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Saipem opts for Stopaq for Wasit offshore scheme
Berry Plastics’ Corrosion Protection Group said in September that its Stopaq polyisobutylene-based visco elastic field joint coating systems are being used by Saipem to protect Saudi Aramco’s Wasit project. The Wasit project is the
latest in a series of offshore pipeline projects to adopt the technology, according to Frits Doddema, executive vice president and general manager of Berry’s Corrosion Protection Group. The Stopaq system has also been used on 10,000 field joints for the Karan
Offshore Project, 7,380 field joints for the Manifa Project, and 12,000 field joints for the Sanafiyah Project, he said. According to Doddema, the
contracts are the result of more than 15 years of active promotion. “This was not an easy road as ‘soft coatings’ ran counter to conventional wisdom in the coatings industry,” he said. Berry Plastics acquired the
€23m Stopaq business and its manufacturing operation at Standskanaal in the Nether- lands in June. The company said it will integrate the Stopaq
product line with its exsitng Corrosion Protection Group product line, which includes its Polyken coatings and Covalence heat shrinkable materials. “The combination of
STOPAQ with Berry’s existing corrosion protection group will allow for solutions unrivalled by competitors in the market space,” said Tom Salmon, president of Berry’s Engi- neered Materials Division. Doddema said the integra- tion will allow the development of products utilising the best features of all group products. ❙
www.berrycpg.com
Shale prompts CO2 investment
Linde has upgraded its North American CO2 plants at Corpus Christi in Texas and Woodward in Oklahoma to
meet growing demand for the gas from the Midconti- nent and Eagle Ford shale gas regions.
“The use of CO2 in fracturing completions displaces the use of water, reduces formational damage and enhances well production,” said Linde North America
strategic product manager CO2 Lauren Porambo. Linde says CO2 is well suited for enhanced recovery
of hydrocarbons because it is injected in a liquid state and converts to a gaseous stage down-hole, mitigating
formational damage and fluid on formation. €13.7bn Germany-headquartered Linde claims to
be the largest producer of CO2 in North America. ❙
www.linde.com
New guide to nuclear pipe coating selection
ASTM is working on a new guide covering selection of coatings for the repair of buried pipes in the nuclear industry.
ASTM WK36282 – Guide
for selection of coating for repair and rehabilitation of buried pipe coatings for nuclear power plants – is under development by Subcommittee D33.02 and is intended to address the function and types of coatings available and the in-situ factors impacting on selection.
“Many of the coatings on
US nuclear power plant buried piping were applied at least 30 years ago. Since that time, many improve- ments to and innovations in buried pipe coating technology have been made. The proposed standard will assist the user to identify viable options for repair and rehabilitation,” said Jon Cavello, who is vice president of UESI Nuclear Services and chair of the D33.02 subcommittee. ❙
www.astm.org
Trelleborg Offshore inaugurates Brazilian plant
Trelleborg inaugurated its new facility at Macaé in Brazil for manufacturing polymer based products for the deep-sea oil and gas industry late this summer.
8 “Brazil has quickly become
a highly attractive country for us with such growing markets as offshore oil & gas, infra- structure, agriculture, and mining,” according to Peter
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Nilsson, president and CEO of Trelleborg. The new facility will
develop, manufacture and supply high-performance polymer and syntactic
foam-based products for the offshore industry. It includes what is claimed to be the world’s largest hydrostatic pressure testing vessel. ❙
www.trelleborg.com/offshore
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