STATS Group take on world’s largest diameter subsea pipeline intervention scope

STATS Group take on world’s largest diameter subsea pipeline intervention scope

Pipeline technology specialist STATS Group has been commissioned by UAE-headquartered oil and gas EPC contractor National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), a subsidiary of National Marine Dredging Company, on behalf of a National Operating Company, to provide pipeline isolation, hot tapping and plugging services to the world’s largest diameter subsea pipeline intervention project.

The project is the result of STATS Group’s long-term commitment to support localisation in the Gulf region. The company employs more than 80 people and have facilities in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Muscat, Oman, and Doha, Qatar.

The scope of work will include the hot tapping and double block and bleed isolation of multiple pipelines with diameters ranging from 42” up to 56” in the Middle East region, using STATS SureTap® hot tapping machines and its patented BISEP® technology.

Mark Gault, STATS Group’s General Manager Middle East, said: “We believe this project to be a first in the world. As far as we are aware, there have been no other subsea intervention projects of this complexity or scale that involve subsea isolations on pipelines of 56” diameter.

“We have made a significant product development investment with three new large-diameter hot tapping machines and the associated isolation assets capable of handling this