THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY Easy to Install | Cost Effective to Deploy | Durable for Decades BlackDiamond® 12" Lamination Repair on Liquids Pipeline in USA PIPE DETAIL Customer: Buckeye Partners Location: USA Pipe Diameter: 12 Design Pressure: 1440 psi MAOP Pipe Contents: Refined products Pipe Defect: Lamination defect in the seam weld DEVELOPMENT A major refined products pipeline operator discovered laminations in the seam weld of a 12 pipe. Additionally, the repair was on a 5% field bend, and therefore a Type B welded sleeve was not an acceptable repair solution. Many miles of pipeline would have to be blocked in and purged in order to cut the line and weld in a fresh section of pipe. The result would be a costly repair with heavy equipment and lots of hot work

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