Case Study: Propane Line Bore at a Hospital Campus in Anadarko, Oklahoma

Not every meaningful bore is a monster crossing. This one – roughly 75 feet of poly with tracer wire at a hospital campus in Anadarko – shows what a small, well-run gas bore looks like when the site is a working medical facility and the material is owner-supplied.

The Challenge: Gas Work on an Active Medical Campus

Hospitals do not pause for construction. Trenching 75 feet across a medical campus means barricades, cut surfaces, and restoration around a facility that cannot compromise access. The propane scope also carries gas-work expectations: locates verified, tracer wire installed for future locatability, and a clean handoff to the mechanical contractor. Our gas line boring work runs on those rules every day.

The Approach: Small Bore, Full Discipline

The customer – the site’s mechanical contractor – provided the poly pipe and tracer wire, and our quote said exactly that, so there were no material markups hiding in the price. After locates, the crew set up clear of facility traffic, bored the ~75-foot path, and pulled the poly and tracer wire back in a single short mobilization. Owner-supplied material scopes like this are common with plumbers and mechanical contractors, and they are priced as such – see our cost guide for how that works.

The Result

The propane service went in on grade with tracer wire ready for future locates, the campus surface stayed intact, and the mechanical contractor connected their system on schedule. Small bores done right keep facilities like this off the excavation-damage statistics – the whole point of the standards covered in our standards and regulations guide.