Integrity Field Support
Hands-on integrity work at the asset: supporting pigging and ILI preparation, assessing corrosion in the field, investigating tanks and facilities, and verifying that integrity programs are performing as intended.
- Pre-ILI & pigging support
- Field corrosion assessment
- Tank & facility integrity
What is Integrity Field Support?
Integrity Field Support puts trained personnel at the asset to inspect, sample, test, assess, and document conditions that matter to an integrity program. Foxx supports planned integrity work and field investigations where hands-on assessment is needed to understand what is happening and determine the next step.
- Pre-ILI preparation, pig design and selection review, cleaning assessment, and field execution support.
- Dig-site corrosion, coating, soil, deposit, and other integrity-related field assessments.
- Tank core sampling, pig-yield investigation, and chemical program verification to support integrity and cleaning decisions.
Experience in the field
Pig yield samples
Facility & tank samples
Pig design reviews
Dig site assessments
Tank & facility integrity
Tank core sampling
Tank core sampling uses a specialized top-entry tool to recover a vertical core of settled material from the tank bottom, providing a depth-by-depth profile of solids build-up and composition rather than the single-elevation snapshot provided by a side sample.
- Vertical solids profileShows how deposits change through the full depth.
- Better solids estimateMultiple cores help define build-up and variation across the tank.
- Better cleaning planHelps forecast scope, waste volume, schedule, and cost.
Schematic. The core tool recovers the full depth; a side sample sees one elevation.
Where does Foxx look between inspections?
Five places on a line and a facility where internal and external corrosion show themselves first. Foxx crews cover them on the program's schedule.
Chemical injection and launcher
Inhibitor and biocide go in here. Foxx checks residual downstream so the program is judged by what arrives, not what was pumped.
How does it work?
- 01
Dig site and coating assessment
External
Coating condition and external metal-loss features are evaluated, sampled and tested at the dig to identify the corrosion mechanism, with photos and a site assessment in the report.
- 02
Pig yield sampling
Internal
What the pig pushes out is sampled and characterized. It sharpens the internal corrosion assessment and tells you whether pigging frequency is right.
- 03
Tank and facility core sampling
Facilities
Built-up solids, water, wax and deposits are cored and characterized to find the high-risk zones and set a proactive monitoring schedule.
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Chemical program monitoring
Continuous programs
On-site inhibitor residual and before-and-after bacterial counts confirm the chemical reaches the far end at an effective concentration. Volumes are adjusted on data.
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Product quality
Incoming streams
Incoming product is checked against specification so contamination and corrosion threats are caught early and contractual obligations are enforceable.
When does Foxx get the call?
When integrity and operations teams need hands-on support at the asset to prepare for critical work, investigate a condition, verify performance, or define scope before the next decision is made.
- ILI readiness before the run
- Dig-site corrosion & soil assessment
- Pig yield sampling & trending
- Tank and facility solids profiling
- Chemical treatment verification
- Extra integrity field support
Also see Integrity Consulting.
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