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My Experience
As a pipeline engineer at Williams, I got to work on major capital expansion projects ranging from $20 million to over $4 billion. Over the course of my 12 weeks at Williams, I gained exposure to the natural gas industry by traveling to various vendors, facilities, and construction sites across the US to understand the midstream refining process and how pipelines are constructed to transport high pressured natural gas across the country.
To learn about project management and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) process, I assisted the lead engineer on the 7(c) prefiling stage on a half mile high pressure pipeline expansion project. The main project for the summer was to develop a company specification and inspection protocol for welded pipelaying fittings to prevent out of dimension parts; saving the company time and money on future projects. In order to make the inspection checklist easy to use, I taught myself VBA coding to extract information from the purchase order and worksheet tabs automatically populated with ASME b31.8 specification dimensional tolerances. VBA coding allowed me to also automatically flag out of dimension fittings upon the 3rd party inspector's completion of the form.
Skills Developed:
Microsoft Excel & Visual Basics Application (VBA)
Large Capital Project Management
Pipeline Design, Fabrication, and Construction
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 7(c) Process
ASME b31.8 (Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems) Standards
Material Testing: Hydrostatic, Tensile, Charpy V-Notch
Large Diameter Value Actuators
Economic and Logistically Optimized Pipeline Routing
About Williams
The Williams Companies, more commonly known as Williams, is a Fortune 500 midstream company operating over 30,000 miles of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) pipelines in the United States. Williams’ interstate gas pipeline and gathering & processing operations span the country, including strategic assets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, the Rockies, the Pacific Northwest and the Eastern Seaboard.
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