One of Texas’ most successful coating and blasting companies is entering new markets while expanding its physical footprint. Blastco Texas Inc., a company of the TF Warren Group, later this year will relocate its operations to Channelview, Texas, with the intention of eventually opening a dedicated paint and blasting shop.

The company’s current headquarters in Houston features storage space for field equipment as well as sales and administrative offices. Abrasive blasting, welding, coating and lead abatement activities are performed on-site for clients including municipalities that retain the company to work on steel structures. The majority of Blastco Texas’ projects involve work on ground and elevated water tanks. “Our main market is water; tanks are our bread and butter,” General Manager Steve Wissing says. “If we have, say, 25 projects underway, 20 of those are probably water tanks.” Regular municipal clients include the cities of Houston and Austin.

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The TF Warren Group is dedicated to being the only provider its customers need in the industries they serve. “We are an innovation driven company that provides our customers with a single source solution for storage, structural products and corrosion protection,” says Terry Warren, president and CEO of the TF Warren Group. “We are committed to be the safest, most cost-effective, reliable and customer-focused supplier in the markets we serve.”

With operations that serve the Western Hemisphere, the TF Warren Group of companies work in terminals, pipeline and refining, minerals and mining, chemical processing and municipal markets. They provide greenfield turnkey terminal services including terminal design, tank engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction. The group also provides shop and field application services for protective coatings, rubber linings, and roll coverings. 

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Texas Gathering Company has built its business on the principle that its customers in the oil and gas sector deserve personalized service. That principle has served the company well since its inception in 2002, and President Travis Davis says this principle will be the bedrock on which the company will continue to build its future success. 

The company specializes in offering first-purchasing services to oil producers in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Mississippi. Texas Gathering Company’s fleet of trucks and transports haul oil purchased from producers around the clock. The company says its focus on the marketing and gathering side of the industry means it can offer customers more than a typical trucking firm. “Our company does not haul for hire; all Texas Gathering Company transports exclusively haul first-purchased oil,” the company says. “This allows Texas Gathering Company to focus on servicing our producers quickly, proficiently and reliably. With our comprehensive services, producers can maintain sole focus on production and leave the rest up to us.”

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Not many companies can say that they invent new solutions for their markets, but Rulmeca Canada Limited can. “When the industry doesn’t have a product for the customers, we design it and we build it,” CEO Joe Hartney declares. “We are best in difficult situations and service life is our forte.”

The Wallaceburg, Ontario-based Rulmeca Canada is a manufacturer of motorized pulleys, idlers, rollers and other specialty products. The company’s roots go back to Precismeca, which started operations in Sulzbach, Germany, in 1947.

The company initially repaired and manufactured conveyor rolls for  underground coal and potash mines. Twelve years later, Precismeca formed a sister company in Saverne, France, which was followed by a manufacturing facility located in Alberta, Canada. In 2000, they became members of the Rulmeca Group with manufacturing centers that are strategically located throughout the globe. 

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Finding a world-class asset is a major development for any exploration company, and it’s one that not every exploration company gets to experience. For NexGen Energy Ltd., finding the Arrow discovery in the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan was a significant accomplishment, one that the company plans to build upon in the years to come. 

Corporate Development Manager Travis McPherson says the discovery of the Arrow property gives NexGen a position in the marketplace virtually unmatched by other exploration companies. Based in Vancouver, NexGen Energy was co-founded in December 2011 by CEO and Director Leigh Curyer, a veteran of the uranium sector with nearly two decades of experience. He has been involved in all facets of uranium exploration and development from exploring, economic studies, permitting, raising project capital and production. He also spent three years in private equity at First Reserve International looking at uranium projects around the globe from a technical, financial and sovereign risk perspective. 

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