Plastic – the material of choice for pipes
Have you ever thought about the role plastic pipes play in our everyday lives? They deliver essential everyday services and utilities to our homes and communities.
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Austrack adds world leading brands to its growing machinery fleet
Pipeline contractors seeking the world’s most advanced plant and machinery don’t need to look further than Austrack Equipment.
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Update your APGA Member Directory now
APGA Corporate Member contacts should have received an email directing them to update their information for the 2023 Member Directory.
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RoGeo PD – A new platform for pipeline movement screening
Throughout Australia and Oceania, recent climate change has intensified rainfall and raised the mean temperature, causing hydrological hazards such as shifting debris, landslides, erosion and flooding. Pipelines are particularly vulnerable to those geohazards, which can result in pipeline movement and bending strain. Remaining undetected, those stresses will cause these lines to fail.
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Secondary students help build QLD hydrogen industry
Hydrogen jobs are in the pipeline for QLD high school students, thanks to a new partnership between the Palaszczuk Government and Energy Skills Queensland.
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Pipeline association welcomes changes to gas law
The Australian Pipelines and Gas Association (APGA) has welcomed the decision by state and federal representatives at the Energy Ministers Meeting (EMM) to amend the national gas and energy laws to include hydrogen and other renewable gases.
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Prime Drilling puts expertise on full display
Set to exhibit at Bauma 2022, Prime Drilling’s Ralf Kiesow talks all things horizontal directional drilling (HDD) and explains just what sets Prime Drilling apart from the rest.
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New solutions in pipe transportation
For more than 50 years, Pollard’s Sawdust Supplies has been providing practical, simple and effective packing options by processing virgin timber into sawdust and wood shavings and packaging them in durable hessian or poly-woven bags.
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Vermeer’s all new D100x140 S3 HDD packs a punch
Vermeer Australia’s newest addition to its horizontal directional drill line up – the D100x140 S3 – is both versatile and powerful, and designed as the perfect addition for utility contractors working in trenchless or pipeline projects.
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Innovation partner of coal seam gas industry
Improved network knowledge, fugitive gas capture, and maximising productivity.
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Equipping clients for the next pipeline generation
Pipeline Equipment Rentals is building off the success of the past 12 months by completing an overhaul of many machines in its extensive fleet, in addition to the introduction of a brand new padding machine SCAIP SPD-350 EHD.
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Inconspicuous removable coating offers convenient corrosion protection
Corrosion is an irreversible process that costs industries time and money to deal with the effects.
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Equinox executing FEED at Bayu Undan CCS
Equinox Engineering is currently executing the front end engineering design (FEED) of the Bayu Undan Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project.
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Water Corporation is preserving the iconic Golden Pipeline
The story of water in the Goldfields is full of intrigue and engineering tenacity, and is set to gain a new chapter with the approval of Water Corporation’s proposed rehabilitation and replacement scheme for the Golden Pipeline.
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Has your company recently made a new appointment?
The Australian Pipeliner is introducing a new regular column tracking new appointments in Australia and New Zealand’s pipeliner industries.
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Speciality pipeline recruiter celebrates 30th anniversary
Friday 21 October 2022 marked three decades since Peter Norman Personnel was established.
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Pro Pipe Services – the market leaders
Pro Pipe Services is now considered the number one provider and leaders of hot tapping, line isolation and pipeline services in the Australasian region.
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Temporary recompression unit introduced to national pipeline industry
Product technology company ZEVAC (formerly TPE Midstream) has recently catered to its first customers outside of the Americas by introducing its methane-mitigating temporary recompression unit and providing fieldwork and training in New Zealand, expanding to Australia.
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Network emissions quantification – if you can measure it, you can improve it
Gas utilities worldwide are using Picarro’s Advanced Leak Detection technology and analytics to efficiently identify, quantify, and report their fugitive emissions at various levels across their network, to further improve their emissions mitigation efforts.
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Overpipe: Pipeline protection served on a plate
As urban development increases, sections of gas and other utilities pipelines that were once beneath unoccupied land are now adjacent to existing infrastructure.
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ROSEN and PSSS strengthen ties
ROSEN Australia has announced Piping Specialty and Supply Service (PSSS) as a new distributing dealer of its steel bodied pigs in Australia.
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$5.5 million boost for mid-west hydrogen hub
The McGowan Government is accelerating the development of the mid-west hydrogen hub, with $5.5 million for planning works and studies.
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APA Group to acquire Basslink
Leading Australian energy infrastructure, APA Group, has announced that it has entered into a deed of company arrangement (DOCA) with regard to the acquisition of Basslink and BPL.
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McKinsey report shows plastic pipes a better choice for greenhouse gas emissions
McKinsey has concluded in its July 2022 report that plastics have a lower total greenhouse gas (GHG) contribution than other pipe materials.
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Kwinana Plant part of the fabric of Australia’s water infrastructure
Steel Mains’ history is fundamentally linked with the development of Australia’s water infrastructure since the 1800s.
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What the great resignation means for the pipeline industry
The Australian Pipeliner speaks with specialist recruiter at Peter Norman Personnel Kate Cuic about how work culture has shifted in the wake of the ‘great resignation’.
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