Business View Magazine | July 2019

398 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 Eagle Ford Shale until people asked him to hydrotest some their pipelines and fittings.” The company soon thrived on the booming business in the Eagle Ford. “At that time, they were aggressively building out the infrastructure there, which meant there was more work than we could even remotely dream of handling,” Chad recounts. “So, we continued to build out the customer base, strictly by word of mouth, and continued to grow.” Soon, there was an expansion into the greater Houston area, a merger with an equity group, and a restructuring of the company’s customer base from one of general J P Services, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, provides pressure testing and pipeline maintenance services for the oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 2011 by Justin Peter, who saw the need for hydrostatic, or pressure, testing on the pipelines in the Eagle Ford Shale, a hydrocarbon-producing geological formation that lies under 26 southeast Texas counties. “He took out a small loan, bought a truck, and built out what we call a test trailer, or a mobile testing unit, and formed his company,” explains Chad Peter, Justin’s brother and Company Vice President since 2013. “His main marketing tactic was to drive through the