Projects

For more than 45 years, Lorneville has been responsible for many major construction, maintenance, turnaround, and fabrication projects across North America. Each member of the Lorneville team holds our company-wide commitment to quality, safety, and workmanship to the highest standard, ensuring your next project—regardless of size or scope—is delivered on time, on budget, and to your satisfaction.   

Lorneville’s expertise extends throughout the Petrochemical, Power Generation, Energy Transition, Pulp and Paper, and Mineral and Mining sectors, and we work with many well-respected industry leaders, including Irving Oil, LNG Canada, and Parkland Refining. Whether you need to extend the life of your existing equipment, refurbish your facilities, or have a new construction project on the horizon, Lorneville can handle your scoping and supply needs.

At Lorneville, our people have the technical knowledge, experience, and professionalism your next project demands. We are proud of our work and the results we’ve achieved for our clients and look forward to tackling new and exciting projects across North America.

JDI Lake Utopia Biomass Boiler Construction

Completed: March 2011

Lorneville was the primary mechanical contractor for the construction of a Wellons 4-Cell 110/140,000 PPH Wood-Fired Boiler System with electrostatic precipitator. Upon completion of civil foundation work, mechanical construction occurred over a period of approximately six months. This included the construction of the boiler building, fuel delivery system, boiler, and electrostatic precipitator. The Biomass boiler was installed to provide plant steam to the adjacent corrugated medium mill.

Irving Oil Refinery Turnaround

Completed: 2016

Lorneville was selected to complete a turnaround project at the Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. The scope of this project consisted of plant maintenance and capital project work, and completion of our work was essential to maintaining the refinery start-up schedule. Through detailed planning and excellent execution, Lorneville successfully managed the project scope and cost while meeting safety and quality objectives. We delivered daily updated cost reporting to the client which highlighted planned and forecasted costs of completion for all scopes.

In addition, our Safety Team worked collaboratively with Irving Oil to develop turnaround-specific KPIs. To monitor these KPIs, the client received a weekly HSE report which documented safety stats, detailed incident reviews, and trend analysis, as well as activity reports on hazard elimination cards, SPA cards, and audit activities.

Lorneville’s scope of work during this project included:

  • Opening, cleaning, inspecting and repairing vessels
  • Numerous piping RIK and small upgrade projects
  • Service support for all PSV and Orbit valves in the plant
  • Inspection assistance and repair work on three hydrogen furnaces
  • Fin Fan and exchanger inspection and reinstatements

Lorneville also provided capital upgrades, such as removing and replacing trays in the splitter column, the metallurgical upgrade of LB piping system (including shop fabrication and in-field installation) and installing a new burner management system piping.

We are extremely proud of our performance on this project and received positive feedback from Irving Oil’s third party readiness consultant.

Tradespeople Working During Irving Oil Refinery Turnaround

Irving Oil Tank Maintenance and Tank Life Extension

2014 – Ongoing

Lorneville was awarded a five-year tank maintenance contract by Irving Oil in order to help achieve safety, reliability, environmental, and tank life extension goals at the Canaport facility and its refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. This ongoing project involves the planning and executing of tank maintenance activities, and Lorneville maintains an onsite workforce averaging over 50 people including:

  • Engineers
  • Project managers
  • Quality, safety, and admin personnel
  • Direct hire tradesmen and a qualified group of subcontractors

Over the past few years, Lorneville has managed the inspection and repairs on over 30 tanks of various services and sizes ranging from 40’ up to 250’ in diameter.

When Lorneville was awarded this project, we were informed by the client there was an ongoing issue with eye injuries, and were asked what we would do differently to address this issue. Lorneville conducted a review of the incidents and implemented a program requiring full face respirators when conducting activities within confined spaces and for all hot work. Based on the success of this program, it was expanded to include all work on-site. Lorneville has not had an eye injury on-site since the implementation of this program.

Aerial View of Tank Farm

Fort Hills Gas Turbine Installation

Completed: February 2017

Lorneville provided the full mechanical services 
for the installation of two new GE 7EA gas turbine packages for Suncor’s Fort Hills cogeneration plant located 80 km North of Fort McMurray, AB.

