Hard rubber. Tough cusomers. Texas Chemical Plant Imagine 300 feet of one-inch pipe, plugged with a hard rubber material, complete with four 90° and two 45° turns. You can’t take anything apart and all you have is a hydroblaser. This was the challenge faced by a Texas chemical facility. Hydroblasing with a fex lance at 20,000 PSI had extracted only fve feet before hitting a brick wall. Getting our name from a cusomer in Lake Charles, Louisiana, they gave Hydrokinetics a call. Upon our arrival, plant workers were skeptical. A few derisively told us we were wasing our time. We had the pipe completely cleared in jus a few minutes. Set-up to rig-down took 45 minutes total. Our skeptics were shocked. Not surprisingly, they found additional pipe for us to clean—nearly 2,000 feet of it, with mult

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