TEAM Designs Customized Expert Solution for Unocal’s Sub-Sea Platform Repairs Project: Blindfolded Engineers Develop and Implement Solution Ahead of Schedule Location: TV Cook Inlet in Alaska TEAM Service: On-Line Leak Sealing and Repair Need and Challenge: Unocal engineers learned about TEAM based on previous experience with TEAM products that have been used on other Unocal facilities in Alaska. The problem discovered on the platform included damage to a ten inch pipeline riser which exits the leg of a production platform about two feet above the seabed. The line, used to transfer natural gas from the platform to the shore, travels down through the middle of the platform, turns and exits the two foot thick platform leg, and terminates at a flange approximately twenty inches outs

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