Water Rails & Oil - Historic Mid & South Jefferson County

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ECHO
MAINTENANCE
LLC
Above: The installation of a 270,000-
pound reactor at Total Petrochemicals
DHT Unit.
Below: Echo Maintenance’s main
office is located at 6711 North Twin
City Highway in Port Arthur.
Since April 1976, the Roebuck
family has been providing industrial
construction services, as a general
contractor specializing in pipe
fabrication and installation, structural
steel erection, heavy rigging, and
civil work.
Three experienced construction
workers, Phillip Roebuck, Jake Miller,
and John Morrison, who had worked
together for many years for various
contractors, invested $15,000 each
and utilized their knowledge and
expertise to form Golden Triangle
Constructors (GTC). GTC was a union
company that specialized in municipal
and industrial construction.
These men rented a small office in
Port Neches. Their first employee was
Susie Roebuck, a secretary. Shortly after
they opened, they were awarded their
first contract, which was a $20,000
municipal project in Port Neches. The
company continued to perform municipal
contracts until the fall of 1976 when they were
awarded a small piping project at Gulf Oil
(presently Valero Refinery) in Port Arthur.
During GTC’s first year, its total sales were
slightly over a million dollars.
As the business grew several key people were
hired. A few of these people were Paul Roebuck,
Richard Dixon, Don Garner, and Lee O. Simms.
GTC was now working at Texaco, Union Oil, and
Fina Oil & Chemical. Everyone was proud when
a new two-thousand-square-foot office was built
on Twin City Highway in Port Arthur in 1978.
Phillip bought out his partners in 1981, the
same year GTC was awarded its first major
projects—revamping two crude units at Gulf Oil
and building three units at Independent Refinery
in Winnie. Nearly twenty years later GTC would
eventually dismantle and re-erect these units at
Farmland Refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas.
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