ever evolving. For its client’s Salt Cavern
Program, Rangeland designed a chain of
connected salt caverns. Having completed
work on 25 salt caverns over the past few
years, Daye said, “We probably do more
cavern work in Western Canada than any
of our competitors.”
Ethylene is a technically challenging prod-
uct that can be dangerous if handled with
improper care and Rangelanders have
been involved in a number of ethylene-re-
lated projects, like the Redwater Ethylene
Injection Site. This project entailed the use
of technology for compressing and treating
the substance for storage in salt caverns.
Rangeland was one of the few companies
in Alberta to have worked on this technol-
ogy in the past 20 years.
Rangeland was also involved with the
Strachan gas plant, another major facility,
which is home to a number of services
like sulphur recovery and storage. Last
fall, Rangeland worked on the Strathcona
Rail Terminal project in Edmonton, which
is one of North America’s biggest crude
oil loading sites. There are safety concerns
about transporting crude by rail, Daye said.
Due to a possibility that flammable sub-
“We were so busy here that work came to us unsolicited. It’s a whole different
world today, but we are adapting.”
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