Spiecapag receives IPLOCA Environment Award runner-up prize!

We are proud to announce that our Western Australia HDD team has been recognised at the IPLOCA Awards ceremony recently held in Sorrento, Italy.

Represented on stage by John Stuart-Robertson (middle), General Manager of HDI Lucas, Spiecapag’s HDD brand, the team received the Environment Award runner-up prize for contributing to significant fresh water and emissions savings via four construction initiatives:

• Drilling fluid
• Seawater replacement
• Topsoil management
• Hydrotest recycling

Overall, the project team estimated a freshwater saving of 427ML (or 171 Olympic swimming pools), and a reduction of 1,683 tonnes of emissions from transport and production (equivalent to taking 365 cars off the road for a year), for the delivery of 3 landfalls on Barrow Island (WA).

These initiatives not only contributed to run the project smoothly with minimal disturbance to a sensitive environment but also offer new innovative environmental solutions to the HDD Industry.