Integrity Management
Integrity management is a general term, but ask 100 people what they think it means, you will get 100 different answers.
A holistic approach to integrity management, combined with engineering skills from carefully selected partners gives you the answers to your challenges, reduces the risk and gives a licence to operate.
Specialised in storage tank facilities and pipelines.
Pipeline Inspection & Services
Inspection of pipelines is not as simples as many people think. Accessible pipelines can be inspected from the outside, while most underground, offshore pipelines needs to be inspected from the inside.
- What inspection technology must be used to detect and size our defects properly?
- How to get the inspection tool in the
- Is cleaning required, and what methods are the best
- How to prepare tender documents, and which contractor can be invited.
- Dig-up verifications, data correlations, defect assesment, corrosions growth determinations can be executed in house.
We can help you to make the right choices and to obtain your licence to operate.
NDO & Inspection Consulting
For more than 30 years of experience in the Non Destructive Testing. Starting within Shell Research & development department to develop procedures to inspect difficult to inspect objects. Evaluated all contractors who offers pipeline inspection services at that time and became a recognised expert in the NDO-Ultrasonic inspection technology.
As a recognised knowledge expert, recently started as a trainee for the Council for Accreditation. For mayor investment companies, the expertise is required to execute Technical Due diligence’s.
Storage Tanks Inspection
Nowadays, a new philosophy is coming up. No people are allowed to enter storage tanks anymore. No-man entry is the keyword for the next decades, and robots are developed to inspect these kind of storage tanks.
- How to use these robots in a safe manner?
- What technology is used?
- Is the coverage of the tools enough to obtain my licence to operate?
- Are the results in line with the EEMUA/ API codes?
We can help you through this process, and together with selected partners we can give you the right answers and the licence to operate.
Non-Piggable Specialist
The history of pipeline pigging is interesting and it is reported that the first pigging operation took place in the year of 1870.
At the time the pipelines were laid, pigging and inspection services were not taken into consideration. Pipes were laid to transport the product and how the pipeline was constructed for maintenance was of minor importance. This meant that the majority of these older pipelines were built without launching/receiving facilities, consisting of varying diameters, mitred bends etc. etc. which make normal pigging techniques impossible.
We observed that most problems occur in these relative short pipelines. In addition the ownership of these pipelines are not clearly defined and a lack of responsibility is observed. This implies that the integrity program for these pipelines has been seen of less importance than the larger/longer transfer pipelines.
We can help you in choosing the right strategy to determine on a cost effective way the integrity of these so called “non-piggable”pipelines.