Re: Stoppling and Hot-Tapping

<<Hi Paul, I know a company in Aberdeen Scotland called Furmanite have been doing 'hot taps' for the last 15 years.

regards, Derek Littleford >>

Is this the page?

http://www.furmaniteusa.com/services/pipeline.asp

Pretty good basic explanation of how it's done. Some might think that the high heat generated by cutting steel would be dangerous while tapping into potentially flammable process fluid streams.

In all the refineries/mills/process facilities I've visited, hot-tapping/stoppling is regarded as a specialty service, something not to be attempted by the average fitter.

I remember from about 20 years ago watching the procedure done out in a tank farm.

Paul Received on Sun May 20 13:54:00 2001