2011 Events
Qld YPF Christmas Drinks – 9 December 2011
Inaugural Qld YPF CSG Site Tour – 9 -10 September 2011
On Friday 9th of September, 24 YPF members departed Brisbane for Chinchilla, for the Inaugural QLD YPF CSG Site Tour. The tour included a dinner & drinks function at the Chinchilla Bowls Club on Friday evening, McConnell Dowell CCC Joint Venture (MCJV) Camp accommodation for Friday night and the CSG site tour on Saturday.
Saturday morning started with a safety induction and introduction to the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Project from MCJV Project Manager, Marwan Anas. The first site visit was to QGC’s Argyle CSG field. YPFers witnessed a live demonstration of FastFusion MobileTrac welding of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pipelines, presented by Dick McKinley, CEO of FastFusion. The fusion welding process is an important part of the construction of the 12” (315mm) HDPE pipelines that form QGC’s CSG Gas Gathering network. Another important aspect of the HDPE pipeline construction is the use of spider ploughing, which trenches, installs pipe and back-fills in a single continuous operation. The YPF group inspected a Gas Gathering HDPE pipeline tee yet to be connected to a CSG well head.
The YPF group returned to MCJV Camp to view the 42” (DN1050) steel pipeline double joint welding yard in action. All aspects of double jointing were observed; vacuum lifting pipes, bevelling, automatic welding, manual arc welding, inspection and truck loading. From here, the group travelled to the QCLNG pipeline Right of Way (ROW) to view stringing and cold bending of pipe, before making the trek back toBrisbane. The CSG Site Tour was a great success and made possible by sponsors Fyfe, Sargent, MCJV, QGC and Murphy Pipe & Civil.
Clinton Glanville, Kellogg Brown & Root.