Tuscarora Pipeline Project

Services Include: Project Management, Design Engineering, Pipeline Survey, Procurement, Construction Management

A 230-mile, 20-inch high pressure natural gas pipeline from Malin, Oregon to Reno, Nevada was constructed. The pipeline operates at 1,000 psig maximum allowable operating pressure and includes line pipe with 0.250-inch WT and 0.312-inch WT, X-60 line pipe.

Major highlights of this project include:
• Construction in mountainous and high desert terrain
• The pipeline route crossed more than 60-miles of rock area requiring ripping and blasting to excavate the trench
• Water for hydrostatic testing on one construction contract required drilling a water well along the pipeline route
• The pipeline route had severe side-hill slopes that required extensive grade cuts and restoration

Transwestern Pipeline Project

Red Rock Expansion

Universal provided engineering, design, drafting, specifications, request for quotations, material procurement and the preparation of the construction drawing package for four (4) 41,500 BHP ISO rated natural gas turbine driven centrifugal compressor stations upgrades in Arizona. The following stations were completed:

Transwestern Station 1, Seligman, Arizona
Transwestern Station 2, Flagstaff, Arizona
Transwestern Station 3, Luepp, Arizona
Transwestern Station 4, Klagetoh, Arizona

Kern River Expansion Project

The route consisted of 682-miles of 36-inch pipeline from Evanston, Wyoming thru Utah and Nevada to Mojave, California and 119-miles of 42-inch pipeline in California.

Major highlights of this project include:
• Staffed 78 field survey crews
• 10 supervisors
• Seven (7) technicians
• Supporting 10 construction spreads

Entrega Pipeline Project

Universal complete project management, FERC application support, engineering design, drafting, survey, material specification, material procurement and bid documents for 192-miles of 42-inch pipeline for Rockies Express Pipeline formerly Entrega Gas Pipeline in Colorado and Wyoming.

Universal also performed the construction management for 134-miles of 36-inch pipeline. Responsibilities included construction inspection, oversight of the contractor and QA/QC of the construction. Pipeline was successfully placed in service in January 2006.

Express Pipeline

Services Include: Project Management, Design Engineering, Pipeline Survey, Procurement, Construction Management

A 515-mile, 24-inch high pressure crude oil pipeline from Wild Horse, Montana to Casper, Wyoming. This pipeline project was designed and constructed on an extremely aggressive schedule of 12 months

Major highlights of this project include:
• Five (5) directional drill crossings including crossings of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers • Crossing of highly erodible "Loess" area called Arrow Breaks in Wyoming • The pipeline route crossed significant lengths of desert hills that required special construction techniques to restore the construction right-of-way • Crossing of significant lengths of high desert area in Wyoming

Encana Pipeline Project

Project management, engineering design, preliminary survey, material specification, drafting, material procurement, contractor bid documents, bid evaluation, construction inspection and as-built was performed for Encana Oil & Gas.

The project consisted of 54-miles of 36-inch pipeline in mountainous terrain in Colorado.

TransColorado Pipeline Project

Services Include: Project Management, Design Engineering, Pipeline Survey, Procurement, Construction Management

A 272-mile, 24- and 22-inch high pressure natural gas pipeline from Meeker, Colorado to Northern New Mexico. The pipeline was installed in the highly environmentally sensitive Rocky Mountain Range and National Forest.

Major highlights of this project include:
• Construction in extremely steep and rugged mountainous terrain. Some slopes approached 60 degrees. Some of the line pipe was transported to the right-of-way by helicopter
• Removal of rock by blasting was required for significant lengths of the pipeline route
• The pipeline route had limited access from existing roads and railroads requiring construction of temporary roads
• Four (4) river crossings were installed utilizing horizontal directional drilling