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January 2012 COVER STORY: Bridging the Energy Gap Enbridge Builds Safe Pipelines to Serve North America Ever since the company began in 1949, Enbridge has been on a rapid path toward dominance in the North American oil and gas pipeline industry. Starting as the Interprovincial Pipe Line Co., the company changed its name to Enbridge in 1998. Read More » FEATURES: Clearing Pipeline Rights of Way — the Right Way | Taming the Tiger | Tape it Up | Site-seeing by Video |
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November/December 2011 COVER STORY: Sticking to Safety Vacuworx Developed Vacuum Lifting Industry for Pipeline Construction to Help Save Lives The story goes that Vacuworx International was born at the family dinner table. While talking about the oil and gas pipeline industry with his father, Bill Solomon got the idea to adapt vacuum lift technology to move steel pipe around the jobsite. Read More » FEATURES: Understanding Pipeline Coatings | Can You Afford the Risk? | Better Welds |
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September/October 2011 COVER STORY: Pipeline Advocates The API and AOPL Work Together to Promote Oil and Gas Industry With recent pipeline failures, increased concern about drilling and hydraulic fracturing methods and continued criticism from environmental activists, the oil and gas industry faces an onslaught of scrutiny from the public and regulatory authorities. Read More » FEATURES: Security in the Pipeline | Two Cities, Two Golf Courses, One Continuous Bore | Plasma Systems Save Time and Money in Pipeline Construction | Why Cold Cutting Is the Hot Technology |
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July/August 2011 COVER STORY: DediCATed to Pipeliners Caterpillar Established a Unique Distribution Model to Serve the Industry The transient nature of pipeline construction requires a unique approach to meeting the demands of a unique industry. Read More » FEATURES: Shale Gas in the Buckeye State | Understanding Telematics | Making Progress | Pulling It All Together | Keeping Up With Emissions Regulations |
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May/June 2011 COVER STORY: A Model of Growth Waschuk Pipe Line Construction Takes Advantage of Opportunities The seeds of Waschuk Pipe Line Construction Ltd. were sewn in 1952 when CEO and founder William Waschuk began working as a pipeline welder. Read More » FEATURES: Pipeline Coatings — An Integrity Question? | Reduced Impact | A Balancing Act | Marcellus Shale Play HDD Challenges and Triumphs |
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March/April 2011 COVER STORY: Laying New Ground Building on a Tradition of Innovative Engineering and Product Enhancement The pipeline construction season in North America is starting to rev up. Any project where pipe is being installed in the ground has a need for a hydraulic sideboom. Read More » FEATURES: Critical Connections | A True Test of Skill | A Perfect Fit | A Prescription for Maintenance | The Recruiting Pipeline |
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January/February 2011 COVER STORY: Success Isn’t Arbitrary Creative Solutions Keep ARB Inc. Ahead of a Changing Industry Managing the fluctuations of the oil and gas pipeline industry requires a proactive approach for a multifaceted construction company to remain successful. Read More » FEATURES: Cathodic Protection Primer | The Ideal Path | Piping Over the Road | Rules to Line By |
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November/December 2010 COVER STORY: A Record of Safety Kinder Morgan Touts a Strong Record of Building and Maintaining Safe Pipelines If you want to see Kinder Morgan’s record, it’s right there. On the company website, the pipeline owner displays its safety record for anyone to see. Read More » FEATURES: Get It Right the First Time | The Measure of Integrity | Design-Build HDD Under the St. John’s River | Direct Pipe Debuts in the United States |
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September/October 2010 COVER STORY: Answering the Unknown Gulf Interstate Engineering Provides Know-How to Clients Worldwide Building oil and gas pipelines requires hard work, manpower, a huge inventory of equipment and supplies and a whole lot of know-how. Read More » FEATURES: Safe at the Next Level | The Law of Pipelines | What’s Golf Got to Do with It? | Pass the Pig | Regulations Guide Pigging Tool |
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July/August 2010 COVER STORY: The Global Connection CRC-Evans Provides Pipeline Equipment and Expertise Across the World Building a cross-country pipeline requires a wide range of personnel, equipment and expertise in order for the project to be a success. Read More » FEATURES: A Cure for Coatings | Pipeline Health Care | The Ties That Bind |
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May/June 2010 COVER STORY: Three’s Company Michels Pipeline Team Leads the Contractor’s Core Business REX, Keystone, Alberta Clipper — these are three names of some of the more prominent oil and natural gas pipeline projects in the past few years. Michels Corp. worked on all of them. Read More » FEATURES: On Solid Ground | Green Pipeline WIll Aid Oil Recovery in Gulf Region |
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March/April 2010 COVER STORY: On the Front Edge of Distribution DCA’s Miller Helps Members Stay Ahead Building oil and gas pipelines requires hard work, manpower, a huge inventory of equipment and supplies and a whole lot of know-how. Read More » FEATURES: Restoring Pipeline Integrity | Boring Through the Bayou | Clearing the Path |
