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Paul Waanders, Maats, the Netherlands,
addresses the management and
maintenance issues faced by pipeline
construction companies regarding
their fleets of basic and specialised
equipment.
A
s opposed to general construction equipment,
specialised pipeline construction equipment
is not widely available. With increasingly large
pipeline construction projects and a fluctuating
market, maintaining a fleet of specialised equipment for
pipeline construction is becoming a true challenge.
Over the last few years, the global pipeline industry
has been dominated by some of the largest onshore (and
offshore) construction projects in history. Projects like
TANAP, TAP, the Power of Siberia pipeline, and the East-
West pipelines in China are just a few of the large diameter
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