A full-scale collapse test program for the Blue Stream gas pipeline project was successfully completed at C-FER Technologies. The purpose of the testing was to help resolve limitations on the available collapse design theories for ultra-deepwater pipelines.

Extensive testing resembled that done for the proposed Oman-India gas pipeline project which was completed at C-FER in 1995. Information gathered helped better predict the collapse of pipe under different loading conditions imposed on the it.

The two 24-inch pipelines run 385 km across the Black Sea and are amongst the deepest in the world at depths of up to 2,150 meters. The pipeline links the Beregovaya compressor station near Dzhubga on the Russian shore to a compressor station near the city of Samsun on the Turkish shore.

Contact:Chris Timms, Manager, Design and Construction