Kenneth Richardson

Berkshire Hathaway Energy: A multifaceted position for a pipeline rehabilitation project involving 11 miles of 16’’ lift and lay, bringing up to current DOT and PHMSA regulations and standards. Project included the decommissioning and removal of 1958 line coated with an asbestos infused wrap, to which a special focused of care on handling and disposal of its removal was established. Project continued with the lament of new piping traversing through a multitude of areas involving residential, commercial, and municipal entities then concluded with its recommencement of operations.

• As-builts, weld mapping, pipe tally and footage tracking all phases of operations.

• Participated in PHMSA audit with illustration of procedures are followed within industry standards and best practices.

• Interactions with property and landowners ensuring safety of the public.

• Communicating with survey and NDE techs to insure adequate sequence of operations.

Oklahoma Natural Gas: Under minimal supervision, operated as Lead Inspector for residential and commercial new service installs of MDPE & HDPE piping, service kills of removing old services, and rebuilds bringing old lines up to date with new capacity of delivery. This included pre-job walk-throughs, poly & steel line tapping and stopping, UT testing of service mains, pipe to soil testing for cathodics, road bores, service relights, pressure testing, meter and riser installs to final cleanup of service area. Inspected various operations of poly fusion from low pressure to high pressure capacities using methods of side-wall fusion (saddle), butt-fusion (¾’’- 8’’), Electro-fusion (couplers & saddles), mechanical connections (Lycofit & Metfit).

• Role included traveling to multiple sites daily with several contractors throughout the region.

• Daily service log reports and service orders through company apps using locusview and Maximo.

• Regularly meet with contractors, customers, municipalities, and line locate services.

• Validated the contractor OQ’s were up to date and/or qualified for operations being conducted.

XCL Midstream; Operated in expanded capacity which included all aspects of pipeline operations from pre-job to restoration. Inspected single and multi-laid joints of FBE and ARO steel pipe, along with HDPE poly pipe throughout the Appalachian Mountains. This involved clearing, grading, blasting, ditching, stringing, bending, welding, coating, lowering-in, backfilling, tie-ins, anomaly digs, AC mitigation, cathodic protection, test stations, valve sets, bolt-ups, creek crossings, HDD’s, conventional bore, hotline crossings, fabrication, hydrostatic testing, routing.

• Role quickly expanded as a result of advanced abilities within various areas of operations.

• Intergraded Bluebeam redline software for better proficiency of legible and transferable drawings.

• Met with contractors regularly to ensure compliance with safety policy and contract scope of work.

• Adopted the role of routing and surveying for potential ROW projects.

Tasked with improving production methods and ensuring successful maintenance of all equipment occurred in a timely, safe manner. Shifted organizational culture from outsourcing to internal empowerment, allowing in-house teams to re-engineer products to meet client needs.

• Modernized operations through the development of semi-autonomous programs through designing, installing, and fabricating new and existing equipment.

• Designed, Engineered, and implemented vacuum/pressure/atmospheric vessels and manufacturing equipment to fit operational needs and/or to improve processes through in-house fabrication.

• Implemented new safety standards, reducing downtime, loss of production, and reduced incidents by more than 30%.