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Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

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I am looking for the contact of a vendor to fill the annulus between a pipeline and a steel casing with an inert protective material to displace water.  Crossing still has intact casing vents. Crossing is located in Alberta Canada.

Thanks   

RE: Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

Check with Corrpro

RE: Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

I've thought about this for a while and have heard of melted wax and paraffin being used for this, but I've wondered why either of those would be better than plain old asphalt?  If that would work there are any number of companies that do hot asphalt for roads and it would probably be inexpensive.

David  

RE: Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

Asphalt would not be so inert, depending on what coating you have on the pipe the chemicals in asphalt it could break it down, not to mention toxic chemicals in asphalt. Typically wax is used, a conditioner (corrosion inhibitor) is also added first if there is water in the casing.  

RE: Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

When I started in this business the only coating that was available was Coal-Tar Epoxy, I'm not sure what the exact composition was, but it felt, smelled, and looked like tar.  Some of this stuff has been in the ground for 50 years without external piping failure.  I'm just proposing a REALLY thick version.  

As to water, I have never opened a roadbore casing that was not at least half full of water.  Boots leak over time.  Condensation accumulates.  The pipe stands in water.  Filling the casing with a plastic material to eliminate the space for water to accumulate has always seemed like a really good idea to me.

Wax (both non-petroleum and paraffin) has been used, but I'm pretty sure that wax is not the only material suitable.  Maybe asphalt or tar have some problems that I'm not aware of (I do know that fusion bonded epoxy is inert to asphalt and tar), but I will bet that there is a less expensive way to do this than melting scented designer candles.

David

RE: Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

I like lavender scented pipelines...

RE: Vendor to fill a cased pipeline crossing with an inert material

sand?

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