As the 1,768-km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline enters service, key systems will rely on cable glands from Hawke International for safe cable termination in Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous environments. 

Around 50,000 Hawke units are in use on the $3-billion project to export oil from the landlocked Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean and on to world markets. 
The underground pipeline passes from Azerbaijan, through Georgia and on to Turkey.  Electrical systems on the pipeline use lead-sheathed cable for most applications. 
Hawke provides a complete range of cable glands for all cable diameters, from the smallest wiring for instrumentation to the largest power cables.  Climate extremes characterise this region.  The cable glands are therefore built and certified to maintain seal integrity over a temperature range of -60 to +80 which exceeds the actual installed temperature requirements of -40 to +40 Centigrade.
Within the oilfield development, Hawke is responding to different technical challenges.  Electrical cables on the production platforms are mainly flame-retardant types.  Under compression, this material can be subject to cold flow, so that the effectiveness of a cable gland seal may be compromised over time.  To solve this problem, Hawke have developed the Universal, a cable gland that has patent protected components to give controlled and distributed pressure to avoid cold flow.  These glands are also easy to inspect so that the seal integrity can be verified and have deluge protection to cope with extreme weather.