Innovative Pipeline Crossing

JANUARY 2019 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 5 Grande Prairie Mainline Loop proj- ect, the first National Energy Board sanctioned Direct Pipe Installation in Canada, for which IPC installed 217 metres of continuously welded steel pipe for the Highway #16 crossing. These projects, and others like them, received significant attention and interest from clients within the pipe- line industry because of the Calgary based company’s Direct Pipe® tech- nology, a German method that allows for the simultaneous excavation of the borehole and pipe installation—in other words, the project is done faster, easier, and with a smaller geographi- cal and environmental footprint. Direct Pipe® can be applied to nearly any ground condition with its one- pass pipeline installation method, making it an ideal way to tackle any river crossings or tunnel under man- made structures. Whereas the traditional technology for pipeline river crossings has typically been Horizontal Directional Drilling,