Success Story Steel-Reinforced Pipeline Installation Saves E&P Company USD 50 Million The Challenge In the wake of Hurricane Ingrid’s torrential downpours in 2013, a series of devastating mudslides in the remote and mountainous region of Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, washed out two essential pipelines belonging to the refinery division of a major oil and gas exploration and production company. One of these lines was a 14-inch carbon steel pipeline that conveyed 80,000 barrels of gasoline per day, providing half the daily amount consumed by Mexico City’s 20 million residents. The other line was a 24-inch carbon steel pipeline that supplied 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the company’s refinery network, which was regularly processing 482,000 barrels of crude daily. With these two li

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