NEWSLETTER
SUMMER 2026

After fifty years I have decided to write a company Newsletter.
This newsletter will provide a few highlights and updates for the first six months of 2026 for the ECHO Group of companies.

First, we celebrated our 50-year Company Anniversary in February at the Beaumont Civic center with over seven hundred attendees. It was a wonderful celebration to honor my parents, our co-workers, and to highlight our company accomplishments.

The first half of 2026 has been busy for all companies and as a group we worked over two million man-hours.

ISTC/GTBR has announced that ECHO is a finalist for the Don Boumans Safety Award, the premier safety award for contractors in Southeast Texas. The awards are presented at the August banquet.

We have secured maintenance contracts with Methanex and Woodside Blue Ammonia, which will benefit the entire ECHO Group.

Valero selected ECHO to revamp and rebuild Units 241, 242, and 243 at its PAR facility. This scheduled-driven project will operate two shifts for most of 2026.

February marked ECHO’s 15th anniversary of holding the maintenance contract at Motiva, and it remains an honor to work at the largest refinery in North America. We also have several turnarounds planned at the site for 2027.

We are nearing completion of the Firewater and Deluge project at TOTAL and were recently awarded the 450 Boiler project, which will keep our TOTAL team busy throughout the remainder of 2026.

ExxonMobil selected ECHO to execute their Alky Unit turnaround 1Q 2027 and their Chemical Plant turnaround 2Q 2027.

ECHO continues to receive many maintenance, capital and turnaround opportunities and is presently working in over twenty plants.

After over 30 years as the vice president of GCF Louis Falgout is retiring. Louis has been with GCF since its inception, and he has been invaluable to the success of the company. I can’t thank him enough for his friendship and his commitment.

Chris Caffey is replacing Louis, and we are confident that this will be a positive seamless transition.

We will soon be breaking ground on the new 8,400 square feet Pipe Cutting Facility

GCF is approximately 70% complete on the eight thousand spool MPLX Marathon Oil Project for Burns & McDonnel.