Magerstdt Michael, Blitz Gunther. Pipe protection for offshore pipeline construction

Pipelines international digest, 2012. — 5 p.Complex and sensitive facilities have to be managed under safe, reliable, and economically feasible conditions. Linepipe – especially that used offshore – is often stored for a long time before use. Protection of these assets from environmental factors, dirt, third-party damage, and theft is important. Pipe also needs to be tracked and identified during the entire logistics process. This article discusses a novel pipe cap system which caters to each of these needs, providing the ability to protect, track, and monitor a pipe.
large numbers of concrete-coated pipes need to be stored near the quayside, and entire shiploads of these pipes need to be ready for shipping at deሓned dates. This means that at the point of load-out, the pipe lengths to be shipped to the laybarge need to be free of defects and corrosion – clean, and free of foreign material on the inside and at the welding cutbacks at the pipe ends. Only a few minutes of handling time per pipe are available in this situation, and therefore the concrete-coated pipes, which may have been stored for between months and years, depending on the volume of the project, need to either be individually cleaned and inspected before load-out, or protected in a way that keeps them clean, corrosion-free.