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New President Among Changes at Laney Directional Drilling
Long-time HDD contractor Laney Directional Drilling, based in Humble, Texas, recently announced management changes to the company, noting that Pat Tobias has taken over as company president for Marcus Laney.
Laney semi-retired in July from the company he founded, but remains an active member of its board of directors.
Prior to joining Laney in July 2009, Tobias served as superintendent for Sheehan Pipeline Construction, superintendent and project manager for ARB Inc., and construction manager for Tellepsen Pipeline Services. From 1983 to 1993, he was owner and president of PJT Inc., a pipeline construction company also based in Humble. Tobias has been in the pipeline construction industry for 50 years having been employed as a laborer, operator, purchasing agent, office manager, superintendent, construction manager, project manager and owner throughout his career.
In other news, Laney Directional Drilling named Grady Bell its vice president of business development. Bell has worked for Laney since 2003 and has more than 20 years of experience in the directional drilling industry. Prior to joining Laney, he held positions at Sharewell Inc., InArc/Reading & Bates, SPIE HDI and ARB. Currently, Bell holds
positions on the board of directors of both the Gulf Coast Trenchless
Association and the Distribution Contractors Association (DCA). He also is the chairman of the DCA Horizontal Directional Drilling Committee and has served on the Strategic Plan Committee.
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