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Cenovus Energy – Superior Refinery Rebuild

Project: Refinery Rebuild

Owner: Cenovus Energy

Scope of Work: As a long-time partner for construction and maintenance at Cenovus Energy’s Superior, WI refinery, we were brought onboard at the beginning of the project for civil services and remained on-site for the entire duration of the $1.2 billion project (2020-2023). We were initially awarded a contract for the Outside Battery Limits (OSBL), Power Distribution Center (PDC) Civil Scopes of Work and to provide General Site Services. In 2021 were awarded the Balance of Civil for the remaining project scopes.

We officially mobilized to the site March 23rd, 2020, and that same week pulled crews off-site due to the sudden COVID-19 Pandemic and the project’s need to shut down for a few weeks.  Despite this setting the project back several weeks, our team was safely and productively completed much of our assigned civil scope of work and took on other scopes to help the project overall and to keep it on schedule. We took on the initial material handling/receiving for laydown yards and some of the preliminary site structural steel and piping.  Between March 2020 and June 2021, we completed the following scopes of work:

  • Placed 5,400 cubic yards of concrete
  • Placed 335 tons of reinforcement bar
  • Formed 260 individual piers
  • Hauled about 4,000 tons of excavated soils off-site
  • Hauled in 63,000+ tons of sand, gravel or rock backfill
  • Erected 700+ tons of steel
  • Placed 10,000 LF of piping and made 200+ pipe welds
  • Worked 191,000 craft hours + 15,380 indirects

Services Performed: Civil services included site prep, piling, concrete footings, piers, footings and foundations. Other services included general site services, material receiving, crane support, steel erection, painting/coating, dressing out vessels and pipefitter work.

Project Highlights:  Overall, the project was a huge success for all parties on a number of fronts; safety, communication, productivity, coordination and using innovations to maintain schedule.  Our success was because of a solid working relationship between Lakehead Constructors and the Superior Rebuild Project (SRP) team members.