Alberta, Canada
Taiga North KP 48
Heated bitumen line through boreal forest. Four sections where heat tracing has failed or is running hot.
167
ha
Area covered
69
min
Flight time
4
flagged
Anomalies found
44
°C
Hottest reading
Findings
KP 48.2: 300 m section with heat tracing off
KP 49.7: tracing hot spot at 44.0 °C
Two expansion loops with sagging supports
Debrief
Heat-traced lines need both cold and hot faults flagged; the isotherm was set as a band, not a single threshold.
The flight replaced a 2-day line walk through muskeg.
Cold sections matter as much as hot ones on this line. It shows both.
Jennifer Cardinal, facility engineer
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