Price of piping per foot??
Price of piping per foot??
(OP)
If someone popped into your cube/office/space and asked 'what is the installed price per foot for 500ft of 6" schedule 40 steel pipe insulated, lagged and heat traced, supported and anchored with ~10 elbows, welded construction' what would your response be knowing no more than that. This is just for a ball park number.
rmw
rmw





RE: Price of piping per foot??
A 500 ft job is nearly impossible to estimate with rules of thumb. You need to know what this hour's steel price is, where the job is (mobilization can easily be 25% of the job cost), etc. Your "insulated, lagged and heat traced, supported and anchored" comment sounds like you're inside a plant fence so again, any rules of thumb would be absolutely plant specific.
I recently looked at the records on a job that one client built for $10k/inch-mile and the following week I looked at another clients records and saw a kind of similar job (a bit shorter) that was $85k/inch mile.
David
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Take time to glance up and see my backside leaving your cube. But thanks for the numbers anyway because it does define a range of "ball park" for me which is better than the "ball park" numbers I have in my head from way too many years ago to use now.
Regards,
rmw
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David
RE: Price of piping per foot??
100 x 18.97/1.68 x 500 ft. = US$600,000
This would be for new pipe in an existing chemical plant that has some existing pipe racks, so minimum support would be needed.
Good luck,
Latexman
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RE: Price of piping per foot??
RE: Price of piping per foot??
The $600,000 figure seems too high
His approximate cost is $60,000/500 = $120/ft...and that seems low.
My guess is between $150 and $200 per foot (I also assume carbon steel piping and pipe supports by others)...so...
I say between $75,000 and $100,000...
Anybody else ??
-MJC
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Good luck,
Latexman
RE: Price of piping per foot??
RE: Price of piping per foot??
The number that my most astute client always threw out way back when (late '70's to early '80's) was $100.00/ft and that wasn't heat traced but would have included supports. Based on the material costs alone for other things, I would tend to double that now 30 years later.
Pennpiper where are you when I need you? I looked for something on your site as well.
Thanks for all the contributions and if anyone has anymore to add, jump in.
rmw
RE: Price of piping per foot??
Too many variables to give anything other than a +/- 100% number.
Just the pipe will run you are $35K - if I was forced at gun point, I'd peg it around $250K TIC. Wouldn't argue much with $100K; $600K might raise some "how come" questions.
Greg Lamberson, BS, MBA
Consultant - Upstream Energy
Website: www.oil-gas-consulting.com
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