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Downstream Refining Oil and Gas Industry Case Studies
Having worked successfully with all of the leading refinery companies, including Shell, BP, BHP Bilton, Conco Phillips, Exxon Mobil and Total, Tube Tech has researched and developed unique equipment and techniques to solve some of the most difficult cleaning challenges faced by the refinery industry.
Tube Tech are experts in cleaning crude oil exchangers, ACC (air cooled condenser) fin-fan units, catalyst reactors, heat exchangers and storage tanks. Tube Tech has achieved a number of world firsts within the refinery industry including the decoking and unblocking of serpentine furnace coils and cleaning Texas Towers/VCFE’s (Vertical Combined Feed Exchanger) from below. The refinery case studies illustrate some of Tube Tech’s inventive cleaning techniques.
Catalyst Reactor (Tubular) Cleaned in 72 Hours
Tube Tech cleaned up to 40 tubes per day with this dry procedure. The polishing action of the drill heads meant there was no necessity for follow-up ...
Fin Fan (External Fins) Overhead Crude, Air-Cooled Condensers Cleaned with Minimal Scaffold
This spring cleaning operation by Tube Tech meant the client was able to approach the summer months knowing that their heat exchangers' cooling ...
Fin Fan Air Cooled Condenser (ACC) Cleaned in One Day
ACC Fin-Fans Cleaned in Just One Day, Rapid mobilisation saves refinery $100,000s in replacement costs and lost production
Fin Fan Air Cooled Condenser Units (ACCU) Cleaned in Environmentally Sensitive Manner
Both the delicate, external, aluminium fins and internal tubes had become fouled and blocked meaning virtually no heat transfer availability across ...
Flame Eye Cleaned "ON-LINE!" at 900°C
Flame Eye Cleaned On-line at 900°C, Safety eye unblocked at sulphur reaction furnace. Blocked flame eye in sulphur reaction furnace unblocked ...
Flare Line Cleaned "ON-LINE!" avoids Refinery Crash
Following previous online flare line cleaning successes Tube Tech were contracted to remove severe fouling from the flare line of one of the world’s ...
Flare Line Cleaned - "ON-LINE!"
The specialist engineering consultancy of one of the world's largest and oldest oil companies approached Tube Tech to ask if the company could ...
Flare Line Cleaned with Nitrogen
Flare Line Cleaned with Nitrogen, First clean for UK oil refinery
Flare Line Cleaned Without Water Jetting
Tube Tech International's innovative use of nitrogen gas as motive power during a pipeline cleaning operation was called upon for an unusual contract.
Furnace Tube Decoking "ON-LINE!" at Middle Distillate Synthesis Plant – World First!
The request from the client was to develop a procedure in order to remove severe blockages of coke which had formed some distance away along 2 ...
Furnace Tubes (Finned Convection Section) Cleaned
NEW “Between Fins” Cleaning Technology achieves optimum performance and no refractory damage
Furnace Tubes (USX/TLX) Cleaned in Record Time
Furnace tube decoking system combined a “3 in 1” system including high pressure water jetting, rotary mechanical de-scaling and Ultra Sonics. ...
Heat Exchanger (Aluminium U-Tubes, Furfural Refining) Cleaned In-Situ
A radical new approach to cleaning notoriously tenacious scale within aluminium tubed furfural exchangers has introduced substantial benefits. ...
Heat Exchanger (Crude Oil Distillation Complex) U Tube Cleaning
Over 99% of the contamination was removed including cleaning and polishing around the hairpin bends for the first time. Taking less than one third ...
Heat Exchanger (FCC - Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit) Cleaning Reduced from 3 Days to 3 Hours
Experience gained by Tube Tech International in a series of heat exchanger cleaning projects enabled the exchanger descaling specialists to clean ...
Heat Exchanger (Titanium U-Tube at Gas Liquefaction Company) Unblocking Hairpin Tubes
Tube Tech carried out unique and highly specialised heat exchanger cleaning on an expensive piece of equipment from a Saudi Arabian gas production ...
Heat Exchangers (Crude Trane) Cleaned Back to Bare Metal
Tube Tech used a unique multi lance, 3 stage lancing system combining Safedrill, Safejet and a third technology to polish the tubes. Tube Tech ...
Heat Exchangers (Crude Trane) U-Tubes Cleaned in Five Hours
Tube Tech developed the ability to spade off, debolt, clean and rebolt each heat exchanger speedily enough so that other exchangers within the ...
Pipeline (Effluent) Unblocked in Four Days
A Netherlands facility of this global oil company was experiencing problems with an effluent pipeline which had become almost completely blocked ...
Tank (Bitumen Storage) Cleaned with Combination Jetting Unit
One of the world's oldest and largest oil companies called in Tube Tech to solve a tough cleaning problem in a bitumen storage tank - removing ...
Tanks Containing Leaded Petrol Decontaminated with Low Waste
Petrol Tanks Decontaminated With Little Waste. Environmental conditions met during hazardous petrochemical clean.Tank Lead Deposits Decontaminated ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Cleaning Improves Heat Transfer
Texas Tower Cleaning Dramatically Improves Heat Transfer. Arabian VCFEs cleaned despite wide variety of deposits. In five days of gruelling conditions, ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Cleaning Time Reduced by 75%
Tube Tech International faced several challenges winning the contract to clean a Vertical Combined Feed Exchanger (VCFE) otherwise known as a Texas ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Drilled From Below
World First: Texas Tower/VCFE drilled from below, despite limited access. Caribbean VCFE tubes cleaned from below with only 2 metre head room and ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Fastclean Solves Difficult Access Problem
Last cleaned in 2001 this Philippines Texas Tower needed cleaning to improve their flagging performance during their 2009 shutdown but time was ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Mechanical Between Tubes Shell Side Cleaning – World First!
The deposits removed from both shell and tube side were shown to contain a great deal of iron oxide and heavy hydrocarbons. Client noted dramatic ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Remote Solution Clears Severely Blocked Tubes
A VCFE (Texas Tower) on one of the worlds largest refineries in Singapore suffered from a performance drop caused by tube bore blockages compounded ...
Twisted Tube Heat Exchanger Returned to Bare Metal
Tube Tech announces unique method to clean both shell and tube side of twisted tube heat exchangers
