The field of oil pipeline coating has been revolutionised by visco-elastic coatings, which are an easily applied, environmentally sound and highly flexible solution to pipeline corrosion and sealing. Gurinder Singh Sethi, business director of India and sales for South East Asia at SFL, and Stopaq BVs Dr JF Doddema and Dr D.Cudic provide their expert insight into this versatile technology
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