World-Record Trinidad HDD Installation
GeoEngineers provided expert horizontal directional drilling (HDD) design and construction consulting services for a shore approach installation of a crude oil export pipeline off the southeastern coast of Trinidad. The New Oil Export Line (NOEL) project called for a 30-inch-diameter pipeline coated with 1.85 inches of concrete installed under the sea floor. The combination of […]
St. Clair River Line 6B Pipeline Replacement
Enbridge is a Canadian company that operates the world’s longest crude oil and liquids transportation system. One of the company’s pipeline safety inspections revealed an anomaly that regulators deemed potentially hazardous in the section of Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline running 40 feet below the St. Clair River channel between Marysville, Michigan, USA and Sarnia, Ontario […]
BTC Pipeline HDD Crossing of Kura River
GeoEngineers provided expert geologic and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) advice and design input that led to the completion of the final segment of the 1,100-mile-long BTC oil pipeline that carries 1 million barrels of crude oil a day from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. HDD was used to install the pipeline beneath the […]