Despite the warnings on global warming, millions of cubic metres of gas, crude oil and gasoline are consumed each day.
The American usage of the term for petroleum is deliberate – the USA is a major consumer and producer of all these products. Together with Canada, the US consumed 23 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products, and 67 billion litres of natural gas each day in 2006, accounting for 63% of total US energy consumption.
The refineries and processing plants are finding ever greener ways of refining and distributing their products, and consumers are finding ever more efficient ways of restricting their usage, but the fact remains that gas, oil and petroleum are the only cheap, efficient way to produce enough energy for everyone to use. Natural gas and crude oil fields are located a long way from the processing plants and oil refineries, which in turn are located a long way from consumers. Thus, there must be a vast network of pipelines to transport the raw product to the plants, and the refined product to the market place. Pipe fittings and flanges are a necessary part of the process.
However, despite hefty fines and new safety legislation, there are still hundreds of accidents and leakages each year, caused by poor maintenance and cost-cutting methods. Corroded flanges and leaking pipe fittings are not only dangerous and bad for the environment – they’re wasteful, too.
By offering pipe fittings in the latest hyper-resistant alloys at affordable cost, we at Chemopetro can prove that there is a better way to do things.