Underground Construction - May 2019 - 14
Rock, Weather, Tight Deadlines
are No Match for Horizon Pipeline
Pipeline construction projects across America
have flurried in recent years, with miles of
natural gas line being added almost daily.
The bulk of new lines is being constructed in
the prolific Permian Basin, with midstream
energy companies, like Targa Resources
Corporation, expanding to support growing
demand for natural gas and liquified natural
gas (LNG) exports.
One contractor involved with the
construction of Targa's massive Grand
Prix Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Pipeline is
Horizon Pipeline & Construction, based in
McAlester, Okla. Established in 2015, the
young company already employs a team of
about 550 people. According to Horizon
Pipeline Operational Manager David Baggs,
timing couldn't have been better. "I've been
in pipeline for 22 years, and the past few are
among the best I can remember," he said.
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MAY 2019 | UConOnline.com
Horizon Pipeline crews can be found working throughout Texas, Colorado and Mexico,
but a few of the company's recent projects
have been close to home. The team has been
instrumental in helping to expand the Grand
Prix Pipeline into southern Oklahoma to
integrate Targa's SouthOk and North Texas
G&P assets, and connect to a new Hickory
Hills processing plant. Over seven months,
crews have laid more than 110 miles of NGL
pipe, including an extremely challenging
30.3-mile stretch of 10-inch steel NGL line
near McAlester.
Hickory Hills challenge
Sandstone-and lots of it-was in store for
the Horizon Pipeline crew on the Hickory
Hills stretch of the Grand Prix Pipeline. Baggs
estimated around 70 percent of the installation was in rock and rough terrain.
"McAlester is home for us, so we knew how
tough the ground conditions were going to
be," he explained. "We decided pretty quickly
that using a rock trencher was going to be the
most efficient way to handle the bulk of the
open trench work."
Horizon Pipeline typically subcontracts
any trenching or horizontal directional drilling (HDD) work on its projects. However, the
team decided to rent equipment and perform
all the open-cut work themselves.
"There are 20 miles of open-cut work and
10 miles of trenchless installs on this job,"
Baggs said. "Subbing both would have had a
significant impact on our productivity and
efficiency. So we decided to look at renting a
large trencher."
After a bit of research, Horizon Pipeline
settled on a Vermeer T855 Commander 3
track trencher rented from Vermeer Great
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