Shop fabrication and field installation of a 24-inch diameter natural gas pipeline at 5 river crossings throughout southern BC as part of the Southern Crossing Pipeline.
BC Gas tendered a project to install a 24-inch natural gas pipeline from the Alberta border to Oliver, BC in the Okanagan Valley. Included in the project were fiver river crossings that the prime contractor declined in undertaking.
Ideal Welders took on the responsibility for fabrication and field installation of the gas pipeline at each of these river crossings.
Ideal Welders designed modular components and drafted drawings for each of the crossings. In the shop we fabricated the pipe work. pipe supports and walkways, and assembled the components into modules. All Components were painted, insulated and tested (NDE and pressure) prior to leaving the shop.
The 4-inch lines, pre-assembled in modular components, were shipped to the site for installation. Ideal Welders provided the field crews and equipment to hang the modules off the sides of the existing bridges, complete the final fit-up and weld them into place.