Welding Automation Equipment
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Automatic Welding:
In the oil and gas industry, pipelines, tank farms and refineries encompass some of the most important installations and pieces of equipment. Moving and storing petroleum products requires specialized equipment that meets stringent standards, and it needs to be consistently inspected and maintained as well.
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Automatic Welding
Nowadays, automatic welding is the leading means of building wide diameter onshore and offshore pipelines, as well as for various diameters in gathering lines and the like.
For smaller diameters, much of the work is performed manually. However, automation of the welding process now finds its application here as well. At the same time, semi-automatic welding is playing a greater role in pipeline repairs, for example, reducing the need for manual welding.
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Combined Technical Approach:
The combined use of automatic, semi-automatic and manual stick electrode welding can be brought together as a combined technical approach which enables uniform high quality and high-speed welding, offering the benefits of lower cost, flexibility and standardization.
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Strategic Partnerships
The highest degree of automation of the welding process is achieved by using: an
internal line–up clamp, which has an onboard welding system to perform the root pass, and external welders, which make the fill and cap passes. All welding is performed using the MIG process. The advantages of organizing automatic welding are many especially in fairly large projects with distances of 50 km or
more to weld and with pipeline diameters of 22″ (558mm) or more.
Throughout the globe, tens of thousands of kilometers of pipelines have been welded onshore and offshore literally from the Arctic to Antarctica using this technology. Welding records that have been set, for example 15 joints per hour on a 48″ (1220 mm) land pipeline, do not truly push the limits of the possibilities of the welding automation system.
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