YES JIM MOBERLY ;-) ...   Flexpipe is also known as API 15s Spoolable Composite Pipe. German engineers took the lead in developing it in the 1970's after it was started in the 1960's by a few USA engineers and other foreigners. The French spread it around Europe to Norway while the Germans at Krauss Maffei took the technology to China for mass production of the machinery. Halliburton + Schlumberger produced it exclusively for the majors to use as field-jumpers. 10 years ago FlexSteel Jeff Shorter built a flexpipe factory in Houston,TX but IMHO he made a strategic blunder by not building his factory on mobile barges. Alaska will choke trying to buy all the FlexSteel we need from Texas, the shipping will kill us, partly because the shipping reels must be returned to Houston. I'm OK with tossing some work to FlexSteel, but Alaska and Japan can easily collaborate to build our own flexpipe factories to use here.. Flexpipe comes in many types; gasline, water, sewer, conduit, HVDC-powerpipe.