Hydrostatic Testing
Providing the Most Modern Equipment
Gulf Coast Pipeline has experience, leadership capabilities and the industry’s highest safety standards to assist you with your hydrostatic testing needs. We provide the most modern equipment required to perform the testing processes required by your integrity management plan. Regardless if it’s a fabricated spool piece presented for a burst test at our facility in Dickinson or miles of buried pipeline in your right-of-way set for a DOT compliant test, GCPS has the professional personnel and top quality equipment to perform your test. Upon completion of the test, GCPS can turn all paperwork over to the operating company or inspector, or we can provide PE certifications to your test using our engineering personnel.
Dewatering and Product Displacement
Providing Top Quality
Gulf Coast will provide top quality air compressors (sized to your needs and requirements) for dewatering your pipeline after hydrostatic testing or for de-inventorying your line of product prior to decommissioning or in preparation of maintenance and repair activities. GCPS can provide oil free air compressor spreads capable of up to 5000 psi and instrument quality air. If flammability is a concern, we can also provide nitrogen displacement processes to eliminate the introduction of air into these systems of concern. GCPS can also provide frac tanks to receive dewatering fluids or erosion prevention structures through which these fluids can be discharged back into the environment under certain conditions.
Cleaning and Drying
A Necessity
The removal of water from liquid hydrocarbon lines is essential in assisting with corrosion prevention, and in gas lines, the formation of hydrates is a big concern. Gulf Coast has complete sets of steel (traps, check valves, reducing spools, etc.) to clean and dry any pipeline size. Using either oil free air compressors and dryers or nitrogen service, GCPS can achieve a line cleanliness necessary to obtain dew point temperatures from the standard -40°F for 7-pound gas, all the way to -80°F for the most extreme line requirements.
Pipeline Commissioning
After or During Downtime
Gulf Coast Pipeline Services can commission your pipeline after construction, maintenance, hydrostatic testing, or any other downtime requiring evacuation of the line’s product. GCPS can prepack the line with inert gas, provide, launch, and track commissioning pigs while filling the line with product, as well as manage all aspects of bringing product into the final destination utilizing by-pass systems with frac tanks or flare systems or taking product directly in your tank or vessel.