Pipelines & Facilities

Gas Transmission

Gas transmission operators are under constant pressure to abide by regulatory, safety, productivity, and environmental requirements. Planning upgrades, replacement, or new infrastructure requires time and resources that aren’t always available with existing staff. That is why gas industry operators turn to EN Engineering for expertise to get projects moving. Our experience ranges from large market, expansion-driven, long haul projects to maintenance-focused projects. We develop installation designs and guide our clients to achieve full compliance with regulations at every jurisdiction level.

Our professionals have extensive training and technical expertise in all aspects of gas pipelines, gas compression, meter/regulator facilities (interconnects and custody transfer), as well as storage and production facilities, dehydration facilities, terminal upgrades and liquid handling, and emissions control. We have a network of offices across the country and can support clients in any state as well as internationally. Our team is experienced and up to date on federal, state, and local codes to guarantee regulatory compliance and safety of the surrounding public.

Our services include a full spectrum of capabilities in gas transmission engineering, design/drafting, inspection, project management, procurement, and consulting. With our nationwide network of industry leaders in engineering, EN provides design services and resources for every operational task with a dedicated team of individuals versed in every stage, from concept to commissioning.

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As an extension of our clients’ engineering staff, we help ensure your projects are completed on time and within budget. EN delivers value and quality, driven by industry-leading professionals, by completing unique projects requiring a specialty skillset to providing full program management services.

We utilize industry standards, as well as the experience that we have gained from designing projects nationwide, to apply a “best practices” approach to your project. Whether EN is designing meter/regulator stations, pigging facilities, mainline valve settings, supporting inline inspection tool programs, or ensuring horizontal directional drills (HDDs) are evaluated and designed for constructability, EN’s quality and expertise is unsurpassed within the industry.

As an extension of your engineering team, EN can provide full project design, as well as project management, construction support, and as-built services. EN understands and partners with you to achieve traceable, verifiable, and complete project records. The outcome to EN’s approach is safer, more efficient, and productive facilities. From the bid process through project completion, our regionally based teams of engineers are by your side to make sure every detail is accurate and complete. EN Engineering is your one-stop-shop for all pipeline and facility design projects.

EN offers a depth of experience in all aspects of natural gas and oil pipeline engineering and design. Our managers and engineers support Capital and O&M pipeline projects by completing pipeline sizing and flow calculations, performing pipeline routing and FEED studies, and identifying workspace, easement, and access requirements. We also develop alignment sheets, hydrostatic test plans and site-specific crossing drawings, along with the associated facility design and drawings such as pig launchers and receivers and mainline valves. We work closely with our Data Solutions and Integrity groups to complete mainline valve spacing studies, class location studies, HCA analysis and emergency flow restriction device (EFRD) location studies.

EN also specializes in In-Line Inspection (ILI) pipeline engineering which helps clients comply with regulations requiring complete records on pipeline location and integrity. The EN team is committed to designing the best approach for each unique ILI or pipeline pigging modification project. This includes smart tool (pig) launcher and receiver design, as well as any required new or retrofitted pipeline facilities that are necessary to allow the tool to collect data, with minimal impact to pipeline operation.

EN Engineering provides engineering design services for meter and/or regulator stations for a new pipeline, an interconnect with a third party, or replacing existing stations in part or whole. Such design work becomes necessary when an existing station (or portions of) is technically obsolete, if there are equipment issues, if design conditions change, when there is gas loss that is unaccounted for, or where there is a change in product throughput. In many cases, EN assists with developing or reviewing interconnect agreements (ICA). We help ensure that ICAs communicate the latest design conditions and accurately describe party responsibilities and ownership demarcations. EN provides the expertise to not only present all options, but to help our clients decide upon the solution that works best for their operating system.

Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is an effective process to install pipelines, often long lengths, utilizing trenchless technology with minimal impact to the feature being crossed. These features are typically sensitive in nature and cannot be disturbed by conventional open trench construction methods. Features may include roads, railroads, waterbodies (rivers, streams, wetlands), or other environmentally or culturally significant areas.

EN Engineering has completed the design of hundreds of HDD crossings, and is considered an industry leader in identification, planning, design, and support during installation of HDDs. Whether part of a larger overall pipeline installation or a stand-alone maintenance/replacement project, EN can support your HDD. EN completes a preliminary front end assessment of all HDD crossings and has developed a process that helps ensure the success of those crossings with minimal stress on the pipeline. Our support also continues throughout construction, with pilot hole and final drill path verification (with information provided by the drilling contractor) to help ensure successful pipe pullback.

Demand and dynamic requirements place pressure on our clients to ensure safe and reliable service to their customers. EN helps clients ensure that they are meeting system demand and maintaining delivery throughput and pressures. New customers and markets can be served by system expansion, new projects, and even conversion of coal plants to natural gas. EN helps to put our clients and their assets in a position to meet the current and future needs of their customers. EN’s comprehensive and nationwide experience offers our clients a best practices approach to supporting projects that often begin with feasibility studies and pre-engineering assessments.

EN evaluates potential pipeline routes based on established environmental, geographical, and regulatory factors to determine feasibility and constructability. Research begins by utilizing existing environmental databases and performing a preliminary aerial imagery route evaluation and surface investigation using Google Earth and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Potential construction challenges such as road crossings, railroad crossings, land acquisition, environmental considerations, workspace, etc. will be identified as part of these studies as well as any other project specific concerns. EN also considers the application of meter/regulator facilities and/or compression facilities coupled to a new pipeline as required, including horsepower selection, station siting, equipment sizing, etc.

Total installed cost estimates are also included as part of our feasibility studies and are completed by utilizing historical project costs, industry data, procurement specialists, and by partnering with subcontractors. The cost estimates typically include material, construction, survey, right‐of‐way and land acquisition, environmental and regulatory requirements, permitting requirements, geotechnical, inspection, engineering costs, etc., and can be performed at varying levels of confidence (10%-50%).

EN manages geotechnical support services utilizing subcontracted third parties. Our in-house expertise can develop the geotechnical scope of work (request for proposal), review reports received from the subcontractor, and/or help coordinate/direct those third parties, as needed.

