Integrated Global Services Inc.
Integrated Global Services Inc.
Integrated Global Services Inc.
IGS is an on-site thermal spray company with decades of experience in designing and delivering High Velocity Thermal Sprayed (HVTS) cladding applications to critical O&G process assets globally. Since 2001, IGS HVTS cladding has been successfully used to effectively eliminate internal vessel corrosion with the application of a high nobility Corrosion Resistant Alloy (CRA) corrosion barrier. IGS HVTS is a long-life barrier (typically in excess of 10 years), freezing the internal metal condition, reducing future shutdowns and maintenance requirements, and increasing process productivity and availability.
In the FEED stage, refineries and gas plants are designed to provide a minimum operating life (design life). However, in service conditions rarely match the FEED parameters; plants operate well beyond the original design life and challenges in vessel fabrication, design, and process operation typically leads to higher internal corrosion rates than anticipated.
This introduces the requirement for maintenance, repairs, or replacement of process equipment to prevent loss of containment, maintain asset integrity, and process operation.
An internal metal alloy upgrade with a highly Corrosion Resistant Alloy will provide a long-life corrosion barrier to stop internal vessel corrosion and wastage of the vessel pressure boundary, enabling asset life extension, increased uptime, and reduced maintenance.
High nobility CRA alloys can be applied by Weld Overlay techniques. However, this technique presents many challenges in the field, such as the application time, creation of a Heat Affected Zones (HAZ), need for Post Weld Heat Treatment (PWHT), and vessel distortion. A more economical and cost-effective solution is applying high nobility CRA alloys with IGS HVTS.
IGS High Velocity Thermal Sprayed cladding is a proven technique to apply a high nobility CRA to operating assets in-situ, in the field, with minimum downtime and disruption to plant operation.
IGS utilizes only true high velocity application processes, where atomization of the material occurs before or in a super-sonic gas stream. This is the only way in to achieve the optimal cladding properties, where cladding particles are small enough, and compacted enough to provide the necessary macrostructure needed for reliable and predictable long-term corrosion barrier performance.
IGS HVTS cladding creates value for O&G process asset owners and operators by ensuring the reliable and predictable performance of their assets. Customers who view reliability and dependability of their process productivity as mission critical to their revenue generation and / or their customers will experience the economic benefit of Metalspray® technology and approach to process asset reliability.
Through our strategically placed operations in the Americas, Europe, Africa, CIS, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions, IGS focuses on creating value for our customers globally by ensuring reliable and dependable performance of their mission-critical assets.
Weld overlay is the application of metal using a welding process. Welding requires fusion of the metal substrate with the weld bead, a metallurgical bond that induces thermal stress, heat affected zones (HAZ) and requires pre- and post-weld heat treatment (PWHT).
Integrated Global Services (IGS) cladding is deposited using a high velocity thermal spray (HVTS) process which creates a mechanical bond to the prepared substrate without inducing any thermal stress.
Integrated Global Services, Inc. is the pioneer in the use of Thermal Spray claddings in O&G process assets. IGS has completed tens of thousands of square meters of onsite internal vessel application in critical O&G process equipment over the past two decades.
Having completed so many applications over so many years, uniquely positions IGS as the leader in materials, application technology, installation, refurbishment and operating methods for successful application of our HVTS claddings in O&G facilities.
Simply stated, we are the best positioned to know what works and what does not in many varying O&G processes onshore or offshore, upstream or downstream, with different feed conditions across the globe. Where others are experimenting with potential solutions, IGS has trusted and proven solutions.
In this video, Norman Kiddie, SVP of Global Operations at IGS, shows how IGS addressed unexpected corrosion in 6 additional pressure vessels during a planned turnaround saving time and costs in upcoming TAs while maintaining process vessel integrity.
Over the past two decades, we have leveraged this experience and knowledge to develop unique materials and application methods to provide reliable and predictable protective corrosion barriers in the most challenging O&G process assets and environments globally. We have learned that:
You need to maintain the wall thickness which acts as your pressure boundary. You can do this by applying a protective barrier if the vessel is suffering from wall thickness loss or metal wastage caused by erosion, corrosion or a combination of both.
A corrosion-resistant alloy is an alloy which is non-reactive or inert to its working environment, which means that it will not corrode.
Weld overlay has two purposes. To rebuild the pressure boundary or the wall thickness for mechanical integrity, or to apply a corrosion barrier.
Automated welding is usually performed in a workshop, whereas hand-applied welding is used in the field. There are two main types of welding material. One is used to restore wall thickness and rebuild mechanical integrity – typically the same material as the substrate, e.g., carbon steel. The other is applied as a corrosion-resistant alloy to upgrade the surface metallurgy of the vessel.
IGS managed to execute the project ahead of time with zero safety issues and delivered a great quality HVTS application.
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We spoke to former Energy CEO Edwin Blom about his decision to partner with IGS to restore the technical integrity of his organisation’s asset by arresting the corrosion in the pressure vessel. Now an Executive Advisor at IGS, Edwin shares his firsthand experience on key factors to consider when selecting a pressure vessel corrosion mitigation partner.
