CNC Project Management (CNC) has a long-established history in Australia’s pipeline industry, working on some of Australia’s largest oil, gas and water pipelines.
CNC offers a unique range of consultancy services under the one roof, working across all stages of the project lifecycle – from project inception and planning, through approvals, design and construction, to commissioning, operations and decommissioning.
CNC’s experienced team provides expert advice to progress its clients' projects. CNC sees the big picture for its clients' projects while taking care of the essential detail.
CNC delivers solutions in:
- Project planning and management.
- Alignment selection.
- Landholder access and land acquisition.
- Stakeholder and community engagement.
- Communications planning and management.
- Media and government relations.
- Permitting and approvals, including secondary approvals.
- Environmental management and compliance.
- Field environmental services during construction.
- Native title and cultural heritage management.
- Spatial and data services, including geographic information systems (GIS).
- Agreement management and payment services.
- Pipeline engineering, including SMS studies and facilitation.
Directhitt is an Australian trenchless specialist for oil and gas, mining, power, telecommunications, water and wastewater projects which require trenchless pipeline or conduit installations in onshore or shore crossing environments. Based on 27 years of contracting experience throughout Australia and Asia, the company offers complete HDD design and engineering solutions for clients, from concept to construction, through the application of its specialised knowledge and experience, including:
Design and engineering
River Crossings
Shore crossings
Hard rock difficult geotechnical conditions
Microtunnelling
Directhitt is experienced with diameters of 100 to 1,200 mm, across distances of up to 2,100 m. The company can provide clients advice on project methodology, such as the use of HDD intersects for long crossings or where geotechnical conditions require careful management of drilling pressures and drilling fluids for environmentally sensitive locations.
The contactor can also provide clients advice on geotechnical investigations required to minimise project risk and deliver a successful project, avoiding potential contractor construction claims.
GPA Engineering (GPA) is a highly experienced engineering consultancy providing EPCM services to Australia’s oil and gas industry since 1987, with offices in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin and Melbourne. GPA thrives in solving complex engineering problems and providing value to its clients within process, mechanical, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation, SCADA, controls and risk engineering fields.
The company delivers single disciplinary projects through to large multidisciplinary developments for greenfields or brownfield operations, from conceptual/feasibility stages through to detailed design, construction, commissioning and operations support.
GPA provides services across the full range of oil and gas projects, from wellhead through gathering, processing, reciprocating and turbine compressor stations, AS 2885 transmission pipelines in steel and spoolable composite, gas and fuel storage projects, AS 4645 distribution pipelines and stations, and facilities supplying power stations and industrial plants. The company also provides independent third party design/MDR validation services.
GPA proudly supports the industry and refine its knowledge, through active participation on ME 38, AS 2885 subcommittees, YPF and EPCRC/FFCRC research projects.
Herrenknecht AG, based Germany, was established in 1977 and is a leading manufacturer of tunnelling equipment. Through innovation and development, Herrenknecht has expanded its equipment range with specialised pipeline installation technologies.
Herrenknecht's horizontal directional drilling (HDD) rigs offer pull forces from 80 to 600 t, a range of HDD tooling including full face hole openers (FFHO) for single-pass large diameter reaming stages, weeper subs and downhole jet pumps.
It offers Direct Pipe® technology, using AVN machine and Pipe Thruster, for single-pass installation of steel pipelines from 20 to 60 inches (508 to 1,524 mm) in difficult ground conditions, sensitive areas, or shore approaches.
Herrenknecht's Pipe Thruster's offer 300 to 750 t push/pull force to assist challenging HDD installations of longer pipelines and larger diameters, or as a pipeline rescue or insertion tool.
Its Pipe Express® method works as a rapid, semi-trenchless, cross country pipeline installation system for 30 to 60 inches(762 to 1,524 mm).
Herrenknecht's E-Power Pipe® technology, using a microtunnel boring machine with jet pump (AVNS) for longer drives in small diameters. First, the AVNS excavates borehole using temporary jacking pipe concept. Second, the rack and pinion jacking frame pulls the prefabricated product pipe.
iPipe Services is a leading independent provider of specialist pipeline services to the oil, gas, mining and utility industries, wholly owned by Monadelphous Engineering. The company provides a comprehensive range of services including maintenance, construction, and process and pipeline services across steel transmission pipelines, compression facilities and gathering networks for the upstream CSG industry.
Being at the forefront of new technologies, iPipe Services' investment into research and development as well as continuous improvement with innovative solutions, allows the company to deliver safe and more efficient results for its clients.
iPipe Services' commitment to its clients is to provide the highest quality independent specialist pipeline services available in the marketplace. The company delivers on this commitment through honesty in communication, dedication to quality, safety, sustainable work practices and innovation.