These services include but are not limited to:

Subsurface Geotechnical Investigations and Reporting – investigations, primarily soil bores but can also include non-invasive exploratory options, are needed to assist in the design and construction of the pipeline and related facilities. These investigations assist in determining the characteristics of subsurface materials, including the presence and depth of rock. The information gathered will aid in the design of any trenchless crossing method, assist the pipeline contractor in determining the type of equipment needed for directional drilling, boring and general ditching and excavating activities, and assist in the design of pipeline and facility supports and foundations.
Hydro-fracture Analysis – a hydro-fracture analysis and related inadvertent return risk evaluation assists in establishing the minimum depth of cover under a sensitive feature (waterbody, roadway, levee wall, etc.) to be used during HDD operations to minimize the probability of hydro-fracture or inadvertent fluid returns. The analysis also helps the driller properly choose equipment and provides a maximum allowable downhole pressure during drilling operations.
Geohazard Analysis – this study identifies potential hazards that could affect pipeline construction and facilities. Examples of these hazards include subsurface soil conditions, potential for landslides or seismic activities, and Karst features. These analyses provide clients with a better overall understanding of the terrain, geology, geotechnical conditions, and geological hazards discovered along their proposed pipeline corridor which could influence the design, construction, and ongoing operation of the facilities.

Surveying and field data collection is an essential component to engineering, design, and construction. EN Engineering’s survey partners utilize the latest GPS, conventional, and 3D scanning equipment to collect and assess accurate existing conditions. The GPS is RTK (real-time) capable using the HxGN SmartNet Control Network with global coverage. EN’s staff also includes FAA Part 107 certified remote drone pilots enabling our design teams to offer a more cost-effective approach to data collection and scanning. This is especially useful for areas that are inaccessible due to terrain or security issues. The survey technicians process field data to create imagery of complex environments and deliver mapping in various formats compatible across software platforms such as AutoCAD, MicroStation, and ArcGIS.

The technicians also specialize in compiling field collected data in conjunction with land records research to prepare topographic surveys, boundary surveys, right of way and corridor studies, ALTA/NSPS surveys, easement plats (exhibits or certified), metes and bounds descriptions, and subdivision plats for recordation. Our partners have professional land surveyors (PLS) in every state.

From start to finish, EN’s Surveying & Field Data Collection team plays a vital role in every phase of a project, from concept, design, construction, to post-construction as-builts, we ensure a quality product that meets the needs and deadlines of our clients.

EN engineering manages environmental survey and permitting as a third-party service or with in-house resources. Environmental permitting coordination may include any/all of the following: waterbody and wetland delineation, threatened and endangered species habitat assessment, regulated waters permitting, cultural resources survey, a historical or architectural investigation, and stormwater pollution prevention plans (or erosion control plans). EN has experience permitting/filing with the following authorities: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and state and local agencies.

EN has extensive experience in obtaining non-environmental permits for pipeline projects. Permitting assistance to comply with jurisdictional agency requirements is a valuable resource as the process can often impede a project’s schedule. EN Engineering partners with our clients to ensure that designs and plan sets are in full compliance with all local, state, and federal regulatory entities. We provide the resources and knowledge to deliver client permit submissions complete and on time.

Our broad-spectrum engineering services cover it all including right of way, road (interstates, state, county, municipal), railroad, temporary and permanent access roads and driveways, traffic control, utility encroachments, and building permits. EN has the ability to research the permitting authority, determine the permitting requirements, and prepare the necessary drawings and permit application package for submittal to the jurisdictional authority. EN has experience with all crossing methods, including HDD, jack-and-bore, slick bore, pipe ramming, and open-cut. The EN team is well versed in American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way (AREMA) guidelines, as well as individual railroad operator requirements and standards. Our team has developed relationships with a number of these entities, which helps aid in the approval process for future projects.

EN also has experience in supporting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) filing and pre-filing processes, including supplemental filings and variances during construction. We develop FERC required drawings including but not limited to alignment sheets, residential mitigation plans, construction standard/typical drawings, site-specific workspace layouts, contractor and storage yards, road entrances and access roads, wetland, and stream crossing drawings. Working closely with the project team, we review the FERC resource reports to ensure their accuracy in presenting project information and construction methods.

EN’s engineers manage land acquisition and right-of-way (ROW) support as a third-party service. This service includes review of GIS parcel information, development of a property owner list, deed and title research, property exhibits (non-certified), land valuation, survey notifications/permissions, land acquisition (or ROW procurement), review of encroachments of 3rd party assets (ex. foreign pipelines, water mains, etc.), ROW support during and after construction, condemnation (or eminent domain, if required), legal descriptions of easement and workspaces, and recording plats with the county.

Our teams also handle non-environmental permitting with township, county, state, and federal agencies (as applicable) in areas such as traffic control plans, road and/or interstate highway crossings, railroad crossings, and temporary or permanent access road construction.

At EN Engineering, our procurement specialists view every project as an opportunity to help our clients evaluate suppliers, identify critical materials and long lead items, obtain bids, provide solutions for time-sensitive projects, and conduct research for comparisons on best purchasing options. Through these services, we help our clients fulfill RFPs and RFQs, make sub-contracting decisions, and proceed with confidence. With decades of experience developing gas specifications, EN procurement specialists collaborate with our engineers to identify each project’s best resources and pricing. This purchasing data affords our clients a fuller perspective of market trends, predictive factors, and product selection, making service comparisons and technical decision-making far easier. Most of all, EN Engineering delivers procurement insights to conduct accurate bid analysis and accountability in financial, regulatory, and construction requirements.

Additional services include commercial and technical bid analyses, making recommendations to the client, and preparing requisitions. Materials expediting services include regular communication with suppliers and clients regarding schedule and coordinating approval drawing reviews.

Our staff is experienced in providing support for pipeline modernization and standardization initiatives. New federal mandates and safety rules may lead our clients to develop a modernization program focusing on replacements and upgrades of aging pipelines and associated facilities. EN provides engineering services to support modernization efforts by producing cost estimates, construction drawings, material specifications, and many other deliverables as part of the overall process. When modernization programs span multiple years, EN assembles dedicated engineering teams to foster consistency and drive efficiency with each task.

Standardization is a process by which an operator makes use of best practices and technology updates to create guidelines or designs to be utilized throughout a region. This activity often requires revising company specifications and standard drawings. EN partners with our clients to facilitate this process. Our subject matter experts lead the way in updating specifications, often meeting with or interviewing client stakeholders to prepare the documents. Similarly, standardized drawings are created or updated based on feedback from material sourcing, construction, and operations. EN is regularly able to implement company standards during project execution and then follow-up with recommendations to update or improve those standards.

