Case Study: HDPE, McElroy Has Hobbs, New Mexico Water Project Ahead Of Schedule

As the pressure to increase domestic oil production builds, cities such as Hobbs, New Mexico are booming. Located on the oil fields of west Texas and eastern New Mexico, Hobbs is facing serious population growth. The population growth, in turn, creates the need to provide utilities to new residential developments in the city.

So much of the town's population is at work in the oilfields that the 24-hour Wal-Mart closes at 10 p.m., due to the lack of workers for a night shift. While the pressure to produce oil had some things in Hobbs out of whack, one thing not out of whack was the city relying on high-density polyethylene pipe (HDPE).