About Our Company

Electrical Inspection

Our expert inspections and thermal imaging services detect potential electrical issues, preventing downtime and ensuring safety.

Consultancy

At BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED, we offer expatriate consultancy on various engineering fields such as Civil engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering.

Our Consulting engineers provide independent expertise in engineering, science and related areas to governments, industries, developers and construction firms.

We apply our expertise and know-how to develop, enhance and protect our clients' critical assets, systems and processes.

Construction Supervision

Whether you are involved in the construction of buildings, infrastructure, industrial plants, wind farms or power facilities, your projects involve the complex coordination of different contractors. Our independent construction supervision can help guide your project to completion on time, on budget and in compliance with the relevant quality standards.

We provide you with professional construction supervision, specifically tailored to safeguard the successful completion of your project. Our highly experienced personnel can effectively control and supervise every aspect of your construction work.

As an independent third-party consultant engineering team, we can help you:

• Gain an experienced team of experts, placed permanently on site, to implement and execute your project effectively and in-line with Project Management Institute guidelines
• Keep your construction project on schedule, reduce technical risks and prevent construction errors through our continuous supervision
• Comply with the relevant building regulations, quality standards and insurance company guidelines
• Ensure all work conforms to the specified technical documentation and the construction permit
• Complete and issue all documents, certificates and declarations correctly

Building Inspection

Wherever your construction project is based, you need to comply with national and local building regulations. Our building inspection and certification services assess your project in accordance with the unique requirements of the country you are operating in. Plus, we can help you attain the legally required building certificate needed as proof of your construction project’s compliance.

Our building inspection and certification services can help you:

• Ensure your building project meets the structural, safety, fire protection, energy saving and accessibility requirements of the country you are operating in
• Assure compliance with required building regulations and standards, and achieve legal building certification
• Reduce technical risks and prevent construction errors with our expert technical assistance
• Control budgets and keep your construction project on schedule with comprehensive supervision at every stage of your project

Gas Free Inspections

As experts in oil and gas logistics, at BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED we understand the risks involved in operating and performing maintenance in hazardous environments where combustible materials may be present.

Whether you are conducting regular maintenance, hot work, cold work or construction within tanks, lines, barges or vessels, the safety of your infrastructure and personnel is of paramount importance. Our gas free inspections allow your staff to operate in a safe environment, ensuring that the status of all enclosed spaces is properly assessed and monitored and enabling the issue of a permit-to-work as part of standard safety procedures.

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED provides expert supervision of purging and conditioning in preparation for loading and gas-freeing operations of bulk liquid tankers and chemical gas and LNG carriers. This supervision involves close monitoring of all physical parameters, such as oxygen and gas content, dew point, pressure and temperature. We will also manage all aspects of the final analytical testing and certification of the tank atmospheres to determine that these have been purged or gas-freed to the required specifications.

Inspection Of Tanks

INSPECTION, NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING & LEAK DETECTION OF TANKS

Storage of large quantities of hazardous substances entails risk for the population, the environment and the surrounding area. Spills of hazardous substances into the soil can lead to expensive decontamination processes. Leakage from storage tanks containing oil, gas or chemicals can be caused by the influence of weather on the external surfaces, or material can be affected by internal temperature variations. These situations could lead to a disaster. Periodic inspections, conducted in good time, can prevent such disasters from happening.

STORAGE TANK INSPECTION & AUDIT

In order to assure your Storage Tanks compliance with Local Regulations as well as with the relevant Standards and Codes, BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED provides Technical Audits according to EN 14015, API 650 or 653, EEMUA 159 or Clients’ Specifications.

These Inspections include

• Tank foundation and settlements evaluation
• Tank bottom evaluation
• Tank shell evaluation
• Tank roof evaluation
• Tank access evaluation
• Tank security instruments check
• Tank environmental study
• Survey of repairs

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED has the experience and the equipment to carry out expert controls and inspections for owners of storage sites for hazardous substances and installations in all industrial sectors.

With the competence of a Notified Body, BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED performs independent assessment, testing and verification for storage tanks.

