Turnkey Distribution Systems
High Desert Pipeline designs, builds and owns private natural gas distribution systems which serve private businesses and industrial and institutional customers. High Desert Pipeline provides turnkey installation for all of its distribution systems, handling all permitting, engineering and design criteria in concert with the design of its host facilities. HDP, along with its affiliates, have built numerous turnkey natural gas distribution systems for both new and existing facilities. In many instances, HDP installs the distribution facilities directly from interstate pipelines, bypassing local utilities to provide considerably lower natural gas commodity costs while providing the same or better delivery reliability and safety.
High Desert Pipeline at the Sierra Army Depot
The High Desert Pipeline is a natural gas distribution system constructed, owned and operated by the company under contract with the United States Army. Built in 1997, the system supports and maintains a natural gas plant to serve conventional heating and commercial purposes in reclaimed warehouse facilities.
The distribution system consists of a high pressure natural gas regulation station, including parallel regulator sets with monitoring instrumentation, recording devices and alarm instrumentation. It includes a seven mile, 4-inch steel pipeline with a separate regulator station to serve proposed commercial and industrial gas load in an identified privatized work area.
In addition to the seven mile 4” newly-installed steel pipeline, the distribution system includes approximately 7 miles of previously installed natural gas pipeline including 1,500 feet of 6” steel pipe. Other facilities consist of 4”, 3” and 2” plastic distribution mains, and plastic service piping with industry standard gas regulators, valves, meter sets and cathode protection as well as two boiler plants and 56 industrial and storage facilities at this military facility.
Baker Performance Chemical and Sartomer Pipelines
Texas-Ohio Distribution, Inc. (TOD), an affiliated High Desert Pipeline company, built, owned and operated a two-mile natural distribution pipeline in Dayton, Texas. The pipeline was built to service Baker Performance Chemical. Five years later TOD sold the facilities to Huntsman Chemical who purchased the manufacturing facility from Baker Chemical. TOD has built another similar pipeline in Channelview, Texas to serve Sartomer Company (which TOD still owns and operates).
