History

Holloman Corporation was founded 1960 by Sam Holloman as Holloman Construction and incorporated in 1967 in Odessa, Texas providing general oilfield contractor labor and equipment services to the major oil and gas companies located in the Permian Basin with main clients including Gulf Oil, Phillips Petroleum, Texaco, Amoco, and Getty Oil.

The majority of the work centered on water flood, oil production facilities, injection lines, injection stations, gas gathering pipelines, well hook up, battery construction and gas transmission lines.

The company hit its first peak around 1980 when it had operations in Odessa, Ft. Stockton, Sonora, Breckenridge, Roswell, NM, and the Texas Panhandle when the price of oil reached $50 a barrel. When the oil price sunk to $7 in 1982, and construction work in the oilfield was practically non-existent, the company was forced to drastically downsize and all of the operations outside of Odessa were closed. By 1984 the company had recovered enough to begin to grow and it began working more and more outside of the Permian Basin. Much of the company’s pipeline work still involved water injection systems, but CO2 injection became a main influence in construction work in West Texas. The company worked in the first CO2 injected fields for Shell Oil Co., Amerada Hess, Texaco, and Chevron who had purchased Gulf Oil.

In 1982 Holloman purchased the Jack Whisler Company of El Paso, Texas that provided maintenance work and painting for El Paso Natural Gas and Transwestern Pipeline maintaining their gas transmission systems in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. This led to a long term relationship between Holloman and El Paso Natural Gas Company that included pipeline relocations on El Paso’s large diameter transmission pipelines throughout West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona including several river crossings, road crossings. This work expanded to other companies in the late 80’s as new government regulations required transmission pipeline companies to repair old pipelines.

The late 90’s also saw a big downturn in the energy business and Holloman was again forced to look outside of the energy sector to find construction work. In 1998 Holloman diversified into delivering municipal water and sewer utility projects throughout Texas. That operation was quickly successful and the resulting experience in large urban areas allowed Holloman to offer energy-related pipeline construction in high-consequence areas. The first urban energy project was the Longhorn Pipeline across Austin, Texas and was followed by many other similar projects throughout the country.

In 2002 the company became Holloman Corporation and 100% employee owned when the company formed an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) and purchased the company from Sam Holloman. This was followed by several acquisitions including the 2003 purchase of TW Cook Engineering which was consolidated with our own engineering division formed in 1992 and Holloman Engineering LLC was created. This was followed by the 2004 acquisition of L&P Pipeline and Construction of Ganado, Texas. This has provided the company a footprint into the South Texas oilfield construction market. L&P operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary providing construction services for oil and gas facilities and pipelines in South and Southeast Texas.

The company’s success in high consequence urban areas provided for expansion into the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2003. That expansion was initially involved in municipal projects but transformed into Shale gas technology. Holloman became one of the major providers of construction services in the Barnett Shale. Building on its experience and relationships in the Barnett, Holloman has expanded its presence into Haynseville, Eagle Ford, and Marcellus Shale Plays.

In 2007 the company moved its headquarters to Houston and today maintains area construction offices in Odessa, Dallas-Fort Worth, Ganado, Pearsall, San Antonio, Shreveport, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.