Below you will find a selection of photographs of typical problems with pipeline coatings...
Blistering of FBE joint field coating
Corrosion under a 3 year old 3 Layer PE coating
Foaming of an FBE coating
Heat shrink failure
Lack of wetting and flow of FBE layer
Under cutting of a stored 3LPP coating
3LPE coating showing loss of adhesion of FBE (1st layer) to steel substrate, before ditching
Voids under the FBE (1st layer) of a 3LPE coating, before ditching
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