Line stop
Linestopping can be performed on many types of piping materials and for a variety of media such as gas, water, sewage and oil.
Example of a line stop operation >>>
Why use linestopping?
- Service to consumers process industries and sensitive services is maintained.
- Contamination and / or loss of fluid or gas does not occur.
- Toxic or harmful product is not released.
- Fire protection not affected.
- No time wasted draining the systems.
- Personnel are used efficiently on effecting repair.
- Eliminates need for bulk transfer and storage of harmful fluids.
Consider this against the cost of a shut down:-
- Planning and co-ordination of shut down – meetings, schedules, paperwork.
- Notification of consumers or process plant personnel.
- Compensation to customers, loss of goodwill.
- Lost production and therefore profit in process industry.
- Direct labour cost – locate and activate valves.
- Overtime rates for working at "low demand times" normally nights and weekends.
- Drainage, purging and refilling of pipelines.
- Disruption to road work systems by road closures.
By utilising Powers under-pressure techniques work can be performed allowing alteration, relocation, extension, addition, repair, replacement, maintenance, or abandonment of pipework without shutdown or interruption of service to critical processes or consumers.
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