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Downstream Refining Oil and Gas Industry Case Studies
Leading Refineries Choose Tube Tech International
Having worked successfully with all of the leading refinery companies, including Shell, BP, BHP Bilton, Conoco 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.
Air Cooled Fin Fan Condensers (ACC) Cleaned in Germany in one day
ACC Fin-Fans Cleaned in Just One Day, Rapid mobilisation saves refinery $100,000s in replacement costs and lost production
Catalyst Reactor (Tubular) Cleaned in 72 Hours
Catalyst Reactor tubes cleaned in 72 hours instead of the projected 60 days thank to innovative cleaning technology.
Condenser Tube Cleaning - Polishing of 8000 Tubes - World First in the Middle East!
Tube Tech was given an extremely short plant shutdown window and effectively cleaned and polished 8000 condenser tubes.
Condenser Tubes Polished on LNG Plant
Tube Tech used their Single Safeflex™ system to polish the tubes to a very high standard. This system had previously been on a Middle East LNG.
Fin Fan (External Fins) Overhead Crude, Air-Cooled Condensers Cleaned with Minimal Scaffold in the UK
External fins of overhead crude air cooled condenser cleaned quickly using innovative technology.
Fin Fan Air Cooled Condenser Units (ACC) Cleaned in Environmentally Sensitive Manner
Tube Tech removed fouling and blockages from both the delicate, external, aluminium fins and internal tubes on three banks of updraft fin fan condensers.
Flame Eye Cleaned "ON-LINE!" at 900°C For BHP Billiton
Flame Eye Cleaned On-line at 900°C. Blocked flame eye in sulphur reaction furnace unblocked by Tube Tech team with specially designed unblocking ...
Flare Line Cleaned "ON-LINE!" avoids Refinery Crash within a Dutch refinery
Tube Tech removed severe fouling from the flare line of one of the world’s largest refineries over the Christmas holiday season.
Flare Line Cleaned - "ON-LINE!" in a German refinery
Bespoke ‘fast clean’ technology was developed by Tube Tech in order to clean a failing refinery flare line in Germany.
Flare Line Cleaned with Nitrogen
Flare Line Cleaned with Nitrogen, First clean for UK oil refinery
Flare Line Cleaned Without Water Jetting in Turkey
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 Convection Bank Tubes Cleaned Robotically - World First for a German refinery
Heavy fouling removed from furnace convection side using remote technology.
Furnace Tube Decoking "ON-LINE!" at Far East Distillate Synthesis Plant – World First!
Tube Tech developed a procedure to remove severe blockages of coke which had formed along 2 x 100mm diameter 45m long serpentine furnace tubes
Furnace Tubes (Finned Convection Section) Cleaned In Scotland
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 (unblocking U-Tube) for a gas liquefaction plant in Abu Dhabi
Over 99% of the contamination removed including cleaning and polishing around the hairpin bends for the first time.
Heat Exchanger - In-Situ Cleaning of Aluminium U-Tubes in Furfural Heat Exchanger
Tube Tech removes tenacious coke deposits achieving a 90 per cent coke removal from aluminium u-tube (hairpin) furfural heat exchanger.
Heat Exchanger - Unblocking Hairpins in Titanium U-Tube Heat Exchangers for Gas Liquefaction Company
Unique and highly specialised heat exchanger cleaning on a titanium heat exchanger shipped by sea to Tube Tech's UK headquarters.
Heat Exchanger Cleaning in Cat Cracker Unit Reduced from Days to Hours
Tube Tech International - the exchanger descaling specialists cleaned a refinery's most important tube bundles in six days instead of nine
Heat Exchangers (Crude Trane) Cleaned Back to Bare Metal within a Dutch refinery
Tube Tech used a unique multi lance, 3 stage lancing system combining Safedrill, Safejet and a third technology to polish crude trane heat exchanger ...
Heat Exchangers (Crude Trane) U-Tubes Polished in Five Hours
The ability to spade off, debolt, clean and rebolt heat exchangers speedily enough so that other exchangers supported the production load for this ...
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
Tube Tech solved a tough cleaning problem in a bitumen storage tank - removing an accumulated overhead layer of carbonised bitumen
Tanks Containing Leaded Petrol Decontaminated with Low Waste
Petrol Tanks Decontaminated With Little Waste. Environmental conditions met during hazardous petrochemical clean.
Texas Tower (VCFE Catalytic Reformer) Tube Side Clean in Germany
Tube Tech’s research and development reputation to solve impossible cleaning problems helped remove an incorrect feed inadvertently passed through ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Cleaning Improves Heat Transfer In Saudi Arabia
Texas tower cleaning dramatically improves heat transfer despite wide variety of deposits. Two VCFE's cleaned in five days.
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Cleaning Time Reduced by 75% in France
Tube Tech faced several challenges winning the contract to clean a Texas Tower / Vertical Combined Feed Exchanger (VCFE)
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Drilled From Below in Dominican Republic
World First: Texas Tower/VCFE drilled from below, despite limited access. VCFE tubes cleaned from below with only 2 metre head room and top header ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Mechanical Between Tubes Shell Side Cleaning – World First!
Deposits removed from shell and tube side were shown to contain a great deal of iron oxide and heavy hydrocarbons. Dramatic improvement in heat ...
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Remote Solution Clears Severely Blocked Tubes In the Far East
A VCFE (Texas Tower) suffered from a performance drop caused by tube bore blockages compounded by the heat exchangers inaccessibility
Texas Tower (VCFE Platformer) Restricted access solved in the Philippines
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) x 2 Combined Feed and Effluent Exchangers Cleaned Shell and Tube Side
New multi drill unblocks severe fouling on VCFE Texas Towers in record time.
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
