Pipeline Inspection and Monitoring Services

Safeguarding your pipeline is critical to maintaining safe operations along your right-of-way. Bolin’s One-Call Activity Monitor (OCAM) program is specially designed to help protect your pipeline from damage, intrusion and vandalism. Whether you’re interested in damage prevention, pipeline inspections, pipeline monitoring, third-party excavation inspection, or pipeline locating, Bolin’s One-Call Activity Monitors can help.

What are One-Call Activity Monitors?

One-Call Activity Monitors are pipeline personnel trained to monitor, inspect, and follow up on third-party excavators performing work in or near the pipeline right-of-way. Bolin One-Call Activity Monitors are trained to work alongside and assist your One-Call technicians to safeguard your pipeline and facilities.

Why is pipeline monitoring important?

• 90% of excavation-related accidents occur along pipeline rights-of-way where they may impact public safety. Even when third-party contractors place a One-Call, they sometimes deviate from their plans. Bolin One-Call Activity Monitors help to protect:
  • the excavator
  • the homeowner
  • the public
  • the environment
  • the pipeline
• Farming activities account for nearly 75% of all excavation-related damages to liquid pipelines. These activities include:
  • drain tile installation
  • deep tilling
  • digging a pond
  • installing fence posts
  • digging wells or septic systems

Having a trusted pipeline monitoring program in place can help prevent this type of damage.

How does Bolin perform pipeline monitoring?

Bolin One-Call Activity Monitors work directly with your One-Call technicians to assure the following activities are being conducted in order to safeguard your pipeline:

• Perform continuous, periodic, or drive-by pipeline monitoring as assigned by your One-Call technician
• Contact the excavator via phone call or in person
• Understand the timing and scope of the excavation activity
• Ensure company guidelines are adhered to
• Conduct public awareness hand-outs and information
• Ensure excavator has an updated One-Call ticket
• Ensure approved surface crossings are used
• Document all observed and conducted activities
• Refresh temporary pipeline markings
• Install permanent line markers
• Weed trim roadsides
• Perform daily reports of each job-site visit using client-provided documentation or Bolin-provided Daily Reports
• Assist in any project closing documentation

The procedures of the Bolin One-Call Activity Monitor conform to the American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice 1166 (Excavation Monitoring and Observation).

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Audit Readiness

Bolin One-Call Activity Monitors can assist you in being PHMSA Audit ready by:

• Weed trimming roadsides
• Weed trimming block valves
• Weed trimming rectifiers
• Repairing and replacing damaged line markers
• Repairing and replacing damaged aerial markers
• Inspecting Do Not Anchor or Dredge river signs
• Painting of vent pipes
• Re-stickering roadside markers
• Inspecting block valves and stations for proper signage

Additional Pipeline Inspection and Monitoring Services

Bolin One-Call Activity Monitors perform other tasks when not actively monitoring third-party excavators:

• Patrol the pipeline searching for excavation activities and encroachments
• Visually inspect waterway crossings and reporting:
  • erosion
  • log jams
  • exposed pipe
  • missing signage
• Inspect – or assist in inspecting – pipeline spans and exposures
• Perform roadside weed trimming
• Replace broken or missing pipeline markers

How do I set up a One-Call Activity Monitor program with Bolin?

Call or email us today to begin your Bolin OCAM program:

Bolin will work with you to establish an OCAM program that meets your pipeline inspection and monitoring needs. We can assign One-Call Activity Monitors from our home location, or hire and train locally to your area.

OQ Certified Monitors

Bolin One-Call Activity Monitors are Operator Qualification (OQ) Trained using National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) curriculum for:

• Abnormal Operating Conditions Field and Gas (AOCFG)
• Backfilling
• Inspect belowground coatings
• Install permanent and temporary line markers
• Inspect surface conditions of the right-of-way
• Locate Pipeline – Pipeline Locating

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