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There’s a lot in the pipeline
P
ipe manufacturers and suppliers might be facing a real boom in the next few years. Apparently
plans are in place to create about 20 million kilometres of pipelines, a development that is largely fuelled by a hunger for energy. The potential is therefore enormous. Yet a number of large-scale projects still have huge question marks hanging over them, and there is major competition on the market. Nevertheless, there’s a lot in the pipeline in this industry. Europe plays an important role in the planning of pipelines. Its industrial countries are thirsting for gas, so that they can secure the energy supply of businesses
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and households. One megaproject, North Stream, has already been completed. The second and last strand of pipelines through the Baltic Sea, from Russia to Germany, was commissioned in 2012. The two strands, totalling over 1,124 km, have a joint capacity of around 55 billion cubic metres of gas per year. Each of them is composed of about 100,000 pipes.
Pipe manufacturers are jubilant about TAP and TANAP And in fact we can expect to see further lights at the end of the tunnel – or at the end of the pipe – much to the delight of pipe manufacturers and suppliers. For instance, in 2020, when the
Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is due for completion. One of the jubilant winners to receive a major order for TAP is the Salzgitter steel group. The company supplies approximately 270 km of large- diameter pipes with a total tonnage of 170,000 – mainly with a 48” diameter – and around 1,660 pipe bends. The production and delivery of large-diameter pipes by Europipe, a joint venture of the Salzgitter Group and Dillinger Hüttenwerke, is already in progress. Production is set to fi nish in February 2017. TAP will form a Southern European gas corridor through which gas will fl ow from Greece through Albania and the Adriatic to Southern Italy. It has an annual
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capacity of 10 to 20 billion cubic metres. The construction of TAP largely makes sense on account of another pipeline module, the Trans- Anatolian TANAP, which will take natural gas from the Shah Deniz II gas fi eld in Azerbaijan right across Turkey to the EU border, where TAP will take over. TANAP will have a capacity of 16 billion cubic metres. The fi rst gas supplies can start as soon as the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has been connected.
Pipeline monitoring and fi bre-optic cables ABB is supplying pipeline monitoring and safety systems for TANAP, including fi bre-optic cables for data transmission along the pipeline
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