Cost of hot tapping
Cost of hot tapping
(OP)
Have to send an idea of how much it would cost to tap into an existing well head to take off flare gas for use in electrical generation onsite. Any ideas of the cost of such operations and what is involved - not my usual area.HTlofty





RE: Cost of hot tapping
RE: Cost of hot tapping
RE: Cost of hot tapping
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RE: Cost of hot tapping
RE: Cost of hot tapping
"The top of the organisation doesn't listen sufficiently to what the bottom is saying." Tony Hayward X-CEO BP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco
"Being GREEN isn't easy." Kermit
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RE: Cost of hot tapping
Once you put a tubing hanger on a wellhead and hang a few tons of pipe off it, it can get tough to "just" stick in a spool piece. If you are trying to get your fuel gas off a casing hanger that only has a tee (instead of a cross, I saw one like this last month), then there might be hydraulic reasons not to tap into a vent on the piping or hot tap into the piping (the dumb well I saw had a casing wing valve, a threaded companion flange, a 4 inch long 2-inch nipple, a ball valve, another short nipple, into the tee on the downcommer from the tubing--no options for casing gas other than a hot tap into the tee on the wellhead).
Wellheads are pretty specific kit. The OP is not going to get any useful advice without a drawing.
David
RE: Cost of hot tapping
RE: Cost of hot tapping
W/o knowing more, I'd figure somewhere from 25,000 to $100,000
"The top of the organisation doesn't listen sufficiently to what the bottom is saying." Tony Hayward X-CEO BP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco
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RE: Cost of hot tapping
RE: Cost of hot tapping
"The top of the organisation doesn't listen sufficiently to what the bottom is saying." Tony Hayward X-CEO BP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco
"Being GREEN isn't easy." Kermit
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RE: Cost of hot tapping
RE: Cost of hot tapping
"The top of the organisation doesn't listen sufficiently to what the bottom is saying." Tony Hayward X-CEO BP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco
"Being GREEN isn't easy." Kermit
http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com
RE: Cost of hot tapping
RE: Cost of hot tapping
"The top of the organisation doesn't listen sufficiently to what the bottom is saying." Tony Hayward X-CEO BP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco
"Being GREEN isn't easy." Kermit
http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com