Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning & Startup

Fairtex Group offers pre-commissioning services for offshore, subsea, and onshore pipelines, umbilicals, risers, and flow lines (SURF), as well as commissioning and start-up services. Our services include flooding, cleaning, testing, dewatering, conditioning, drying, and the insertion of new systems in preparation for product introduction and start-up.

Fairtex Group's process and pre-commissioning services are provided for oil and gas pipelines, separation facilities, FPSOs, LNG terminals and vessels, refineries, gas terminals, gas processing, and petrochemical facilities. Our focus is on ensuring a reliable, leak-free 'first-time' start-up through plant conditioning, debris removal, and temporary process solutions.

Our solutions cover the following:

• Pipeline pre-commissioning and maintenance


• Process pre-commissioning and maintenance

Our pipeline pre-commissioning services give your pipeline the best possible start in service, helping to reduce future corrosion, improve efficiency, maximize throughput, and prevent hydrates from forming.

Starting with filling and gauging, proper filtration prevents debris from entering the line. We offer the chemicals needed to control corrosion and protect your asset in case water is left in the pipeline for several months. We also offer a range of solutions to clean the pipeline, depending on the specifications.

For natural gas and petrochemical pipelines, we dry the pipeline to prevent hydrate formation and deliver the product purity you need. These steps help to reduce drying time and move the line into production as quickly as possible using air, vacuum, nitrogen, or chemical swabbing, followed by purging with nitrogen to minimize the risk of explosion.

Our process services help eliminate leaks and other start-up problems and deliver your product purity specifications. We offer engineered solutions for pre-commissioning, commissioning, and maintenance shutdowns with specialized services for the oil and gas, power generation, metals and mining, and other process industries.

Our services include nitrogen services such as purging, helium leak testing, bolt tensioning and torquing, system cooldowns; cleaning services like lube-oil flushing, chemical cleaning, retrojetting, flushing, and drying using air, nitrogen, or vacuum.

Typical services include:

• Pipeline pre-commissioning


• HP & UHP Water Jetting


• System Purging & Start-Up


• Pipeline Cleaning and Commissioning


• Hydrostatic Testing


• Leak Testing


• Dewatering


• Air Drying


• Nitrogen Drying and LN2 Pump Servicing


• Vacuum Pumping and Drying


• Leak Testing & Detection


• Hot Oil & Lube Oil Flushing


• Chemical Cleaning & Etching


• HV/MV/LV Testing, Commissioning, and Start-Up


• Mechanical Commissioning


• Specialty Welding and Machining


• Pipe Freezing


• Pressure Testing and Hydrostatic Testing

Process Plant Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Services

Fairtex Group provides Process Plant Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Services as an integrated service to reduce the critical path schedule, on-site personnel (POB), commissioning costs for customers, and improve assembly quality. Our services include the following:

• High-speed flushing


• Air and steam blowing


• Retrojetting/Hydro Blasting


• Hydrostatic Testing


• Chemical Cleaning


• Oil Flushing


• Controlled bolting services


• Oxygen reduction purging


• Nitrogen drying


• Gross air leak testing (GALT)


• Valve ultrasonic testing


• Nitrogen-helium leak testing.