At EN, we make it a priority to stay on top of cutting-edge technology, in knowledge, and in equipment. This is especially true with 3D laser scanning. With this service, we can capture highly detailed, three-dimensional scans of complex environments and geometries in a rapid and cost-effective matter. If facilities are hard to reach or measure, or when safety is an issue, 3D scanning is an effective way to document assets. Our team leads the field with their expertise, allowing them to dramatically increase data accuracy, productivity, and the quality of the product. This also translates into less time in the field, fewer return site visits, elimination of conflicts prior to retrofit construction, easily converting data into CAD drawings and models, and integrating software platforms efficiently.

EN Engineering offers comprehensive construction management and inspection services with an emphasis on ensuring safe and compliant installations for gas assets across the country. Our highly qualified team of field engineers, inspectors, and construction managers have decades of experience and knowledge of industry codes, government regulations, standards, and procedures. The majority of EN’s inspectors and construction managers have direct operating experience, many of whom have spent over 20 years installing and maintaining gas systems. EN has the kind of “been there, done that” experience needed to drive your construction projects to successful completion. This means our team can hit the ground running with very little ramp up time, a crucial benefit to your project’s performance. EN believes in creating partnerships that bring world-class experience and expertise into alignment with every project, making sure all needs are met.

We are committed to proactively balancing our personnel so that we are agile and able to quickly meet the inspection needs of our clients. An integral part of this is our dedicated recruiting staff, who keeps a database of potential inspectors updated and on hand. Our inspectors are certified by API (API 1169), AWS (CWI, CPWI), and NACE (CIP Level 1 and Level 2) among other industry organizations. Our core services include field engineering, construction management, material logistics and management, regulatory code and client specific code compliance, site safety, watch and protect services for third-party excavators, operations support, inspection management, welding and coating inspection, general/utility inspection, and environmental inspection.

Compression and Pump Facilities

Safely and effectively moving gas from wellhead to market is one of EN Engineering’s core services. Our team members have extensive experience designing and optimizing reliable Compression and Pump Facilities systems for the energy industry. Our network of experts across the country can provide the best custom design for your needs, including gathering, treating, processing, transportation, and storage in a safe manner for operators and the public while complying with federal, state, and local regulations.

We listen closely to our clients’ needs and requirements and utilize our vast project experience as an integral part of our process to ensure we design their best solution. Our experts can offer full design, study, estimation, or analysis services in the areas of: Greenfield/Brownfield Applications; Horsepower Additions and Optimization; Terminal and Pump Stations; Automation and Commissioning; and Gas Storage, Gathering, and Conditioning Facilities. Our team is committed to providing the solution that is perfect for your needs.

We are committed to safe and cost-effective solutions. Let us join you in the fight to preserve your assets.

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EN Engineering has extensive experience designing and optimizing horsepower additions as well as replacing or adding equipment for your facility, whether in a greenfield or brownfield application. Our highly trained experts ensure that the proper equipment is chosen, and the system is designed to comply with ever-increasing EPA air emissions standards, all while meeting your budget requirements. Our team also offers solutions for clean burning reciprocating units, selective catalytic reduction (SCR), dry seal gas conversions, and auxiliary system analysis and modifications.

Our engineers have the expertise you can rely on for full engineering design (mechanical, civil, structural, electrical) that meets regulatory requirements for terminal and/or pump station design and layouts, including the equipment and pipe sizing to optimize site configurations. At EN, we actively listen to our clients, and depending on their needs and requirements, use best practices to perform: feed studies, hydraulic evaluations including steady state and surge analysis, and strategically design a layout—including all components—for both greenfield and brownfield sites. We are committed to a speed-to-market philosophy, providing top-quality design in an expedient and efficient manner.

At EN, our teams have decades of experience in automation and commissioning, including full control system design, control panel design and fabrication, programmable logic control (PLC) programming, human-machine interface (HMI), and specifying equipment and software components. EN also provides a wide range of software integration and data management services for regulatory compliance and business efficiency. We design and develop our systems relying on years of experience with many standard automation platforms, and we carefully test those systems before delivery to the client. We provide a full set of commissioning services including electrical and instrumentation commissioning, PLC/HMI commissioning, and plant start-up services. After the sign off and hand over of the project to the client, we continue to provide 24/7 support to allow for a smooth transition to operations.

EN Engineering offers design and consulting services to support the operation of underground natural gas storage. We prepare gas well and wellhead designs and write remediation and workover procedures. We provide owner’s representation to help execute these procedures in the field with experienced engineers holding credentials from International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC).

Like our extensive pipeline design experience, we provide numerous engineering services for gas gathering lines including making the lines in-line inspectable (ILI), adding launchers and receivers, and debottlenecking. Our engineers have specialized skills in preparing plans for produced fluid removal systems. This includes system modeling and installation designs that may consist of everything from drips and slug catchers, to separators, glycol dehydration systems, and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) removal systems.

Regulatory Compliance

Managing regulatory compliance can be a challenge in today’s environment. EN Engineering’s regulatory experts have the experience you need. You can rely on them to help take the burden off of management and ensure you not only meet requirements but stay informed and prepared for what is coming.

Our integrity team has the expertise to guide you in developing or improving your programs, providing the support you need, and understanding any concerns you have. We offer regulatory compliance services in Regulatory Compliance Programs, Integrity Management, Regulatory Consulting, Safety Management Systems, and many more within each of those areas.

Keeping up with state and federal regulations can feel like you’re jumping hurdles and sprinting to meet compliance dates. Let us help you win the race.

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Transmission Integrity Management

EN’s Integrity engineers and staff are experts in Transmission Integrity Management Programs (TIMP) and have extensive experience with federal regulations. We offer clients a range of services to perform assessments, identify risks, and, if any risks are identified, recommend preventive and mitigative measures. This is done in accordance with Part 192 Subpart O regulations and the Mega Rule. Our services also include managing HCA and non-HCA assessments, individual procedures that are required for implementation (such as ECDA, ICDA, ILI, and HCA/MCA determination), and risk analysis.

Process Safety Management

The EN safety management systems team of professionals is well rounded, and many of them have worked on the owner’s side, giving them a unique perspective and ability to understand client concerns. These expert consultants can help develop and implement an entire program or evaluate and improve existing PSM programs for safe operations and compliance with PSM standards. We also offer many additional services, including process safety information, process hazard analysis, compliance audits, operating procedures, training, mechanical integrity, incident investigation, PSM program development, and risk management program development.

Operations and Maintenance

Our team members are experts in pipeline operations and maintenance and are committed to providing support to operators with procedure development, gap analysis, and updates of existing procedures. EN also offers a wide variety of related services, including procedures for implementation, internal processes, recordkeeping, and writing operations and maintenance manuals. We also aid operators with consolidation of plans, procedures and documentation due to mergers/acquisitions. This process is utilized to address code compliance issues, align cultures, and engage with stakeholders for commitment and feedback to ensure it all comes together cohesively.

Procedure and Manual Development

EN experts are often asked to perform gap analysis/audit, update/modify, or write manuals and procedures for: Integrity Management Programs (i.e. TIMP, DIMP, SIMP, FIMP and LQ-IMP); pipeline safety programs, including Damage Prevention Programs (DPP), Public Awareness Programs (PAP), Emergency Response Plans (ERP), and Operator Qualification (OQ); and other major types such as design and construction manuals, welding manuals, corrosion manuals, and control room management (CRM) plans. Our services can be as brief or comprehensive as clients’ needs dictate.

Facility Integrity Management

EN’s consulting specialists support the development of Facility Integrity Management Programs (FIMP). This includes formalizing plans and procedures, performing risk evaluation, gathering and/or performing data integration, providing process safety information, and conducting P&ID walk-downs. The teams are experts in GIS and database management and provide services related to data quality, asset registers, inspection and maintenance procedures, corrosion control, and metallurgical consulting

ASV and RCV Studies and Analysis

EN Consulting staff provides support for operators when evaluating the need for automatic shutoff valves (ASV) and/or remote-controlled valves (RCV). Our services include performing risk-based analysis of the system to determine how the implementation of safety devices can ensure adequate response time in an emergency situation. Risk criteria takes into account HCA, MCA, and class location analysis data, while stakeholder feedback is utilized to evaluate individual response times compared to benefits of using safety devices.

In-Line Inspection

The EN consulting and data solutions teams are committed to helping clients perform assessments to determine the integrity of their pipeline. In-line inspection (ILI) is one of our premier services to assess the integrity of transmission pipelines, storage fields, natural gas storage fields, downhole natural gas storage fields, and wells. This analysis also includes understanding threats and risks, performing data review and analysis, integrating information into GIS, and providing detailed recommendations.

Direct Assessment (ECDA, ICDA, SCCDA)

Direct assessment services, including external corrosion direct assessment (ECDA), internal corrosion direct assessment (ICDA), and stress corrosion cracking direct assessment (SCCDA) are performed by EN’s team of highly qualified engineers and code compliance experts. The four-phase assessments support regulatory compliance, advance safety, and reduction of future costs. Services we provide include threat and risk assessments, field surveys, data integration, direct examination support, anomaly investigation, and design of repair/replacement work.

Threat and Risk Analysis

Threat and risk analysis experts at EN assist clients by looking at their pipeline system holistically, determining which pipeline threats apply to their systems, and then providing a risk ranking on the threats to their system. This process determines which assessment methods will be required to evaluate the integrity of those threats and risk. The resulting data is incorporated back into the risk rankings, which is typically performed more than once a year for our clients.

Continual Evaluation

EN’s highly trained staff has extensive experience developing and implementing Continual Evaluation processes used to evaluate results and make process improvements. The process is cyclical in nature and begins with an initial assessment. EN can help operators analyze if the processes in place are effective and define an interval appropriate between assessments as they schedule and plan work. This helps operators practice the cycle of routine monitoring and evaluation, followed by continuous improvement within a specified timeframe that meets regulatory requirements. Our team also aids operators in cost saving considerations by developing a holistic plan based on results.

Records Validation

EN’s team is experts in record validation, a comprehensive service that goes beyond what code requires when retrieving data to perform calculations for Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure (MAOP). We expand on the data collection to encompass what is required by code, as well as other available data (sometimes 50 or more additional attributes) during that process that is extremely useful and would be cost-prohibitive to go back later and collect. This additional information is then integrated into clients’ GIS system and is extremely useful later when planning any work on the pipeline, such as corrosion.

MAOP Reconfirmation

EN Engineering provides support for the six methods operators may utilize for pipeline(s) subject to MAOP Reconfirmation. These essential services include:

Performing a pressure test, and if the records are not traceable, verifiable, and complete (TVC), cut-outs will be required at the test manifold for material verification,
Pressure reduction,
Pressure reduction for segments with small PIR,
Replacement, with CP system updates and post-construction surveys,
Engineering critical assessment (ECA), a detailed process per §192.632,
Or, alternative technology.

Our subject matter experts provide all necessary information so operators can determine the method best suited to their situation. They also look for efficiencies that can be obtained by combining projects or evaluation schedules, particularly when looking at the overall capital program.

HCA, MCA and Class Location Analysis

When it comes to class location analysis and determination of high consequence areas (HCA) and moderate consequence areas (MCA), EN Engineering has a specialized team ready to help. They have assisted countless operators in determining the population density surrounding their potential impact circle (PIC) and whether they meet criteria for HCA or MCA. This determination plays a vital role in pipeline design, operations and maintenance, and integrity management requirements.

Program Gap Analysis and Audit

Our EN team utilizes federal and state requirements to perform a gap analysis for organizations and pipeline systems, including transmission integrity management, distribution integrity management, pipeline safety management systems, public awareness programs, and damage prevention. Our experts also have extensive industry knowledge and operations experience to provide high-level recommendations for operators to implement to continuously improve their pipeline safety programs. We also offer process gap analysis, control room management, and support to correct operational and safety issues.

Jurisdictional Audit Support

EN provides jurisdictional audit support for operators, including Intrastate (State) and Interstate (PHMSA). Our staff is well prepared to provide support for TIMP, DIMP, or SIMP, as well as the less common audit topics. Included in this service is a review of procedures and processes to ensure they meet code requirements; we field documentation reviews as necessary or assist in preparing responses to audit questions and/or protocols. Depending on the client’s request, preparation may include bulleted talking points, presentation development to use during the audit, and/or conducting a mock audit. In addition to preparation, we can be present or provide on-call support during the audit, if requested. Each client has a different comfort level, and we are prepared to meet them.

Strategic Improvement Plans

Strategic improvement plans are a valuable tool and service EN provides to help operators take a more global view of their system. Instead of taking an up-close view as many of EN’s services around assessments, analysis, and studies do, this allows our experts to evaluate them holistically. EN’s team has a broad range of experience to identify gaps, areas where efficiencies can be improved, or places where a more tailored approach or timeframe could result in cost savings.

