On the Pipe Line

Increasingly, the ‘Hyperlast Syntactic DW- 512’® coating is the industry’s preferred oil pipeline insulation and protection system.

The last five years has seen 200 kilometres of pipeline coated in the Mexican Gulf with ‘Hyperlast Syntactic DW-512’®. This product from Hyperlast Limited, UK, a polyurethane systems company, has been coated on to over 700 kilometres of pipelines in the world’s principal oil producing regions for the world’s principal producers.

In the Gulf of Mexico, Bredero Shaw selected ‘Hyperlast 2181512’ to insulate developments in several of the Mississippi Canyon Blocks at water depths of 1037 – 1650 metres. A 12” carrier pipe was insulated with 70mm of Bredero Shaw’s Thermoflo® system at their Mobile, Alabama facility, and at another relatively shallow development in this canyon, 12.8 kilometres of pipeline was coated and laid in 366 metres of water using Hyperlast 2851512.

Though still to come on line, Dominion E & P Triton Goldfinger is also located in Mississippi Canyon, in blocks, 728, 771-773. This oil and gas project lies in 1707 metres water depth. The riser is 6.625" in diameter with a wall thickness of 18.26 mm. The 507 joints were insulated by CRP Group Inc. at their Houston facility using Hyperlast's DW-512 / 300 glass syntactic polyurethane elastomer system. FBE was the anti-corrosion coating. The operating temperature is 73.8°C and the design life is 20 years.

Hyperlast works with companies to engineer polyurethane solutions for many diverse applications through the domestic and industrial world.

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July 2005