Alliance Pipeline used an assembly-line-like process to weld the Tioga Lateral Pipeline together and bury it in sections. Teams were able to complete approximately 1–1.5 miles of the pipeline every 24 hours.
“I have always said I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota,” Theodore Roosevelt once said. He first visited the state in 1883, and seeing such natural wonders as the brilliant Painted Canyon formation in the west and the endless prairie fields in the east was a transformative experience that later inspired him, as the 26th president of the United States, to dedicate his administration to the preservation of the natural world.
Today, despite the Peace Garden State’s oil and gas boom, much of the splendor that Roosevelt encountered and felt moved by still exists there, and the more responsible companies in the region’s rapidly growing industry are working to keep it that way. Among them is Alliance Pipeline, an Alberta-based transmission business recently tasked with the construction of the Tioga Lateral Pipeline—its first lateral pipeline in the United States—across 80.1 miles of the state’s northern half.
The project gave the company the opportunity to prove its environmental and social-consciousness bona fides all over again for the people and places affected by the new line’s installation. “We’re part of the community, and we want to make sure our impact is as minimal as it can be,” senior project manager Bill Watts says.
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