Due Diligence

Due diligence, as a service, utilizes our expert team to take a close look at an asset or group of assets, such as a pipeline, station, facility, or a combination of them prior to purchase. Our evaluation focuses on physical conditions, the quality and completeness of records, and cost estimation of upcoming maintenance. Our team of experts has extensive experience assessing both conditions and recordkeeping and can help to reduce any surprises after the purchase is complete.

Training

EN experts have offered training as a service for many years. We are available to help train your engineers and/or staff on your internal engineering or design standards. This ensures consistency across your organization and can be tailored to your organization’s needs, whether annual or every other year. We focus the content on your needs and will include overall industry knowledge as requested. Our trainers have extensive knowledge and the ability to field questions from your staff. Examples of content we can cover includes, but is not limited to, engineering, design requirements, design process, TIMP, DIMP, SIMP, PSMS, PSM, recordkeeping, and regulatory changes or updates.

Pipeline Safety Management Systems (PSMS)

EN Engineering’s Safety Management Systems (SMS) team are fully qualified to help evaluate, develop and implement a comprehensive pipeline safety management system (PSMS) and/or build upon existing pipeline safety programs. The SMS team consists of individuals with extensive knowledge and experience in Process Safety Management (PSM) and PSMS to aid in the development and implementation of non-mandatory American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice 1173 “Pipeline Safety Management System.” SMS services include elements such as gap assessments, PSMS roadmap, PSMS framework development, element implementation, PSMS effectiveness, process hazard analysis (PHA), management of change (MOC), incident investigations, and process safety information (PSI) development.

Process Safety Management

Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)

Our consultants have the knowledge and expertise to facilitate and lead your process hazard analysis (PHA) in your efforts to enhance the safety of your operation. We have highly trained facilitators and leaders with backgrounds in various industries which require PHAs to be performed. Services that EN offers in connection with PHAs include evaluating various systems and processes, setting of software to define the scenarios, identifying potential consequences from those scenarios, and identifying causes that create those scenarios. The final step in the PHA process is to generate a report for our clients that outlines our findings and offers recommendations.

Process Safety Information (PSI)

As a part of a process safety management program, process safety information is a service EN offers to our clients to develop the process safety information itself in order to be in compliance with regulations. Our team of experts will do the work necessary to bring your data records information into compliance, whether it is upgrading for an existing pipeline or developing it for a new pipeline. This could include many different items, such as electrical classification, creating process flow diagrams, developing the information for safety systems, maximum intended inventory levels, or process chemistry tables.

Management of Change

To ensure that health, safety, and environmental risks are evaluated and under control before changes are made, a management of change program must be in place for those required to follow process safety management rules. At EN, our expert teams have the experience you need to do this. We gather the data necessary to develop clients’ governance documents outlining the protocols and processes for conducting a MOC. We can also supply staff to support the MOC requests, documentation during turnaround events, or other support requests.

Mechanical Integrity Programs

EN’s expert consultants have extensive experience developing comprehensive solutions for mechanical integrity programs to ensure reliability, safety, and compliance with regulations. With this service, we can support your efforts by developing, implementing, or improving your mechanical integrity program. This generally includes developing or upgrading a written manual or governance document, providing training on how to remain in compliance, developing the inspection and testing protocols, and developing quality assurance protocols.

Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

When making risk management decisions, our clients often choose to partner with EN Engineering for a Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA). Similar to PHA, we provide a facilitator to conduct a risk analysis. This service includes identifying the highest risk causes and scenarios and putting them through the quantitative method layer of protection analysis to determine the number of independent protection layers required to mitigate or prevent each identified catastrophic consequence. Our facilitators are trained and certified to lead an organization and their team through those processes, to reduce the overall risk of a catastrophic incident.

Data Solutions

EN Engineering’s data solutions experts specialize in delivering solutions that help our clients digitally locate, identify, analyze, and interactively connect the data relating to their assets and customers. We help them use a number of different processes, tools, and modeling systems so they can leverage all of the information necessary for better decision support in the areas of risk assessment, regulatory compliance and operations.

To achieve these goals, we offer our clients data solutions and services in the areas of Data Management, Analysis and Insights, System Consulting, Solution Development and Deployment, Technical Systems Consulting, and more. Our team delivers quality and value on every data solutions project, from the simplest to the most complex.

Let EN deliver your data solutions so you can focus on your business.

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Document Digitization

Most companies have large volumes of paper documents that contain information required for critical operational processes. Paper documents have limited access and introduce inefficiency and errors into the organization’s work processes. EN’s data solutions experts provide our clients with digitization services. We support digitization and integration of historic and current paper documents into a client’s data system. First, we conduct a detailed inventory of the available records and estimate the cost of digitizing these documents and the impact on our clients’ operations. When the cost of digitizing the documents is justified by the value gained, we develop a plan to digitize the relevant documents. Depending upon the requirements, digitizing the documents can be done by scanning them into a digital format, tagging them with relevant information, and linking them to the appropriate assets. If the requirements demand a higher level of integration, the source documents can be manually reentered as digital data. Both processes allow our clients to query, search, run reports, or otherwise use the data to better support their operations.

Data Cleansing and Verification

Reliable and accurate data is the foundation of an effective data system. Our expert consultants have years of experience working within data systems to cleanse them of errors, duplication, or other discrepancies. When engaging in these initiatives, we identify and quantify the errors and evaluate the potential cause and the severity of the error. After locating the gaps in quality, we evaluate the costs and impact of various correction techniques from low cost/low accuracy automated algorithms to high cost/high accuracy manual fixes. The desired accuracy and cost of the corrections drive the development of an overall data enhancement plan prioritizing data cleansing with respect to the severity of the data. EN then supports the execution of the data enhancement programs by managing activities, performing corrections, and reviewing the enhanced data.

Data Maintenance

One of the key requirements to obtaining high value from modern decision support and analytics applications is high quality data. While starting with high quality data is one factor in this value chain, maintaining data quality through a system is equally important. If the processes involved in making changes introduce errors or allow data to become stale, high quality data quickly deteriorates. Our team of experts assists our clients by developing workflows and processes ensuring that data quality is maintained in a timely manner. This process-oriented work supports our other data management services and assists our clients in maintaining high quality input data supplied to analytics applications and asset management systems.

Mobile Data Solutions

Collecting data directly on a well-designed mobile platform can improve efficiency and reduce errors, thereby saving money and improving safety. We support our clients by developing and deploying effective digital data entry solutions that smoothly integrate and augment their data collection processes. EN provides comprehensive services for all phases of mobile deployment including needs assessment, solution design, workflow adjustment and solution deployment, testing, and user training.

