Facilities Piping Management Programs
WHY PIPING PROGRAMS? Piping Leaks? Piping Failures? Losing Revenue and Time? Acuren has piping programs specifically tailored to address your above-ground facility piping program needs.
Facility Piping Management Programs
- Experienced Engineers and API inspectors develop piping management programs to ensure regulatory and insurance compliance
- Obtain missing key information (Isometrics, P&ID’s, PFD’s) that prevents you from executing your piping program
- Assess as standalone or integrated program:
- Small bore piping
- Dead Legs
- Structural supports
- Flange inspections
- High Energy Piping
- Corrosion Under Insulation
- Corrosion Under Pipe Supports
- Buried piping systems
- Pipeline Integrity Support
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PIPING STATISTICS
- Acuren has found 25% of all of the failures we see are result of process piping failures
- The average refining facility has 2-10 process piping failures annually
- An effective piping program will reduce your likelihood and incidence of piping failures
NDE Methods For Piping Inspection
Acuren knows where to look for the relevant damage mechanisms utilizing the latest technologies:
- Moisture Detection Imaging (MDI) – Compton Backscatter
- Radiographic methods: Real Time Radiography (RTR), Computed Radiography (CR), Digital Radiography (DR), traditional
- Advanced Ultrasonic Inspections (PAUT, TOFD, AUT, Guided Wave (GUL), flange scanning)
- Infrared Thermography (IR)
- Laser Scanning and mapping
- Ultrasonic Thickness (UT) measurements
- Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC)
- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
- HawkEye External Corrosion Screening Tool
- Indirect inspections of facility piping (CIPS, ACVG, DCVG, ACCA)
- Locate areas with coating anomalies and deficient CP
- Other traditional NDE methods
Engineering
- Perform failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
- Develop integrity operating windows (IOW’s)
- Create and implement Risk Based Inspection (RBI) programs
- Perform equipment failure analysis
- Fitness for service assessments (API 579)
- Piping Stress and finite elemental analysis (FEA)
- Pipeline Integrity Engineering Services
Cathodic Protection
Cathodic Protection (CP) services for buried piping. Click here for full list of CP Services.
- Hawkeye External Corrosion Screening Tool
- Indirect inspections of facility piping:
- Close Interval Potential Survey (CIPS)
- Alternating Current Voltage Gradient (ACVG)
- Direct Current Voltage Gradient (DCVG)
- Alternating Current, Current Attenuation (ACCA)
- Locate areas with coating anomalies and deficient CP
- Ground penetrating radar (GPR)
Rope Access & Industrial Solutions
Rope Access Methods:
- Where scaffold or other means of access are not practical, Acuren can utilize rope access means to assess CUI (eg. modular piping, towers, stacks)
- All inspection and NDE and industrial services can be provided from ropes
Industrial Services:
- Journeyman Insulators
- Insulation removal/repairs
- Insulation installation
- Asbestos abatement
- CML ports installed
- Fireproofing
- Repairs / Replacement
- Welding and Fabrication
- Pipefitting
- Pressure cleaning and blasting
- Coatings: NACE Inspectors, coating removal and recoating
- Electrical and instrumentation
- Rope Access Industrial Services
Drones/Robotic Solutions
Acuren utilizes remotely piloted aerial systems and robotic inspection cameras to aid in piping programs.
- Perform internal and external API inspections
- Ultrasonic thickness testing with robotics and drones
- Perform pipe hanger surveys
- Thermal imaging / infrared scanning
- Emission detection
- 3D Lidar scanning and photogrammetry
- Create a “Digital Twin” of your facility
- Remotely Piloted Inspection Services
