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Home Services Integrity Management Inspection and Testing Services

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Inspection and testing of your assets is a mandatory part of your integrity management plan. Taken a step further, the right partner will optimize this process to eliminate inefficiencies and improve your confidence in the results.

MECHANICAL INTEGRITY

Timely and accurate inspections allow your facility to operate without incident. Pressure vessel, piping, and tank inspections are performed by field-experience experts. Assessments for Fitness of Service (API 579-1/ASME FFS-1) and a thorough engineering analyses ensures it is ready for start-up.

API 510 Inspection
API 570 Inspection
API 653 Inspection
AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI)
Blisters and HIC/SOHIC Damage
Elevated Temperature Evaluation
Failure Evaluation
Fatigue Analysis
Fracture Analysis

Procedure Development
Fire Damage
General and Localized Corrosion
Inspection Data Management System Services
Nondestructive Examination (NDE) Services
STI SP001 Inspection
Visual Testing (Borescope)
Weld Misalignment and Shell Distortions

IN-LINE INSPECTION (ILI) ENGINEERING

In-line inspection is important to your compliance program and is also a big investment. Ensure that your pipeline inspection program is managed to get the results that you need. Our experts can tailor your inspection to your project requirements.

Above Ground Marker (AGM) Survey
Coordination with Pipeline Survey
Data Correlation
Dig Selection
Dig Staking
Direct Examination of Anomalies
Pig Tracking
Procedure Development

Run Planning
Run Validation
Tool Vendor Selection
Quality Acceptance
Unity Plot Development
Vendor Report Review
Vendor Specifications

DIRECT ASSESSMENT

Balance long-term system integrity with cost-effectiveness. Our engineers evaluate existing data, interpret results, and recommend appropriate actions through each step and iteration in the ongoing assessments.

Confirmatory Direct Assessment (CDA)
External Corrosion Direct Assessment (ECDA)
Internal Corrosion Direct Assessment (ICDA)

Low Stress Reassessment (LSR)
Nondestructive Examination (NDE)
Stress Corrosion Cracking Direct Assessment (SCCDA)

DIRECT EXAMINATION

An accurate assessment of your asset's health is critical in determining the right mitigation. Our nondestructive examination (NDE) technicians provide the experience and testing methods necessary to examine your field excavated pipelines and facilities.

Automated Ultrasonic (AUT) Scanning
Coating Inspection
Creaform Scanning
Liquid Penetrant Testing (PT)
Magnetic Particle Testing (MT)
Microbiological Influenced Corrosion (MIC) Testing
Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing

pH Testing
Pipe-to-Soil Potentials
Shear-Wave Ultrasonic Testing
Soil Resistivity Testing
Ultrasonic Testing
Visual Inspection

PRESSURE TESTING

Ensure that your pipelines meet their Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure (MAOP) or Maximum Operating Pressure (MOP) ratings in your existing pipeline systems and commissioning of new mainline, station, and facility piping.

Commissioning Tests
Hydrostatic Testing
Pneumatic Testing

Integrity Management