Imagery Analysis and Information Extraction

Readily available imagery, such as aerial photographs, often contain valuable data that can help our clients make critical decisions to improve the efficiency and safety of their business. Our expert data solutions team uses image recognition algorithms to extract meaningful information from imagery for object identification and classification. Object identification is done by extracting data, such as building polygons or paved and unpaved areas, from aerial imagery. While image/object classification is accomplished by training machine learning algorithms to recognize qualities such as pavement or vegetation from available imagery. These services evaluate the information available, determine if it is useful, and turn aerial imagery into a comprehensive data set that our clients can use to improve efficiency, increase safety, and meet regulatory requirements.

Business District Identification

EN has developed a library of analysis modules to help operators analyze their business districts in a data-driven and repeatable manner. EN works closely with operators to tailor the analysis modules to their individual needs and service territories so our clients can apply the results to their leak survey requirements, risk assessment cycles, and system planning. We work closely with stakeholders throughout our client’s business to ensure that any available information data sources, both internally and publicly curated, are leveraged for a thorough and repeatable analysis. We apply our deep regulatory understanding and our technical data systems team to deploy processes to spatially analyze business districts. The analysis process accommodates both federal regulatory requirements (CFR 192.723 and §192.723–Subpart M GPTC) as well as state requirements.

HCA, MCA & Class Location Identification

EN has developed geospatial analysis tools to identify Class Location, High Consequence Areas (HCA), and Moderate Consequence Areas (MCA) using spatial data according to 49 CFR Part 192. EN analyzes and maintains our clients’ HCA, MCA, and class location designations on a periodic basis. Additionally, EN can implement the analysis module within the operator’s GIS system allowing the module to be run on an as-needed basis, while maintaining a historic record of the previous analyses as conditions change.

Custom Spatial Analysis

EN partners with our utility clients by leveraging the expertise of the entire team to define and solve a business problem for our clients using custom spatial analysis. First, we review the business problem with our client and clearly define the problem we are working to solve. Then we identify the information available to solve the business problem and establish an analysis workflow that will deliver high quality information that will be used to solve the business problem. We test and refine the workflow until the quality outcome criteria are met. This service delivers quality information to our utility clients that enable them to make informed decisions to solve real business problems.

ILI Data Analysis

At EN, we provide services to help utilities manage their ILI programs. We leverage our extensive ILI subject matter expertise and our spatial data proficiency to integrate historic ILI data into the operator’s GIS. We align ILI data within our client’s GIS and analyze the results using other data sources, such as asset information and adjacent environmental features. We monitor and evaluate trends over time from one ILI run to the next. We assist our clients with overall assessment planning, managing, and tracking the outcome of identified critical anomalies and anomaly mitigation.

System Capacity Planning & Forecasting

EN uses GIS and other data sources to evaluate the impact of population changes, economic trends, and cultural evolution on energy systems for our clients. This analysis gives the utility a close look at the effect of changing customer demand on the existing system to identify potential weaknesses and where mitigation may be necessary. Our team of experts provide our clients with operational decision support and assists with contingency planning. As a part of this service, EN builds a system model, statistically analyzes and applies the identified loads to the model, and assesses the implications for impacted areas. We can help our clients develop a 10-year plan that outlines anticipated changes in demand, potential impacts on the system, and future system improvements to respond to the identified impacts.

Data System Strategic Planning & Road Mapping

EN’s expert team works closely with our clients to identify long-term goals, gaps in their current system, and a roadmap forward for the next two, five, and ten years. We help our clients create a system-wide roadmap and assist business leaders to dive deeper into specific initiatives such as data improvement or system migration. Our team helps our clients answer those critical questions to plan for the future.

Data Integration

EN assists our clients by evaluating disconnected and potentially duplicated data sources such as excel spreadsheets, personal databases, or stand-alone enterprise data repositories and strategically integrating them into the enterprise data systems. The steps we take to achieve this include data source evaluation, identification of integration options, integration planning, and establishing updated workflows minimizing impacts to end users. We then execute and support the integration of the data sources through the implementation life cycle, including interface development, testing, documentation, and change management to deliver a comprehensive solution to our clients.

Data Model Migration

EN’s Data Solutions team helps operators manage the evolution of their spatial data systems through the strategic planning and execution migrating data models supporting the adoption advancing technology. EN engages in system evaluation, gap analysis, data mapping, and migration execution and testing. We bring our industry experience and best practices in data transfer and adapting new workflows to the changed system. EN partners with the operator in all phases, including planning and strategizing, documentation development, task automation, and testing.

Utility Network ad APR Preparedness & Roadmapping

Utility Network and ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing (APR) are ESRI-specific solutions changing the way utilities interact with their spatial asset data. Deployments are a big change, impacting the business users such as GIS data owners, operations staff, integrity managers, and IT teams responsible for managing and deploying the technology. EN provides support planning and deploying the solutions, including gap analysis, data model readiness evaluation, data model translation, road mapping, pilot programs, implementation, and testing.

Workflow Integration and Analysis Modules

EN experts work with our clients to evaluate current data workflows and propose improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and value of their GIS and overall data systems. EN dives in with our clients’ stakeholders and end users to streamline workflows through automating repetitive tasks, linking data sources to eliminate potential duplication errors, and automate analysis workflows to increase overall efficiency and consistency.

IT Project Management

EN’s professional project managers have experience planning and managing upgrades and deploying new architecture supporting IT departments seeking additional resources to integrate with and augment their current staff on key projects. EN’s project managers have delivered customer projects such as enterprise upgrades to their Esri environment, server migrations, and other system changes. EN’s project managers work seamlessly within our clients’ organizations to plan, research, coordinate, track, manage project risk, and provide comprehensive communication to all stakeholders using industry best practices.

GIS Enhancement

Every utility’s GIS is unique due to operating practices and the company’s overall data ecosystem. EN’s skilled programmers work with our clients to expand the value of their GIS by implementing custom integrations, developing analysis tools, and analyzing and improving data quality. EN’s GIS professionals can audit the GIS to identify data and/or process gaps, recommend enhancements, and plan long-term improvement to maximize data value. EN assists our clients by building custom analysis tools supporting business decisions. Our team is also experienced in establishing metrics and processes to measure data improvement and value, evaluating the impact of missing, inaccurate, and out of date data, and assessing the impact of proposed data improvement.

