Engineering Services - Aegeus Inspection Solutions

Aegeus Inspection Solutions can support asset owners and operators of pipelines with a team of engineering and technical services experts by delivering technical assurance through specialized consulting services. Through our affiliate engineering group, Kiefner and Associates, Inc., we deliver industry-leading experience and expertise in project management for the transmission pipeline industry.

We assist clients in high-risk energy, utility, and infrastructure industries by delivering the highest quality service through our expert specialist staff.

Our team of technical specialists have a strong sense of responsibility and thrive on the challenge to provide our expertise to our clients’ secure pipeline system safely and reliably. Integrity is vital to the future of these global industries and our objective is to ensure that assets are safe at all levels of operation by delivering the highest level of technical assurance at any stage.

Services and Capabilities delivered by our team of engineers and technical specialists:

Failure Analysis

Certain practices must be undertaken to investigate malfunction and breakdown of pipelines and other assets through thorough investigations. It is essential to collect concrete data to produce the most definitive conclusions on a cause of pipeline failure. Pipeline operators must understand the reasons for failure to minimize catastrophic events and safeguard the safety of the public and minimize impact to the environment to ensure regulatory compliance. Our team of experts can execute a series of tactics to produce accurate and reliable failure analysis data.

What are the Causes of Pipeline Failure ?

Various conditions can affect the efficacy of pipeline assets, including:

Corrosion

Environmental cracking

Mechanical damage

Seam and weld defects

Other factors considered include operational and environmental elements that could have contributed to a failure.

Our techniques to develop in-depth Failure Analysis include:

A written report on the cause of the failure no more than 30 days after the materials and authorization are received

Investigative party service in failures investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and/or Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA)

In-the-field investigations of failures

Call us if the need arises; we respond on short notice

Our lab facilities, along with the expertise of our failure investigation specialists, will be able to determine cause of failure to ensure you have the knowledge to prevent and/or minimize future events.

Fit For Service Analysis

Fit for Service Analysis

Fitness-For-Service Analysis determines the current state of safety of the pipeline or piping system in terms of safe operating pressure and time until failure. Pipeline operators, service providers, and the regulatory community continuously strive to improve the safety and integrity of gas and liquid pipelines.

Through sophisticated modeling and analytical software, together with our expertise in pipeline materials, design, and operation, we can provide clients with conclusive data and understanding of necessary responses to assure safe and reliable operations.

Our Fitness-for-service capabilities include:

Reassessment Intervals

Integrity Management Planning

Hydrostatic Test Planning

Risk Assessment and Hazard Studies

Regulatory Support

ILI Comparisons

Our partners at Kiefner and Associates, Inc. utilize the most advanced technology to safeguard the integrity of pipelines and pipeline systems. Such tools include the implementation of In-Line Inspection (ILI), a complex system for sensing, recording, analyzing, and reporting data concerning conditions affecting a pipeline. The performance of the ILI as a system must be verified against standards of accuracy to assure that pipeline safety and integrity decisions based on ILI results are correct.

There are various processes and procedures that are implemented through ILI systems. Our team of technical specialists and engineers can execute and support in the development of ILI processes and procedures, including:

Dig List Preparation

Repair Recommendations

Verification Dig Analysis Support

General On-Going Support

Material Lab Testing

Materials Lab Testing

To secure the integrity of materials utilized to construct buildings and operating equipment, among other essential systems, knowledge of the characteristics and properties of the materials is required. Both non-destructive and destructive methods are implemented to secure product integrity. Data collected from examinations can assist operators in making concrete decisions regarding a material’s suitability for service and identify any issues or areas of concern with a system in construction.

Our affiliate, Kiefner and Associates, Inc., has in its disposal a fully equipped laboratory to carry out failure investigations, instrumented burst tests, corrosion tests, and standard mechanical properties tests.

The types of testing and investigations that are performed to secure integrity of materials for construction include:

Failure Investigations

Full metallurgical investigations of pipeline-related failures including:

Fractography

Metallography

Non-Destructive Examination

Material Characterization

Deposit and Material Chemistry

Microbiological Related Activity

Fatigue Crack Propagation

Weld Evaluation

Linear Polarization Resistance

Instrumented Burst Tests

Standard Endcap Testing

Variable Axial Loading Testing

Instrumentation

Strain Gauges

Displacement, Pressure, Temperature, and Acceleration

Multi-Channel Data Acquisition

Labview Programming

Welding Engineering and Procedures

The examination and evaluation of welding in pipeline systems is essential to securing their integrity and efficacy. Our Kiefner and Associates, Inc. affiliates will deliver the support to safeguard and protect your company’s pipeline welding related issues. Through our team’s expert knowledge in engineering, metallurgy, materials, and welding, our experts will deliver welding procedures and technical work instructions to ensure the quality of welded products, eliminating the probability of costly re-work and ensure welding teams are working efficiently.

Our welding engineering and procedures meet the requirements of a number of regulatory groups, including CSA, ASME, AWS, and ISO, and marine classification societies, including Lloyds, DNV, and ABS.

Welding engineering and procedures services we offer:

Review current company welding standards and procedures to assure they are aligned with the current industry standards and best practices

Qualify production and in-service welding procedure specifications and welder performance

Provide training on many welding related topics

Mechanical laboratory testing

Registration of programs with technical authorities

How can you benefit from specialized welding engineering and procedures strategy ?

Customers can benefit from incorporating welding engineering and procedures for welds in pipeline systems through the following:

Provide technical staff such as welders with adequate training through welding programs

Ensure welding and fabrication facilities are complaint with regulatory agencies

Fast implementation of welding programs through expertise of industry best practices

Expert Consulting Services

Pipeline Services

Risk Engineering

Root Cause Failure Analysis

Simulations & Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

Training Workshops

Welding Engineering

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