Corrosion protection - less defects, more operational safety

Beginning with June 2005, the year of the Distrigaz Nord privatization, new technical approaches started to be implemented. A steel pipeline rehabilitation strategy was initiated according to European and Romanian Norms, as well as western technology, in order to improve the operational safety. Thus, a few important directions were established: replacement or repairing of old steel grids, which are in bad technical condition with polyethylene or steel pipelines and cathodic protection for grids worth to be protected, according to the E.ON Ruhrgas technology. These rehabilitations are performed both by our own and by third party companies. In the near future a complex data base (collected within the framework of the P.I.M.S. activity - pipeline integrity management system) will support this strategy. New leak detection techniques as well as pipeline repairing techniques were also implemented. All these operation and construction activities are improved by new techniques, procedures, equipments and trainings.