It’s our privilege to help energy transportation businesses provide communities with the energy they need.
HT Engineering works with the Midwest’s leading natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline operators to tackle the challenges involved in operating safe, efficient, and compliant energy infrastructure and facilities. As Michigan’s longest-serving pipeline specialist, our team has designed and engineered more than 1,500 miles of pipeline and more than 70 energy facilities that serve our region’s needs today. In addition, we’ve been hands-on in conducting the in-line inspections, integrity digs, and tests that ensure the ongoing safe and compliant operation of these critical assets.
As a trusted partner and source of local knowledge and expertise, HT Engineering takes pride in helping the operators we serve to protect public safety while rising to the energy challenges of our region and growing their businesses successfully.
Discover the impact these companies have made by exploring some of our key projects.
Project Overview HT Engineering, engaged by a Midwest pipeline operator, successfully navigated challenging design reviews with a residential developer, fostering […]
A Midwestern farmer embarked on a groundbreaking Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project, collaborating with experienced pipeline system engineers to establish a connection to a traditional natural gas pipeline system. HT Engineering played a pivotal role, serving as the designer of the interconnect station and pipelines, providing a comprehensive design package and consulting on project implementation.
HT Engineering offered guidance and expertise to transform the high-level station plans into detailed engineered designs. Now, the operator continues to use HT Engineering’s engineering and design expertise to complete additional gate station projects.
Data is only as meaningful as the analysis behind it. When a major pipeline operator in the Midwest received data from its ILI vendor identifying a large amount of features, the operator needed additional analyses to discern the best path forward after the inspection.
Integrity management is not a one-size-fits-all service. The challenges and resulting projects are specific to a particular situation and require input from multiple key stakeholders with various skill sets. Coordination and collaboration are key to effectively and efficiently completing a project on time and on budget.
We worked with a local major pipeline operator to engineer and design a complete energy transportation system from the ground up, creating a solution for successfully and safely shipping more than 110 million barrels of product and generating an estimated $70 million in new revenue to date.
For more than 15 years, HT Engineering has worked as part of the team assisting a major liquid petroleum transportation services company with every aspect of its integrity management program. Our work includes overseeing the documentation of all integrity dig, inspection, and repair work to ensure compliance with PHMSA requirements.
Since 2007, HT Engineering has worked closely with a petroleum exploration company to help the business uphold its commitment to environmental responsibility and meet the latest requirements for safe pipeline operation, as administered by the Michigan Public Service Commission.
Pipeline operators and their customers each have separate computer systems and controls that need to “talk” to each other to ensure safe delivery of product to tank farms, other pipelines, terminals, and, ultimately, consumers. To operate safely, it is crucial for both parties to see the others’ information about facility conditions, including tank levels, operating pressures, and the statuses of pumps and valves.
In 2018, a major global energy company turned to the pipeline experts at HT Engineering to help engineer and plan the nitrogen displacement (purge) and idling of an underutilized 525-mile high-value refined product pipeline.
Smart design, a well laid plan, good management, and qualified construction crews helped the project proceed smoothly. The end product now provides the client with an efficient drying system that minimizes process downtime, desiccant waste, and lost product.
When a facility has an on-going odor concern because of operational changes, a new design to eliminate the odor is needed. Add in the need to address an emergency relief scenario, and the design becomes more critical.
Project Overview Develop new program for monitoring cover over buried pipe for entire pipeline system Steward site prioritization and mitigations […]
The purpose of mainline block valves on pipelines is to stop flow and isolate pressure, especially in the case of an emergency. But as valves age, even when properly maintained, they can lose their ability to form a tight seal. Additionally, many valves are installed below grade and are difficult to access for operation, inspection, maintenance, and repairs.
With hundreds of validation digs not an option economically and the line’s capacity hobbled by pressure reductions, a way was needed to establish a new maximum operating pressure (MOP) for the line and close out the repair plan.
Project Overview HT Engineering, engaged by a Midwest pipeline operator, successfully navigated challenging design reviews with a residential developer, fostering […]