With extensive experience as a provider of specialist engineering design services in cold weather climates, Ausenco never gets cold feet. Our expertise helps solve clients' challenges in developing projects from feasibility study to design, engineering and project delivery in cold and harsh weather environments.
Our
pioneering work on ice technology has made
Ausenco the leading designer of ice roads,
ice islands and ice-resistant structures to
support arctic oil and gas development. Our
experience and expertise covers projects from
concept studies through to detailed design,
for resources and energy clients developing
projects in cold and harsh weather environments.
We
have been working continuously in the Arctic
for more than 35 years. Completing more than
60 projects in Canada, Alaska, Russia and Greenland,
we are associated with a number of firsts in
arctic and offshore engineering, including
the:
- First artificial island, Immerk
- First deep-water steel caisson, Molikpaq
- First spray-ice bottom-founded island, Mars
- First spray-ice floating island, Panarctic.
Our engineering and project expertise include:
Winterisation of facilities:
- Construction of mining facilities in extreme
cold weather conditions
- Covered belt conveyor design and construction
for extreme cold temperatures
- Insulated and heat traced pipeline design for
and installation in extreme cold temperatures
conditions
- Construction of thermal corridors between plant
buildings
- Winterised fuel dispensing facilities
- Insulating and heating requirements for outdoor
process tanks and outdoor rotating equipment
operating in extreme cold temperatures
- Installation, commissioning and start-up of
plant in winter conditions
- Field construction planning in a extreme temperature
gradient environment
- Plant layouts for cold weather environments
- Maintaining plant integrity in a extreme temperature
gradient environment
- Plant operations and maintenance in a extreme
temperature gradient environment
- Emergency response.
Arctic and remote regions logistics:
- Winterised access roads
- Winterised vehicle maintenance shops
- Winterised structures for stockpiling of resources
like fuel and explosives
- Winterising residential facilities
- Winterising plant buildings
- Heating requirements / warming sheds for equipment
and workers
- Electricity generating facilities / diesel
and natural gas plants for generating electricity
- Construction offsite support and offsite storage
management.
- Modularisation for cost efficiency and fast
installation of equipment and plant in
difficult environmental conditions.
We also offer expertise in all project phases across
the different sectors. Our experienced team
provide services in:
- Arctic environment and ice characteristics
assessment
- Ice-resistant offshore platforms
- Ice-resistant port structures
- Ice-resistant floating structures
- Ice-resistant artificial islands
- Ice roads, airstrips and drill pads (offshore
and onshore)
- Ice spray and testing equipment
- Through-the-ice pipe lay
- Permafrost foundations
- Arctic product transport simulation
- Coastal and dredging
- Arctic and remote region logistics
To read more about our ingenious solutions in icy
conditions, click on the related featured projects
or contact one of our Experts.
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