mario j. Carbone

Chief Operating Officer

Mario Carbone’s ingenuity and perseverance define his leadership. His forty six years in the gas pipeline industry include thirty two years in design, maintenance and construction with Brooklyn Union Gas/KeySpan Energy and ten years as the senior manager for gas research and development with KeySpan Energy.

Mario is trained and certified on the application of Starline CIPL. He holds three gas pipeline industry patents for new technologies in gas pipeline purging, live gas polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) pipeline sampling, and live service pipeline transfer without interruption. In addition to his expertise in managing field operations and overseeing purging practices, Mario is versed in current regulations for corrosion and pipeline environmental procedures. Mario’s decades of experience enable PPM to design, develop and test new technologies and robotics on demand while complying with required industry standards. His inventiveness to overcome challenges led PPM to win the 2011 Trenchless Technology Project of the Year for rehabilitation of a leaking high-pressure main that was over a hundred years old. As a respected authority on innovative trenchless techniques, he has frequently been a speaker at industry events.