The Australian Pipeliner

Vermeer has been confirmed as a Gold Sponsor of International No-Dig Auckland, strengthening the global HDD leader’s commitment to supporting the trenchless industry across Australia and New Zealand.

Conventional Energy Resources is helping pipeline owners move into execution with greater certainty around cost, schedule, and constructability. For more than three decades, Angus McTavish has worked across some of the most demanding pipeline environments. Across Australia, South East Asia, Azerbaijan and Papua New Guinea, his career has centred on one recurring lesson: project outcomes are often shaped long before construction begins.

The upcoming AGPA Convention provides an opportune moment for Henkel to demonstrate its vast range of product capabilities some of which have been recently integrated as part of long-term strategic expansion. As a corporate parent, Henkel is on a mission to establish itself as a genuine provider of solutions across multiple pipeline industry segments.

PSSS continues to strengthen its national footprint, delivering a comprehensive pipeline offering backed by experienced leadership. Piping Specialty Supply Service (PSSS) is expanding its footprint in robust markets where its key clients operate. Western Australia, where the company opened a new branch last year in the Perth suburb of Welshpool, is one. The expansion is important to its long-term plans in the state and includes the hiring of new salespeople and administrative support.

Rebecca Senior, a senior engineer at ROSEN Group, discusses identifying, prioritising, and assessing threats to pipeline integrity. Geohazard management is shifting toward a more decision-focused discipline, where understanding pipeline response and prioritising risk are becoming as important as identifying hazards. Geohazards have long been recognised as a key threat to pipeline systems, particularly across diverse and often challenging terrains.

The Vermeer D130SG2 is engineered to meet the growing demands of Australia’s large-scale pipeline and trenchless construction projects. As Australia’s pipeline sector continues to expand across gas, water and energy infrastructure, contractors are increasingly relying on high-capacity horizontal directional drilling rigs capable of delivering both power and consistency.

Bailey Fletcher is the first Austrack Equipment graduate of Komatsu Academy. In the heavy equipment hire business, success depends on having the depth and range of machinery that modern pipelining and civil construction projects require – and building that capability demands a substantial investment. At Austrack Equipment, that investment is easy to see.

As natural gas infrastructure expands to meet growing global energy demand, operators face increasing pressure to demonstrate not only production capacity, but also emissions performance across the full value chain. In Australia, new production developments, midstream infrastructure, and LNG export capacity are helping position the country to serve growing energy demand throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Pipe Tek was recently engaged by Unitywater to complete the cleaning, testing and commissioning of an important new 10km watermain constructed to support population growth on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. In 2025, Unitywater commenced commissioning of a new pipeline in Mount Coolum, connecting existing water infrastructure on the western side of the Sunshine Motorway to the Peregian Springs water reservoir to the north.

Sonia Frémont, Rolf Gunnar Lie, and Joe Buttigieg from TDW discuss the evolution of polyethylene pipeline isolation. Polyethylene (PE) pipelines are essential to modern gas and hydrogen distribution networks. For decades, the squeeze-off method has been the standard for isolating PE pipes during maintenance or branching. While effective when performed correctly, this technique depends heavily on human precision.