Ain Tsila Development

Main EPC Contract

A-CNT-CON-000-00282

Sub-contractor Name:

SARPI FLOWLINE / TRUNCKLINE

PIUL Approval Code/Name/Signature
Name: KAMLESH SHUKLA
Signature:

CODE DEFINITION

1 Accepted without comments

2 Accepted with comments
Not Accepted. Revise and
3
Resubmit
4 For Information
5 Void-Cancelled / Superseded

FOR
METHOD STATEMENT HOLIDAY TESTING & LOWRING
B-CON-PRO-210-39155-A

A Issued For Review & Comments 03/10/2020 H.GUELLOUMA B.BENDOUBA A. TOUNSI

Rev Purpose Date Prepared Checked Approved Approved

 METHOD STATEMENT HOLIDAY TESTING & LOWRING
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Revision A

Revision History:
Revision Changes

A Issued For Review & Comments

This revision checked and signed off by:

Name Function or Job Title

H.GUELLOUMA SARPI Technical Office Engineer Piping

B.BENDOUBA SARPI Construction Manger

A. TOUNSI SARPI Project Manager

Holds:
Hold No. Location Description

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TABLE 0F CONTENTS

1. PURPOSE

2. SCOPE

3. REFERENCES DOCUMENTS

4. ABBREVIATIONS

5. CONTENT

6. SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT

5.
7. RESPONSIBILITIES

8. TEST & INSPECTION

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The purpose of this method statement is to define the Scope of Work and Sequence of coating, holiday
Revision A
detection, repair, and lowering-in to be carried out subsequent to inspection by visual, NDT,
joint coating, coating repair and holiday detection in a safe & controlled manner in soft soil bedded trench of
completed sections of trunk line & flow line on AinTsila Development Project.
1. PURPOSE

The purpose of this procedure to describes the minimum requirements for carrying out coating
holiday detection and repair, and lowering-in, in soft soil bedded trench of completed sections of
pipelines and flow-lines.

2. SCOPE:
Company : Groupement ISARENE
Contractor : PIUL ( Petrofac
The Method Statement covers the Trench inspection and preparation International
prior to beddingUAEand
Limited)
Subcontractor : SARPI
lowering –in activities and complete inspection of pipe line coating to identify and repair all
Project and lower
damage to coating using Holiday Detection Equipment : AinTsila Development
the pipeline into Project
the prepared
ITR
trench and work in accordance with project Specification, : Inspection test record
RFI : Request for Inspection
3. REFERENCE DOCUMENT: PPE : Personnel protective equipment
PM : Project Manager
PTW : Permit to Work
 B-PLE-DAT-210-00001 GATHERING SYSTEM LINE PIPE DATASHEET
TBT : Tool Box Talk
HSE : Health Safety & Environment
 A-PLE-DAT-200-30001 DATA SHEET FOR JSA SMLS / HFW : Job LINE
SafetyPIPE WITH EXTERNAL
Analysis
COATING ROW : Right Of Way
Banksman : Person who gives signals
 A-QAC-PLN-000-30000 PROJECT QUALITY CM PLAN : Construction Manger
AFC : Approved For Construction
 B-HSE-PLAN-000-39151 HEALTH & SAFETY QAQCPLAN : Quality Assurance Quality Control
NDT : Non Distractive Test
WT
This method statement has been issued in accordance with the: following
Wall Thickness
documents.
QCP : Quality Control Procedure
4. ABBREVIATION:

CONTRACTOR: PIUL
SUBCONTRACTOR: SARPI
HSE: Health Safety and Environment.
PPE: Personal Protective Equipment
PTW: Permit to Work.
TBT: Tool Box Talk

Ensuring all personnel including Supervisors assigned to carry out

5. RESPONSIBILITIES :
the activities of this activity. follow-up of
Construction Procedure and HSE procedure throughout from the
1) Construction Manager : mobilization to the construction site.

 Planning and acquisition of labor resources

 Determining plant and equipment to be used during location of foreign services
 Ensuring all personnel including Supervisors assigned to carry out the activities of this
Construction Procedure must have been through the HSE mobilization to site.
 Ensuring that location of foreign services is carried out to schedule and in accordance with
quality and safety requirements
Ensuring that location of foreign services / underground utility
is carried out in accordance with the quality procedure and
safety requirements, before the excavation of trench.

