Process & Industrial Facilities
Refineries, Chemical Plants, Power Generation, Food & Pharmaceutical
Our team also serves many other process facility industries including chemical plants, power generation and the food and pharmaceutical industry. By taking our systems approach and applying our knowledge in the field, we bring the reliable processes we have designed for the oil and gas industry to these industries.
Process & Industrial Facility Services
Viking’s Materials and Corrosion Team is involved with detailed material selection and qualification support with the goal of ensuring the selection of fit for service materials and their appropriate manufacture and fabrication.
Provides fit-for-service evaluations, testing and analysis for evaluating complex downhole failures, pipeline failure investigations and forensic services for midstream and downstream clients and also provides services to the renewable energy sector.
The Corrosion and Materials Team for oil and gas developments and water and gas injection systems forms one of Viking’s core oil and gas engineering services.
Preparing for operation of a major oil and gas facility is a daunting task. Viking provides standard operating procedure (SOPs) generation, maintenance planning (CMMS, Spares), FMEA and RCA studies and Control System Tuning and HMI Screen Development.
Extensive knowledge and experience is required not only to fully understand how an asset should work, but also to know how to maintain efficient working conditions. Each facility is different, presenting new and unique challenges.
Viking’s Chemical Systems Engineering team is engaged in all aspects of chemical-related technology for offshore and onshore facilities. The team focuses on production chemistry solutions, chemical injection system design and chemical umbilical commissioning.
BlueFin’s filtration units are capable of high volume and/or low volume filtration and is designed to mitigate particle contamination.
Hydrostatic and Pneumatic pressure testing is an accepted system integrity assessment practice for all industrial operators. Scopes of work involving pressure testing require system knowledge and competent field execution in order to deliver safe, compliant system function.
Our industrial field services are centered around both onshore and offshore process facilities and industrial plants. This includes services such as filtration, controlled bolting, hydrotesting and other skilled work.
Project Experiences
Led study for independent oil and gas operator regarding the injection of flue gases from Gulf coast power plants to a Deepwater development for the purposes of enhanced oil recovery (EOR). This considered pretreatment and processing requirements for flue gases from natural gas-fired boiler plants, natural gas combined cycle plants, coal-fired boiler plants and integrated gasification combined cycle plants. Key issues considered were the ability of the pretreatment system to remove oxygen and water.
An operator of a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) offshore loading facility required mechanical torque value verification on multiple structural assemblies in order to abide by the manufacturer’s recommended specifications and standards.
An operator of an onshore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) micro fuel facility sought integrated solutions from a single source contractor. Ongoing activities with multiple construction groups were working compressed schedules in order to ready the facility for a re-purposed product. Direct technical commissioning support became an value target during the early phase of project execution, as pressure testing and torque value verification for 600+ connection joints demanded specific expertise.
Technical Articles, Courses & Calculators
So your pipe burst, your pump shaft snapped, or your welded joint split, and you need to figure out why and how to fix it. The next steps you take can make the difference between finding answers and leaving the mystery unsolved until the next failure.
We have many options for conducting root cause analyses (RCA) including TapRooT™ and CAST/STPA. The method described here is the method developed by GATE to simplify the analysis while maintaining adequate rigor.
This paper is Part II of a two-part series intended to narrate the history, some of which has been forgotten over time, leading up to the publication of the first Material Requirement (MR-01-75) standard prepared by NACE and its subsequent auxiliary standards.