Brisbane – Saipem has won the 2014 Premier’s Sustainability Award in Australia, for the category Innovation in Sustainable Technologies. The prize, awarded to Saipem for the construction of the Narrows Marine Crossing, is promoted by the Queensland Government’s Department for the Protection of Environmental and Natural Heritage, and is supported by the Queensland University of Technology. The Narrows Marine Crossing is one of the world’s longest trenchless marine pipelines. Saipem was awarded the detailed design, procurement and construction for the project by Santos GLNG in 2011. The pipeline, which is 4.3 kilometers long and 42” wide, will transport the extracted and compressed coal seam gas from gas fields between the town of Roma, in Queensland, and the Arcadia Valley to the Curtis Island LNG processing facility, off Gladstone. The last section of the GLNG pipeline runs across the vast tidal plain known as The Narrows. In order to minimize the environmental impact of pipeline construction activities, Saipem built a 4 meters wide undersea tunnel enabling the pipeline to cross The Narrows without disturbance to the local marine habitat, wildlife and surrounding coastal environment. (9colonne)
