Pipe Tek is a dedicated pipeline testing firm that presents a direct approach to safety, offering its clients the full package.
In addition to providing its services around Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, Pipe Tek also provides industry-leading pig trains on its projects.
Also known as ‘pig links’, the unique linking concept allows various configurations and adaptations of cups, discs and body links. Due to a flexible polyurethane body link, the pig can pass bend radii as small as one diameter, even when attached to additional link sections.
As a leading cleaning pig, the pig links are suitable for line cleaning and scraping, as well as nitrogen purges, batching and hydrostatic fill, all completed with 360-degree coverage.
In addition to its flexibility and versatility, Pipe Tek says using the pig links also saves the environment by omitting the need to dispose of traditional brush pigs. There are also less passes required during cleaning, saving clients both time and money.
Tailored to client needs
Pipe Tek says its pig links can be built to whatever configuration clients require, including with magnets to collect debris. For alternating needs, the pig links can then be rebuilt by Pipe Tek, or clients can be supplied with rebuild kits to reconfigure the pig themselves.
The pig links range can be tracked with Pipe Tek’s non-intrusive pig sensor (NIPS) units, which are designed to detect a change in magnetic field as the pig runs through a pipeline and under the unit.
Offering Enduro and endurance
In April 2019, Pipe Tek secured an exclusive distribution agreement to supply Enduro’s extensive line of pipeline inspection technologies to the Australian oil and gas industry. In addition to Enduro’s extensive range of cleaning pigs – including pig links – available to assist with internal integrity management of pipelines and the NIPS units, Pipe Tek also offers Enduro’s Digital Flux Logger (DfL) range.
The DfL utilises axial magnetic flux leakage data to provide an assessment of metal loss occurring within a pipeline, including deformation, inertial surveys, internal/external discrimination and residual field data – all taken with a single pass of the inspection tool. Not only does Pipe Tek offer these industry-leading tools, it is also known for its enduring safety record with no near miss incidents, no medically treated incidents and no lost time injuries.
The company says its policy is to always meet health and safety responsibilities and to continually strive to maintain a safe working environment at each location where work activities occur.
“The goal of the health and safety process is the prevention of accidents and injuries, the preservation of equipment and capital, and the achievement of safe working practices,” says Pipe Tek’s Managing Director, Myles Brannelly.
“At Pipe Tek, our safety record speaks for itself.”
This article was featured in the October 2020 edition of The Australian Pipeliner. To view the magazine on your PC, Mac, tablet or mobile device, click here.
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