Major failures in high energy piping systems over the past years highlighted the need to establish an effective maintenance and inspection program to prevent future failures. 

High energy piping systems are affected by various factors such as high temperature creep, fatigue, creep-fatigue, thermal shock, ratcheting and flow accelerated corrosion. Load cycles may also add stress to high energy piping systems – pushing the system beyond its original design limits.

As part of our asset integrity management program for high energy piping systems, we can provide piping stress analyses, rank critical welds and create optimized inspection schedules. Our assessment of high energy piping systems can include the following evaluations: 

• Material verification 
• Seam weld verification 
• Hanger walk downs in both cold and hot conditions 
• Non-destructive examination of welds 
• Surface replication and metallurgical analysis of welds piping system stress analysis based on design as-built, and as found conditions 
• Recommendations for hanger adjustments/replacements 
• Identification of critical locations and inspection intervals based on analyses of significant field anomalies, field inspection results and historical industry problems 
• Identification of flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) locations 
• Risk-based evaluations