Flow Assurance & Pipeline Cleaning

Through the use of custom chemistry, advanced diagnostics, mechanical techniques, and field history, BlueFin has the operational depth to solve your internal pipeline cleaning challenge and ensure flow assurance.

Our Services

Restoring Pipeline Integrity & Flow & Safely Decommissioning Lines That Are No Longer Operational

BlueFin’s pipeline cleaning solutions deliver crucial benefits to current systems—upstream, midstream, and downstream. Through the delivery and refining of hydrocarbon energy processes, naturally occurring hydrocarbon byproducts such as scale, black powder, asphaltenes, and paraffin wax are normal constraints facing operators and causing a multitude of integrity issues, starting with flow assurance restrictions, structural integrity concerns, ILI determination, and product contamination, to name a few.

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Pipeline Cleaning Services

Our technical competency solves routine problems demanded by today’s pipeline operations, from routine pigging, pipeline gel pigging, product evacuation, chemical cleaning, routine ILI support, solids and liquids removal, or general pig sales.

Advantages

  • Patented extended reach ID cleaning Technologies

  • Custom chemistry technology

Services

  • Hydroblasting for process piping and HEX cleaning

  • Extended reach hydro-blasting / lancing with clean containment system

  • Scale, asphaltene, paraffin removal

  • Online and offline cleaning

  • Routine maintenance cleaning

  • Internal camera inspection

  • Pipeline deposit mapping

  • Pre-ILI cleaning

  • Pre-commissioning and commissioning, decommissioning

  • Iron sulfide mitigation for sour gas plant inspections

  • Printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) cleaning

  • Free iron removal from alloy metals

  • Cooling and heat medium filtration

  • Waste management

Applications

  • Offshore and Onshore Pipelines

  • Overboard Water Lines

  • Process Piping

  • Platform Risers

  • Plant Piping Systems

  • Heat Exchangers

Pipeline Deposit Mapping

BlueFin’s advantage in mapping internal pipeline deposits is deep and strong. Simply stated, we understand the need to maintain flow assurance. This critical path for operators became a focus for our engineers, and so the story continues. With our combination of electronic data acquisition BlueFin leverages the understanding of pressures anomalies with our specifically designed pipeline gel pigs to deliver deposit restriction data on your pipeline asset. Upon gaining this information a proper and secure path forward can be developed for remediation tasks. Now, what was once a guessing game is scientific understanding.

Services

  • Electronic Data Acquisition

  • Internal Pipeline Mapping

  • Measurement of solids and restrictions

Applications

  • Oil and Liquid Pipelines

Blockage Remediation

Our integrated teams of production chemists, flow assurance engineers, and intervention specialists have extensive experience and expertise in developing flowline blockage solutions. Coupled with our offshore execution project management team, GATE is able to deliver scalable solutions tailored to meet our client’s needs. From a simple flow assurance study to the full turnkey execution of flowline blockages, we do it all and we do it right the first time.

Pipeline Decommissioning

Our ElastiPigs Can Minimize Flushing Routines By 50%

Decommissioning operations have become highly regulated needs for oil and gas operators. While the rate of execution is fast-paced and schedule dependent, the return on investment lacks value for the operators incurring the economic risks. BlueFin understands this sensitivity. To supercede this challenge we deliver technical expertise and project experience in the fields related to government mandated overboard water regulations.

Services

  • Pipeline Flushing

  • Pipeline Filtration

  • Mechanical Pigging

  • ElastiPig Pigging

  • Topside ICP Flushing

  • Nitrogen Purging

Applications

  • Offshore Pipelines

  • Offshore Platforms

  • Onshore Pipelines

  • Onshore Facilities

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