In May 2011, SGS Industrial Services was awarded a contract to provide complex inspection and testing services for the underground road crossings of refinery pipelines by Kuwait Petroleum Europoort (KPE), one of the Q8 refineries, located in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Throughout the entire contract, scheduled from June 2011 to December 2011, SGS will perform Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Services, including Visual Inspection, Ultrasonic Testing, Guided Wave Inspection and Radiographic Testing, as well as Project Management Services. —
SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, was awarded a contract to provide comprehensive inspection and testing services for about 100 underground road crossings of over 1000 pipelines, varying in diameter from 1″ to 42”, at the Kuwait Petroleum Europort (KPE) in May 2011.
In order to assess the condition around and in the buried parts and to help the client prioritize their maintenance and mitigate risks of leakages, SGS Industrial Services is performing extensive Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Services, including Visual Inspection, Ultrasonic Testing, Guided Wave Inspection and Radiographic Testing as well as providing Project Management Services.
With Visual Inspection, SGS will inspect the road crossings of pipelines for poor welding, surface defects, corrosion pits, degradation, blockages and foreign material by applying specialized equipment, which penetrates into obscure places.
In order to measure the wall thickness of underground pipelines SGS’s team of experts conducts Ultrasonic Testing. Skilled SGS operators can identify the location and size of imperfections in the wall thickness of the material by sending a pulsed beam of high-frequency ultrasound from a handheld transducer, which is placed upon the surface of the pipeline road crossings.
Having extensive experience and expertise in projects of this kind, SGS will apply Guided Wave Inspection, also called Long-Range Ultrasonic Testing (LRUT), and Radiographic Testing to assess the condition and reliability of the piping in an effective way and detect any discontinuities at an early stage.
In addition, SGS will support the client with its complex requirements with Project Management Services in terms of coordination of other contractors for insulation and civil works.
Applying its first-rate experience and competence, SGS helps the client to evaluate the condition of its underground road crossings of refinery pipelines and makes suggestions for their maintenance, in order to ensure that defects and discontinuities will be detected before they reach a critical size and consequently result in severe damage and expensive corrective actions.
About SGS Industrial Services
Industrial Services is one of the major business lines of the SGS Group, a global service provider for technical verification, inspection, testing and conformity assessment. SGS Industrial Services ensures that the customer’s installations, material, equipment, facilities and projects meet all quality and performance requirements, whether they are regulatory, voluntary or customer based. Industrial Services has decades’ worth of experience and some remarkable references in serving key industries, such as Construction, Industrial Manufacturing and Trade, the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry, Power Generation and Transmission, Banks and Financial Institutions, as well as Renewable Energy.
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