AIM
Asset Integrity Management
Development, implementation and assurance of integrity management for pressure equipment, piping, pipelines, storage tanks and structures. The objective is to establish how each asset can fail, how quickly, and what must be done, and when, to prevent loss of containment, and to keep that knowledge current in a working system.
- Scope
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- Asset integrity management system (AIMS) framework development, gap analysis and readiness assessment against the ISO 55000 series and API and EI good practice
- Damage mechanism reviews, corrosion loop definition and corrosion control documents (CCDs)
- Risk-based inspection (RBI) studies at qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative levels, with RBI-based inspection plans
- Integrity operating window (IOW) definition, monitoring and exceedance response
- Fitness-for-service (FFS), remaining life and degradation-rate assessment, including dead-leg assessment
- Corrosion management strategy, corrosion and degradation modelling, and materials selection
- Cathodic protection assessment: CIPS and DCVG surveys, CP system audits and remedial recommendations
- Pipeline integrity management (PIMS): risk assessment, ECDA and ICDA, in-line inspection run management and data assessment, and pipeline FFS
- Storage tank integrity: API 653 inspection planning, settlement and remaining life studies
- Pressure-relieving device (PRD) integrity programmes
- Safety and environmental critical element (SECE) identification and performance standards, and offshore topsides integrity
- Life extension assessment for ageing facilities
- Digital AIMS: APM and AIMS implementation engineering, integrity data build and IDMS support, independent of any software platform
- Deliverables
AIMS manual and procedures, gap analysis reports and implementation roadmaps, RBI register and inspection plans, corrosion control documents, IOW register, FFS and remaining life reports, CP survey and audit reports, pipeline risk registers, SECE performance standards, integrity KPIs and periodic status reports.
- Reference Basis
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- API RP 580
- API RP 581
- API RP 571
- API RP 584
- API RP 970
- API 579-1/ASME FFS-1
- API 653
- API RP 1160
- ASME B31.8S
- AMPP SP0502
- AMPP SP0169
- API RP 2SIM
- ISO 55001
- ISO 15156
- EI corrosion management guidance
- IOGP Report 415
RME
Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
Engineering of maintenance strategies and reliability programmes for static, rotating and electrical and instrument equipment, so that maintenance effort follows equipment criticality and failure behaviour rather than habit, and so that recurring failures are understood and eliminated.
- Scope
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- Equipment criticality assessment and asset register and hierarchy review
- Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) and failure mode, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)
- Maintenance strategy development and optimisation, including preventive maintenance optimisation (PMO)
- Task libraries and CMMS load sheets so that strategies are implemented, not filed
- Reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) studies
- Bad-actor analysis and elimination programmes
- Root cause failure analysis (RCFA) and failure investigation
- Spares criticality assessment and inventory optimisation
- Maintenance and reliability KPIs, performance review and improvement roadmaps
- Deliverables
Criticality registers, RCM and FMECA worksheets, maintenance strategies and task libraries, PMO study reports, CMMS load sheets, RAM study reports, bad-actor registers and action plans, RCFA reports, spares optimisation reports and reliability KPI dashboards.
- Reference Basis
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- SAE JA1011
- SAE JA1012
- IEC 60812
- IEC 60300-3-11
- ISO 14224
- ISO 55001
- API RP 691
- IEC 61078
PSE
Process Safety Engineering
Facilitation of process hazard analyses and engineering of the mechanical integrity element of process safety management, so that major accident hazards are identified, protection layers are adequate, and the equipment that contains the hazard is managed as a safety-critical system.
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- HAZID and HAZOP facilitation, reporting and action close-out tracking
- Process hazard analysis (PHA) revalidation for existing facilities
- Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) and SIL determination workshops
- Mechanical integrity (MI) programme development and audit as the asset integrity element of PSM, linking RBI, IOW, PRD and inspection programmes to the process safety system
- Pressure-relieving device integrity, inspection and testing programmes
- Safety-critical equipment and SECE identification and performance standards
- Verification of process safety information for equipment and piping: design data, materials and pressure ratings
- Integrity input to management of change for repairs, rerating and material substitutions
- Deliverables
HAZID and HAZOP reports with action registers, PHA revalidation reports, LOPA worksheets and SIL register, mechanical integrity procedures and audit reports, PRD registers, SECE performance standards and process safety information verification records.
