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12/5/2008 - Southeast Supply Header to Award $60,000 in Scholarships

MMA member Southeast Supply Header, LLC (SESH), a 50/50 joint venture between Spectra Energy Corp. and CenterPoint Energy, Inc. recently announced that it will make a one-time, $10,000 contribution in scholarship monies to six community colleges along the path of the company’s new pipeline system. Four of those schools are in Mississippi.

Following are the area community colleges receiving scholarship monies:

Louisiana Technical College-Tallulah (La.) Campus.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (Perkinston).
Pearl River Community College (Poplarville).
Jones County Junior College (Ellisville).
Copiah-Lincoln Community College (Wesson).
Bishop State Community College (Mobile, Ala.).

SESH hosted a breakfast Friday, Dec. 5, to formally announce the details of the scholarship. The breakfast was held at Pearl River Community College’s Lowery Woodall Advanced Technology Center in the Hattiesburg-Forrest County Industrial Park in Hattiesburg.

Construction was recently completed on the SESH pipeline system, a 274-mile interstate pipeline running from Delhi, La., to Coden, Ala., including 211 miles through the state of Mississippi. The SESH pipeline will provide critical new supplies of onshore natural gas to growing southeastern U.S. markets from an array of supply basins, multiple interconnections with other pipelines and high deliverability storage facilities.

"Our industry is in real need of workers skilled in industrial and technical trades such as civil engineering technology, surveying, construction management, drafting/design, surveying and welding. The magnitude of the SESH project served to emphasize this need as we retained a construction workforce of nearly 2,500 workers who, combined, clocked more than 5.4 million man hours over the course of the project’s construction," said Andrea D. Grover, director, stakeholder outreach, Spectra Energy. "Given the industry-wide need for skilled workers and our desire to give back to the communities where we operate, supporting students interested in pursuing technical-vocational careers was an ideal fit."

Scholarships will be awarded to students enrolled in these colleges’ technical-vocational programs beginning summer or fall semesters of 2009.

"Although the original construction phase of SESH is complete, the importance of encouraging people to pursue technical-vocational career fields is ongoing," said Grover. "Now that this pipeline is delivering natural gas, SESH has established a pipeline infrastructure that will continue to expand, as demand and customer needs dictate, creating a continuing need for technical-vocational positions along the way."

PHOTO: MMA Director of Government Relations John Baas, far right, spoke to attenders about the importance of workforce training at the SESH scholarship announcement breakfast in Hattiesburg Dec. 5. Also pictured are, from left, Jeff Elgin, manager of Customer Service, CenterPoint Energy, Toni Beck, vice-president of External Affairs, Spectra Energy, and Andrea Grover, director of Stakeholder Relations, Spectra Energy.

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