Hot Bolting


Understanding & Skill Set To Each Joint Installation

Hot Bolting is a technical action that defines systematic bolt tightening and loosening. Due to the critical path of storing, processing, and refining carbon energy under pressurized systems, quality standards and risk management procedures demand competency verification from service contractors who display a work philosophy of scope depth and system deliverables.


BlueFin’s tenure and expertise in hot bolting and controlled bolting and joint integrity measures and monitors bolt relaxation, gasket creep, direct load loss, friction variable reduction, and direct axial force. Our experts apply this understanding and skill set to each joint installation, understanding that every project demands various controlled bolting applications—from single flange installations and bolt tensioning requirements to scheduled turn-arounds and new construction.

Flange Management is another critical path requiring systems knowledge and capabilities. Our corporate synergy offers a web-based interfacing solution that allows multiple users to have direct visibility into the joint integrity schedule and inventory. Our system integrates current project engineering details with the Systems Completions process for real-time, accurate record keeping. Now, inspection records (ITRs) directly associated with each component or equipment certifications for every mechanical tool are now traceable with specific history. Data within the system is customizable, classified, and ready by each corresponding system. to ensure this delivery of compliance and security.

Solutions

  • Bolt Torqueing

  • Bolt Tensioning

  • Hot/Online Bolting

  • Nut Splitting

  • Flange Management

  • Joint Integrity

  • Bolt Load Validation

  • Flange Inspection

  • Hot Bolting

Applications

  • Flanges and Valves

  • Process Piping and Equipment

  • Wellhead and BOP’s

  • Structural Components

Industries We Serve

  • Refineries

  • Food

  • Pharmaceutical

  • Tire Plants

  • Petrochemical Plants

  • Chemical Plants

  • LNG

  • Fertilizer

  • Renewable Energy

  • Alternative Energy


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