Recent Projects

A water main break is always an emergency since we all need water dependably and safely delivered to our taps. When that water main break happens in the middle of a creek, the safety risk spreads from humans to the ecosystem surrounding the creek. It requires an immediate response.

When a sewer pipe leaks it is serious business. When that pipe is 36” wide and located next to the Susquehanna River, it is immediate serious business. Linde was on-site to begin another project when we discovered the problem and alerted the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority. The timeline roughly went like this: Linde discovered the leak the morning of October 5th, the WVSA mobilized on the 6th and from October 7th until the 10th work went on around the clock.

Constructing a proper water draw is a collaboration between private and government interests. Millions of gallons of water are required in hydrofracking and that water must be safely drawn from public waters. Linde has extensive experience in safe water draw construction.

Trenchless technology came to Linde naturally. Linde’s position is that we must have all the tools to offer quality work and trenchless technologies are a crucial part of that offering. To this point Linde has done countless miles of bores.

Linde Pipeline Division Manager Fred Ostroski has said that horizontal directional drilling in Susquehanna County operates at “the edge of constructability.” There are endless challenges and solutions to extracting natural gas from Marcellus Shale.

Linde Corporation built this compressor station in Susquehanna County, which prepares natural gas from local wells to be fed into the Tennessee Pipeline and on to market. Linde supplied foundation construction, compressor building foundation and slabs, M/C building foundation, generator foundation and slabs, mechanical and process piping and electric services.

What follows are examples of prepping pipe for welding at a well pad. Linde Corporation has been a dependable partner to the gas firms at work harvesting Marcellus shale gas.

2011 was the wettest year ever recorded in Northeastern Pennsylvania. By the time the remnants of two tropical storms came calling in early fall, the ground was already saturated from the summer rains. The Susquehanna River crested at nearly 43 feet, its highest level ever. What follows are three Linde utility projects, each triggered by serious, water-related events in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

This is an impressive demonstration of coordination and raw iron power. Excavators are carrying a riser leg section into place.

These photographs are also from Susquehanna county. They show two of the steps in laying 10” gathering lines over tricky terrain. There are examples of welding pipe and setting valves, frequent and crucial steps in laying the 50+ miles of pipeline which Linde is working on in the Marcellus region.

The pullback on a bore, or directional drill, can be tricky when using 10” pipe. In this case, the pipe had to be strung through the woods to facilitate the pullback. The photos show the pipe rollers at work and are ample demonstration of some of the logistical challenges Linde faces when laying pipe over wooded and hilly terrain.

Third St. Mt. Carmel, PA, Northumberland county. On this project, Linde Corporation was hired to install 3800 lf (linear feet) of ductile iron pipe. In addition, the project specs called for 7 fire hydrants and 145 services to be added. This project was estimated to take 130 days from beginning to end. It was begun in June of 2011.

Linde Corporation built this compressor station in Susquehanna county for transmitting natural gas from the wellheads to the main transmission lines. Linde supplied the prep work, the concrete, installed the underground storm drains and did the E&S controls on the project. The compressor station is routinely where the mercaptan is added to the gas to give it a distinctive odor. Natural gas is normally odorless.

The Army Corps of Engineers noticed water bleeding from underneath the dikes at some points in the Wyoming Valley during the record high waters of 2011. Linde was tasked with collecting that overflow.

Linde Corporation constructed this well pad as a drill site for Marcellus gas exploration in Luzerne County. In this case, Linde coordinated closely with the gas company doing the exploration, the landowner and various right-of-way agents.

This group of photos demonstrates bore pipe being strung and welded before a horizontal directional drill under an environmentally sensitive area. Linde Corporation has completed miles of bores in the Marcellus region.

Medpark International Hospital in Chisinau, which officially opened February 17, 2011, is the biggest private hospital in the Republic of Moldova.

The African Union Summit Hall in Sipopo, Equatorial Guinea, was designed and completed in a record-breaking time of 5 months. It was built in Equatorial Guinea’s newest city and hosted the 17th African Union Summit in June, 2011.