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CALGARY – With both depressed commodity prices and juggernaut competition from Permian producers continuing to impact the western Canadian oil and gas industry, the push is on to adopt innovation and cutting-edge technology to find new ways to lower costs and compete for investment dollars. One of the largest costs to producers centers on infrastructure development projects, a large portion of which is earthworks construction in particular. Innovation in civil construction technology is proving to be one of the most effective ways to achieve cost reductions and cost certainty. Unfortunately, most infrastructure development companies are still missing the mark on this key opportunity to drastically reduce their project costs and improve their project schedules. The “old school” approach to earthworks construction is still alive and well; surveyors put stakes in the ground with elevation tape on them, earthmover operators use those stakes to guide the removal or addition of dirt, and every week or so a surveyor comes out to evaluate how the project is going. For producers, one readily available and cost-cutting competitive advantage is finding civil earthworks companies who have accepted and adopted real-time, drone collected, data-driven, GPS integrated construction technology, and have paired it with an […]
