Right of Way Round Table

 

Part of the SGA Operating Conference 2008

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• July 22-24, 2008
• Hyatt Regency Downtown - Atlanta, GA

Chairmen

• Bob Carroll, Manager of Right-of-Way, Atmos Energy (bob.carroll@atmosenergy.com)

• Charles Holmes, Regional Land Manager, Equitable Resources Inc.

 

Contribute to the Discussion 

This is your meeting! Weigh in with the Round Table Chairmen to offer suggested topics for discussion.

 

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Vendor Participation

All of this round table is open to vendors and gas company participants.

 

Discussion Outline

Workforce Planning

• Finding quality people
• Transfer of knowledge
• Retaining 3rd party contractors

• Are contracts binding?
• Retaining clauses
• Recruiting
• Head hunters more active

ROW Clearing

• Best practices
• Lessons learned
• Leak survey
• State parks
• Ohio – tougher state to work in as far as ROW is concerned
  • What you have cleared is what you have
  • You have rested on your rights so due to your un-action, your ROW rights are gone or diminished
  • Ohio Right of Way Bill (http://www.ohiobike.org/rightofway.html)
  • Doug Holley, Nisource - to lead the discussion

ROW Encroachment

• Best practices
• Lessons learned
• Concrete
• Paving

Notification

Training

• How do contractors train their agents?
• The need to partner

Integrity Management Issues

• Discovery of anomalies
• Leads to more digs
• Any new regulation around this?

PIPA (Pipelines and Informed Planning Alliance)

• Committees

• How to protect the pubic
• How to protect the pipeline
• Risk analysis

• API and AOPL re-writing the guidelines
• January 2008 meeting in Washington DC

• Notes: http://www.apga.org/library/PHMSA%20notices/PIPA_Flier_Final.pdf

Shallow Depth Pipelines

• Increased liabilities
• If lands are still cultivated, pipelines need to maintain certain depths
• Who pays for what?

Topics submitted by members of the ROW Interest Group

• How does your Company track unauthorized activity with the ROW (e.g no one-call submitted prior to the start of work) and what is the recording criteria? 

• What types of recourse does your Company take with outside parties where their unauthorized activity is discovered and you must excavate, inspect, and repair coating or make pipe repairs?

 

More Information About this Interest Group

Right of Way Interest Group

 

Questions?

Mike Grubb

Southern Gas Association

mgrubb@southerngas.org

 

 

This page updated: March 14, 2008