Pipeline rehabilitation is becoming an economic necessity as aging flowlines are required to last longer. Regulatory agencies in North America are also requiring that the pipelines carrying the crude oil, produced water and raw natural gas be more reliable and have fewer leaks. Combine the economic climate and the environmental and safety issues with the increasing cost to inhibit these systems and the need for a maintenance free pipeline corrosion system becomes a requirement for long term operation of corrosive oilfield systems. Polyamide 11 liners are now being used to extend the useful life of production flowlines under more extreme conditions than other liner materials previously used.

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Costs, Water, Materials, Piping, Annulus, Pipelines, Installation, Flanges, Flowlines, Polyamides, High density polyethylene, Risk reduction, Oil
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1997
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