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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.

• World First! VCFE Shell and Tube Side Clean
  2 x Texas Towers down from 24 shifts to 5 shifts
  
• Platformer Texas Tower Cleaning Improves Heat Transfer
  Arabian VCFEs cleaned despite wide variety of deposits
  
• Texas Tower/VCFE drilled 'from below'
  VCFE tubes cleaned with only 2m head room and top header in place
  
• Texas Tower (VCFE) Cleaning Time Reduced by 75%
  Critical path Texas Tower back online in 2.5 days
  
• Texas Tower (VCFE) Cleaning Time Reduced by 75%
  Critical path Texas Tower back online in 2.5 days
  
• Flare Gas Line Cleaned Whilst In Operation
  Flare line efficiency restored following "On-Line" clean
  
• Flare Line Cleaned Without Water Jetting
  Inert gas power solves fire risk at Turkish oil refinery
  
• Flare Line Cleaned with Nitrogen
  First clean for UK oil refinery
  
• Crude Trane Exchangers
  Cleaned to Bare Metal improves CO2 footprint
  
• Crude Oil Heat Exchangers Cleaned in Five Hours
  Energy efficiencies increases three fold thanks to cleaning of hairpin heat exchangers
  
• Crude Oil Heat Exchanger U Tube Cleaning
  Removal of hard coke and oily/wax sludge raises efficieny
  
• Heat Exchanger Cleaning Reduced from 3 Days to 3 Hours and Completed In-Situ
  In-Situ Clean Reduced Downtime and Reduces Carbon Emissions
  
• Solidly Blocked Hairpins on Titanium Heat Exchanger
  Bespoke water jetting cleans Arabian titanium heat exchanger
  
• Aluminium Furfural Exchangers Cleaned In-Situ
  Blockage removal increased from ca 20 to 90 percent
  
• Waste Heat Recovery Unit (WHRU) Clean Saves £500,000
  Deposits and scale extracted with novel engineering approach
  
• ACC Fin-Fans Cleaned in Just One Day
  Rapid mobilisation saves refinery $100,000s
  
• External Fin Fan Banks Cleaned Using Minimal Scaffolding
  Cooling increased and contract completed ahead of schedule
  
• ACCU's Cleaned in Environmentally Sensitive Manner
  Air cooled fin fan condensers cleaned using 'contained' method
  
• Combination Jetting Unit Cleans Bitumen Storage Tank
  Coke and carbonized coke removed from tank
  
• Petrol Tanks Decontaminated With Little Waste
  Environmental conditions met during petrochemical clean
  
• Worlds First Online Furnace Decoking and Unblocking
  Blocked serpentine furnace coils cleared in one day
  
• Blocked Effluent Pipeline Cleaned in 4 Days
  Jetting pressure and water volumes matched to pipeline deposit
  
• Fused Tubular Catalyst Reactor Cleaned in 72 Hours
  Nickel catalyst yields to innovative rotary drill and polish system
  
• Flame Eye Cleaned On-line at 900°C
  Safety eye unblocked at sulphur reaction furnace
  
• Cooling Water Condenser Tubes and Pipelines in Nigeria
  40 Tonnes of scale removed on “Impossible de-scaling task” returns plant to full production

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