Wondering How to Prevent Oil Pipeline Leaks? If your operations rely on oil pipelines, leak prevention is critical. Even world leaders like Canada’s Enbridge, responsible for transporting over 14 billion barrels of crude, focus heavily on minimising risk. Their impressive 99.9993% safe delivery rate highlights how small vulnerabilities can still create big problems. Oil leaks …
Our three-part reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) series concludes with a close-up look at how RCM runs from day to day. You have risks to define and manage, documentation to write, and workmates to keep on-side with good news. If you need a terminology refresher, see Part One-: Assets, systems, context and failure all mean particular things to …
Our reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) series continues with a close-up look at failure. If you’re wondering how we got here, check Part One’s introduction to RCM and how it fits into your organisation. Later, Part Three will talk more about the running of RCM in your company: The risks you face, documenting RCM, and learning as you go. So far …
Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) is a solid conceptual framework for maintenance management. For a start-to-finish rundown, there’s a technical SAE standard and even entire books about RCM. This three-part blog series gives you some smart tips to boost the way RCM works for you: Part One introduces RCM with some terms to learn and a look …
When it comes to wear prevention, the approach that you take will vary from someone else’s. It comes down to the use case for your particular pipeline. If your pipeline is transporting slurry, or tailings, for example, you will have a very different approach from someone whose pipeline is simply carrying water. However, polyethylene pipe …
A question we often get asked How Much Can You Bend HDPE Before It Ruptures? Polyethylene (PE) pipe has several benefits: it’s lightweight, easy to handle, non-corrosive, and resistant to snapping. And if it’s installed correctly, you won’t find yourself with leaking joints. One thing that polyethylene has that other types of pipe don’t have …
Full pipeline replacement from steel to poly pipeline is rarely a capital expenditure that most operators can approve in one go. A phased pipeline upgrade can help replace aging sections without requiring the budget or disruption of a complete replacement project. This guide explains why poly pipe is a practical alternative to steel, the key …
Are you thinking about replacing your existing pipeline with polyethylene? Well, here’s a story that you’ll find useful. It’s a true story. It will show you why maintenance surprises don’t always come from the places you expect. From GRP to Polyethylene, but not because it was planned. In 2018-19, as Australia found herself in the …
Here is why 90-degree elbows, spigot elbows, are putting the performance of your pipeline at risk: they create friction loss, slowing everything down. And turbulence that will wear out your line much faster. Can you have a 90-degree bend in a sewer pipe? You can, but you generally shouldn’t and many Australian water authorities won’t …
As Australia’s specialist supplier of poly fittings and piping systems, we value quality and training. A good joint comes down to a properly trained welder. That’s why at Advanced Piping, we offer comprehensive, nationally accredited poly welding training to lift industry knowledge and best practice in the use of PE pipe and fittings. Whether you’re …
We don’t take chances when it comes to the integrity of storing and packaging our products. At Advanced Piping, we pride ourselves on our product and service standards, all the way down the line to the packaging and delivery. We want to make sure the quality of our products remains the same from the moment …
Shape it, Scrape it, Clamp it, Cool it. Electrofusion welding is a precise process critical in ensuring durable, leak-proof connections in HDPE piping systems. Whether you’re working on pipelines for water distribution, mining, or chemical processing, following a systematic approach is essential. Electrofusion welding offers long-lasting, reliable joints that withstand high pressures and demanding conditions …