What is Steel Casing:
Information About Steel Casing Pipe

Steel casing pipe is also known as encasement pipe as it is most commonly used to enclose or encase underground utility lines. This pipe can be used for horizontal or directional boring under streets, highways, driveways, lakes, rivers, and streams. The most popular use for steel casing pipe is to surround and protect smaller carrier pipes for utilities such as water mains, natural gas lines, electrical lines, and communication lines. Steel casing can also be used in a variety of construction projects. At Crestwood Tubulars, we sell new and used steel casing pipe in a variety of sizes, styles, and diameters, generally starting at 4’ pipe up to 60’ diameter and larger special items.

To learn more about our types of steel casing for sale or to receive a quote for your piping, please contact our steel pipe distribution company.

Types of Steel Casing

Steel casing pipe is a versatile product that can be used to protect a variety of types of utility and carrier pipes. At Crestwood Tubulars, we sell a variety of types and styles of pipe that can be used as steel casing including new and used straight seam steel pipe, spiral weld pipe, seamless steel pipe, and rolled and welded pipe. These steel casings are available in a variety of styles, sizes, diameters, and grades. We are also able to offer steel casing pipe with OD and ID coatings to meet your particular needs.

• Straight Seam Steel Casing Pipe: Straight seam steel casing pipe is so called because the pipe is rolled from strip and formed with one longitudinal weld . This straight seam steel casing pipe is generally manufactured by an Electric Weld or a DSAW type of manufacture. This steel casing pipe is available in a variety of thicknesses and grades depending on your application. This DSAW pipe is formed by first rolling steel plates into cylindrical shapes. The edges of the rolled plate are then shaped so that V-shaped grooves are formed on the interior and exterior surfaces at the location of the seam. The pipe seam is then formed with a single pass of an arc welder on the interior and exterior surfaces and the welding arc is submerged under flux. A main benefit of using this process when making steel casing is that the welds penetrate 100% of the pipe wall and produces a very strong bond. ERW pipe is similar but fused together instead of welded.
• Spiral Welded Steel Casing Pipe: This steel casing pipe is a very durable and economical product that gives your project the long lasting reliability you require. The weld seam on spiral weld pipe is in a spiral around the pipe, said to be like a barberpole style This pipe can be manufactured to meet a specific outer diameter, wall thickness, grade, steel strength, and length.
• Rolled and Welded Steel Casing: Rolled and Welded steel casing pipe is created by rolling and welding larger diameter pipe cylinders from steel plate, and then welding those cylinders into a longer lengths as needed. This rolled and welded steel pipe type of manufacture is generally used to make large diameter steel casing pipe, these are more “specialty” sizes and not made generally in large production capacity. The general size range starts at 30” diameter on up to very large diameter steel casing pipe.

New and Used Steel Casing

At Crestwood Tubulars, we sell both new and used steel casing. New, primary steel casing pipe is provided direct from our mill sources and our inventory locations. This pipe is available in a variety of different grades and is often available with mill test reports or other types of certification to certify strength and durability. Our surplus pipe and used steel pipe is often as durable and reliable as new steel casing. This pipe sold as secondary and reconditioned steel casing has often previously been used for oil and gas pipelines or by utility companies. Used steel line pipe is a great choice for use as steel casing pipe because after cleaning and other reconditioning processes it can provide as less expensive but capable steel casing product to do your job. We can often provide along with used and surplus steel casing pipe a letter of certification that pipe will meet your particular grade or strength requirement. We clean and recondition used pipe resulting in durable steel casing for road bore casing, culvert and tunnel casing, water well casing, utility casing, and drilling casing.

Buy or Sell Steel Casing Pipe

If you are interested in buying steel casing for road bore casing, utility casing, or other construction related steel casing pipe needs, please contact our pipe distributor to find out about our current selection of new and used steel casing pipe or to order primary pipe from our mill sources.

We also buy used steel casing and pipe from utility companies, contractors, and manufacturers, so please contact us with your current pipe offerings.