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PDVSA Pipeline Integrity Assessment Project
Client: PDVSA Gas Anaco (National Oil Company of Venezuela)
TechCorr was contracted by PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.) to perform a baseline assessment on roughly 500 kilometers of production and transmission assets associated with PDVSA Anaco operating division. The pipeline diameters ranged from 2" up to 36" in diameter both buried and above ground. These pipeline transported natural gas between production fields utilized in the gas injection process as a secondary recovery technique when pressurizing oil reservoirs. Failure of these pipelines was estimated to affect over 200,000 barrels of oil production daily as reservoir pressure could not be maintained.