Hot Tapping – Playing a vital in oil exploration industry

In today’s digital environment, technology plays a vital role and makes our lives easy. Recently I came to know about hot tapping technology which is used to manage high pressure lines. With the use of this technology, engineers can easily carry out maintenance work on high-pressure liquid or gas pipes without interrupting the flow. Today, this technology is playing a great role by saving lives of hundreds of people working in the industry by allowing easy management of these lines. 

One of my friends works at an oil rig and he told me about each and every aspect of hot tapping and hot tap connection. It is basically a process in which a live pipe connection is cut without having to turn off of material through it. As we know working on high-pressure lines pose greater risks to worker’s lives, this method has proven to be safe and trustworthy. In addition, there won’t be any kind of interruption to the material passing through; it doesn’t hamper the ongoing work. 

Operations like deep water oil and gas exploration are perfect for hot tapping procedures considering the complexity of the work involved. It is not only useful in repairing lines, but also helpful in blow-outs and other malfunctions. There are numerous cases in the past where this technology played a great role in managing the things greatly.

Carry out maintenance work on running pipelines with pipeline isolation

There are numerous cases when the situations demand for pipeline shutdown such as regular maintenance work or any unexpected accident. People start fretting as soon as the line stops and it hampers lots of activities in turn. If that is the case with you, you can analyze the loss it could do to your operations. In addition, your precious time gets wasted on managing things in another way.

In such cases, pipeline isolation emerges out as a great option. This is done by linestopping or pipefreezing. This is a technical process of acquiring the pipeline isolation in a live pipe, so that you don’t have to stop the operations. In other words, you can continue with your maintenance work without any hassles or loss of time while your operations continue as usual. 

The best part of pipefreezing is that it causes zero disruption to running services and nothing gets wasted at all. In addition, this process can be carried out on almost all the pipelines and materials such as iron, steel, concrete, stainless steel etc. Due to its high usability, this is being used on large basis across many industries. 

Though there are many options available other than this - Stopple, shrink fitting, under pressure drilling and a lot more. Typically one particular process in chosen depending on the situation and the industry. All you need to do is to ensure that you are dealing with a prominent and experienced company that will not allow your work to suffer.