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Construction and engineering challenges included more than 34 major river crossings, about 800 smaller stream crossings, and three major mountain ranges: the Brooks, Alaska and Chugach. Covering more than 1,000 acres, the Valdez Terminal was a massive project that overnight transformed the fishing port of Valdez into a bustling community. At a cost of about $1.4 billion, the terminal was designed with four berths and tankage to hold a total of 9 million barrels of crude oil. Sophisticated equipment to handle oily ballast water and hydrocarbon vapors from tankers was also installed and later upgraded. The first batch of SafEye Open Path Gas Detection systems has been supplied to protect compressor stations.
Nuovo Pignone from Firenze (Italy) installed 12 SafEye Open Path (Line-of-Sight) IR (OPIR) Gas Detection Systems in the Kazakhstan pipeline project. The systems protect the Turbogas station and monitor hydrocarbon leaks.
Russia's Arctic South Shapkino Field The delicate development of the South Shapkino Field in Russia's Nenets Okrug north of the Arctic Circle is to be undertaken by joint venture partners KomiTek and Neste Production (Russia). The two equal partners in the project are themselves owned by Lukoil and Fortum, which are providing the US$ 355 million for the development. Lukoil is Russia's top oil producer that cooperated with the Finish power company Fortum to establish the SeverTEK venture. Draeger supplied 95 UV/IR SharpEye Optical Flame Detectors to local contracting engineer Lukoil and end user ServerTEK. The South Shapkino Field is located about 70 km to the north of the Arctic Circle. It was initially evaluated in 1995 by Elf Aquitaine and then Neste. SeverTek's development plan for South Shapkino includes the drilling of 14 oil production wells, six water injection and two gas injection wells, the construction of a central processing facility, and a 98.5 km pipeline to connect in Kharyaga with KomiTek's Kharyaga-Usinsk export pipeline. The field has proven reserves of 163 million bbl of oil and the entire contract territory contains more than 300 million bbl of recoverable reserves. Pipeline crossings will be installed to allow raindeer
and other migratory animals to move freely.
Uzbekistan is the third largest natural gas producer in the CIS and one of the top ten gas-producing countries in the world. In addition, oil reserves in Uzbekistan are estimated at 600 million barrels, with 171 discovered oil and gas fields in the country. Uzbekistan's crude oil pipeline that brings oil from Omsk, Russia, to Uzbek refineries and carries back crudes and refined products has several compressor stations along its long track. These compressor stations have installed SharpEye UV/IR Optical Flame Detectors that can detect small fires very fast. Pipelines carrying flammable petrochemicals like gasoline, LNG/LPG (Liquefied Natural/Petroleum Gas) pose a major environmental and safety hazard. Liquid spills or fugitive gaseous emissions may go undetected and create hazardous concentrations of flammable/toxic vapors that can become -- if not adequately monitored -- a major safety threat. Compressor stations, where electrical equipment operates at elevated temperatures, pose a major fire/explosion threat that may cause severe damages to the pipeline as well as to the surrounding environment.
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Alyeska's
800-mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, the famous trans-Alaska
pipeline, is a major project, which includes the mainline, pump stations and
Valdez Marine Terminal. 
