may 2021
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Inside the May Issue |
Drones & Manned Rope Access
for Safety and Efficiency
Combination used for Complex Inspection
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Premium Inspection & Testing (PIT)
conducted a first-of-its-kind internal coke
drum inspection at an oil refinery using a combination of drone technology and manned rope access. Inspection experts from PIT were recently asked to conduct an internal inspection of a coke drum at an oil refinery in Texas without using scaffolding. |
Scaffolding is typically constructed for inspectors to stand on so that they can see the areas they are inspecting up close. Because scaffolding is expensive and timeconsuming to put up and take down, personnel at the refinery were hoping to avoid using it.
Inspectors from PIT proposed using a
method that had never been tried before
for this kind of inspection: a combination
of drone technology and manned rope access within the coke drum. Rope access
originated in the 1980s to address maintenance
challenges in the offshore oil and
gas industry. This alternative access was
a game changer, so much so that rope access
was adopted for traditional and advanced
NDT methods and light
maintenance work.
“Premium has years of experience performing inspections via rope access, having clocked a total of 2.2 million safe hours on ropes with zero accidents,” says Danny Landry, Premium’s VP of Business Development & Marketing. “We also have deep experience using drones to collect visual data for inspections, so we were excited to agree to take on the job without building scaffolding.”
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