Are your Pipelines At Risk?
Every time a contractor fires up a backhoe, a work crew pounds in a new road sign, or a property owner augers in a new fence post—your pipelines, production and profits are at risk. If a serious incident occurs, a lot more than just the ground will be disturbed. Yes, there are provincial programs in place designed to protect your pipelines and other underground services. But initiatives like Alberta 1-Call are only as effective as how well your company manages a myriad of ever changing details. One missed detail can lead to disaster.
Serious Consequences
Many of the E&P companies we’ve audited have serious deficiencies in how they manage their 1-Call responsibilities and obligations. Even if you never have to deal with a pipeline rupture or hit, these deficiencies can easily result in:
- Wasted time and money due to operating inefficiencies
- Damage to your company’s reputation
- Assessment by the ERCB of a High-Risk non-compliance of which the potential consequences are:
- Non-compliance fees
- Partial or full suspension of the pipeline
- Increased audits or inspections, and more
What’s the Best Use of Your Employees’ Time?
Is it the best use of your employees’ time to have them:
- Learn all the intricacies of your 1-Call responsibilities and obligations?
- Create a system to handle every locate ticket?
- Regularly interrupt high priority duties to liaise with locate companies and talk with every contractor or property owner disturbing the ground in areas where you have pipelines?
- Dedicate the hours required every month to update your pipeline data with 1-Call?
- Stay up-to-date with every policy and legislation change affecting 1-Call members?
Considering all of the hours that effective 1-Call management requires, it’s likely that there are higher priorities for your employees to focus on.
The Benefits of One Call Central
One Call Central is a proven solution specifically developed for oil and gas companies and has been providing its services since 2003. We proactively manage many aspects of 1-Call administration for clients, thereby:
- Protecting your pipelines, production and cash flow from ground disturbance incidents
- Updating your 1-Call pipeline data every month based on new construction, acquisitions and divestitures, etc.
- Keeping key contact information—especially emergency contacts—up to date on a routine basis
- Educating your team on 1-Call requirements as well as policy and legislation changes
- Freeing your staff from the important but time-consuming task of managing your 1-Call project
- Variabilizing your costs by outsourcing the above to an experienced provider