Wasco Coatings Completes Concrete Weight Coating for Qatargas
Wasco Coatings Middle East QFZ LLC, located in Qatar, and a subsidiary of Wasco Energy Group of Companies, recently celebrated the completion of Concrete Weight Coating (CWC) for the Qatargas NFPS EPCOL Project.
The project entailed coating 22,331 joints (274 km) of 28” and 38” line pipes with coating thicknesses ranging from 40 mm to 150 mm. Guests from Qatargas, Saipem and Qatar Free Zones Authority also celebrated the One Million Man Hours Wasco worked on NFPS EPCOL without a Lost Time Incident; further reinforcing the core value of Wasco, where safety is always a top priority. Wasco commissioned its Qatar CWC plant in November 2021. After successful PQTs, coating began on NFPS EPCOL in January 2022. The next phase of Wasco’s commitment to Qatar Energy’s Tawteen In-Country Value Initiative is the construction and commissioning of an anti-corrosion coating plant, which is planned to be operational by the third quarter of 2023.