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January/February 2010 COVER STORY: Bending for the Pipeliners Darby Equipment Co. Focuses on Customers, Quality and Growth A pipe-bending machine shapes a pipeline before it enters the ground. Darby Equipment Co., a manufacturer of such machines, hopes to shape the pipeline industry by providing quality products and exceptional customer service. Read More » FEATURES: 69 Bores Completed on Pipeline Project | Miles of Productivity | Layer of Protection | A Market in Flux | Open Season for Alaska Pipeline Project |
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November/December 2009 COVER STORY: A Partner in Pipelines Contractors and Unions Build Strong Relationships for Canada’s Oil and Gas Pipeline Industry Canada’s oil sands and shale gas reserves are the point of initiation for some of the largest mainline pipeline systems in North America, with a sprawling network of supporting distribution lines to get oil and gas to the consumer. Read More » FEATURES: Open Season for Alaska Pipeline Project | Mapping Future Pipelines | Help Wanted | Laying it Down | Setting the Keystone |
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September/October 2009 COVER STORY: A Voice That Sells His voice is deep and melodious in conversation, calming in its resonance. When he’s at work, though, it sounds like a hard-driving drum solo, rattling off large figures in quick succession, stalling for a moment to let the audience catch its place, and then the voice rattles off more numbers before it says, “Are you done?… Last call… Sold.” Read More » FEATURES: Tackling Hard Rock with HDD | Drilling Through Water | Delivering Pipelines by Air | Finding Approval | Deconstructing Worksite Hazards |
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July/August 2009 COVER STORY: Leading an Industry Don W. Thorn sits at his oversized and overfull desk in his office at Welded Construction’s headquarters in Perrysburg, Ohio. The company’s president has an oversized magnet on one of the file cabinets that reads “Lead by Example.” And that’s just what Thorn does. Read More » FEATURES: A Pipeline Mired in Regulatory Delays | Veterans Roll into Pipelines | Training Helps Welders Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges | What’s in a Root Pass? | Electric Currents of Pipeline Corrosion |
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June 2009 COVER STORY: Road Expansion Forces Oil Refinery Pipeline Replacement In the name of progress, a Montana road expansion project required that a new steel pipeline replace an existing line to an oil refinery. To get the job done, the contractors on the project used horizontal directional drilling with a specially designed rig. Read More » FEATURES: High-Performance Pigging | Work Continues on the Keystone Pipeline | Fortifying Trenches: Ensuring Safe Trenches and Best Practices |
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May 2009 COVER STORY: High-Performance Pigging A fundamental component of internal pipeline corrosion prevention is a thorough, regular cleaning program to prevent and minimize corrosion environments. Cleaning is primarily achieved through the use of a variety of pigging tools and can include the use of chemicals. Special purpose pigs can also help deliver corrosion inhibitors. Read More » FEATURES: The ABCs of Pipeline Corrosion | Work Continues on the Keystone Pipeline | Fortifying Trenches: Ensuring Safe Trenches and Best Practices |
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April 2009 COVER STORY: U.S. Overview: As the Economy Struggles, the Oil & Gas Markets Roll On As the economy in the United States continues its downward trek, with companies across the country laying off thousands of workers and bank credit freezing up, there’s one market that continues to thrive through this economic uncertainty and is expected to continue to do so at least through 2009. Read More » FEATURES: The ABCs of Pipeline Corrosion | Energy Market Turns to HDD | Fortifying Trenches: Ensuring Safe Trenches and Best Practices |
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March 2009 COVER STORY: U.S. Overview: As the Economy Struggles, the Oil & Gas Markets Roll On As the economy in the United States continues its downward trek, with companies across the country laying off thousands of workers and bank credit freezing up, there’s one market that continues to thrive through this economic uncertainty and is expected to continue to do so at least through 2009. Read More » FEATURES: The ABCs of Pipeline Corrosion | Energy Market Turns to HDD | Fortifying Trenches: Ensuring Safe Trenches and Best Practices |
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December 2008 COVER STORY: U.S. Overview: As the Economy Struggles, the Oil & Gas Markets Roll On As the economy in the United States continues its downward trek, with companies across the country laying off thousands of workers and bank credit freezing up, there’s one market that continues to thrive through this economic uncertainty and is expected to continue to do so at least through 2009. Read More » FEATURES: The ABCs of Pipeline Corrosion | Energy Market Turns to HDD | Fortifying Trenches: Ensuring Safe Trenches and Best Practices |
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