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摘要

The six-mile subsea pipeline that ties back the Balboa development in East Breaks block 597 to Anadarko's Boomvang spar marked the first deployment of the Thermotite Ultra styrenic alloy insulation system on both the flowline's individual pipe segments and its field joints. Bredero Shaw coated the pipe joints in May 2010 at its Houston area coating plant, shortly after Apache announced its plans to acquire Mariner Energy and its deepwater assets, including Balboa. Nearly 700 field joints were coated by Bredero Shaw FJS at Helix Energy Solutions Group's spoolbase in Ingleside, Texas, over a two-week period last July. The event also marked something more significant: the introduction of new technology to a segment of the oil & gas industry where innovation occurs 'incrementally', recalls Bredero Shaw FJS sales manager Vlad Popovici.