Comprehensive Integrity Management

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Our Goal: Maximized Uptime, Predictable Performance & Safe Operations

Viking’s comprehensive integrity management program provides a centralized engineering and field operations team to safely design, operate and maintain a facility at its maximum value and capacity, while ensuring compliance with legislation and company policies.

Comprehensive Integrity Management

Our proactive and comprehensive integrity management approach provides well-defined and cost-effective pathways and solutions to maintain the integrity of our client’s assets by combining the engineering studies such as modeling, risk identification, planning and management, and field techniques for inspection, maintenance and surveillance, process efficiency and optimization, and rehabilitation operations.

We understand that effective decisions are not made in silos! Our corrosion and integrity experts leverage the experience of process engineers, production chemists, flow assurance specialists, production and completions engineers to make recommendations you can use!

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