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CASE STUDY


SEMCO ENERGY CUTS THIRD-PARTY DAMAGES OVER 20% 




RESULTS AT A GLANCE

MINIMUM 21% REDUCTION IN DAMAGES WHERE SEMCO EMPLOYEES INTERVENED BASED ON
URBINT INSIGHTS

OVER 40% FEWER DAMAGES IN 2022 THAN PREVIOUS YEARS IN THE BATTLE CREEK DIVISION

IMPROVED RELATIONSHIPS WITH EXCAVATORS IN THE COMMUNITY

Since 2020, SEMCO Energy has used Urbint solutions to reduce third-party damages
to its pipelines up to 40% in certain territories. With Urbint, SEMCO has
empowered its damage prevention team to target high-risk 811 tickets and adopt a
proactive approach to working with excavators. The partnership has resulted in
fewer damages to utility infrastructure and a stronger relationship with
third-party excavators across Michigan. 


ABOUT SEMCO ENERGY

SEMCO Energy is a regulated public utility providing natural gas and associated
products to over 315,000 homes and businesses across Michigan. A subsidiary of
AltaGas, SEMCO maintains approximately 12,000 miles of pipeline throughout the
southeast, central, western, and northern regions of the state. From 2018 to
2022, SEMCO received an average of over 80,000 tickets per year that notified
the company of intent to dig near its infrastructure.




CHALLENGES

Prior to its work with Urbint, SEMCO Energy assets consistently sustained over
400 damages from third-party excavators each year. Despite the best efforts of
SEMCO to expand awareness of 811 laws and to apply positive response, damage
figures remained persistent.

The company needed a solution that enabled its damage prevention personnel to
target the upcoming excavations most likely to result in damage to its assets. 





SOLUTIONS

In 2020, SEMCO initiated a pilot implementation of Urbint for Damage
Prevention. 

Urbint uses machine learning to determine which 811 tickets are at
disproportionately high risk of causing severe damage to underground
infrastructure. (High-risk excavations are up to five times more likely to
damage infrastructure than average.)

Urbint software analyzes hundreds of risk variables from utilities’ historical
incident data and the Urbint Model of the World — a dynamic representation of
the natural and built environment that includes soil conditions, elevation,
weather, population density, construction, and other factors. By assessing this
information, Urbint is able to spotlight the upcoming excavations likely to
damage a utilities’ most critical assets (and the ones where interventions would
distract from reducing noteworthy damages).

The Urbint solution multiplies the impact of a utility’s damage prevention field
team. By identifying patterns in data that a person cannot, Urbint empowers
damage prevention specialists to concentrate on the most critical projects,
amplifying their capabilities and making them more effective at locate
prioritization, site inspections, and other interventions.




RESULTS

The pilot began in December 2020, after which SEMCO Energy expanded deployment
to all areas of operation. Over the next three years, the utility saw
significant reductions in damages to its underground assets for the first time,
reducing damages 6% year-over-year. 

Certain operating divisions experienced even stronger improvements. SEMCO’s
Battle Creek division saw a 40% decrease in damage in 2022, which company
executives have attributed to use of Urbint for Damage Prevention. Similarly,
the company’s northern division saw a 29% reduction in damages.

SEMCO has also noted a strong improvement in its relationships with third-party
excavators and other contractors since deploying Urbint.

“Sometimes a contractor’s first interaction with us might have been us
responding to a hit and … them getting a bill for the damage,” says Marc Simone,
Vice President of Operations and Engineering at SEMCO Energy. “[Urbint] helps us
get out in front of these. Before there’s a damage… they can put a face to the
company, they get our card, and they get a number to call.”

Yet, SEMCO insists the most significant impact has come from the depth of
professional service the utility receives from Urbint’s customer success team.

“We’re going into our third year with Urbint, and … the responsiveness of
everyone at Urbint has been fantastic,” says Simone.

“That, quite frankly, is worth more to me than the product [by itself]. It’s the
thought process of keeping your mind open, always looking for new ideas.”

“We’re going into our third year with Urbint, and … the responsiveness of
everyone at Urbint has been fantastic.”


Marc Simone


CONCLUSION

Urbint is proud to partner with SEMCO Energy in lowering operational risk to its
critical infrastructure. By combining people, process, and technology, Urbint
and SEMCO are forging a new way forward in preventing damage to utility
pipelines, improving relationships with excavators, and developing approaches
that reduce risk for the company and communities across Michigan.




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