Pipeline Software Keeps Alberta Project Efficient Despite Mud, Cold

摘要

The landscape alone can challenge any pipeline project, but conditions reach extreme levels quickly when natural elements, such as thigh-deep mud and 40-below temps, intersect with the man-made constraints of a large-scale project encompassing thousands of joints, a fast timeline, multiple sections simultaneously under construction and no room for error.McElhanney Geomatics Engineering, a provider of surveying, mapping and geomatics solutions in the oil and gas sector, faced all of these conditions and more when it started a 174-mile (280-km) pipeline project in northwest Alberta, Canada.