External coatings | Russia
pipeline repair processes, the company will in most cases – as much as 90% - replace damaged sections with new pipe with a factory-applied coating. However, it also carries out some in-fi eld coating repair using both hot and cold application techniques (developed within its own institute). Transneft’s hot applied coating process is very
similar to that used by Gazprom, differing most signifi cantly in not using glass fi bre in the hot applied mastic. Its cold applied method uses a different coating system comprising a bituminous primer, glass fi bre- free mastic tape, non-crosslinked polymer tape with mastic layer, and a fi nal top layer of polymer tape with a butyl rubber adhesive. Last year, the Russian government published a document outlining planned investments in the country’s oil and gas transport infrastructure “Territo- rial planning scheme of the Russian Federation in the fi eld of federal transportation (in terms of pipeline transport)”. It includes gas, oil and petroleum product trunklines, gas condensate pipelines, and gas distribu- tion pipelines on Russian territory (so does not include major cross-border projects such as South Stream). Summing up the projects, the document shows a
potential 15,000km of new gas pipelines could come into operation over the period from 2015 to 2030 (around 1,000km a year on average) while some 4,000km of oil and petroleum product pipelines may begin operation over the period to 2018 (around 800km/year). Pipeline projects in Russia are large and there are
plenty of them. There is also growing investment in repair and replacement of existing pipelines. As a result, suppliers of both factory and fi eld-applied coatings /raw
Russia’s oil and gas pipeline network extends to some 260,000km
materials, as well as girth weld protection systems, can look forward to continuing demand for their products.
About the author: Andrew Chalov is deputy general manager foreign trade at Russian heat shrinkable corrosion protection products manufacturer TIAL. His role at the company includes market research, pricing policy development, international certifi cation, and export sales manage- ment. This article is based on his own analysis of the Russian market. TIAL claims to be one of the largest manufac-
turers of heat shrinkable corrosion protec- tion coatings with a production capacity of 300 tonnes a month. The company’s products carry international certifi cation. Aside from its domestic sales, it supplies to a growing number of export customers.
www.tial.ru
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