Environmental Sustainability & Safety

LESS WASTE BY DESIGN

Great design and process engineering strive to improve the effectiveness of solutions while eliminating waste. ODYSEA’S GDLX^TM solution has been reviewed by third-party environmental consultants validating that the efforts to drive waste elimination have been successful and represent an over 50 percent reduction in CO2 equivalents relative to traditional methods of pipeline insulation. Primary reductions come from:

• Single, solid insulation layer removing need for all materials, waste and energy related to adhesives, extra layers of polypropylene and syntactic.
• A direct coating process that is 50 to 75 percent shorter in schedule and completed with a facility footprint that is around 85 percent smaller than that of GSPP / 5-Layer facilities. This significantly reduces the energy intensity of direct and indirect operations along with associated emissions from employees, inspectors, and others that participate in the project.
• Elimination of large batch-to-batch extruder purges, less risk of batch loss, and customized chamfers eliminating cutbacks reduce process waste.

ON-SITE OPERATIONS CAN DRIVE OVER 70 PERCENT GHG REDUCTIONS

ODYSEA’S mobile coating allows for on-site operation or co-location with spoolbases, pipe mills, or offshore operations facilities. In addition to driving local content, this opportunity significantly reduces logistics pain points (costs, customs, weather) for customers and the safety hazards of hundreds of trucks on the road delivering insulated pipe. This approach can increase emissions savings to over 70 percent versus the incumbent solution!