GCPS provides pipeline services on time, meeting the maximum safety standards, and with the highest levels of quality possible.

 

• Pipeline Maintenance

General Pipeline and Construction Maintenance

Technical Capabilities and Skilled Personnel: With experience gained from working on over thousands of miles of pipeline, Gulf Coast Pipeline Services has the technical capabilities and skilled personnel to undertake system modifications and/or complete overhauls on pipelines of any size and in any service. Previous successful projects include all aspects of pipeline construction and repair including repairs to anomolies and failed lines, routine valve repair & replacement, repairs in and around erosion prone areas (roads, dam walls & easements), and/or the installation of new line sections or equipment.

 

 

• Pipeline integrity

One Call Line Locating Services

Identify & Mark: Gulf Coast Pipeline Services provides One Call line location services for several operating companies on the Gulf Coast. Using drawings and alignment sheets provided by the pipeline operator, Gulf Coast personnel, using specialized detection instrumentation, will identify and mark where the operator’s pipeline is located in the area of concern before any excavation activities are scheduled to take place.

Leak Surveys

Detection & Minimizing Loss: The primary objective of every pipeline operator is to provide for the safe and efficient transportation of products through it’s pipelines while minimizing loss. Gulf Coast Pipeline Services leak detection processes have been designed to ensure that this objective is accomplished with minimal exposure to the public, operator and GCPS personnel. We utilize various methods of leak detection determined by the type of pipeline operation and product involved. These methods can stand alone or be used in combination with other processes as appropriate.

Re-establish and Setting AGMs

Prepare for Digging or Excavation: Most critical when preparing for digging or excavation activities, above ground markers (AGMs) are the known reference points along the pipeline distances from which anomolies or points of interest can be most accurately determined. Gulf Coast personnel, utilizing documentation from the pipeline owner/operator and smart tool vendors, routinely verify, set and re-establish these reference points along the pipeline right-of-way.

PIG Tracking

Providing Transmitters & Receiving: The running of smart tools, caliper pigs, or gauging/go-no-go tools is integral to any operating company’s integrity management plan. Gulf Coast Pipeline has provided pig tacking services for over thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines. We offer turnkey services beginning with riding the line and identifying or re-establishing above ground markers (AGMs), providing transmitters and receivers for the tools that require them, and then monitoring the tool’s location as it runs through the line and providing updates on this progress to the operating company personnel. Tracking services are also provided to monitor the progress of fill or displacement pigs prior to hydrostatically testing a pipeline or tracking cleaning pigs as part of an operating company’s on-line, continuous cleaning/pigging operations.

Staking and Verifying Anomalies

Utilizing Data: When an in-line inspection (ILI) tool run shows anomolies or other issues with a pipeline needing attention, repair crews must be able to accurately determine where to expose the line to verify the tool data and perform any necessary repairs.

Utilizing data from the ILI tool vendor run and alignment sheets from the operator, Gulf Coast personnel will locate and stake out the dig locations for the repair crews.

Filling

Prepared to Provide and Operate :GCPS is prepared to provide and operate ‘fit for duty’ pumps (specified and sized for your pipeline and application), hoses, and fittings to fill your line with fluid prior to hydrostatic testing, running a smart tool in fluid, running a cleaning tool in water, or displacing the contents of a pipeline. Along with pumps, hoses, and fittings, GCPS can also provide frac tanks, water, vacuum trucks, and pig tracking during these processes as well.

Hydrostatic Testing

Providing the Most Modern Equipment: Gulf Coast Pipeline has experience, leadership capabilities and the industry’s highest safety standards to assist you with your hydrostatic testing needs. We provide the most modern equipment required to perform the testing processes required by your integrity management plan. Regardless if it’s a fabricated spool piece presented for a burst test at our facility in Dickinson or miles of buried pipeline in your right-of-way set for a DOT compliant test, GCPS has the professional personnel and top quality equipment to perform your test. Upon completion of the test, GCPS can turn all paperwork over to the operating company or inspector, or we can provide PE certifications to your test using our engineering personnel.

Dewatering and Product Displacement

Providing Top Quality: Gulf Coast will provide top quality air compressors (sized to your needs and requirements) for dewatering your pipeline after hydrostatic testing or for de-inventorying your line of product prior to decommissioning or in preparation of maintenance and repair activities. GCPS can provide oil free air compressor spreads capable of up to 5000 psi and instrument quality air. If flammability is a concern, we can also provide nitrogen displacement processes to eliminate the introduction of air into these systems of concern. GCPS can also provide frac tanks to receive dewatering fluids or erosion prevention structures through which these fluids can be discharged back into the environment under certain conditions.

Cleaning and Drying

A Necessity: The removal of water from liquid hydrocarbon lines is essential in assisting with corrosion prevention, and in gas lines, the formation of hydrates is a big concern. Gulf Coast has complete sets of steel (traps, check valves, reducing spools, etc.) to clean and dry any pipeline size. Using either oil free air compressors and dryers or nitrogen service, GCPS can achieve a line cleanliness necessary to obtain dew point temperatures from the standard -40°F for 7-pound gas, all the way to -80°F for the most extreme line requirements.

Pipeline Commissioning

After or During Downtime: Gulf Coast Pipeline Services can commission your pipeline after construction, maintenance, hydrostatic testing, or any other downtime requiring evacuation of the line’s product. GCPS can prepack the line with inert gas, provide, launch, and track commissioning pigs while filling the line with product, as well as manage all aspects of bringing product into the final destination utilizing by-pass systems with frac tanks or flare systems or taking product directly in your tank or vessel.

 

 

• Pipeline Safety

Safety Culture

Gulf Coast Pipeline Services has a strong safety culture. Everyone at GCPS feels responsible for safety and pursues it on a daily basis via the following phrase:

The SAFE Way is the ONLY Way.

Every organization in the oil and gas industry that experiences success in safety starts with a set of safety performance measures, and GCPS is no different.

GCPS employees go beyond “the call of duty” to identify unsafe conditions and behaviors, and to intervene to correct them.  This is evidenced by our 15+ year history of no recordable accidents in the organization. Safety is a CORE VALUE of GCPS and is an integral part of the way we do business.

Training

Safety, Health and Environmental Training:

General HSE training is performed through a variety of avenues including general lecture, computer-based training, tailgate safety meetings, personal one-on-one interaction, and multi-media delivery via e-mail attachments to supervisors on jobsites to be delivered to their crews. GCPS is a member of the Pipeline Testing Consortium for drug and alcohol testing.

Safety Practices

Pre-Shift Safety Meeting
The safety meeting is focused primarily on two activities:  The Tailgate Safety Meeting topic and the development and review of the Job Safety Analysis.

Tailgate Safety Meeting Topic
The Tailgate Safety Meeting is where various topics of safety concern, both job related and off-the-job, are discussed before every day’s job activities begin.

Job Safety Analysis
The “JSA” is completed by the jobsite supervisor while receiving input and feedback from his crew in a group setting.

 

 

 

• Welding & Fabrication

Gulf Coast Pipeline offers a variety of welding and fabrication services including, but not limited to, pipeline construction and repair, fabrication of replacment sections, meter skids and appurtenances, station fabrication, and rehabilitation repairs. After fabrication has been completed, GCPS can provide X-ray services or hydrostatic/pneumatic testing prior to installation. All work can be performed on-site or at our facility in Dickinson and transported to the customer’s location.