Integrity Products & Supplies Inc.

Published purpose

External stress corrosion cracking on thermally insulated pipelines is a novel and unsolved issue that has caused frequent hydrocarbon spills from pipelines. Very recently, the Alberta Energy regulator issued a bulletin mandating the use of mitigative measures to address this damage. On the other hand, there is no known or commercially available technology that is fully validated and/or meant to address this type of stress corrosion cracking. Integrity products intend to fill this technology gap via understanding this damage mechanism further and validating novel PTFE spacer wrap for stress corrosion cracking mitigation. Findings from the project will help to fill in the knowledge gap and likely expand the market for novel PTFE spacer wrap.