Augusta announces shipment of eight EFM corrosion monitoring systems to enbridge pipelines

Article Type: Industrial news From: Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Volume 59, Issue 3

Augusta, through its wholly owned subsidiaries FOX-TEK Canada Inc. a developer and manufacturer of patented non-intrusive sensing systems, announced that has shipped the eight Electric Field Mapping (“EFM”) monitoring systems. The eight systems ordered by Enbridge Pipelines, one of North America’s largest liquids pipeline companies, will primarily be used for corrosion monitoring at several locations of interest on some of its key pipeline assets. The eight EFM systems are in addition to the announcement of five EFM systems ordered previously by Enbridge and Shipped in November 2011 and adds to the Corporation’s current fleet of systems utilized by Enbridge on its pipeline network.

“We are pleased that Enbridge Pipelines continues to utilize the Corporation’s monitoring systems for its pipeline assets”, stated Allen Lone, the President of the Corporation. “Enbridge has utilized the systems over the past several years and their continued use of the systems is a testament to the ability of the systems to provide the information necessary for Enbridge to maintain its assets.”