Thailand's gas line underway: coating a major achievement
Using primarily local personnel and materials, Bredero Price International's Thai pipe-coating plant has prepared some 374 miles of 34 and 28-in. pipe for service in the Gulf of Thailand gas-pipeline project. The enamel-coating shop cleaned, primed and coated all the pipe with coal-tar enamel, glass-fiber mat, felt, and a kraft-paper outer wrap; the cement-coating facility then added a concrete-weight coating to the portion of the pipe earmarked for offshore duty. Scheduled for a 1981 completion, the pipeline will initially carry 250 million CF/day to power-generating plants in Bangpakong and South Bangkok; the volume transported will eventually reach 500 million CF/day when addition offshore production is tied in to the line and an offshore compressor station added.
- OSTI ID:
- 5959328
- Journal Information:
- Pipeline Gas J.; (United States), Journal Name: Pipeline Gas J.; (United States) Vol. 207; ISSN PLGJA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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