Re: Hot tap and line stopping in 34 & 42 flare header lines

As always, the first questions will be:

• fluid
• pressure
• temperature
• flowrate
• existing pipe material

Wait a minute - you are planning to hot tap into a flare header? Is it sloped? Does it periodically drain to knockout pots?

I assume that there is a new unit scheduled to come online that has to discharge into the existing header. Why would you need to hot tap in that case. I'm confused.

Paul

abdul aziz vayani wrote:
> Hi Imran
>
> Go through to the article available at following link & I hope that you will
find there answers of all your querries.
>
> <a href="http://ceejpublishing.com/Articles/0009.htm">http://ceejpublishing.com/Articles/0009.htm</a>
>
> Good luck

> Hello Guys
>
> We are planning to hot tap and line stopping in our 34" & 42" flare
> header lines. As the line sizes are too big, our management has concerns
> if this job is doable safely. Please share your experience if you have
> come across hot tapping & specially line stopping in such large diameter
> lines. Moreover, which company do you think is the best in the world to
> perform this job?
Received on Thu Mar 15 02:50:00 2007