DIS-TRAN has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high-voltage, open-air substations and switchyards since 1965. We emphasize a collaborative approach that's conducive to completing your project done your way, right the first time, every time. At each phase from development through close-out, we deliver innovative designs, efficient material logistics and profitable partnering strategies. We fuse exceptional technical expertise with fast, friendly service standards, so that every project can spark greater success.

The three case studies below are examples of how we strive to make the impossible possible.

Case Study: Pike & Underwood Substation (Pictured)
The largest transmission company in Alberta, Canada wanted to expand the 230kV/138kV Pike Substation as part of the Christina Lake Area Transmission System Development initiative, and they needed a partner fluent in international substation supply. They turned to DIS-TRAN. While the scope of work was typical - the steel structures and everything that attaches to them - the job's location in far northern Alberta, Canada, combined with a winter schedule, created a pressing set of challenges:

• Customs: Since we had to cross the Canadian border, we took a greater role in managing shipments ourselves we even sent trucks directly to a manufacturer to pick up materials!
• Shipping: The job site was so far north, not even FedEx or UPS delivered. For smaller shipments, we found a reliable, independent Canadian shipping broker.
• Winter: With work being completed in a Canadian winter, we had to plan tactically to ensure transportation deliveries would be able to weather the sometimes punishing conditions.
• Standards: Equipment and project standards vary slightly from country to country, so we leveraged our existing network of suppliers, and found a few new ones, to meet every need.

In fact, not only did we get to flex our logistics and project management muscles by running a nearly frictionless project in an incredibly far-flung location, we were also able to forge new relationships and cement existing ones, all while meeting every substation spec down to the nuts and bolts.

Case study: Poker Lake II Substation
Home to a scant 27,000 people - fewer people than would fit into a football stadium - Carlsbad, NM is surrounded by miles and miles of empty, remote land. It's the perfect region for a drilling operation run by our customer (part of the Bass Oil Group), but the area's aging transmission lines required them to power the operation with inefficient and expensive diesel engines. They realized they could unearth significant savings by building an on-site, 115kV/12.47kV outdoor steel substation (and updating the local transmission lines in the process).

They were right: we estimate that for every $1 spent on building the substation, they saved $3 to $6 in annual energy, operations, maintenance and fuel costs over the previous installation.

They asked for the full service experience from DIS-TRAN, so under our EPC arrangement, we coordinated all aspects of the substation design and construction, including overseeing and liaising between the electrical contractor; DIS-TRAN's own engineering, procurement and billing teams; and our customer's staff and stakeholders. We even deployed advanced services to ensure the client and contractors faced few-to-no issues during construction and installation. For example, our on-site inventory services team personally delivered secure Connex containers with all project materials and then tallied and measured all equipment and supplies against project needs.

In short, we delivered end-to-end, top-to-bottom, first-class service that saw the substation energized on time and completed with such rigorous adherence to the intricate design that the staff in Ft. Worth, TX can monitor station performance down to individual relays.

The customer was so pleased they brought us their next project without seeking even a single outside bid!

Case Study: Marigold Substation
Our customer - a gold mine in northern Nevada - had upgraded its enormous power shovel and thus needed to update its 115/24.9kV substation. But with the remote site located deep in the Nevada desert, two hours from the nearest urban center, it was key to keep on-site construction to a bare minimum. By shipping pre-assembled, skid-mounted equipment, DIS-TRAN reduced installation time to days.

The client asked DIS-TRAN to produce the nine requested low-side distribution bays as assembled as possible at delivery. DIS-TRAN's engineers mined their deep expertise and found a solution: dividing the equipment into three different sections, three bays apiece, and mounting each section onto skids for easy transport and installation. The skid-mounted assemblies were kept slim to slide onto standard trucks, split into top-and-bottom halves to undercut height restrictions, and still managed to meet performance specs perfectly.

The trucks arrived on-site Monday morning, and by noon on Tuesday we had the complete low-side distribution section (all nine bays) sitting in place on their foundations. According to our customers - both the mine's owner and their engineering firm - DIS-TRAN struck gold. We've since gone on to do more work for the same contacts from both companies.

Please contact us today to learn how DIS-TRAN can make a DIFFERENCE for you and your next project.

For More Information Contact
DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations
Address:
4725 Highway 28 East
Pineville, LA
USA, 71360
distransubstations.com

Contact:
Hanna Gueringer
Business Development Coordinator
Tel: 318.427.9364
Email: Hanna.Gueringer@Distran.com