Services for the Oil and Gas Industry

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Despite the shift towards renewable energy sources, oil and gas will remain essential sources of power in the coming decades. With improved exploration technologies, we are gaining access to new reserves of oil and gas. Nevertheless, the challenges facing us in the oil and gas industry are increasing. Not only are new reserves harder to reach. Projects are becoming increasingly complex. Owners, insurers, investors, and operators are confronted with large investments, new technologies, tight project schedules, and increased legal, commercial, and environmental requirements.

As one of the leading service providers for the energy sector, we can help you with all your certification, inspection, and consulting needs in all phases of your oil and gas extraction and refinement project. It doesn't matter whether you are involved in planning, construction, or operations – we provide support so that you can optimize your processes. That lets you ensure trouble-free operations of your plant and equipment, so that they maintain their value and provide maximum service life.

With TÜV Rheinland as your partner for all of your mission-critical processes, you:

• Ensure that all of your planning, construction, or operations processes are optimized – so that you can fulfill all requirements and run cost-effective operations
• Avoid planning errors and ensure trouble-free operation
• Save time through smooth execution of regulatory approval procedures
• Gain access to one-stop shop services and nationwide support with no regional restrictions
• Take advantage of our many years of industrial and customer service experience, our high quality standards, and our professional objectivity

TÜV Rheinland's expertise in providing services for the oil and gas industry covers all industry processes, meaning we have worked for:

• Refineries
• Tank farms
• Pipelines – onshore and offshore
• Compressor stations
• Chemical and petrochemical plants
• Offshore structures and platforms
• Production and processing on platforms
• Gas liquefaction plants
• Loading facilities

As TÜV Rheinland provides a wide variety of services, including certification, qualification, inspection, testing, and supervision, we can prepare a customized service package with the best solution for your company's needs. This can cover management of your entire oil and gas project. Then again, you may just require specific services.

We can provide project support for every phase of your project life cycle, including:

• Project management
• Owner representation
• Technical assistance, including second and third-party supervision
• Technical training

Planning and design phase:

• Design verification
• Design certification
• Evaluation and simulation of the effects of earthquakes
• Risk assessment
• Functional safety
• Hazard identification
• Hazard and operational analyses
• Quantitative risk analyses (QRA)

Manufacturing and construction phase:

• Statutory inspection
• Second and third-party inspections
• Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC)
• Welding and welder qualification
• Welding supervision and control
• Non-destructive testing and training
• Materials testing
• Expediting
• Vendor inspection
• Pre-shipment inspection
• Loading supervision
• Marine warranty survey
• Marine operations
• Construction supervision
• Pre-commissioning supervision
• Health, safety, and environmental (HSE) studies

Operations and maintenance phase:

• Corrosion mitigation
• Risk assessment
• Fitness for service assessment
• Condition survey
• Statutory inspection
• Materials testing
• Non-destructive testing and training
• Defect assessment
• Risk based inspection (RBI)
• Pipeline integrity management
• Stress and fatigue analysis
• Maintenance consulting
• Pressure uprating
• Stress test
• Leak detection consulting
• Remaining lifetime assessment
• Pressure shock and strength calculation
• Certification, verification and re-certification
• Health, safety, and environmental (HSE) studies

Decommissioning and demolition phase:

• Deconstruction supervision
• Risk assessment
• Health, safety, and environmental (HSE) studies

Because you can access a range of services and up-to-date information from one source, we save you time and effort. TÜV Rheinland works in multidisciplinary teams and also come equipped with a wide range of accreditations, giving you peace of mind that our certifications are officially recognized. In addition, our comprehensive portfolio and “one-stop shop” solutions mean that you save yourself the time and effort of having to obtain the necessary documentation from various sources.
A brief overview of our accreditations:

• Technical inspection organization
• Authorized regulatory body for plants and equipment subject to monitoring
• Inspection body for newly built pressure equipment approved by various national and regional authorities, i.e. Europe, USA, India, Malaysia, and Singapore
• Test center and regulatory body for building inspections
• Regulatory body for external monitoring in various sectors
• Authorized body in the area of environmental certification
• Accredited testing laboratories for material tests, safety components, and software
• Certified quality control, quality management, and quality assurance system
  We are accredited as a notified body for:

• Elevators
• Machinery
• Pressure equipment
• Explosion protection (ATEX/IECEX)
• Construction products

We are registered with First Point Assessment Limited (FPAL), the impartial organization for the UK, Dutch and Irish oil and gas sector.

FPAL’s database is an important tool for both supplier and purchaser. It increases supply chain efficiency by matching the needs of both parties, reducing risk and helping to create business opportunities.

As well as our new registration with FPAL, TÜV Rheinland has also recently been registered at Achilles, one of the world’s leading management systems of supplier information for the oil and gas industries.

We are committed to supporting our clients in the oil and gas sector and our goal is to make their selection of a third party inspection service provider an informed and confident choice.