Wagenborg pulls two pipes using 14 mobile telescopic cranes
22 November 2016 by Sotiris KanarisWagenborg pulled two pipes underneath the Twentekanaal, a canal in the Twente region in the Netherlands, using 14 mobile telescopic cranes.
These 410m-long transport pipes are destined for a heating network in the town of Hengelo, which will heat houses and companies in a sustainable way. The hot water flowing through the pipes comes from an AkzoNobel plant in Hengelo.
The project involved directional drilling. Initially a special rig was used to create the drill hole from north to south of the canal, which was then enlarged.
Two steel insulated pipes with a diameter of more than half a metre were then pulled through the borehole by the drilling rig.
The mobile cranes lifted the pipes up to a level of 5m, in order to pull the pipes through the hole underneath the canal at an exact angle. The pipes were pulled underneath the canal at a speed of 100m per hour.