Lorneville’s scope included installation of the gas turbines, generators, inlet filters, cooling modules, fire suppression system and other associated auxiliary systems along with system lube oil flushing, chemical cleaning, and passivation.

Lorneville was recognized with a Safety Leadership Award from Suncor for our for commitment to safety on this project.

Lorneville Team Receiving Suncor Safety Award

Irving Oil Reactor Head Replacement

In 2015, the Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, underwent one of the largest turnaround projects in the company’s history. This turnaround employed over 2,700 people at its peak.

During this Turnaround, Lorneville’s team was responsible for:

  • Replacing reactor head and cyclones
  • Replacing the R2 catalyst distributor
  • Replacing withdrawal wells lateral rings
  • Installing rough cut cyclone vapor inlet diverters
  • Modifying rough cut dip legs in the reactor
  • Removing and reinstalling structural steel for the head replacement; and more

The replacement of a reactor head is a task that requires a group of riggers with a wide range of expertise. Lorneville’s team provided exceptional work, with Lorneville’s Rigging Foreman, Joel McLaughlin saying, “the lifts went flawlessly and everyone involved can hold their heads high with pride for another job well done by the Boilermakers.”

Irving Reactor Head Replacement

Rock Tenn Paper Mill ESP Refurbishment

In the Spring of 2016, Lorneville was on-site at Rock Tenn Paper Mill in La Tuque, Quebec to perform refurbishment on a two-chambered, four field electrostatic precipitator.

Lorneville’s scope of work included:

  • Replacing all collector plates with a new plate spacing design
  • Replacing all RDEs and high voltage frames
  • Installing new inlet and outlet perforated plates and inlet turning vanes
  • Replacing all vertical anti-sneak baffles
  • Reinstalling and replacing all collector plate and HV wrapper assemblies and components
  • Adding 42 new collector plates and perforated plate wrapper assemblies
Travailleurs au chantier de l’usine de papier Rock Tenn

Tank Construction for Canada’s First Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal

Completed: 2010

Lorneville was awarded a contract for the mechanical fabrication of three 160,000 cubic-meter storage tanks in Canada’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, constructed in Saint John, New Brunswick. Significant expertise was required to construct these tanks, as the inner tank consists of 9% nickel alloy steel which demands advanced welding techniques. To meet construction requirements, Lorneville developed innovative phased-array UT weld inspection procedures in collaboration with the third party inspector. These procedures resulted in a 15% increase in weld productivity over traditional methods.

At its peak, Lorneville employed more than 250 workers on this project. Canada’s first LNG receiving and regasification terminal now supplies up to 1.2 billion cubic feet of clean-burning natural gas per day to Northeastern markets via Emera’s Brunswick Pipeline and its connection with the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline.

Workers Constructing Inner LNG Tank at Canaport LNG

Facility Construction at Vale INCO. Nickel Processing Plant

Completed: 2009

In 2009, Canadian mining company Vale INCO. started the construction of a major processing facility in Long Harbour, Newfoundland, to produce finished nickel product mined from the Voisey’s Bay deposits. Lorneville was responsible for the construction of one of the buildings on site to help house the processing plant. Lorneville’s first endeavour in Newfoundland was a success, and we are now well poised for additional industrial projects being developed in the region.

Nickel Processing Plant at Vale Inco

Point Lepreau Refurbishment Project

Completed: 2012

Lorneville worked with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) on the massive refurbishment project—which included the first of the world’s fleet of CANDU 6 reactors to undergo a refurbishment—at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Power Station in southern New Brunswick. The Point Lepreau Generating Station provides up to 30 per cent of New Brunswick’s electricity and is one of the lowest cost generators on NB Power’s electrical system.

Lorneville was selected to complete this highly-technical work, which included the replacement of all 380 fuel channels, calandria tubes, and feeder pipes, as well as other station maintenance work. We provided labour and equipment for re-tubing, supervision, and other related services for the mechanical portion of the reactor refurbishment. As part of this project, Lorneville developed specialized fabrication and welding techniques. Not only did these techniques allow us to complete our work at Point Lepreau, they also prepared us for other similar projects in the Northeast and around the world.

Tradespeople Working on Point Lepreau Reactor Head Refurbishment
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