"Water Horse Resources has the leadership, expertise, and partners needed to bring this innovative but critical infrastructure project to completion.”
Buster Gray
CEO & President
Over forty five years of experience in the management and design of pipeline projects with capital budgets from less than $1 million to approximately $10 billion including some of the largest pipeline projects in North America and the World. Since 1990, he has either directed or had major roles in over 5,800 miles of large diameter pipeline projects in the US and China. Notable US projects included Tuscarora, Express, Alliance, Vector, and Keystone and China’s massive West to East Pipeline Project.
He has been involved in many pipeline industry firsts and left footprints on the pipeline industry over his career:
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being project director of Alliance, the first high pressure, multi-phase natural gas pipeline in the US.
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involved with the first 0.8 design factor liquids pipeline in the US.
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had the role of working with the PLCA and the United Association in the first large scale successful implementation of mechanized welding and automatic ultrasonic inspection in the US.
One of his proudest achievements was being recognized by the Vice Premier of China at the Great Hall of the People for his work on the China West to East Gas Pipeline.
A civil engineering graduate of Mississippi State University and licensed as a professional engineer in 40 states, he owned and operated Pipeline Design Enterprises, Inc. which was merged into Universal Ensco, Inc. in 1989. He served as an Owner and Senior Vice President of Universal Ensco, Inc. until its sale in 2008, and CEO and President of EnSiteUSA, Inc. from its startup in 2012 until his retirement in December 2020.
PARTNERS
Founded in 1994, MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ) is an infrastructure construction company that provides engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade services for communications, energy, utility, and other infrastructure primarily in the United States and Canada.
EnSiteUSA is a Houston, Texas based privately owned engineering services company that provides a full suite of services to the pipeline industry, from conceptual planning and feasibility studies through construction management, start-up and operations, and maintenance of pipelines.
Precision Pipeline, LLC is an Eau Claire, Wisconsin based pipeline construction company founded in 2004 and, in 2009, joined the MasTec Inc. infrastructure construction family as its premier oil and gas service line. Since that time, Precision has grown into the one of the largest pipeline construction companies in the United States.