October 2021, Vol. 248, No. 10
Features
Isolation Enables Operator to Replace, Pressure Test Pipeline
Special to P&GJ T.D. Williamson (TDW) completed its first SmartPlug isolation in offshore Nigeria, working for a major operator through its local partner, Strides Energy & Maritime. Isolating the 165-mile (267-km) natural gas pipeline enabled the safe change-out and leak testing of platform valves without depressurizing the system. This was the latest in a series of 47 SmartPlug operations TDW has provided for the operator since 2001. The companies have worked together all over the globe, including Bangladesh, Brunei, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, the U.K. and the U.S. “The first project in Nigeria, amid th

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