Pipeline services
AMEC’s experienced team of engineers, geologists and environmental scientists provides a complete range of services to the pipeline industry.
Named the world’s top international design firm by Engineering News-Record Magazine, AMEC clearly has the skills, technology and imagination necessary to fulfill every customer need during every phase of the impact- assessment, regulatory, design, construction and operation processes. The company has worked on pipeline projects worldwide, from Alberta to Tanzania.
AMEC’s pipeline experience began decades ago, with the remediation of problem slopes and negotiation of river crossings. This led to new systems where AMEC’s impressive knowledge of rock mechanics, river engineering, construction and environmental solutions has, for many customers, become a key component of rights-of-way selection and centerline location. AMEC now offers services from offices coast to coast in the United States and Canada. AMEC’s experience extends to pipelines that carry natural gas, oil, refined product, sulphur, carbon dioxide, coal slurry, water, sewage, and tailings slurry.
AMEC’s background in managing environmental challenges ranges from navigating regulatory processes to providing technical solutions in the field. Services include permitting, feasibility studies, the preparation of environmental mitigation and monitoring plans, and environmental impact assessments. Reclamation specialists provide field-tested revegetation services for erosion-prone slopes, agricultural land and other environments.
Socio-economic impact assessments and recommendations for public involvement, Native American and Canadian aboriginal issues, and public participation also are provided by AMEC’s human environment specialists.
AMEC’s pipeline services fall under these categories:
Planning permits
- Corridor characterization and selection
- Regulatory consultation
- Conservation and reclamation plans
- Aquatic resources permitting
- Wetland characterization
- Biological surveying
- Air quality permitting
- Noise impact analysis
- Assessments mandated by the national environmental policy act
- Socio-economic impact assessments
- Archaeological investigations
- Public participation
Construction
- Quality assurance/quality compliance
- Construction monitoring/regulatory compliance
- Investigation of bedding and backfill materials
- Geotechnical conditions for excavation
- Directional drilling and pipe jacking
- Materials testing
- Snow and ice roads/bridges
- Water availability for hydrostatic testing
- Rock slopes, bolting and anchors
Project design
- Seismic hazard analysis
- Soil-pipe interaction at fault crossings
- Liquefaction and lateral spread
- Stream characterization (hydraulic modeling)
- Erosion/scour analysis and control
- Channel migration prediction and control
- Wetland mitigation design
- Permafrost engineering
- Frost heave and thaw settlement
- Directional drilling,auger drilling and pipe jacking
- Compressor and pump station foundation design
- Ice jam hazard assessment
- Subsidence analysis
- Offshore applications
- Geographical information systems (GIS)
- Slope stabilization and debris flow
- Cultural resource mitigation
Operation, maintenance, remediation
- Erosion control and revegetation
- Slope stabilization
- Settlement/heave monitoring
- Spill clean-up and due diligence documentation
- Groundwater clean-up
- Remediation technology design and construction oversight
- Human health risk assessments
- Contaminant fate and transport analysis
- Environmental audits
- Waste minimization
- Expert testimony