Custom Analysis Tools

EN works closely with our clients to identify a set of business problems, evaluate the information that’s available to help solve that business problem, build a repeatable process or tool to address the problem, test and verify the tool, and then deploy the solution. We can host these solutions and provide them to our clients as a service or we can install the solution as a module on their system to use as needed by their business processes. Our expert team typically works within databases and geospatial systems to combine spatial and nonspatial data into an analytical solution that helps our clients run their businesses more efficiently and with a higher degree of safety.

Risk Assessment

EN supports our clients in understanding and mitigating the risks posed to their system by a variety of threats. We work closely with operators to identify threats, establish mechanisms for quantifying the likelihood of the threat creating an adverse event, and then measuring the potential impact of that threat to the system and surroundings. We support operators throughout all aspects of their risk management program, from identifying and managing data sources to calculating the potential risk and mitigating the potential impact. Additionally, we can implement a data driven spatial risk model supporting the analysis of threat categories covered by 49 CFR 192. Our engineers can also extend the analysis by quantifying categories that are outside of federal code to include those additional threats that are of concern to our clients.

Assessment Data Management

EN experts take a holistic approach to assessment data management, helping clients manage their pipeline assessments from start to finish while integrating the resulting data with their GIS. EN provides services to help capture, integrate, and manage assessment data within a spatial framework for many assessment types including external corrosion, internal corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, and in-line inspections among others. EN aligns and analyzes the assessment data to provide severity classification along our client’s pipelines, enabling them to leverage the data over the life cycle of the related assets. EN can also deliver visualization services in a variety of options from interactive spatial dashboards to aerial maps.

Data Improvement Program Management

EN helps our clients plan long-term activities around data improvement initiatives that involve high volumes of data throughout the organization. EN begins this process by identifying existing data gaps that need to be resolved in order to improve business processes. We then evaluate the criticality of that data gap and various options for resolving the data gap. Data may be enhanced by correcting errors, supplementing incomplete data, or implementing new integrations to keep time sensitive data up to date. This process could include source record review or field data collection such as digging up the pipe to identify the pipe’s material. Once this is complete, our team of experts help prioritize the initiatives or activities within a data improvement program so clients can get the most value based upon the amount of effort required or resources available within a given time period. The duration of the program could be five, ten, or fifteen years to achieve various objectives of improving data quality and might be done in conjunction with other projects or services for efficiency.

EN also builds tracking and reporting mechanisms that measure the program’s success so clients can adjust and tailor their efforts to the ongoing program’s effectiveness. By monitoring the program, our clients are able to ensure that data enhancement programs continue to deliver value.

Dashboards and Reporting

At EN, creating dashboards and reports involves more than just displaying data for our clients. It requires an intimate understanding of how the data relates to the underlying health of the business and preparing it in a manner that readily exposes those insights to the business users. Our team helps our clients identify key performance indicators (KPIs) and, by monitoring both leading and lagging indicators, adjust to changing conditions early and avoid major problems.

The key to building dashboards and reports that deliver value is in understanding what data is most indicative of business health and how to present it in such a manner that it is readily digested. Dashboards and reports are a critical element in the business decision support process. By delivering timely data, presented in an easily understood format, EN helps our customers make the best decisions for their business and communicate with their various stakeholders.

Corrosion Control and Metallurgical

Our NACE (AAMP) and ASME certified experts focus on the long-term protection of your valuable assets and are dedicated to preserving their structural integrity. They also have a thorough understanding of the federal, state, and local regulations affecting the oil, gas, water, and wastewater industries. We work with our clients to prevent structural failures, extend the asset operating life, and to ensure compliance with all relevant codes and regulations.

EN’s team of subject matter experts work together to manage and mitigate long-term degradation of your assets. With that goal in mind, we offer services in Corrosion Control, Cathodic Protection, and Metallurgical Consulting with special focus on cathodic protection design, AC and DC interference studies, code compliance surveys, standards and procedures development, failure analysis, fitness for service, and many more.

We are committed to safe and cost-effective solutions. Let us join you in the fight to preserve your assets.

SERVICES

Cathodic Protection Design

As corrosion specialists, EN engineers can be relied on for cathodic protection design. We are committed to providing designs that will protect your valuable assets, achieve or exceed their design life, reduce interference with third-party assets, and meet all federal and state regulations. We can also help with test station configurations and design, electrical isolation, and station facilities. We have extensive experience with multiple industries including oil, gas, water, wastewater, and electrical utilities. All designs are performed in accordance with NACE, AWWA, and other guidelines as appropriate.

AC Interference and Stray Current Analysis

With an ever-more crowded world, AC interference situations are increasing in number and intensity. From new construction to existing assets, EN can accurately analyze the situation at hand. Our team of experts are careful to examine all possible threats and risks before recommending a course of action. We are one of the few firms to perform in-house modeling, with specially trained staff to match any scenario.

DC Interference and Stray Current Analysis

DC interference and stray current can result in vexing situations for the operator. EN’s corrosion group helps our clients to not only identify where the interference is coming from but help diagnose the situation at hand. Whether its static, dynamic, or a combination of the two, we are prepared to help. Our team has experience with transit, water, petroleum, and electrical power systems. We are uniquely positioned to provide expert recommendations on how to best mitigate the interference to protect your asset.

Oversight & Commissioning

The most critical stage of any asset’s life is construction. EN provides third-party inspection or oversight services to ensure that construction crews are installing the system as designed. We’re also there to provide sound engineering solutions to any situation that may arise. After construction, our team provides commissioning services to ensure proper installation and performance of the corrosion prevention systems. Other services include post-construction coating surveys, native surveys, rectifier tuning, isolation testing, and baseline reads.

Troubleshooting

When a client has problems with their cathodic protection system, and they’ve sought solutions that has not yielded answers, EN can help. We provide experienced staff with a high degree of technical capabilities to help troubleshoot the situation. With our expertise, we can diagnose the situation at hand and provide custom-tailored remedies. This may require specific field equipment, specialized surveys, coordination with third parties, or the use of software modeling.

Internal Corrosion

By its nature, internal corrosion is not always the easiest situation to monitor or address. EN helps operators perform routine assessments or address unforeseen situations. Our cross-functional teams from Integrity and Metallurgy assist our Corrosion group in providing the best solutions and recommendations for any issue. Be it coupon testing, liquid sampling, in-line inspections, or even depth of cover surveys, we are here to help.

Wellhead Piping Analysis

EN’s corrosion experts can help storage fields assess the cathodic protection of their wells or gathering system with field surveys such as ElogI, Cathodic Protection Profile (CPP), interference, or isolation testing. These can be done as stand-alone surveys or performed with other down hole surveys and activities in support of Storage Integrity Management Plans (SIMP). Whether for a single well or the entire field, EN’s expert team helps owners and operators ensure the asset’s integrity and maintain its working life.

