C-2 June 20, 2009 - Peace River Regional District

SURERUS Pipeline Inc.
SURERUS Construction & Development Ltd.
9312-109th Street
Fort St. John, BC V1J 6G9
Phone: 250-785-2423 Fax: 250-785-3475
[email protected]
June 20, 2009
Chair and Board
Peace River Regional District
Box 810
Dawson Creek, BC
V1G 4H8
Via – e-mail: [email protected]
Madame Chair!
My name is Steve Thorlakson, and I am the General Manager of Surerus Pipeline Inc. of Fort St.John, BC. For 15
years until December, 2005, I was Mayor of Fort St. John, so know and appreciate the value of keeping local
government informed of developments in their community and area – and also appreciate the help and assistance
local government can be to business.
Surerus Pipeline Inc. has been in the pipeline construction business since 1969, and has built over 6,000 km of
pipeline in northeastern BC and central and northern Alberta. We are pleased to advise that we have been
awarded a tender to construct approximately 92 km of 20” pipeline for Spectra – the South Peace Pipeline
project from South of the Upper Cutbank area through to the Spectra Plant Site in Taylor. We anticipate a peak
crew of 450 including sub-contractors will be at the various worksites from early July through until early
October, 2009. Our crew will be seeking accommodation in the area, and we will be using service providers
and suppliers from the communities as well. We will be extensively utilizing the resources associated with
Saulteau and West Moberly First Nations. We have operations bases in Dawson Creek, Taylor and at our
Head Office in Fort St. John.
It is our policy to be good corporate citizens, not only in our “home town” but also where we work. We believe
that we should leave our jobs with the community, service providers and suppliers looking forward to our return
for future projects. Our primary contact on-site will be our “Spread Boss”, Mr. JJ Decorby, who can be reached
at (403) 875-1035 or via e-mail at [email protected] . You may also feel free to contact myself by phone
or e-mail ([email protected]) should you ever have any questions.
I am taking the liberty of enclosing our most recent newsletter, and you may learn more about Surerus at
www.surerus.com.
Sincerely,
Steve Thorlakson, CFP
General Manager
c.c. JJ Decorby
c.c. Evan Saugstad – Spectra Energy
c.c. Errol Batchelor – Spectra Energy
c.c. Glen Hiebert – Dunn Hiebert & Associates.
SURERUS PIPELINE INC.
BC’S #1 PIPELINE CONTRACTOR
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Volume 4 Issue 2
March 2009
One Million Man Hours!
In my 40 years in the pipeline business, I have never
heard of a pipeline company accomplishing what
Surerus has just achieved.
As of February 28, 2009,
we surpassed One Million
Man Hours worked without
a Lost Time Incident! A
“Lost Time Incident” occurs
when a job-related illness
or injury causes an employee to miss work beyond the day of injury.
To put One Million Man
hours into perspective, it is
the equivalent of 480 people working 40 hour weeks
for an entire year. In our
case, it has taken just over
two years achieve this milestone.
The companies we work for
also deserve a great deal of
credit. Their safety requirements, together with our
progressive Health &, Safety
programs all play a significant part in encouraging
Surerus to work safely.
Surerus Pipeline Inc. has
recently achieved 1 million
hours worked Lost Time
Incident Free. This achievement began with “Buy-In”
to safety ideas and actions
1
People
2
Oilpatch Opinion
2
More People
3
Our projects
3
The lighter side
4
 Safety Buy In Pays!
 People make it work
Safe Work. Quality Work.
 Current and new projects
Brian Surerus
 Humour
John Steward, CRSP—HSE Manager
that Surerus management
believed would produce a
safer workplace. At all levels
Surerus management actively communicated and
supported activities such as:
daily safety meetings on
site, field level hazard assessments performed by
the supervisors and workers
and training supervisory
staff on modern safety management concepts and
techniques. Lastly, but most
importantly, workers in the
Safety Milestone!
Special points of
interest:
Safety is no accident—and
today I am more proud
than ever that we live our
motto—every day.
Safety Buy In Pays!
In the history of the world
success is always achieved
when people believe in
what they are doing. This
belief structure is generally
known in the working
world as “Buying In”.
Inside this issue:
I have to give a tip of the
Surerus hat and thank you
and congratulations to all
my employees and subcontractors, both in Head
Office and in the field.
field began to have “Buy
In” on refusing unsafe
work, encouraging their
peers to “do it the right
way” and practicing safe
work habits. I would like to
thank the Surerus leadership and workers for
“Buying In”. This has made
Surerus’ safety record the
envy of the industry.
Thank you all and continue to work safe, if we
did it once we can do it
again. Believe it!
SURERUS PIPELINE GRAPEVINE
PAGE 2
Some of the people who helped us achieve
1,000,000 man hours without a lost time incident.
And Many
more!
Oilpatch Opinion– by Steve Thorlakson, GM
The largest piece of Oilpatch News
is the announcement of the
merger between Petro-Canada
and Suncor, making the merged
company the second largest in
Canada. Commodity prices have
been slightly on the rebound, but
the industry remains very nervous
about long term capital commitments. We have not really seen an
improvement in stability in the
USA to date, but never expected to
for at least 90-120 days after President Obama’s inauguration.
TransCanada, SemCAMS and Enbridge are continuing their proc-
esses, and an interesting wrinkle
has emerged with shipping giant
Teekay proposing a floating LNG
facility for Kitimat—seemingly in
cooperation with the Pacific Trail
Pipeline (PNG). We can’t have any
direct influence on these processes, but we can continue to
monitor to make sure we are well
positioned. Our sterling safety record will stand Surerus in good
stead.
is to provide the Minister with suggestions to enhance BC’s benefit
from projects. I think there is some
very positive potential to ensure
the wealth that exists in the Montney and Horn River plays benefits
BC employees and companies to
an even greater extent.
Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom has
appointed me to a Service Sector
Advisory Committee, whose task it
Steve Thorlakson, GM
Our motto is “Safe Work. Quality Work.”, and we live it every
day!
VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2
PAGE 3
Our Projects
Currently underway:
Petro-Canada — Gunnell and Yoyo 6” and 8” pipeline and facilities, Clarke Lake 10” and 6” line
replacements, Bougie 6” and 3” pipeline and facilities.
New to Surerus—left to right
Nona May—Office Manager Fort Nelson, Jason Cutrell—Foreman,
Ed Gardner—Construction Manager and Amanda Adolph—Quality Control
SURERUS PIPELINE INC.
BC’S #1 PIPELINE CONTRACTOR
9312 109th Street
Fort St. John, BC
V1J 6G9
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
Website:
250-785-2423
250-785-3475
[email protected]
www.surerus.com
Grapevine Editor—Steve Thorlakson
E-mail:
[email protected]
Safe Work. Quality Work.
Founded in 1969, Surerus Pipeline
Inc. has grown to become the largest independent pipeline installation
contractor in British Columbia.
From humble beginnings, the Surerus group of companies has established a reputation for quality,
safety, service and reliability within
the petroleum industry. With Head
Office in Fort St. John and satellite
operations in Fort Nelson, BC and
Gibbons, AB, Surerus is well situated to service the oilfield requirements of companies around northern Alberta and BC, and has a
proven record of completed projects
throughout both provinces.
The Lighter Side—More Aislin
One of the best political cartoonists in Canada is Terry Mosher,
who goes by the pen name of Aislin. Because he is published in
the English daily Montreal Gazette, not too many Westerners
are familiar with him. Enjoy
these!