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 Collection information /drawings from all service owners to determine service locations
along the pipeline route
 Working closely with the Engineer/Surveyor and Drawing Office to ensure position and
depth of services are recorded
 All drivers and machine operators (sideboom, crane, loader, tipper, roller, grader, etc….)
shall be assessed by SARPI Safety Department spot witnessed by IA Safety Department,
and undergo the Craft qualification and training. Only qualifies competent equipment
operators shall be used. All operators must have a valid operator’s certificate of
competence issued by SARPI Safety Department

2) Quality Manager :

 Ensuring that all Holiday detection & lowering-in of pipelines activities are executed in
accordance with Quality Plans and this construction procedure.

3) Engineer/Surveyor:

 Gathering data of all located foreign services for marking up on the alignment sheets.
 Ensuring any additional engineering or re-routing required with regard to Foreign
Service crossings is carried out. with the approval of company and contractor.
 Ensuring that services crossing the pipeline route are clearly pegged and signposted
with the type, diameter and approximate depth of cover.

4) Lowering-in Preparation Supervisor:

 Ensuring plant and equipment is maintained in good order.

 Ensuring Lowering -in preparation is carried out safely and under the correct condition
 Implementing Method Statements, Work Instructions and Procedures and Drawings
affecting Holiday Detection & Lowering-in of Pipelines.
Pipe book shall approved with all party and should available at site with Sub Contractor-QC.

5) Field Engineer/Surveyor:
Instruct the foreman to work accordance with construction drawings
 Instruction Foreman in accordance with the construction drawings
 Collection As-built information
 Preparing pre-construction documentation/drawings with respect to Holiday Detection
& Lowering-in of Pipe line.
Ensure valid PTW available at site during work in progress.
 The risk assessment and method statement for task will be attached to PTW for
discussion with all personnel concerned.
 The PTW package will be kept readily available at the work site during performing
the job.

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6.0 HSE Requirements:
6) Safety Advisor:  Petrofac permit to work (PTW) system shall be
implemented to control the activities in safe manner for
 Implementing statutory safety regulationsthe onprotection
site of all personnel assets and environment
if required.
 Ensuring all plant and equipment has the relevant certification
 All personnel involved in this operation shall receive
 Implementing the Project Health and Safety
SafetyManual
Inductionandtraining
preparingandsite
job safety
specific. Training
plans.
required
 Carrying out site safety induction courses . for the particular operation in which they will
participate.
 All personnel must understand the method
6. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES: statement and risk assessment.
 TBT with all personnel must be undertaken before
1) GENERAL : starting work activities.
 Equipment operation and Transportation shall be
 Trench inspection and preparation prior to lowering-in
carried out in safe manner controlled by competent
activities.
 Inspection of pipeline coating to identify and repair all damageastoper
banks man/flagman Contractor
coating usingTraffic
Holiday
management plan.
Detection Equipment.  All cranes and lifting equipment, transport
 Lower the pipeline into the prepared trench. equipment, used in operations shall be inspected and
approved by the client as required.
 All lifting slings/hooks lowering belt shall be t color
2) Equipment : code before use in accordance with project
specification.
 Pipe Layers (Side-booms).  Personal shall not be permitted to stand in front of or
 Tractors. under suspended loads.
 Speed limit must be respected at site as per Project
 Light vehicles (4WD Crew-cabs). Guidelines.
 Temperature Gauge  Full PPE shall be worn all time.
 Sideboom and crane operators shall be certified by
 Holiday Detector
3rd party.
 Heating Torch or Induction Coil  Working area shall be maintained good
Water tanker housekeeping and proper access.
 Authorized persons only shall be allowed in lowering
3) Application :
area.
1) Trench Inspection and Préparation :
 Barricades and appropriate signs shall be in place.
 Stop works and evacuation of the site according to
 All timber, sticks, stones, hard clods of earth,the emergency
projecting rocksprocedure
and otherofhard
the project in which
objects, case of
emergency.
might damage the pipe or pipe coating shall beRisk removed from the
assessment bottom
shall take inand sides
place of the to the
according
trench. job.
 Before lowering-in, the trench depth and width shall be checked to ensure that the specified
shall
depth of cover can be maintained, taking account of any bedding that may be required.
 Whenever the bottom of the trench comprises hard rock or hard material, which might
damage the pipe coating, the bottom of the trench shall be bedded with soft material or sand.
A layer of at least 200 mm thick of soft bedding shall be placed in the bottom of the trench so
as to cover all projections in the trench bottom.
 The padding material shall be fine soft material free from sharp stones, perishable matter or
other materials, which could damage the pipe coating.
Approved padding material only shall use for padding.

