Chinese plastic pipe manufacturer China Lesso has launched production at its new Lesso America subsidiary in Corona, California.   Initial production at the newly opened plant involves plumbing and irrigation parts of up to 4” in diameter. Lesso originally set up Lesso America in 2012, when the company started importing components from China. Victor Lin, president... [Read More]

Technip has been awarded an engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning contract by Petronas Carigali for D18 Project. The project covers the procurement and installation of two 8” water injection flexible pipes totalling 9.5km in length. The flexible pipes will connect three fixed jacket platforms which form the existing D18 infrastructure offshore... [Read More]

Global demand for plastic pipes is expected to rise by 6.7% per annum to reach 19.3 billion metres in 2019. The demand increase was forecast in World Plastic Pipe, a new study from The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industry research firm. According to the study, strong growth of construction activity, particularly in the large markets of China and the US, will boost... [Read More]

Northwest Pipe Company, a manufacturer of engineered welded steel pipe products, has announced it is exploring the sale of its remaining energy tubular products (ETP) business. Northwest’s ETP business includes line, structural, and standard pipe, and is located in Atchison, Kansas. The ETP portfolio serves a wide range of markets and its quality-certified pipe and... [Read More]

F.W. Webb has announced a new polypropylene pipe and fitting system for commercial, institutional and industrial needs. The Niron PP-RCT pipe and fitting system is lightweight yet durable, and can be installed in place of copper and steel at a faster installation pace, with less material waste and less overall cost according to the manufacturer. The product complies with... [Read More]

STW Resources Holding, an integrated provider of maintenance and construction of oilfield pipelines, water management, including water processing, desalination, reclamation and remediation, has announced that STW Pipeline has signed a contract with a major midstream pipeline company. The contract is to repair and maintain oil and gas pipelines in the Permian Basin of west... [Read More]

Ceona, SURF contractor with heavy subsea construction capabilities, has secured a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the company's flagship field development vessel, the Ceona Amazon. This will be Ceona's first rigid pipelay project in the Gulf of Mexico for US independent oil & gas operator, Walter Oil & Gas Corporation. The Ceona Amazon will be deployed for the Coelacanth... [Read More]

Technip has announced an investment over four years to modernise its flexible pipe manufacturing plant, Flexi France, in Le Trait, France. Further strengthening Technip's industrial capabilities at the site will reinforce its position in the production of flexible pipes for the development of offshore oil and gas fields. The modernisation plan focuses on the installation... [Read More]

Infrastructure inspection and management firm Pure Technologies has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pure Technologies US, has been selected by the City of Baltimore to lead a multi-year programme to provide services related to the management of large-diameter water transmission pipelines. The programme contract is expected to be for a period of five years for... [Read More]

Save The World Air (STWA), a developer of integrated viscosity reduction and joule heat solutions for the energy industry, has entered into a joint development agreement with Haven Technology Solutions, a research firm specialising in flow regime management technologies for the global energy industry. Testing to be conducted at the Haven flow-loop research facility in... [Read More]

Canadian company C-FER Technologies has opened a new $14 million (€10.9 million) research and testing facility in Edmonton, Alberta, for the development of new oil and gas pipeline technologies. C-FER's new facility features: • A full-scale underground leak simulator for liquid pipelines• One of the world's largest deep water pressure vessels, capable of... [Read More]

Invista, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, has introduced a new nylon polymer pipe designed to withstand harsh oilfield conditions. Raptor nylon pipe, the industry's first nylon 6-6 homogenous single wall line pipe that withstands temperatures up to 93.3⁰C and pressures up to 500 PSI. During the development of the new line pipe, the company's technical team kept corrosive... [Read More]

Flowrox, a specialist in heavy-duty industrial valve, pumps and instrumentation manufacturing and service, is releasing a new instrument to the oil & gas market designed to enhance the monitoring of pipelines and related flow-process equipment affected by paraffin wax and asphaltene depositions. The Flowrox Deposition Watch is a predictive device, as opposed to a reactive... [Read More]

Ryan Herco Flow Solutions, a specialty distributor of flow solutions for mission critical fluids, has completed the acquisition of Barnes Industrial Plastic Piping headquartered in Tampa, Florida, US. Chuck Moyer, CEO of Ryan Herco, stated, 'The combination of the two companies works very well strategically. Barnes has tremendous strength in the Florida contractor marketplace... [Read More]

Floking Pipes will begin manufacturing oriented PVC pipe, to compete with ductile iron pipe, in Chennai, India, in August 2014. It took the company two years to obtain the required licensing to start the plant, according to a spokesperson. The plant will use technology from Spanish molecular oriented PVC pipe maker Molecor Tecnologica. The Indian company has plans to install... [Read More]

Centura Oil, a Minnesota-based waterjet service contractor to the oil, gas and mining industries, has developed a downhole casing and pipe cutting system that can fit inside pipes as small as 2" ID (51mm) and cut multiple layers of grouted casing in a single pass with a 55K PSI (3800 bar) abrasive waterjet. Operable in hazardous environments, Centura Oil's CenJet 90 casing... [Read More]