6-in. flexible TCP Jumper on subsea pallet ready for deployment in deepwater offshore Nigeria.

(Courtesy Airborne Oil & Gas)

Offshore staff

IJMUIDEN, the Netherlands ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions Co. has qualified Airborne Oil & Gas thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) product for applications globally.

Following an assessment of Airbornes qualification test data and track record, ExxonMobil accepted the TCP jumper product for water injection purposes on its various offshore projects.

According to ExxonMobils Krassimir Doynov, senior technical advisor flexibles,umbilicalsand risers: We see potential for the use of TCP as an intrinsically non-corroding andspoolablelightweight pipe that can be used in a range of static and dynamicdeepwaterapplications.

Airbornehas satisfied our criteria for the qualification and design of TCP manufactured from glassfibersandpolyethylene, which enables our upstream affiliates to consider this technology as a potential alternative to existing solutions for projects that use water injection jumpers made ofrigid steel pipe and unbonded flexible pipe.

Henk de BoerPh.D, chief technology officer with Airborne, said:We have built a basis of track record on flowlines and jumpers in water injection, methanol injection, gas lift and hydrocarbon production applications.

Following years of qualification testing, our first product based on carbon fiber and PA12 (nylon) is also qualified, and we are progressing fast with the next material, carbon fiber and PVD.

07/14/2020

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