The company's skilled workforce is focused on its clients’ specific needs. iPipe Services does this by working closely with its clients, suppliers and stakeholders to provide turn-key, efficient and cost-effective solutions for project delivery.
Maxibor is Australia’s leading provider of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) design and installation services across the gas, rail, water, sewer, road, power, mining, renewables and telecommunications sectors. It has the largest fleet of HDD machinery in Australia with 10 HDD rigs, including two maxi-rigs capable of long-distance (1.5 km) bores at a diameter of up to 1,200 mm. Maxibor has multiple crews that are very experienced in all ground conditions including hard rock and water-charged sand.
Its professional trenchless technology design and engineering services encompass bore alignment plans and profiles, drilling fluid fracture gradient analysis, mechanical analysis of drilling operations and RPEQ certification of the HDD bore design and product pipe installed loads.
The company's crews and equipment can be easily mobilised to anywhere in Australia from its bases in New South Wales and Queensland. David Turner and the senior team are readily available to discuss how Maxibor can collaborate with clients to optimise outcomes on their gas pipeline installation projects.
McConnell Dowell is a leading international pipeline contractor. It has constructed more than 30,000 km of new pipe networks across more than 200 projects including gas, petroleum, water and slurry pipelines. These pipelines help drive economic and social progress across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
McConnell Dowell is the partner of choice for complex EPC and construction projects. The company is an expert in large diameter pipeline construction and has delivered gas pipelines up to 1,300 mm in diameter and water pipelines up to 1,800 mm in diameter. Its in-house specialist skills and plant enable execution of Direct Pipe method, horizontal directional drilling, microtunnelling, marine pipe pulls, pipe bridges and other complex crossing solutions.
McConnell Dowell's sustained success in the pipeline industry is based on strong client collaboration and effective community consultation and environmental management.
Michels Asia Pacific is part of Michels Corporation, a leading energy and infrastructure contractor headquartered in Wisconsin, US. With more than 8,000 employees and 17,000 pieces of major equipment, Michels is one of the largest and most diversified utility contractors in the world. Based in Wangaratta, Victoria, Michel Asia Pacific is involved in various areas of utility construction, including pipeline construction, directional crossings, foundations, communications and pipe services, and tunneling, specialising in horizontal directional drilling.
Pipeline Engineering Consultants specialises in onshore buried pipeline and shore crossing design. PEC provides an integrated CAD and engineering design service for the oil, gas and water industry.
It has the in-house expertise and experience to develop documents and drawings from conceptual, front-end engineering design, detail design through to 'Approved for Construction' including verification of pipelines to AS 2885 and RPEQ sign-off.
The range of engineering and design services that it can provide includes pipeline design to AS 2885, ISO 13623, BS EN 14161, ASME B31.4 and B31.8, plant piping design to ASME B31.3 and PE pipe design to AS 2566.
PEC specialises in horizontal directional drilling (HDD) design and has been involved in over 100 HDD crossings in Australia, including 14 shore crossings.
The designs have been performed for operators, EPCI contractors and HDD installation contractors. The HDD designs include profile development, installation assessments, breakover analysis, hydraulic fracture assessment and pipeline integrity verification.
Veris is a market-leading national surveying, digital and spatial and planning business with a track record of providing services to the pipeline, oil and gas industries.
The company is an expert in all stages of development from concept, pre-feasibility, feasibility, front-end engineering design and construction, through to operations and maintenance.
Services include risk management (AS 2885), route selection and ground truthing, data sourcing and collation (heritage, environmental and land services), GIS/Web solutions, topography route and feature surveys, alignment sheets, cadastral surveys, easement creation, ROW/pipeline licensing, construction/facility surveys, as-built surveys, bending, stringing, special crossings and horizontal directional drilling design, 3D laser scanning, sub-surface service location, machine guidance, project CMS and data management.
With a proven track record in both the private and public sector, Veris combines national strength with local knowledge and expertise to ensure the best outcomes for all projects, regardless of size or geographical location.
Worley has delivered many of Australia’s pipelines, gathering systems and facilities over the last 40 years with a reputation of delivering quality projects on time and on budget.
As one of the world's largest engineering and project delivery providers and the only one with a dedicated pipeline capability, Worley focuses on developing and maintaining skilled people and efficient digital delivery processes to ensure consistent quality on every project.
It has specialists in all aspects of pipeline and pipeline facilities design, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance, integrity management, cathodic protection and decommissioning including capability in environment, regulatory approvals, geotechnical and community relations.
Worley is at the forefront of the digital revolution offering full automation of pipeline and gathering design, construction management and integrity management using the GIS-based OmniSight™ platform reducing cost and schedule. Further customer savings are achieved through extensive use of our Global Integrated Delivery centre in India.
Worley has operations and maintenance responsibilities on two major pipelines in Australia and multiple power assets. Worley works with OneBridge to use machine learning to reduce the cost of dig-ups.