Thanks for the reply Little Inch! much appreciated.
There's a wide variety of non metallics nowadays and one or more types might be suitable. It could be a bonded flexible type pipe with thermoplastic liner / GRE outer or fully GRE.
It may be a case of back checking the pipe design with the...
If non-metallic pipe is used for a buried pipeline as opposed to carbon steel does the location class design factor apply. If i'm in a class 1 div II area with 0.72 design factor how could this apply to the non-metallic pipe design? might it just be a factor on rating i.e. pipe pressure rating...
Interesting. Thanks for your response.
31.8 does say 'does not apply to... wellhead assemblies, including control valves, flow lines between wellhead and trap or separator, offshore platform production facility piping, or casing and
tubing in gas or oil wells' but I took that as well head...
Our flowlines from the well head to processing plant contain well fluids which is a mixture of oil and gas though mostly oil. Can anyone advise if flowlines always need to be designed to ASME 31.8 to account for the gas content or if there is a fractional gas content cut off that allows use of...
