When pipeline failures are discussed, the conversation often centers on what happens years after installation: corrosion ...

With submarine pipelines increasing in diameter and extending into deeper waters and more difficult environments, design requirements for concrete weight coating often don't meet current needs. The ...

The thickness of concrete coating on a large-diameter offshore pipeline may be up to eight times the wall thickness of its steel pipe, requiring that its effects on the stiffness, stresses, and ...

A strong coating strategy starts with coating specifications. Because many LNG projects involve globally sourced materials, ...

When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a catastrophic explosion and blowout on April 21, 2010, leading to the worst oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, the well's operators ...

Pipeline coating is the engineered application of protective layers to the external and/or internal surfaces of line pipe to control corrosion, resist mechanical damage, improve hydraulic performance, ...

For natural gas pipeline developers hunting for a good deal on a 100-mile section of steel pipe, a recent advertisement claimed to have just what they are looking for. Following the cancelation of the ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Pipe Coatings Market by Type (Thermoplastic Polymer Coatings, Fusion Bonded Epoxy Coatings, Concrete Coatings, Bituminous Coatings), Surface (External Surface, Internal ...

Officials with Canadian oil transport corporation Enbridge on Thursday denied reports that the company's twin, underwater, 64-year-old oil and natural gas pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac are ...

A tip led us to a storage yard holding hundreds of pipeline segments in Blanco. The segments will become the Permian Highway Pipeline. The group fighting the pipeline is concerned the anti-corrosion ...

BOONES MILL, Va. — The developer of the Mountain Valley pipeline now has a clear path to finishing the project. But it also has, literally, tons of aging pipe that has been sitting out in the elements ...

A new coating could prevent methane clathrate clogs and blowouts in oil pipelines, potentially stopping a buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. When the Deepwater Horizon oil ...