Annually, high number of oil and gas pipelines in the country are in need of repair and maintenance which necessitates the use of various efficient methods. Given the country’s many active projects in oil, gas and petrochemical fields, the maintenance of oil and gas pipelines has become one of the main concerns of the oil industry.
However, the conventional and mechanical method such as replacing or welding pipelines have many problems of its own including high costs and difficult and complex operations for installing the pipes which sometimes come with life hazards.
