Online Welding

Fairtex Group, a trusted service provider, ensures pipeline safety and world-class flow management through its intervention and integrity services. Online welding, or live-line welding, is an essential component of hot tapping and line stopping operations, contributing to the safety and long-term profitability of pipeline businesses.

Our Online Welding Services Include:

• Project management and engineering


• Procurement and fabrication of structural and piping


• Provision of specialist welding services


• Welding on live operational hydrocarbon lines and multi-flammable products feeding the state’s gas supply.

Fairtex Group delivers safe, innovative, and effective turnkey hot tap and line stop solutions tailored to meet unique pipeline needs. These solutions encompass emergency responses for turn-key bypassing of pipelines, hot tapping pipe, line stopping, pipe freeze, pipe plugging, Prestressed Concrete cylinder pipe taps, and valve installation services, showcasing the capability to handle modifications to various piping systems.

Key Aspects of Hot Tapping and Line Stopping:

Hot Tapping:

• Method of making a connection to existing piping or vessels without interrupting the system.


• First procedure in line stopping, creating an opening in the pipe with a hole saw for inserting a line plugging head.

Line Stopping:

• Means of isolating a piping system and providing a shut-off where none exists.


• Functions as a control or temporary valve that can be removed after alterations or valve replacements.

Fairtex Group's hot tapping services cover a range from 1/2" to 102" on natural gas, water, sewage, steam, petroleum products, and chemicals.

Turnkey Industrial Hot Tap Solutions Include:

• Hot Tap Solutions


• Line Stopping


• Subsea Hot Tap and Line Stop


• Hot Tap and Line Stop In-Service Welding Services

ION PRO Services: Engaging with ION PRO Services taps into the vast experience of the team, covering onshore and offshore pipeline construction, well tie-ins, subsea pipeline systems, hot tap welding and fabrication, operating pressure up to 5000 PSI, temperatures up to 700°F, and total ASME compliance for fittings ranging from 2″ through 42″ pipe sizes.