Pipeline Hot Tap Solutions

Fairtex Group provides safe, innovative, and effective turnkey hot tap and line stop solutions to meet your unique pipeline needs. Our pipeline solutions, including: 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. We are capable of handling modifications to most piping systems.

Hot tapping or pressure tapping is the method of making a connection to existing piping or vessels without interruption to the system. Hot tapping is also the first procedure in line stopping, where the hole saw is used to make an opening in the pipe, so a line plugging head can be inserted.

Line stopping or line plugging is a means of isolating a piping system and providing a shut of where none exists. This process serves as a control, or temporary valve that can be removed after alterations or valve replacements have been made

Fairtex Group hot tapping services include tapping 1/2" to 102" on natural gas, water, sewage, steam, petroleum products, and chemicals.

Turnkey Industrial Hot Tap Solutions

• Hot Tap Solutions


• Line Stopping


• Subsea Hot Tap and Line Stop


• Hot Tap and Line Stop In-Service Welding Services

• Onshore & offshore pipeline construction


• Well tie-ins


• Subsea pipeline systems


• Hot tap welding & fabrication


• Operating pressure up to 5000 PSI and temperatures up to 700°F


• Total ASME Compliance


• Fittings for 2" through 42" pipe sizes