Gas and oil - pipeline operation - Import export

During the Nord Stream 2 project several Aerolift lifting solutions were used on multiple locations. It is world’s largest pipeline project. During the project, a pipeline is laid through the Baltic Sea, which will transport natural gas over 1,200 km. From the world’s largest gas reserves in Russia via the most efficient route to consumers in Europe. Over 200.000 pipe segments needed to be handled. Almost all handling movements are carried out by an Aerolift lifting solution!

The Aerolift pipe lifting solutions are applied for many different situations and places. During production, storage, transhipment, and internal transport. For this specific situation we designed a lifting solution to handle bare and coated pipes aboard the ship. The ship, The Amazon, was converted to an ultra-deepwater J-Lay vessel. Our vacuum lifting devices are installed on 4 cargo hold cranes. In tandem mode the cranes will be used to load and unload 24-meter-long pipes in a cargo. The lifting devices are designed to limit deflection of double joint pipes or to handle the entire pipe by vacuum only.

NEMS electrical insulation insert is a one-piece pipe product serves to protect the pipeline from electrochemical corrosion in areas affected by stray currents. Installed -at the boundaries of sections of electrochemical protection of pipelines -on the borders of property plots -at the boundaries of pipeline sections with different types and quality of protective coatings or a significant change in the specific electrical resistance of the soil -for electrical separation of aboveground sections of pipelines with a length of more than 1000 m from underground sections -a method for identifying pipeline sections that are affected by stray currents, as well as inductive AC guidance -at integrated gas and oil treatment plants, booster compressor stations or tank farms Advantages -Withstand heavy mechanical loads -The service life corresponds to the service life of the gas pipeline -Installed on all categories of gas pipelines -Operating temperature +150 C and above