Renewable Energy

For renewable energy, specifically solar and wind (both onshore and offshore), we perform assessments to ensure structures will meet their design life. This assessment considers the environmental conditions, structural design, and local soil conditions. In some instances, coatings and cathodic protection systems may be designed to achieve the desired operational life. We also provide interference studies from these fields onto third party assets, studies on the reverse (third party assets onto the field), and studies on third-party crossings. For permit level activities, we can assist by performing lifecycle calculations and corrosion rate analysis.

Surveys and Inspections

EN has a qualified and experienced team to perform the field surveys you made need. These include ACVG, DCVG, CIS, ACCA, depth of cover, direct assessments, interference surveys, HDD coating evaluations, native and interrupted surveys, soil resistivity, or even custom troubleshooting. We can assist in code compliance readings including annual surveys, rectifier readings, critical bond assessments, post-construction coating assessments, and atmospheric inspections. Corrosion specialists are also part of a multi-disciplinary team at EN that performs an external corrosion direct assessment (ECDA) and internal corrosion direct assessment (ICDA): an entire program including a pre-assessment, coating and/or corrosion indirect surveys, direct assessment, data analyses and presentations, and reporting.

Failure Analysis

Pipeline components fail due to unanticipated loading conditions or reduction of material strength from mechanical damage, corrosion, or other environmental factors. Determining the root cause of failure requires understanding of the material properties, microstructure, manufacturing processes, operating conditions and original function of the component. EN Engineering failure analysts are degreed metallurgical and mechanical engineers with decades of pipeline industry experience in determining the cause of failures. Through metallurgical investigations using optical and scanning electron microscopy, and stress analysis using finite element analysis, EN can determine the cause and suggest corrective actions to guard against similar failures in the future.

Welding Procedure Development and Qualification

EN Engineering provides welding procedure development and qualification to support pipeline installation, maintenance, and repair. Our metallurgical team has assisted pipeline companies in developing new construction and in-service Welding Procedure Specifications (WPSs), Procedure Qualification Reports (PQRs), and welder qualifications. Our services include field qualification and classroom training for WPSs, welder qualification and inspection to ensure safe welds in compliance with regulatory requirements and practices.

Fitness-for-Service/Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA)

A fitness-for-service evaluation determines the capability of an engineering component to continue functioning with a known defect – metal loss, corrosion, crack-like flaws, laminations, etc. When crack-like defects are involved and fracture mechanics methods are employed, the fitness-for-service evaluation is commonly called an engineering critical assessment (ECA). In the petrochemical, refinery and pipeline industries, the standard API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 Fitness-for-Service is widely used and addresses repair or replace decisions for many commonly occurring defect types. EN Engineering has performed many API 579 fitness-for-service evaluations and ECAs on pipelines and pressure vessels with corrosion, mechanical damage, and cracks. These evaluations provided repair/replace decisions and inspection scheduling intervals for components determined suitable for continued operation.

Material Selection & Verification

Procurement of pipeline and facility components to meet design requirements depends upon accurate descriptions in bills-of-material and, upon receipt, verification of proper material to meet the order. Recently enacted federal pipeline regulations require that all components have traceable, verifiable, and complete (TVC) records to be maintained for the life of the pipeline. EN’s material specialists regularly review the material test reports (MTRs) of purchased engineered components to ensure conformance to industrial standard (ASTM, ASME, API) norms. Integration through EN data management systems can ensure secure and readily accessible material documentation for efficient operation of industrial facilities.

Pipe Mill Audits and Qualifications

At EN, our metallurgy group often supports clients to audit pipe mills before adding them as an approved supplier. Within this service, our audit process includes visiting the pipe mill to witness rolling pipe, checking instrumentation, ensuring qualifications are up-to-date, and observing quality processes. We typically either perform this work prior to the client working with a particular pipe mill or when they’ve already purchased pipe for a specific project. In addition to the audit process, our team can also support clients in oversight during the first days of production to ensure the process runs smoothly.

Pipe and Fitting Specifications

EN’s metallurgical group serve on ASME and API standards committees to participate in the development of pipeline component standards. We have a thorough understanding of industry and regulatory standards and their applications in pipeline design, construction, and operation. EN’s specialists have produced pipe, fitting and valve specifications for pipeline and industrial facility clients who require more stringent requirements for their operating environments. The safe installation and construction of pipe and fittings benefits from front-end knowledge of metallurgy, material selection, welding procedure development, and best installation practices.

Consulting and Program Management

As a leader in pipeline consulting and program management, EN Engineering understands our clients’ need for the successful delivery of projects on time and within budget. Our expert team is here to identify and solve technical issues, assist with project conception, development, and planning, and help with the technical, regulatory, and operational aspects of electric power systems.

Our dedicated consultant team has a wealth of knowledge and real-world experience that comes into play as we partner with our clients from project conception through completion. We offer services in Project/Program Management, Feasibility and System Planning, Modernization and Standardization, Procurement and Materials Expediting, Permitting, Field Services and Inspection, 3D Scanning, and Gas System, Reliability and Safety.

SERVICES

EN Engineering offers a complete suite of project and program management services, covering areas ranging from site selection to permitting, inspections, and commissioning. Our team members are highly experienced in keeping projects on schedule, on budget, and providing frequent progress reports. Even more, we build close relationships with our clients and add consistency in an area where the client may experience high turnover rates in personnel. As time goes on, our clients find that it’s not unusual for us to have more experience with their company than they do. This allows us to bring incredible value to project after project, providing expertise and standardization to each team. EN’s project/program managers adhere to the Project Management Institute’s five phases–conception and initiation, planning, execution, performance/monitoring, and project close.

EN has extensive experience in completing the activities necessary to obtain the required civil (non-environmental) permits for pipeline projects. These permits are primarily related to road (interstates, state, county, municipal) crossings, railroad crossings, and the installation of temporary and permanent access roads and driveways. EN can research the permitting authority, determine the permitting requirements, and prepare the necessary drawings and permit application package for submittal to the jurisdictional authority.

EN has experience with all crossing methods, including HDD, jack-and-bore, slick bore, pipe ramming, and open-cut. The EN team is well versed in American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way (AREMA) guidelines, as well as individual railroad requirements and standards. Our team has developed relationships with a number of these entities, which helps aid in the approval process for future projects.