Pipelines vary in size, length, and location and each one presents different challenges and operations. Pipelines cross existing roads, highways, streams, rivers and wetlands. Typically, pipelines are constructed underneath these obstacles by either boring for shallow depth or using horizontal directional drilling (HDD) for deeper placement.
To construct a pipeline, staging areas and storage yards are cleared, strategically located along the planned right-of-way. These areas are used to stockpile pipe and to store fuel tanks, sandbags, silt fencing, stakes, and equipment parts. They provide parking for construction equipment, employee trucks, and locations for office trailers.
After the equipment is accessible in the staging area, work will begin to clear cut the pipeline right-of-way. Kotze Construction has all the right equipment to dig the trench for the pipeline after the ROW is cleared of trees, rocks and other obstacles.