Project Profile: Suncor - Fort McMurray

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Partnering with Success
Transfield Asset Management Services
Safway scaffolders play a major role in
enabling work on Suncor's site in Fort
McMurray. At a minimum, workers
provide access for pipe inspection,
general overhauls and maintenance.
A Flourishing Operation
As an industry leader in development
of the oil sands and energy production,
Suncor’s goal is to continue to significantly
increase its oil production and sales.
Why Safway?
Canada holds one of the world's largest
oil reserves, and with Suncor's immense
daily output, site maintenance is critical
to ongoing operations.
Safway Services teamed up with a
consortium of companies, including
Transfield Asset Management Services and
Worley Parsons Colt Engineering, to provide
scaffold management for Suncor's oil sands
operation in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Suncor is relying on Safway's scaffold
expertise to assist with:
■ Access for routine plant maintenance
■ Scaffold yard management
■ Access for pipe inspection
■ Total access management solutions
■ Access to assist with general overhauls
■ Support for emergency tasks
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Vice President of Operations for
Transfield Asset Management David
Videroni (far right) believes superior
planning is the major factor in
achieving success with scaffold partner
Safway.
Output from Canada's oil sands is as high as one
million barrels per day. Production is expected to triple
by 2015, and Suncor Energy is a key contributor to
Canada's oil sands output.
With more than 440 experienced
scaffolders devoted to the Suncor project,
Safway is providing scaffolding service and
support for the entire site at all times, as
well as management of the scaffold yard.
Scaffold support is all-inclusive with
superior project planning and execution,
asset management services, and scaffold
erection and dismantling services.
When required, scaffold workers are
also responsible for winterization, which
necessitates protecting scaffold with
tarps, as well as hoarding pipes and
fittings to prevent freezing.
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With a reputation as a leader in scaffold
services, Safway can provide highlytrained scaffold specialists capable of
performing the necessary tasks, even in
Canada's sub-zero winters.
Canada's oil sands operations are
flourishing, and experts believe
their oil reserves are the world's
second largest after Saudi Arabia.
The Suncor project agreement was signed
in March 2007. In that same month, the
consortium began to ramp up its presence
on Suncor's sites. Service delivery for
the base plant began in late August, and
delivery to the Firebag SAG-D project
commenced in early October 2007.
As part of an ongoing commitment
to safety, trainees receive:
■ Scaffold training
■ Construction safety training
■ Market-specific training related
to the gas and oil industry
All efforts have focused on execution with
an ongoing commitment to safety and
reliable operations.
Onsite, safety is extremely
important when it comes to
constant maintenance, especially
in Fort McMurray where winter
temperatures average -20° Celsius.
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Achieving Success With Suncor
In conjunction with a consortium of
companies, Safway is on site 24 hours
a day to help Suncor meet the world's
ongoing demand for energy.
Safety in Numbers
As with our involvement in any
project, safety is a crucial factor
in Safway's success. Scaffolders
receive project-specific training
before starting work onsite.
Suncor's Fort McMurray site is equipped
to dig oil sands at more than 40 meters
below the surface to produce crude oil.
Bitumen, a type of petroleum, is extracted
from the oil sands and refined.
With safety measures in place, the
Fort McMurray site reported zero
lost-time incidents in 2007.
“To achieve more with less ...
is what our cooperation with
our scaffolding partner, Safway,
is based on. ... In an industrial
project depending on qualified
labor, this is a challenge
demanding excellent planning
and prudent management.”
David Videroni
Vice President Operations
Transfield Asset Management Services
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The Right Scaffolding for the Industry
Safway is proud to provide scaffold rental,
erection & dismantle services, training,
engineering, inventory and project
management for industrial projects
throughout North America.
Top: Pleasant Prairie Power Plant (Pleasant Prairie, Wis.).
Bottom: Tesoro KPL Dock (Nikiski, Alaska).
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