Holland Engineering was selected to provide engineering design and construction management services for Consumers Energy’s West Oakland Pipeline Project.This 25-mile, 36-inch pipeline will be used to transport natural gas and will be located entirely within the state of Michigan. Services included:
Preliminary services - assisting with route selection, preparation of governmental and environment permits and attending applicable hearings for MPSC filing
Drafting services – all civil and mechanical drafting
Design services - meter station design, trap and main line valve facilities, special construction area design, directional drill layouts, identifying additional construction workspace requirements, and preparing hydrostatic test drawings
Construction services - material specifications, preparation of supplemental construction specifications and assisting with contractor selection
Holland Engineering is currently providing survey and engineering services to Bluewater Gas Storage for their Pipeline Extension and Meter Station Upgrade Project. Due to a decision to expand their 20" pipeline and increase their flow capacity, a new filter separator needs to be added, existing 8" meters need to be replaced, and the flow control valve needs to be upgraded with a larger and quieter control valve.
Design services - design of pipeline extension to a new HDD river crossing, property exhibits, mechanical and electrical design for modifications to meter station
Survey services - pipeline survey and design of property exhibits for right-of-way acquisition
For the seventh consecutive year, Holland Engineering was selected by Consumers Energy to assist with the engineering review of their Pipeline Inspection Program. Services include:
- survey assistance for locating and staking anomalies
- obtaining site-specific pipeline profile information
- upon excavation, verifying the location and nature of anomalies identified by methods such as in-line inspection
- providing determination for the integrity of natural gas facilities
- coordinating activities between Holland Engineering’s field integrity specialist, contractors and company personnel for on-site inspections and evaluations
- preparation of interim and project completion reports and project documentation records
Holland Engineering is assisting with various in-line inspection assistance projects. Services include:
- creating hazardous operation plans (valve sequencing and purging plans)
- loading, launching and receiving inspection tools (cleaning pigs, gauging pigs, and internal inspection tools)
- creating plans for the disposal of liquids
- cleaning inspection tools upon completion of their inspection runs
Holland Engineering is currently assisting TransCanada with the conversion of all the existing Bristol Programmable Controllers over to Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers at their Defiance Compressor Station in Ohio.
Holland Engineering’s full scope of services for this project include:
- specification of required instrumentation
- preparation of new instrumentation plot plan drawings
- design of station wide fiber optic cable system
Holland Engineering assisted Kinder Morgan with surveying and drafting services for Spreads A2 and H of the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) Project. The REX Pipeline is a proposed 1,679-mile natural gas system which will run from Colorado to Ohio. Upon completion, this will be one of the largest natural gas pipelines constructed in North America.
Surveying services - included staking the entire construction corridor centerline, extra work spaces and right-of-way limits of the proposed pipeline and providing stationing along the entire right-of-way. Holland Engineering also provided complete pipeline as-built, as-built depth of cover and all below grade utility and field tile crossings.
Drafting services - developing permanent easement, temporary easement and additional workspace descriptions based on drawings supplied to Holland Engineering.
Holland Engineering is pleased to have been selected to support a portion of TransCanada's 2011 Fall Protection Remediation Program. This program has been put in place to correct potential fall hazards that have been identified in existing TransCanada facilities throughout the United States.
Since many of these facilities have been place for over 50 years, the requirements of the Occupational safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have changed significantly. These changes, along with current uses at some of the facilities, have made the existing fall protection systems obsolete. As part of this project, HEI will meet with facility staff to identify the fall hazards presented at specific sites, prepare concept drawings and budgets for the remediation of the identified hazards, and once solutions are identified, prepare bidding and construction documents.
On July 26th a pressure drop occured in Enbridge's 30" petroleum line 6B that released an estimated 800,000 gallons of unrefined crude oil into the Talmadge Creek near Marshall, Michigan. Holland Engineering was contacted shortly after the spill and was able to quickly respond with survey, GIS and engineering support services. Holland Engineering was also able to promptly send two of our engineering staff members to the leak site to provide 24 hour support to the onsite Enbrige Engineers.
From Start to finish,
Holland Engineering has
been providing the
engineering design,
surveying and
construction services
for Northern Border
Pipeline company's
Princeton Lateral
Project. This 8.65 mile
long, 16-inch diameter
interstate natural gas
pipeline lateral will transport natural gas from the existing Northern Border's Kasbeer side valve to Central Illinois Light Company's facilities near Princeton. Construction is currently underway and facilities are scheduled to be placed in service this fall.
Throughout 2011, Holland Engineering (HEI) has been providing ground disturbance scans to Enbridge at numerous locations throughout Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Initially, a majority of these services were provided for Line 6B, the same 30” crude oil pipeline in Marshall, MI which suffered an oil leak earlier this year. HEI was able to complete a list of several hundred digs by providing scanning, staking, surveying and drafting services.
At the clean-up sites, the process involved assessing the area that was previously excavated and disturbed, staking the “scar” to show the contractor what needed to be cleaned, staking the access road into the site and locating and flagging the existing pipelines within the disturbed area. HEI also scanned, as an extra safety precaution; the entire staked area to find any foreign utilities that may have been missed by the one call. Using GPS, our survey crews were able to survey the staked area and send the data to drafting where a map was created showing the workspace and utilities for contractor use.
In addition to the clean-up site, Holland Engineering also provided ground disturbance scans for new dig site locations. Enbridge supplied HEI with “dig sheets” for each location which allowed HEI to stake the anomaly location by coordinates using GPS. Although the overall process was very similar to the clean-up site, it did require more staking and probing. Our survey crews performed these throughout a variety of different terrains including fields, wooded and residential areas and swamps.