Repair and modify - outside shutdown

Approaching new customers we often get challenged by the mission impossible. The new replacement valve may have been purchased a long time ago, but getting the outage and performing the cumbersome preparations and recommissioning does just not happen. Still - that valve needs to be changed - it is all part of a cascade. Thoughts on a Friday.....

Can we do it? Yes, we can and we have done. A number of times. We also have the Operators seeing the potential in the AOGV technology, but say that there are some challenges in the "High value" process systems, but prefer to see the technology demonstrated on a less exposed yet big and critical utility system. It is indeed an ongoing case for us new continent and with a new customer. We find this to be a good way into what is still considered a new technology - the AOGV. The AOGV is getting established in the oil and gas business and the word is spreading. Major Operators are implementing the technology into the management system and frame agreements.

Process systems: High Value

• Replacing control valves and isolation valves in pressurized and running systems
• Safe entry to vessels with minimum preparations and positive isolation

Utility systems: Critical for the process systems

• Replacing broken valves and pumps without interrupting the critical system delivery.

Transportation and Storage: On its way to the market

• Passing and degraded vales on tank farms
• Isolation valves for safe entry
• Isolation valves for the safety switches at the terminals

LNG terminals – High value, critical start-up

• Cryogenic temperatures
• Continuous circulation
• Critical utilities - preserving the throughput of the product
• Material selection

FPSO’s and offshore installations

• Marine systems – hull
• Oil and Gas process and utilities
• On location for 10 yrs plus vs classing

Refineries and petrochemical plants: High values and redundancy

• Complex process systems
• Chemicals in closed loops - recycling
• High temperatures – running loops

Modifications, Tie-Ins and Decommissioning

• To be shutdown dependent or not
• Breaking containment and sustaining primary throughput

Maintenance without cashflow shutdown

For all assets, facility downtime during the execution of site activities should be kept to a minimum, with asset integrity maintained, and any risk mitigated to “as low as reasonably practicable.” Built-in isolation points can require partial facility shutdowns and the ejection and flushing of large inventory volumes. Work scopes can result in significant production loss and personnel are more exposed, the more extensive the activity. By using the AOGV mechanical isolation tool to bring the isolation points closer to the point of interest, the area impacted by the work is reduced.