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CSA Standards & NASSCO
Announce Canadian PACP
Program
CSA Standards, a leading standardsbased
solutions organization, and the
NASSCO have announced the availability
of the Pipeline Assessment Certification
Program Version 6.0 (PACP) in Canada.
This new certification program provides
pipeline professionals in Canada
and the United States with the necessary
knowledge and information to visually
evaluate sewer pipe conditions
and manage TV inspections required
for assessing trenchless projects before
they begin. This will help to ensure
positive underground pipeline repair
and rehabilitation results.
This new edition includes the CSA
Plus 4012-10 Technical Guide Visual Inspection
of Sewer Pipe, which provides
a “top-down” approach to help Canadian
communities and utilities make decisions
about their infrastructure.
“CSA Standards welcomes the opportunity
to work with NASSCO to
help Canadian pipeline professionals
accurately assess infrastructure assets
using standard tools and methodology
common across Canada and the United
States,” says CSA Standards president
Bonnie Rose. “By recognizing the critical
needs associated with aging and
climate-vulnerable infrastructure, this
certification program will help determine
sewer pipe conditions within a
utility, and compare sewer pipe conditions
at different points in time and for
different utilities.”
“The need for condition assessment
in the trenchless industry is growing,”
explains NASSCO executive director
Ted DeBoda. “Initiatives such as ASCE’s
Infrastructure Report Card, the EPA’s
Gap Analysis Report and other congressional
and private interest data demonstrate
that the demand for standards
is increasing not only in the United
States, but throughout North America
and around the world. We are pleased
that CSA Standards has helped to identify
this need and has assisted NASSCO
in establishing guidance for pipeline
assessment across Canada.”
The expansion of PACP into Canada
began in 2009 in Quebec. The Centre
for Expertise and Research on Infra-
structures in Urban Areas (CERIU)
worked closely with NASSCO
to establish a French version of
PACP as a standard and uniform
protocol for sewer condition evaluation.
CSA Standards is working
to help bring the PACP and the
technical guidance of CSA Plus
4012 to the rest of Canada.
For a schedule of upcoming PACP
classes, please visit www.nassco.
org. To learn more about CSA’s Canadian
PACP offering, including
a list of qualified instructors, visit
www.csa.ca/infrastructure.
Prime Horizontal Inc.
Opens Its Doors in the
USA
Prime Horizontal is a leader in
the provision of HDD guidance
services for intersects and difficult
crossings and also provide
drilling tools including mud motors,
drill bits, reamers and hole
openers, as well as the ParaTrack
magnetic guidance system. In
2009, Prime Horizontal introduced
ProData, a system for the
real time graphical display and
data transmission of drilling parameters
at the drill site.
In 2010, Prime Horizontal expanded
its market to the United
States with its new operations
manager, Luke Bender, headquartered
in New Iberia, La. Bender
has been involved in every aspect
of the HDD process from field
labor to project management to
engineering, and finally to high
level guidance services. He and
his staff’s hands-on-experience
combined with their technical
knowledge base provide HDD
customers with go-to men for the
toughest of HDD projects, company
officials say.
According to officials, the New
Iberia-Broussard-Lafayette area
has been a major center for oilfield
service companies for decades.
These service companies
also provide resources for HDD
tooling, technology and development,
and Prime Horizontal
and its customers are benefiting
greatly from proximity to such
resources.
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