CenterPoint Energy, a provider of electrical service to 2 million businesses and residences in the Houston area is upgrading overhead lines with approximately 10,400' of pipe. CenterPoint hired Houston-based Boyer Inc. to install more than 2 miles of 30" pipe to house 138 kV cables via three individual 8" HDPE and one 4" HDPE conduit lines with a thermally conductive grout fill.
Boyer worked with BAROID IDP in customizing a drilling fluid recipe for lubricating and maintaining the bore hole in the Beaumont clay that was encountered along most of the alignment. The recipe included QUIK MUD® GOLD clay and shale stabilizer, QUIK-TROL® GOLD LV highly dispersible low viscosity filtration control additive, AQUAGEL®viscosifier and Soda Ash alkalinity agent.
The first of two tunneling projects for the Long Island Railroad/Amtrak commenced February 2010 and ended March 2010. The second project started in March 2010 and finished in April 2010.
During the course of this project the following Baroid IDP products were used: BORE-GEL®, DINOMUL®, IDP-502 (BORE-GROUT), N-SEAL™, QUIK-TROL® GOLD, IDP-497 (QUIK-TROL® LVand SODA ASH.
