Pipeline Pigging Services
The pigging process in pipeline reaches some integrity solutions to support the safe and reliable flow of energy production in the industry. Some applications have different approaches according to its methodology as cleaning, fluid removal or fluid separation, drying through poly foam pig, commissioning services, calibration and inspection during detection of geometric characteristics in pipeline. Cleaning method implies the injection of a steel mandrel or brush pig for the deposit removal as sand, corrosion and incrustation improving the pipeline flow efficiency and decreasing energy consumption. Thus, there are some additional devices like scraper pig, magnetic cleaning pig, and sphere pig. Usually, we utilize a flexpig to remove or separate the fluid which isolates different products during the transportation. The drying services through poly foam pig is performed with use of compressed air or nitrogen at gas stage to promote dew point between 0°C to -40°C preventing the pipeline corrosion. Also, nitrogen pig propulsion for the fluid removal is utilized in the industry for pipeline repair. Commissioning in pre-operational pipeline is crucial to minimize cost and downtime during the operation. Geometric pig detecting and calibration plate pig are utilized to verify pipeline geometry imperfections by sensor and magnetic reading. In corrosion inspection, we utilize magnetic corrosion pig, and ultrasonic pig. There are some other special kinds of blocking pig, inertial pig, and pipeline profiling tool. The advantage to utilize pigging services is about detection capacity for failures or irregularity without stop the fluid transport.
We hold specialized tools for pigging inspection to detect pipeline deformation, and pigging cleaning to prevent any operational malfunction. The pigging services promote a device injection in pipeline section through a pig launcher and a pig receiver regarding its maintenance project. In general, pigging services have some property of pipeline conservation, maintenance, safety in products transport keeping integrity and optimizing the production.
