Process Diagnostics

Optimising asset performance

Tracerco's techniques provide a rapid and reliable in-situ visualisation of assets in challenging environments.

Our field proven, advanced technologies deliver real time condition monitoring and are a vital component in the optimum management of subsea assets. They provide efficient and effective troubleshooting.

The products and services we provide enable solutions to be implemented without intervention and delay. This ensures our customers improve efficiency, reduce risk and save money.

	Flow Assurance Model it · Measure it · Move it · Maximise production · Extend pipeline life · Understand and study flow · Determine deposit volume · Remove restrictions		Inspection Inspect it · Repair it · Maintain it · Safety critical subsea inspection · Adding value integrated team · Integrated solutions · Detailed integrity analysis · Non-intrusive measurement technology · Real time data measurements
Pipeline Services Tag it · Track it · Retrieve it · Meeting the challenges of pipeline systems · Providing real time measurements · Identify blockages and restrictions · Rapid pig location · Confident pig tracking		Wreck Removal & Salvage Inspect it · Recover it · Protect it · Allows Pollution Management control · Facilitates critical environmental impact decision making · Detects Oil, Fuels, Air and Water · Save time on removal procedures · Live data feed and analysis · Unique to industry

Every day, our process diagnostics services are used in industrial sites to keep process systems on-line, diagnose processing problems or optimize operational parameters allowing customers to maximize product output at minimum cost. The power of the technology is in its ability to "see through" vessel walls allowing us to determine what is happening inside a particular process system without the need to shut down, essentially providing insight onsite. Our most common applications include mass transfer diagnostics, pipe system blockage detection, liquid and solids level measurement, vacuum system leak detection, heat exchanger leak testing, flow rate measurement as well as fluid, solid, and vapour distribution studies.

In the case of mass transfer, many towers are opened under the suspicion of internal damage only to discover there is none! Consider heat exchangers. Units are shutdown, heat exchangers are isolated and hydrotested, and no leaks are found. Cost/benefit analysis has shown time and time again the value of Tracerco services when compared to customer losses due to poor product quality, production loss, production re-work or an unplanned "forced" shutdown due to a particular process plant problem. Using Tracerco to diagnose a problem allows maintenance and production planners to focus on the specific problem, acquire required materials, and prepare necessary labour before the system is shutdown.

In order to offer our customers a fast response Tracerco operates from a number of regional bases strategically close to major industrial centres. Same or next day service is considered part of our normal service provision. Please give us a call today to discuss your particular process plant problem.

Distillation / Separation Towers	Tanks/Spheres
Heat Exchangers and Condensers	Reactors
Flare Systems	FCC Units
Piping Systems	Separator/Desalters The Tracerco Profiler

The offshore production of oil and gas involves both the extraction of crude hydrocarbon material from the ground and then the separation of the oil and gas from the water, sand and other solid materials that come up during extraction. The company provides a range of scanning and tracer technologies at both the extraction and separation stages enabling real time characterization of conditions in the process in much the same way as analogous techniques (e.g. CT scan, angiogram) are used in the medical world.

The separation of oil and gas from its by-products, sand and water, is at the heart of all hydrocarbon production facilities. Tracerco has developed a range of process diagnostics services and nucleonic instrumentation that are used to optimise the performance of the separator systems used by our customers, by measuring in real-time what is actually occurring within the process vessels.

Separator Study The ability to assess the performance of production separator.

Scan A technique to investigate the process conditions and the extent of mechanical damage that exist within a distillation column.