- Reference Basis
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- IEC 61882
- IEC 61511
- CCPS Hazard Evaluation Procedures
- CCPS LOPA
- CCPS Risk Based Process Safety
- API RP 576
- API STD 520
- API STD 521
- ISO 17776
IWT
Inspection, Welding and Turnaround Support
Inspection engineering, welding and quality engineering, and turnaround support for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, piping and storage tanks, from inspection plans and procedures through execution oversight, anomaly management and repair engineering.
- Scope
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Inspection and Turnaround
- Inspection strategy, RBI-based inspection plans and written schemes of examination
- In-service inspection of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, boilers, piping and storage tanks by API-certified inspectors
- Conventional and advanced NDT: technique selection, procedures, execution and results evaluation, including ultrasonic thickness, phased array, TOFD and corrosion mapping
- Corrosion under insulation (CUI) susceptibility assessment and inspection programmes
- Pre-commissioning and baseline inspection of new and modified equipment
- Turnaround inspection scoping, planning and execution management, and readiness review before restart
- Inspection data review, anomaly management, repair recommendations and close-out
- Repair and rerating engineering for vessels, exchangers and piping
- Mechanical design review of pressure equipment, technical authority support and technical query resolution
Welding and Quality
- Welding engineering: WPS and PQR development and review, welder qualification and welding procedure audits
- Site welding and coating inspection by certified inspectors
- Inspection and test plans (ITPs), quality plans and inspection procedures
- Positive material identification (PMI) programmes and material traceability review
- Bolted joint integrity programmes
- Construction and repair quality surveillance against code and client specifications
- Deliverables
Inspection plans and written schemes of examination, inspection and NDT reports, anomaly registers, repair and rerating packages, WPS, PQR and welder qualification records, ITPs and quality plans, and turnaround inspection work scopes and readiness assessments.
- Reference Basis
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- API 510
- API 570
- API 653
- API RP 572
- API RP 574
- API RP 576
- API RP 578
- API RP 583
- ASME Section VIII
- ASME Section IX
- ASME B31.3
- ASME PCC-1
- ASME PCC-2
- AWS D1.1
- ISO 9712
- ASNT SNT-TC-1A
PTS
Technical Secondment and Training
Qualified integrity, inspection, reliability and process safety personnel seconded into operator teams, projects and turnarounds, and structured training that builds the same competence in the client’s own people.
- Scope
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Secondment
- Long-term secondment of integrity, inspection, corrosion, reliability and process safety engineers into client functions
- Owner’s engineer support for projects, modifications and contractor oversight
- Short-term and call-off support for shutdowns, turnarounds and project peaks
- API-certified inspectors, welding and QA/QC inspectors, NDT experts, maintenance planners and turnaround coordinators
- Competence verification before mobilisation and at defined intervals during assignment
Training
- API 510, 570, 653 and 580 examination preparation
- Risk-based inspection: methodology, data requirements and study practice
- Damage mechanisms and corrosion loops for inspection and integrity engineers
- Fitness-for-service awareness and integrity operating windows
- In-house programmes tailored to the client’s assets, procedures and integrity system
- Assurance
Each candidate is presented with verified certifications and a competence record against the role. Secondees work to the client’s procedures and line management, while VIOS retains responsibility for their competence, welfare and mobilisation readiness, including medical fitness, site inductions and offshore survival training where required. Training is delivered by practising engineers who hold the certifications they teach.
- Reference Basis
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- API Individual Certification Programs
- API RP 580 and 571 bodies of knowledge
- ISO 9712
- ASNT SNT-TC-1A
- AMPP certification
- CSWIP and IIW schemes
- OPITO BOSIET
- Client competence frameworks
