Process And Pipeline Pre-commissioning Services

Fairtex Group offers process and pipeline pre-commissioning services for offshore, subsea, and onshore pipelines, umbilicals, risers, and flow lines (SURF). Our services include flooding, cleaning, testing, dewatering, conditioning, drying, and inerting of new systems in preparation for product introduction and startup.

Fairtex Group's process and pre-commissioning services are delivered for oil and gas pipelines, separation facilities, FPSOs, LNG terminals and vessels, refineries, gas terminals, gas processing, and petrochemical facilities. The focus is on ensuring a reliable, leak-free 'first-time' startup through plant conditioning, debris freeing, 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 and help reduce future corrosion, improve efficiency, maximize throughput, and prevent hydrates from forming.

Starting with filling and gauging, correct filtration prevents debris from entering the line. We offer the chemicals needed to help 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 specification.

For natural gas and petrochemical pipelines, we dry the pipeline to prevent the formation of hydrates 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, and finally purge with nitrogen to minimize any risk of explosion.

Our process services help eliminate leaks and other startup problems, delivering 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: purging, helium leak testing, bolt tensioning and torquing, system cooldowns; cleaning services: lube-oil flushing, chemical cleaning, retro-jetting, flushing and drying using either air, nitrogen, or vacuum.

Typical services include:

• Pipeline pre-commissioning


• Pipeline Flooding


• Pipeline Gauging


• Pipeline Cleaning


• Hydrostatic Testing


• Umbilical Flushing


• Umbilical Testing


• Fiber Optic Testing


• Leak Testing


• Dewatering


• Air Drying


• Nitrogen Drying


• Vacuum Drying


• Methanol Swabbing


• Glycol Swabbing


• Nitrogen Packing