Inter Pipeline Company – IPL Heartland Project

Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada

Blue Wolf’s Team was contracted by Inter Pipeline Company to utilize Aqua Milling® to clean an estimated 68,000 feet of assorted critical steam and process lines in leu of Chemical cleaning. By using the Aqua Milling® process thousands of gallons of chemical hazardous waste were eliminated from the project and the superior cleaning quality reduced the targeted steam blows by 70 percent.

The highly specialized Aqua Milling® process reduced the original chemical cleaning schedule from 9 months to 6 months. This reduction of 3 months in the cleaning schedule saved the Client an estimated 11,000-man hours and direct support equipment cost. This is a direct project savings of over $3 million with zero environmental impact and no loss time safety incidents.