Used Pipe Removal
CPI Pipe & Steel offers pipe removal services to take up and remove non-producing pipelines.
Landowners
At CPI Pipe & Steel, we’ve worked with engineers, business development directors, and field managers of most, if not all, major gas companies for whom we have performed large removal projects. These projects are a testament to our commitment to excellence, professionalism, and reliability.
Gas Companies
Gas companies can recover value from non-performing assets quickly using CPI’s pipeline removal services. Our turnkey offerings handle all aspects of pipeline removal, including digging, removing, restoring the right-of-way, and transporting the pipe.
Throughout it all, safety and efficiency are extremely important. Our safety program and job completion record proves that our company is one of the best companies in the industry for any pipeline removal project
7 Step Process
Our 7 step pipeline removal process ensures landowners are involved in every step of the removal. Special concerns or requests are addressed up front, and landowners walk away happy with the outcome of the project.
Contacting Landowners
Upfront, Transparent Communication
CPI Pipe contacts each landowner by mail, as well as by phone to make them aware that CPI has purchased the easement and pipeline for removal. We communicate the next steps in the project and what landowners can expect. Landowners are notified of their fair and quick settlement of all surface damages when the removal has been completed.
Right-of-Way Preparation
Upholding Safety and Planning for Efficiency
First, we address any environmental concerns the landowner might have. Then, a fence crew installs temporary gaps for ingress and egress on the right-of-way, locating and flagging our pipeline for the ONE calls to be initiated. ONE calls alert utilities and other companies, giving them a 48-hour window to locate and flag their crossing lines.
Exposing
the Pipe
Protecting the Asset and the Environment
We use excavators with a digging shoe welded to the bucket, so the pipe is protected during the excavation process. Our trenches are usually a bucket’s width directly over the pipe. While trenching, we remove one foot of topsoil and place it on the working side if needed, and place sub-soil on the back-fill side.
Cutting and Removing the Pipe
Efficient and
Quick Removal
Working directly behind the digging crew, we immediately raise and cut the pipe for removal from the ditch. There is no more than 1,000 feet of open ditch at any one time. Limiting the footage of open ditch protects against water fill and undue erosion.
Backfilling and Compaction
Streamlined Soil
Restoration
Once the pipe is removed, a bulldozer pushes in the subsoil, packing it down and then placing the topsoil back atop the ditch. Then, a rubber tire wheel loader performs the final compaction. Final leveling and grading take place, leaving a 4” to 6” crown over the ditch line to prevent settlement. If needed, water conversion berms are used to minimize erosion.
Right-of-Way Restoration
Restoration to Landowner
Satisfaction
Once leveled and graded, we then seed, fertilize, and mulch as needed. Curlex blankets are installed on steep banks to recover disturbed ground. Fences are restored to the landowner’s satisfaction. Special requests or concerns from the landowner are also addressed.
Settling Surface Damages
Settling and Finishing
the Project
Once the pipe removal is complete and the right-of-way is restored, our land representative contacts the landowners to discuss the amount of damage and to make sure the landowners are satisfied with CPI’s restoration process. Landowners receive a settlement. If we purchase the easement with the pipeline, we will reassign the easement to the landowners at the courthouse.
CPI has worked with landowners on hundreds of miles of pipeline removal projects.
We prefer to deal with the landowners directly because we
make sure we are meeting their needs and any special concerns.
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