See: American Stock Exchange
:PDM), announced today that it has been awarded $24 million in contracts to design and build multiple oil and gas facilities at seven locations in Southeast Texas Southeast Texas is a subregion of East Texas located in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The subregion is geographically centered around the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown and Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan areas. .

The contracts include the following projects: -0-
--   Seven floating roof tanks and two pressure spheres at Fina's
     refinery in Port Arthur.

--   Five floating roof tanks at the world's largest liquid steam
     cracker adjacent to Fina's Port Arthur refinery. The steam
     cracker is a joint venture between BASF and Fina Petrochemicals,
     and is being developed by ABB Lummus Global.

--   A wet seal gas holder for a Rohm and Haas chemical plant in Deer
     Park.

--   Two storage tanks at Chevron facilities in Beaumont and Baytown.
     Bechtel is developing these projects.

--   Two floating roof tanks at an Arco facility in Jones Creek. o
     Eight storage tanks for a Fluor Daniel facility at Chocolate
     Bayou.


Pitt-Des Moines is a 107-year-old diversified company diversified company

A company engaged in varied business operations not directly related to one another. A diversified company is less likely to suffer either a collapse or a spectacular gain in earnings compared with a firm concentrating its operations in a
 that operates in two business segments: heavy construction and steel distribution.

The company's heavy construction business designs and builds tanks and systems for liquid and low-temperature cryogenic cryogenic /cry·o·gen·ic/ (-jen´ik) producing low temperatures.

cry·o·gen·ic
adj.
1. Relating to or producing low temperatures.

2.
 storage, fabricates steel bridges, fabricates and erects steel structures for buildings, and designs and builds water storage systems.

PDM Steel Service Centers distribute and provide value-added processing for a full line of heavy carbon steel products through eight steel service centers and three culvert pipe facilities.
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