Hot Tapping

Effective practises to manage and mitigate hazards during hot tapping

Hot tapping can involve various risks and hazards while performing maintenance or repairing of pipelines. This blog discusses various strategies…

4 years ago

Chilled Water Line Isolated Using 16” Single Position Pipe Freezing

Wellube team safely executed qty 2 off 16” Single Position Pipe Freezing to isolate a chilled water line operating at…

4 years ago

48” Hot Tap on Drinking Water Pipeline Successfully Completed with Zero Interruption to Supply

Performed hot tap operation on a 48” ductile iron water pipeline to install new connections.

4 years ago

Hot Tapping 101: The Basics

The whole operation is completed while the line is “live” or in its normal operating conditions.

4 years ago

Gate valve replaced using customised mechanical head in a fire water cement line

Hot tapping and line stopping was performed with a customised mechanical head.

4 years ago

Wellube Successfully Completes 48” Hot Tap on Drinking Water Pipeline

Wellube recently completed a significant hot tapping project for a Government water line distributor.

5 years ago

Hot tapping used to create branch pipeline without shutdown

Wellube completed a 4” branch from a 12” main pipeline using hot tapping without shutdown.

6 years ago

66” water line hot tapped in 36 hours

Successfully performed line stopping and hot tapping on a live 66″ cooling water line.

6 years ago