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Alberta Transportation
Dangerous Goods, Vehicleand
Rail Safety Branch
www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca
Organization
Dangerous Goods, Vehicle and Rail Safety
Branch• Assistant Deputy Minister-------Shaun Hammond
• Executive Director ---------------Terry Wallace
• Director-----------------------------Dennis Boissonnault
• Vehicle Safety
• Rail Safety Manager--------------Bob Clyne
•Rail Safety Officer------------Knut Ohm
• CIC Manager ---------------------John Harpin
• Coordination and Information Center
•Chief Inspector ------------------ Malcolm Mullin
• 6 Provincial Dangerous Goods Inspectors
Organization
Alberta 5 Geographic Regions.
• Grande Prairie ------ Leigh Batty
• Edmonton ----------Jerry Lennox
--------- Trudy Iwanyshyn
• Red Deer------------Jerrod Nasewich
• Calgary -------------Bruce Laidlaw• Calgary -------------Bruce Laidlaw
• Lethbridge-----------Kurt Parks
Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act/Regulationsand
Dangerous Goods Transportation and Handling Act/Regs
• Through a memorandum of understanding between the Federal
Government of Canada and the Provincial Government, Alberta
Dangerous Goods Inspectors enforce all of the Dangerous Goods
Legislations throughout all parts of Alberta.
To promote public safety and protect the environment
Legislations throughout all parts of Alberta.
OperationsPrimary DG Inspector
Responsibilities• Conducting facility inspections on Carriers and Consignors of
dangerous goods.
• Respond to dangerous goods incidents to provide technical
assistance to emergency first responders and emergency response
personnel.
• Conduct investigations of major dangerous goods case files.• Conduct investigations of major dangerous goods case files.
• Participate in joint investigations with various other government
agencies.
• Conduct audits of highway tank facilities.
• Train and designate OHI
• Participate in Joint Force Operations.
• Provide expertise to Alberta Justice or Justice Canada.
• Project work – Lightweight IBC Awareness Project
TDG Enforcement
Supply Enforcement Training and On Highway
Inspector Designations to various enforcement agencies
Officers must be trained specifically in Transportation of
Dangerous Goods to enforce the Legislation.
• Police Officers• Police Officers
•RCMP, EPS, CPS, LPS
•County, Tribal
• By-Law Officers
•Municipalities
• Provincial TDG Inspectors
•CVEB
• Alberta Environment.
• Federal TDG Inspectors.
TDG Enforcement
- Work jointly with On Highway Inspectors conducting
vehicle inspections at Check Stops to identify and
minimize TDG non-compliance.
- Supply technical and enforcement support for all
Transportation of Dangerous Goods within and through
Alberta.
- Provide Alberta Crown Prosecutors with interpretational - Provide Alberta Crown Prosecutors with interpretational
advice and expert testimony in regards to TDG
TDG Emergency Response
Including (but not limited too):
- Hazardous properties of Dangerous Goods
- Emergency Response Guidelines regarding dangerous good
releases
Respond to and Provide Technical Support to First Responders
and Emergency Response Agencies during dangerous goods
incidents
releases
- Special Emergency Response Plans that are required to be
in place and capable of mitigating dangerous good incidents
- In depth knowledge and understanding of the means of
containments used to transport dangerous Goods (safety
devices, offloading capabilities, construction limits)
- Emergency response practices and safety procedures used
regarding various commonly transported dangerous goods
TDG Emergency Response
Including (but not limited too): Derailments on behalf of Transport
Canada upon Request.
Respond to and Provide Technical Support to First Responders
and Emergency Response Agencies during dangerous goods
incidents
Coordination and Information Centre
Permit Precedents
B Permit
DomesticDomesticWater WellWater WellWellheadWellhead
Gravel
Conductor Pipe
Surface CasingSurface Casing
Production CasingProduction Casing
CementCement
Fracturing/Frac’ing –
Process where the reservoir rock is cracked using pressure
and fluids to create a series of fractures in the rock through
which the natural gas/oil will flow to the wellbore
Fracture PropagationFracture Propagation
Base of Groundwater ProtectionBase of Groundwater Protection
Continuation of WellboreContinuation of Wellbore
to Target Zone(s)to Target Zone(s)
Not to scaleNot to scale
Hydraulic Fracturing has a long history and is not something new
First Commercial Frac Job was at Velma, Oklahoma in March of 1949
(Courtesy of Halliburton)
Flowback
Flow of frac fluids back to the wellbore after the
treatment is completed.
•Recycle fluids for re-use
•Store for future disposal
What Has Changed?
Canadian (Alberta) Oil and Gas Industry
354,000,000 Litres of crude per day
= 5000 trailers/B-trains/body jobs
= 23,000L- average capacity of each
= 3 trips per day – on average
167,000 + wells frac’ed in Alberta
7,500 + wells drilled in Alberta in 2011
• 70% of those were drilled horizontally
Basic Hydraulic Fracturing Principles
The size of the hydraulic
fracture (and the amount of
equipment needed on site) will
vary dependent on the
reservoir depth and properties
www.marietta.edu/~petr/images/field/images
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Shale gas or tight gas
reservoirs commonly require
large fracture stimulations in a
multi-stage setting in order to
create complex fractures in the
reservoir
Hydraulic Frac Equipment
Courtesy of Trican
Photo courtesy of CSUR
Site Storage Tanks – K PELSMixed Oilfield Production Fluids – B PELS
Carrier Companies Offering the use of their B Permit Without Consignor Classification
Where We Go From Here
�Currently Alberta has 244 active B permits issued to
Carrier companies
�Additional Federal Permits
• Continue to liaison with industry, associations,
Transport Canada, on highway enforcement agencies, Transport Canada, on highway enforcement agencies,
and emergency first responders.
• Continue to align and focus Permits of Equivalent
Level of Safety for their intended use and enforcement.
• Provide awareness regarding the proper use of these
permits and any possible changes that may be coming.
QUESTIONS?
Dangerous Goods Contact Information
Co-ordination and Information Center
Alberta TransportationDangerous Goods and Rail Safety Branch
Main Floor, Twin Atria Building4999 – 98 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2X3
Tel. Edmonton: (780) 422-9600Tel. Province–wide: 1 (800) 272-9600
Fax: (780) 427-1044
Web Address: http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/(Look under Commercial Operations)
www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca