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Drilling to Treasure Island

The Treasure Island Project in Russia used HDD to install an oil transport pipeline under the Kama River and, like the Robert Stevenson story of the same title, involved an island, oil – the modern world’s treasure, and daring adventures had by the drilling crew.

Making history: the OPAL pipeline

The creation of the OPAL pipeline has not only utilised trenchless methods for crossing rivers, waterways and harbours in order to make history as the biggest natural gas pipeline in Europe, but has also unearthed precious historical artefact in the process.

Drilling in the Ukraine

The impact of Trenchless Technology is far reaching and improving infrastructure all over the world. Eastern Europe is an example of this progress, which can be illustrated by looking at Trans-VISMOS, an experienced horizontal directional drilling company located in Kiev, Ukraine.

HDD under the Colorado River

Tue, 24 April 2012 A proposed US pipeline project, titled the Kokopelli Phase II Natural Gas Pipeline and Spruce Creek to Beaver Creek Water Pipelines, plans to utilise horizontal directional drilling and boring techniques for part of the pipe’s installation.

Natural gas pipeline replacement’s a bore

Mon, 12 March 2012 In Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, We Energies is using directional boring to assist in the replacement of approximately 80 miles of aging natural gas lines with new piping that is more resistant to corrosion and earth movement.

Oklahoma & Chennai seek trenchless services

Wed, 7 March 2012 Companies in the US and India have released tenders seeking the replacement of a pipeline and the laying of encasing pipeline.

Metro Looping Project contract awarded

Mon, 13 February 2012 WDS Limited’s Energy and Infrastructure division has been awarded a horizontal directional drilling contract by the APA Group for the Roma to Brisbane Metro Looping Project, Australia.

Trenchless around the UK

Wed, 9 March 2011 National Grid has awarded Murphy Pipelines Limited a contract for microtunnelling and auger boring works associated with the installation of a new multi-million pound pipeline across East Cheshire farmland, located in the UK.

Pledge to encourage infrastructure research

Mon, 7 March 2011 Black & Veatch has pledged $US1 million of the company’s future earnings to support research and development in sustainable infrastructure across the university system in Kansas, US, over the next decade.

HDD powers up Vancouver

Tue, 1 March 2011 Horizontal directional drilling is being used to install an electrical transmission line in Vancouver, Canada, as part of the Vancouver City Central Transmission Project.

Coating technology to protect new hydrogen pipeline

Tue, 22 February 2011 Insituform Technologies subsidiary, The Bayou Companies LLC, has been awarded a contract with Air Products and Chemicals to provide corrosion coating, concrete weight coating, double joint welding and logistic support for a new hydrogen pipeline located in the Gulf Coast of the US.

London gas gets rehabilitated

Thu, 10 February 2011 National Grid is using Trenchless Technology to rehabilitate a vital gas main in Mill Hill, located in the UK.

Reducing carbon-loading

Uhrig has designed a liner to minimise energy loss by recovering the waste heat for reuse in buildings-yet another way Trenchless Technology can help reduce carbon footprints around the globe.

Drilling to the ‘Top of Europe’

TERRA AG’s underground piercing tool was recently used to complete a rail crossing in the Swiss Alps, Switzerland.

CIPP chosen to achieve global expansion

Oilfield construction company DFI Corporation, recognising the growth in the trenchless industry, has chosen CIPP technology as a way to expand its business. DFI is using RS Technik’s cured-in-place pipe installation systems, which give businesses both timing and geographical flexibility, allowing them to undertake rapid repairs in any conditions.

US infrastructure gets a D: could trenchless help up the grade?

Tue, 12 October 2010 It is estimated that $US2.2 trillion is required over the next five years to repair and modernise the US infrastructure system, according to a new report issued by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation.

China visits the deep south

Tue, 28 September 2010 The Trenchless Technology Center (TTC) at the Louisiana Tech University recently hosted leaders from China’s largest pipeline, engineering firm – China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPP).

Easy does it on the Easington Pipeline

Mon, 23 August 2010 The contract to install a high pressure underground gas pipeline has recently been awarded in East Yorkshire, UK.

Pipeline mapping project awarded

Mon, 19 July 2010 As part of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority Expressway Project in Long Beach, California, Geospatial Holdings has been contracted to map a high pressure gas line.

HDD record broken in the Netherlands

Thu, 15 July 2010 A new pipeline crossing the Ketelmeer Lake in the Netherlands has set a record for horizontal directional drilling (HDD) with a drive of 2,800 m.

Tie-in in Thailand

Fri, 25 June 2010 Horizontal directional drilling has been successfully used to install a 1,877 m section of pipe on the IRPC Natural Gas Pipeline Project in Rayong, Thailand.

Conserving Caribbean coasts with HDD

The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago is using horizontal directional drilling to protect the shoreline in the construction of a new offshore gas pipeline.

HDD make inroads into oil sands

Tue, 22 June 2010 US-based Alaska Pacific Energy Corporation (APEC) has recently acquired HDD firm Engineering Technology Inc (Entec).

NASA proposes HDD for wind power project

Sun, 11 April 2010 Horizontal directional drilling will be employed in a wind power project at the Wallops Flight Facility, eastern Virginia, according to an environmental assessment drafted by NASA.

Boring under the Rhine

Mon, 15 February 2010 Bore work has been completed to install five multi-pipe bundles under the Rhine as part of development works to the Rhine power plant Iffezheim in Germany.