Failure Analysis & Equipment Testing

Today’s ever-increasing demands place more and more strain upon equipment – and sometimes things fail.

Failure can have very significant financial impacts upon projects, not least when gas / oil cash flow is hindered – or at worst considerably delayed.  Were it not, for example, thorough equipment testing / qualification being carried out for the UK’s HPHT Fields, project success and associated cash-flow would have been much reduced.

IDEAS, through their design experience, equipment operating experience and knowledge of equipment loadings in both a qualitative and quantitative sense, are able to apply expertise to the understanding of failure analysis in conjunction with the UK’s foremost failure analysis laboratories to solve why something has failed – and what should be done in the future to prevent similar failure again – whether through design- improvement or operational loading parameter change.

Similarly, new equipment can be tested at the same laboratories or downhole on a land rig test site at excellent facilities in North-East Scotland in

order to prove / determine new equipment’s worthiness or to monitor potential weakness.

 

All Failure Analysis / Equipment Testing is carried out under expert, independent guidance to fully comprehensive test programmes – and all data acquisition and subsequent reporting is of course fully comprehensive.