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Offshore cathodic protection survey completed off Ecuador

02/11/2008
Corrintec, a division of Cathelco Ltd., reported Jan. 31 the completion of a cathodic protection (CP) survey on the subsea section of the Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados off Ecuador. The subsea section consists of four pipelines from storage tanks at the Esmeraldas marine terminal to two coupling buoys 7 km offshore: one for use with tankers as large as 150,000 dwt and the other capable of supplying tankers as large as 325,000 dwt. The buoys are in 30-40 m of water. Each of the four pipelines can transport as much as 60,000 bbl/hr.Corrintec, which also surveyed the 500-m landfall section of each pipeline, used the trailing wire method to verify the effectiveness of CP on the subsea sections. ...
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