CeRam-Kote in the Offshore Industry
CeRam-Kote 54® protects expensive and critical service equipment in the most severe enviroments
CeRam-Kote 54® applications in the Offshore Platform Construction Industry include new construction on a Process Barge in Matagorda Bay, Texas and maintenance contracts on three large North Sea semi-submersible platforms in the Oseburg Field. CeRam-Kote 54® is also used on recycled small and medium size platforms for major and independent oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas and Louisiana, and offshore Terengganu process equipment.
- Interference with operations
- Material cost
- Application cost
- Scaffold rigging and de-rigging time
Platform Structures and Equipment
CeRam-Kote 54® is also versatile in its uses on the structure and equipment in all areas of the platform including:
- Structures
- Decks
- Crew Quarters
- Process Piping
- Process Equipment
- Compressors
- Oil Separators - Cranes
- Heliports
- Boat Landings
- Templates
- Jackets
- Blowout Preventers
- Cable Reel Units
- Production Risers
- Guide Tubes
- Subsea Equipment
Cost Effective Solution
On new and recycled platform construction, CeRam-Kote 54®’s major cost advantage comes from labor savings by using CeRam-Kote 54®’s one-coat, two-pass system in contrast to the typically used three-coat systems.
In addition to direct costs in platform maintenance programs, other costs such as equipment rent, offshore transportation, crew room and board can constitute a major portion of the overall cost of a platform maintenance coating program.
CeRam-Kote 54® solves related problems and can provide documented results in related industries.
- Coated over 14,000,000 feet of Oil Country Tubular Goods since 1985.
- Coated vessels and piping, both O.D. and I.D., upstream and downstream in the Oil Industry.
- Coated surfaces which barnacles can not penetrate.
- Coated wear surfaces on the gundeck of a seismic ship.
- Internally coated pipe providing Teflon-like lubricity with efficient fluid flow in hostile working environments.
- Served as shopprimer on a floating storage unit (FSU) deck, doors, hatches, structural elements, winch, fire water system, valves, manifolds, lines, equipment and steel piping. A final coat of CeRam-Kote 54® served as the topcoat upon structural completion. The FSU serves as a holding station for oil in the North Sea.
CeRam-Kote 54® is a thin-film spray applied and air-cured ceramic epoxy coating engineered to provide superior abrasion and corrosion protection.
Due to its superior mechanical properties, ease of application and faster turnaround time, CeRam-Kote 54® is used successfully in the Offshore Platform Industry.
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