Pro Pipe Services’ hot tapping and line isolation offerings are enabling major infrastructure projects all around Australia.
Major infrastructure upgrades, such as Victoria’s Big Build, are underway across Australia every single day. These critical projects will not only help meet the needs of a growing population but also improve transportation and access to essential utilities like gas, electricity and water.
Unsurprisingly, projects of this kind are enormous undertakings, made even more complex by the presence of existing infrastructure. Indeed, the underground is teeming with utilities’ lines that must be considered before construction can begin.
These lines can be removed and replaced entirely, or construction works can be relocated to quieter areas. But drastic solutions like these are often crippling to large-scale projects, which swing on cost, time, and carbon footprint.
Luckily, Pro Pipe Services has a solution.
The Australian-owned business provides hot tapping, line isolation and pipeline services throughout the Australasian region. Pro Pipe Services’ line isolation capabilities enable it to reroute specific sections of pressurised pipeline with minimal disruption to flow, allowing major construction works to plough ahead.
Among countless other projects on the books, Pro Pipe Services has been keeping the wheels of industry turning in Victoria’s Big Build.
“We’re playing our part in developing critical infrastructure to support the growth of Victoria,” Pro Pipe Services Company Director and owner Joe Buttigieg told The Australian Pipeliner.
“We’ve delivered many gas pipeline alterations in support of the Big Build, where existing pipes need to be rerouted with minimal fuss to make way for new infrastructure like bridges and railway lines.”
This rerouting allows infrastructure projects to progress in a timely manner, minimising project costs as well as the impact on the community.
Additionally, Pro Pipe Services can help drive down carbon emissions on projects. Ordinarily, line isolation involves releasing trapped gas into the atmosphere in order to depressurise a section of the pipe.
But using gas capture and recovery technology, the company is able to redirect this gas into the new line, significantly reducing emissions.
“This is just another option we offer to our clients, giving them greater control over their pipeline projects,” Buttigieg said.
Upwards trajectory
As channel partner for original equipment manufacturer T.D. Williamson, Pro Pipe Services has a broad and heavy-duty toolkit it can draw from, allowing it to take on a large range of jobs.
Notable among these jobs was the Moomba to Wilton pipeline in NSW, where Pro Pipe Services successfully installed two 34-Inch (DN850) full bore ball valves, weighing roughly 14 tonnes each, for a major pipeline contractor. The project is considered one of the largest high-pressure isolations ever performed in Australia.
On another project, the company provided hot tapping and line isolation services on a biogas line at a major Victorian water treatment facility, cementing its place in Australia’s developing renewable gas industry.
And looking ahead, Pro Pipe Services has some major works coming up in the Surat Basin in Queensland, tied to the expansion of Australia’s gas network. Whether it’s critical infrastructure, renewables, or gas, Pro Pipe Services is helping to deliver some of Australia’s most important projects.
For more information, visit the website.
This feature also appears in the May edition of The Australian Pipeliner.