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

www.jptonline.org/index

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