Australian Hot Taps
Live Pipeline Solutions
Australian Hot Taps connects into pipelines that cannot be shut down. We have clients in every state and territory of Australia, as well as the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, and we regularly fly in and out to reach them.
Australian Hot Taps was established in 1996, and in 1998 became the first company accredited by the Office of Gas Safety, now Energy Safe Victoria, to hot tap and stop off live gas lines.
Not sure whether your line can be tapped live? Call 1800 468 827 with the pipe size, the material and what’s in it, and we’ll tell you.
Established in 1996
Live Tapping for Gas, Chemical or Water
Hot Tapping & Pipe Freezing Completed by Licensed Plumbers
All Australian Hot Taps work completed under Plumbers EBA
First company accredited by the Office of Gas Safety, 1998
Turnkey Solutions
From freeze to finish.
All required plumbing work completed by AHT during the pipe freezing process.We work in all states and the Pacific region
What We Do
Our Services
We're the only Australian hot tap company that can do size-on-size tappings on copper water lines from 50mm to 100mm, fit thermowells and thermometer pockets into water lines, and put live valves into steel water lines from 100mm to 300mm with the EZ2 valve system.
Where the EZ2 system can't be used, we can offer balloon or bag-off isolation instead.
We hot tap steel, stainless, copper, PVC, HDPE, PE, cast iron, ductile iron, cast and ductile cement lined, AC and most other pipeline materials.
We tap into natural gas, coke gas, chilled water, heating hot water, potable water, condenser water, steam, compressed air, chemical, petrochemical and waste product lines.
Every pipeline gets ultrasonic NDT wall thickness testing before we weld or tap it.
What is hot tapping?
A hot tap is a new connection made into a pipeline that is still running. We weld or bolt a fitting to the live line, mount a valve on it, then cut through the valve while the line is under pressure. Nothing gets shut down and nothing gets spilled, and you are left with a valved branch you can use again. It is also the first step in a line stop, where the plug goes in through the same fitting. We do it on gas, water, steam, chemical and process lines, in sizes from 12mm upwards.
More InformationCONTACT US
How to get in touch
Phone
Melbourne
2/33-39 Corporate Boulevard Bayswater VIC 3153
Queensland
8/5 Coghill Drive Currumbin Waters QLD 4223
We work Australia wide from our Melbourne and Gold Coast depots. Most of our work is across New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia, and we regularly fly in and out to reach sites further afield.
Australian Hot Taps has been connecting into live pipelines since 1996, and in 1998 became the first company accredited by the Office of Gas Safety, now Energy Safe Victoria, to hot tap live gas lines. Hot tapping, line stopping, pipe freezing and live valve insertion on gas, water, steam and process lines, Australia wide.