Grande Prairie Mainline Loop proj-
ect, the first National Energy Board
sanctioned Direct Pipe Installation in
Canada, for which IPC installed 217
metres of continuously welded steel
pipe for the Highway #16 crossing.
These projects, and others like them,
received significant attention and
interest from clients within the pipe-
line industry because of the Calgary
based company’s Direct Pipe® tech-
nology, a German method that allows
for the simultaneous excavation of
the borehole and pipe installation—in
other words, the project is done faster,
easier, and with a smaller geographi-
cal and environmental footprint.
Direct Pipe® can be applied to nearly
any ground condition with its one-
pass pipeline installation method,
making it an ideal way to tackle any
river crossings or tunnel under man-
made structures.
Whereas the traditional technology for
pipeline river crossings has typically
been Horizontal Directional Drilling,
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