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ShawCor announces contract to provide pipeline coating services for the Rockies Express Pipeline Project
ShawCor announces contract to provide pipeline coating services for the Rockies Express Pipeline Project.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\n(TSX: SCL.A, SCL.B)\n\nTORONTO, July 24 /CNW/ - ShawCor Ltd. (TSX: SCL.A, SCL.B) today announced\nthat its subsidiaries, Shaw Pipe Protection Limited and ShawCor Pipe\nProtection, LLC, have received a contract from Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. to\nprovide anti-corrosion and internal flow efficiency coatings for a significant\nportion of the Kinder Morgan Rockies Express Pipeline Project, a venture of\nKinder Morgan Energy Partners, Sempra Pipelines and Storage and\nConocoPhillips. Approximately 4.1 million feet (1,230 km) of 42 inch pipe for\nthe initial phase of this project will be coated with fusion bonded epoxy\n(FBE) and SureFlo FEC internal flow efficiency coatings at Shaw Pipe\nProtection's Camrose, Alberta facility and ShawCor Pipe Protection's Portland,\nOregon facility. This large diameter 2,682 km pipeline will transmit natural\ngas from gas fields in Colorado and Wyoming to consumers in the Midwest and\nthe Eastern United States.\nShawCor Pipe Protection's Portland facility is under construction\nadjacent to Oregon Steel Mill's new large diameter pipe manufacturing\nfacility, which is currently nearing completion. This new pipe coating plant\nis designed to apply FBE on pipe up to 60\" in diameter. In addition to FBE,\nthe facility will apply SureFlo FEC internal flow efficiency coatings that are\nused to improve the flow efficiency of natural gas in pipelines.\nShaw Pipe Protections's Camrose facility offers state of the art pipe\ncoating products including FBE and High Performance Composite Coating (HPCC)\nfor pipe up to 48\" in diameter.\n\nShawCor Ltd. is a growth-oriented, global energy services company that\noperates through six divisions which focus on technology-based products and\nservices for the pipeline, pipe services, petrochemical and industrial markets\nwith manufacturing and service facilities located in over twenty countries\nworldwide.\nShaw Pipe Protection and ShawCor Pipe Protection are part of Bredero\nShaw, ShawCor's largest division, which is the global leader in pipe coating\nsolutions and employs approximately 4,000 permanent and contract personnel\nlocated at offices and facilities around the world. The division provides\nspecialized coating systems and related services for corrosion protection,\ninsulation and weight coating applications on land and marine pipelines\nincluding highly ...