Piping and Equipment history

They married in New Delhi in January 1971 and returned to Houston to set up their home and begin their life together.

Just as the national economy began to experience a major recession, the Arab oil embargo in 1973 brought a huge increase in oil prices that gave Houston’s economy an immediate boost.

In 1974, Durga Agrawal received his Ph.D. in engineering.

Piping Technology & Products, Inc., was founded in 1978 by Durga Agrawal.

But late in 1981, PT&P’s management—Durga Agrawal, Randy Bailey, and Terry McCormick—saw the signs of an approaching slowdown.

Although the Bayou City had been one of the best locations in the nation in which to start a business, the sudden demise of the “boom” in 1982 should have meant disaster for PT&P. But this was not the case.

After he joined the firm in September 1986, Rhodes initiated a series of “manager meetings” to provide a forum in which PT&P officials could raise issues, express concerns, and offer suggestions that would address the needs of the company.

The Shaw Group was established in 1987 as Shaw Industries, Inc., a pipe fabrication company.

By 1988, there was no land available into which the firm could expand.

Baker Hughes then merged United States Bellows subsidiary into its Bird Machine Company, which it had acquired in 1989.

In 1995, PT&P had acquired expansion joint manufacturing equipment and know-how from RM Engineered Products.

The building was in good condition and had enough room for some foam production (insulated pipe supports) and several offices that had been occupied by the accounting department since it moved from Long Drive in 1998.

Just three years later, in 2001, Chevron acquired Texaco and sold that company’s holdings in Motiva to Shell the following year.

Customers continued to return to PT&P, and in some cases provided special recognition of the company’s reliability and capability as a major supplier (Bechtel Power Corporation, 2002, Calpine), and expanding their business relationship with blanket purchase or umbrella-type agreements.

On October 6, 2003, Doctor John Mendelsohn, president of M.D. Anderson, and Doctor K.A. Dinshaw, director of Tata Memorial Center, signed a Sister Institution Agreement in Mumbai.

When PT&P acquired Pipe Shields in 2004, it added a subsidiary that had a sterling reputation in the piping industry and also held the prestigious ISO-9001 certification for quality control.

He invited Agrawal to the White House several times during his administration for visits that included Diwali celebrations, the Asian American Pacific Islanders Commission, and in July 2005, a state dinner with the prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh.

Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/politics/27letter.html; Chidanand Rajghatta, “If Bill had Rampur, Bush has Lakhanpur,” The Times of India, March 1, 2006, 8.

By 2008, as PT&P began its fourth decade in business, the company had reached a level of achievement in which all of its employees could take pride.

5 Randy Bailey, interview by William H. Kellar, January 25, 2010.

Plans called for the new expansion to increase the refinery’s capacity by an additional 325,000 barrels a day to 600,000 barrels a day by 2012, making it the largest refinery complex in the United States.

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