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Holiday detection shall be performed on each joint. Field joints shall be inspected using a voltage Revision
of 5 kV/ A
mm + 5 kV at a maximum of 25 kV . The travelling speed of the holiday detector shall not exceed 0.3 m/s.
2) Holiday Detection

Only calibrated holiday detector to be employed.

 Holiday Detection shall be carried out on all coated pipe and coated pipe joints. Any
damaged coating, holidays or other defects shall be repaired as detailed below and
retested
 The test voltage shall be set to 15 KV or as advised by the coating manufacturer.
 The equipment which shall be used for holiday detection shall be fitted with a voltage
control and volt meter and provide visual and audible signal to identify faults when
detected.
 The pipeline section to be holiday tested shall be grounded at one end. The electrode
shall not be kept over the holiday longer than is necessary to confirm the fault.
 Holiday detection shall only be carried out in dry weather conditions.
 The detector shall be checked periodically to ensure that it is operating properly.
Purposely making a coating defect (such as a hole made with a knife) and passing the
electrode over the hole or finding a defect visually and passing the electrode over it may
do this. This check shall be made at least once per day or a maximum of 2 times per day.
 The holiday detectors shall be tested and calibrated on a daily basis and operated in
accordance with the manufacturer’s recommended procedure.
 The contact electrode shall be kept clean, and the trailing electrode shall be checked for
damage daily. All electrode word should be change with holiday detector ring.

 All holidays imperfections and damaged areas shall be identified with a

waterproof marker at sufficient distance from the defect to allow surface preparation and
patching to take place without detriment to the adhesion of the coating.

3) Lowering-in Activities:

 This activity shall be read in conjunction of BACKFILLING PROCEDURE

 Lowering-in shall be carried out as soon as practically possible after trench excavation,
once the trench has been checked for depth and inspected. and approved by civil QC
 SARPI shall give IA twenty-four hours (24H) notice of the intention of Lowering-in section
of the welded pipeline.
 Lifting Equipment shall be certified for sufficient capacity and maintained in good
condition.

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 The Lowering-in Foreman shall dire and control the movement of equipment during
lowering, Flagman are used to relay start and stop commands, the holiday detection
supervisor will signal flagman to stop it repair is required.
 During Lowering-in areas of the pipe previously resting on the skid shall be holiday
detected and repaired as necessary.
 Sideboom’s shall be spaced to ensure that overstressing of the pipeline should not occur
during lifting and lowering-in. Three
 The minimum sideboom shall be used on lowering-in activities are two (03) in the case of
16” and 12” but the number of sideboom’s will depend on the dimension, length of the
pipe, etc…
 The first machine shall lift and restrain the pipe section to prevent rolling off the skid
supports while the remainder of the machine lifts the pipe simultaneously. As a section of
the pipe is lifted off the skids holiday detection shall take place of the skid areas.
 Once any repair are completed the tail machine shall jib out in sequence and carefully
lower the pipe onto bedding in the trench bottom, taking care that the pipe does not catch
Touch
the top or sides of the trench.
 When the first pipes are in safely position the tail machine shall move forward to the back
Gap in between of second machine. This sequence continues until the first sideboom can move forward
two sideboom
should maintain and pick up more pipes of the skids to allow Holiday Detection to continue. The tail
safely to avoid machine shall continue to lower more pipes into the trench and process continues
any type of stress
and buckling on until the end of the section is approached. On completion of Holiday Detection all
string.
sideboom including the SARPI machine shall jib out on the foreman's signal and
the lowering-in of section completed. When the pipe strings are installed next to
one another, the pipe section shall overlap to allow for cutting and tie-in welding.
 Pipe fabrication for ditches, road crossing etc. Shall be installed using sideboom
and/or crane. These shall be lifted as one complete fabrication and installation or
threaded in into position.
 In no case shall coated pipe be lowered into the ditch until the ditch is free from
Repeated sentence rock, hard clods, or other objects which could damage the coating & bedded with
soft material to required well prepared depth.
 All tie-ins shall be executed in the trench unless otherwise agreed by client for
special cases.
 Each section to be lowered shall have full clearance for weld NDT & coating
activities during tie-in.

