Using available maps can assist in the efficiency of the locates, and we use any info available, such as existing pipeline databases, survey maps, site plans, as-builts, or historical locate documentation stored in AbsoMap, our proprietary web-based GIS database.

Industry recognized procedures have been adopted and improved to perform comprehensive investigations of all work areas to find all known and unknown locatable underground facilities, clearly mark those facilities, provide industry leading documentation of the results of the investigation, and spatially store that information instantly in our database for future reference.

Different brands of locators have certain strengths and weaknesses, as do different frequencies in different situations. Flexible, adaptable equipment is critical to competently deal with all the different situations that can arise in the field. That is why we continually try the newest locator technology available to assure that we have the best equipment available on the market.

Our common projects are environmental investigations and reclamations, new pipeline, power cable, or cathodic installations, landscaping and commercial development, new well site construction and reclamations, seismic operations, pipeline integrity investigations, road and access construction – any time there is a mechanical ground disturbance in any industry.

We use map-grade GPS units to gather sub-meter data on the locates we complete.

GPS can be used for many different purposes, including lease boundaries, underground facility mapping, as-built diagrams for commercial sites, area analysis, and environmental impact analysis.

Using our web-based AbsoMap platform to store and access this data, we can use additional data layers to help place our locate results in context with historical locate information, satellite imagery, or provided datasets to help cross-reference our locate results, and provide an above ground context for the underground facilities.

Pipeline analysis for repairs, such as fibreglass inserts in steel flow lines, can help save time and money when major inflection points may be identified before work begins.

Use the Marker Balls or Discs to mark and find:

Even with all the technology used to locate underground facilities, there are still situations that involve un-locatable facilities such as fiberglass flowlines with no tracer wires.

For these situations we can use traceable fiberglass duct rodders. These rodders are designed to be used with standard cable and pipe locating equipment to trace the length of the rod, making locating non-conductive facilities up to 10’ depth now a reasonable and easy task.

The traceable fiberglass rodders have a copper wire in the rod that can be energized with a signal transmitter. The locator detects the frequency, allowing the entire buried utility to be traced and marked from above ground.

Please note that in order to use a rodder for locating non-conductive facilities, we require that one side of the facility is opened up and de-pressurized in order to insert the rodder into the facility.

Our investment into improved office capacity and capability has allowed for expansion of Absolute Data Management, our solution for complete Provincial First Call response management.

Absolute Data Management can be your one-stop for all Provincial First Call locate management needs. We can research and build the dataset for submission to the Provincial First Call center to assure effective notification from the call center by using existing datasets from pipeline registries, survey plans, and land titles. We can create necessary files to submit this data on a customer’s behalf. We can create mutually agreeable response criteria based on proximity to customer owned facilities.

Using these criteria, we complete the response on the customer’s behalf, and arrange for locates when required from our qualified team of locators. All documentation is stored and shared with our clients and the involved parties. Joining the Provincial First Call system helps secure our customer’s underground facility network, and ensuring effective communication with everyone in the dig community helps keep the public safe from the underground hazards our industry creates.