Stantec has signed a letter of intent to acquire Calgary-based Cimarron Engineering Ltd, a 290-person engineering consulting company specializing in the development, design, installation, and integrity maintenance of oil and gas pipeline systems and station facilities.

Cimarron’s current projects include TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline between Canada and the U.S. and Enbridge’s Woodland Pipeline in northern Alberta. Since its establishment in 1985, Cimarron has installed more than 9,300 miles of transmission pipelines, 67 mainline transmission compressor packages with more than 1,500,000 horsepower, 1,500 miles of gathering systems, 90 field compressors and 800 well tie-ins. It has also undertaken integrity maintenance, corrosion assessments, in-line inspection analysis, cathodic protection surveys and integrity management systems for more than 25,000 pipelines.

Also, Cimarron has a power division that specializes in the design of medium- to high-voltage electrical systems for utility and oil and gas clients. Services include initial conceptual studies through design completion, cost estimating, procurement and on-site construction, equipment installation and commissioning. The new company will also provide environmental services and geomatics. Cimarron operates offices in Calgary and Edmonton, which will join Stantec’s existing Stantec’s oil and gas and power groups in those cities.

Stantec provides professional consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects. It has experience with projects around the world, delivered buy its 12,000 employees operating out of more than 190 locations in North America and four international offices.