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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.
In my 40 years in the pipe-line business, I have neverheard of a pipeline com-pany accomplishing whatSurerus has just achieved.As of February 28, 2009,we surpassed One MillionMan Hours worked withouta Lost Time Incident! A“Lost Time Incident” occurswhen a job-related illnessor injury causes an em-ployee to miss work be-yond the day of injury.
To put One Million Manhours into perspective, it isthe equivalent of 480 peo-ple working 40 hour weeksfor an entire year. In ourcase, it has taken just overtwo years achieve this mile-stone.
I have to give a tip of theSurerus hat and thank youand congratulations to allmy employees and sub-contractors, both in HeadOffice and in the field.
The companies we work foralso deserve a great deal ofcredit. Their safety require-ments, together with ourprogressive Health &, Safetyprograms all play a signifi-cant part in encouragingSurerus to work safely.
Safety is no accident—andtoday I am more proudthan ever that we live ourmotto—every day.
Safe Work. Quality Work.
Brian Surerus
Volume 4 Issue 2
March 2009
SURERUS PIPELINE INC.
BC’S #1 PIPELINE CONTRACTOR
In the history of the worldsuccess is always achievedwhen people believe inwhat they are doing. Thisbelief structure is generallyknown in the workingworld as “Buying In”.
Surerus Pipeline Inc. hasrecently achieved 1 millionhours worked Lost TimeIncident Free. This achieve-ment began with “Buy-In”to safety ideas and actions
that Surerus managementbelieved would produce asafer workplace. At all levelsSurerus management ac-tively communicated andsupported activities such as:daily safety meetings onsite, field level hazard as-sessments performed bythe supervisors and workersand training supervisorystaff on modern safety man-agement concepts andtechniques. Lastly, but mostimportantly, workers in the
One Million Man Hours!
Safety Buy In Pays! John Steward, CRSP—HSE Manager
SURERUS PIPELINE GRAPEVINE
Safety Milestone! 1
People 2
Oilpatch Opinion 2
More People 3
Our projects 3
The lighter side 4
Inside this issue:
Special points ofinterest:
Safety Buy In Pays!
People make it work
Current and new pro-jects
Humour
field began to have “BuyIn” on refusing unsafework, encouraging theirpeers to “do it the rightway” and practicing safework habits. I would like tothank the Surerus leader-ship and workers for“Buying In”. This has madeSurerus’ safety record theenvy of the industry.Thank you all and con-tinue to work safe, if wedid it once we can do it
again. Believe it!
esses, and an interesting wrinklehas emerged with shipping giantTeekay proposing a floating LNGfacility for Kitimat—seemingly incooperation with the Pacific TrailPipeline (PNG). We can’t have anydirect influence on these proc-esses, but we can continue tomonitor to make sure we are wellpositioned. Our sterling safety re-cord will stand Surerus in goodstead.
Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom hasappointed me to a Service SectorAdvisory Committee, whose task it
The largest piece of Oilpatch Newsis the announcement of themerger between Petro-Canadaand Suncor, making the mergedcompany the second largest inCanada. Commodity prices havebeen slightly on the rebound, butthe industry remains very nervousabout long term capital commit-ments. We have not really seen animprovement in stability in theUSA to date, but never expected tofor at least 90-120 days after Presi-dent Obama’s inauguration.
TransCanada, SemCAMS and En-bridge are continuing their proc-
is to provide the Minister with sug-gestions to enhance BC’s benefitfrom projects. I think there is somevery positive potential to ensurethe wealth that exists in the Mont-ney and Horn River plays benefitsBC employees and companies toan even greater extent.
Our motto is “Safe Work. Qual-ity Work.”, and we live it everyday!
Steve Thorlakson, GM
P A G E 2
And Manymore!
S U R E R U S P I P E L I N E G R A P E V I N E
O i l p a t c h O p i n i o n – b y S t e v e T h o r l a k s o n , G M
Some of the people who helped us achieve1,000,000 man hours without a lost t ime incident .
New to Surerus—left to right
Nona May—Office Manager Fort Nelson, Jason Cutrell—Foreman,
Ed Gardner—Construction Manager and Amanda Adolph—Quality Control
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.
P A G E 3
Our Projects
V O L U M E 4 I S S U E 2
Founded in 1969, Surerus Pipeline
Inc. has grown to become the larg-
est independent pipeline installation
contractor in British Columbia.
From humble beginnings, the Sure-
rus group of companies has estab-
lished 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 situ-
ated to service the oilfield require-
ments of companies around north-
ern Alberta and BC, and has a
proven record of completed projects
throughout both provinces.
9312 109th StreetFort St. John, BCV1J 6G9
One of the best political cartoon-ists in Canada is Terry Mosher,who goes by the pen name of Ais-lin. Because he is published inthe English daily Montreal Ga-zette, not too many Westernersare familiar with him. Enjoythese!
The Lighter Side—More Aislin
Phone: 250-785-2423Fax: 250-785-3475Email: [email protected]: www.surerus.com
Grapevine Editor—Steve ThorlaksonE-mail: [email protected]
Safe Work. Quality Work.
SURERUS PIPELINE INC.
BC’S #1 PIPELINE CONTRACTOR