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 No section of a pipeline shall be lowered in to the ditch until approval has been
given by IA representative.
 Side bends and sag bends shall be lowered first wherever possible and backfilled
to serve as anchorage. Side bends shall be placed centrally in the trench, which
may have to be made wide to accommodate this locally. Sag bends shall bear
firmly against the bottom of the trench, and over-bends shall have a minimum bed
Remove
of 200 mm and not more than 300 mm between the bottom of the pipe and bottom
of the trench. Loose ends may be left at an over-bend so that the sag bend may
be lowered and anchored before making the cut and tie-in weld. SARPI to ensure
that the vertical and lateral bends of the lowered section shall fit the dith with
proper vertical and lateral clearance.
 Wide non-abrasive slings belts or cradles shall be used in all lowering operations.
Care shall be taken when removing slings from around the coated pipe after it has
been lowered into the trench.
 Pipeline trench shall be maintained in dry condition during the lowering-in and
subsequent back fill operations.
 Experience Supervisor(s) shall conduct the side boom operation to ensure that:
 During Lowering-in operations, number of required pipe layers and spacing
between each pipe layer shall be controlled in order not to exceed the pipes
allowable hoop stress and the lifting capacity of the pipe layers.
 The lowering-in pipe layer operator shall ensure that the pipeline is not dragged
along the side of the trench while lowering-in.
 The pipe shall be supported by undisturbed soil or compacted material and
bedding except at tie-ins where bell-holes are required and unsupported lengths of
pipe up to 3 m are acceptable.
 The distance between the lowering-in operation and the backfill operation shall not
exceed 1.6 km (1 mile.) unless exception is granted by IA.
 Pipe shall properly conform to the ditch profile. External force shall not be used to
make the pipe conform to the ditch. Pipe not conforming to the ditch shall be
removed and either re-bent or the ditch re-dug to provide the correct profile.
 The Cathodic protection test point locations shall be marked and clearly identified
not to be backfilled until test cables have been installed, inspected, and tested.

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7. SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT :

 All personnel shall undergo applicable safety training and wear appropriate PPE
(Safety Helmets, Gloves, Steel Toed Safety Boots, Safety Glasses, Coveralls,
Face Shields, etc.).
 All vehicles and equipment shall be checked prior work commences on a daily
basis.
 All personnel using vehicles on the project shall comply with Project Policy on use
of Vehicles and shall wear seat belts and comply with applied speed limits.
 Collection and safe disposal of pipeline coating repair material canisters and
wasted application tools. Disposal location as per instruction of client.

8. TEST & INSPECTION

List of Verifying Documents (ITR):

No. ITR No. Description

1 ITR-V-0103A Holiday Test Inspection Report

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ITR No: JI2045-V-0103A
HOLIDAY TEST INSPECTION REPORT

V-0103A
Project No: Record No:
Tag No:
Plant/Unit: Sub-System No:
Drawing No: Rev: Location:

Isometric/line no: Surface to be Tested: Internal/External

Underground Glass Flake Lining

Item Inspected:
Pre-Lowering Final In-Trench KV:
(Tick as applicable) Aboveground  YES  NO
Welds Included Holiday Instrument
Sl. No. Section Accepted Reject Remarks
No.

Company Signature: Applicable Not Applicable

Record Acceptance SARPI QC PIUL QC GIS

Name

Signature

Date
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