Besides periodic visual inspections, BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED is also a specialist in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). By offering a complete range of Conventional NDT Techniques and Special Examinations, BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED is in the position to provide not just a list of standard techniques but solutions using a combination of multiple techniques.

FULL SERVICE

• Periodic visual external and internal inspections
• Fugitive emission and leak detection through infrared camera
• Mechanical integrity study
• NDT techniques
• Traditional NDT techniques
• Floorscan/Magnetic Flux Leakage
• Corrosion Mapping
• Tracing of system leaks and determination of material strengths
• Hydrostatic pressure tests
• Ultrasonic density tests
• Determination of water and sludge inside containers
• Determination of subsoil corrosiveness
• Safety systems control
• External thickness measurements and calculation reviews
• Adjustment and stamping of identification plates
• Welding procedures and welding qualifications for customary international standards, including ASME, ISO15614 and DIN EN 287
• Project Management and Supervision of Construction
• Environmental impact studies and risk analysis

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED also monitors safety procedures for cleaning or welding activities of contractors during maintenance on-site. This applies for facilities such as

• Underground and aboveground flammable and hazardous product storage sites
• Storage tanks for compressed or liquefied gases

STANDARDS AND CODES

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED inspects tanks for conformity with all international construction codes and standards, such as EN, API, BS, DIN, ASME, AD Merkblätter, RTOD.

RECOGNITION

• NDT operators certified according to SNTC-1A and EN473 standards
• Recognized Third Party

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING

The storage of dangerous goods in tanks must be executed in a safe way. In order to reduce the economical as well as the environmental risks, a thorough knowledge of the tank condition, and in particular the tank bottom and shells, is of outmost importance.

With the knowledge and inspection experience of BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED, NonDestructive Testing (NDT) services provide your installation with added quality, cost reduction, business security and improved safety, for both existing and new installations. NDT gives a clear insight into the risk of leakage or other safety critical defects, which increases the integrity and safety within the installation, and hence avoids undue operating expenses.

Non-Destructive Testing of storage tanks includes several methods of examining materials, components and connections in order to identify and quantify material defects and degradations.

TANK BOTTOM INSPECTION

For the inspection of tank bottoms, BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED offers you a quick and above all reliable inspection by combining two techniques: Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) and Ultrasonic Testing (UT). By using these two techniques, corrosion is detected effectively (MFL) and reliably quantified (UT).

MFL is a detection technique, which detects volumetrically changes. A strong magnet induces a magnetic field in the material. On a corrosion spot, a leakage field will arise. The larger the corrosion the larger the field will be.

After the fast MFL inspection is done, the “suspicious” areas of the tank bottom surface will be quantified by the slow but more accurate UT.

TANK SHELL INSPECTION

To assess the accurate wall thickness of tank shells we use a rugged remote access ultrasonic crawler. The equipment is designed to allow cost effective ultrasound thickness measurements on above ground ferro-magnetic structures without the need for costly scaffolding or rope access.

The crawler system can be automatically or manually operated and transverses the tank shell either at equal distant points or 100 % around the tank circumference.

The multi-axis robotic inspection arm is capable of taking ultrasonic measurements and transmitting the wall thickness and A- and D-Scan inspection data in real time to the operator’s remote panel. Different colours will visualise degradation levels and concentrations of corrosion during the scan and later in the report.

SPECIAL LEAK TESTING

Leaks in installations or vessels can cause environmental pollution and waste of expensive fuel and energy. Therefore, Leak Testing is performed to locate leaks and measure the leakage of pressurized (or decompressed) test products.

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED performs the following Leak Test methods

• Ammonia Leak Test
• Helium Leak Test
• Bubble Leak Test
• Pressure Change Measurement Test

TANK LEAK DETECTION

Above ground, storage tanks are a key part of any distribution operation. From a commercial point of view, product leakage results in a direct loss of revenue. From an environmental view, product leakage can lead to contamination of soil and water courses leading potentially to punitive action from the Environmental Agency and negative corporate publicity.

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED offers a quantitative tank leak detection system, which does not require tank entry thereby dramatically reducing costs. Our tank leak detection system monitors the mass of liquid in the tank over a period of time in order to identify the presence and magnitude of any leakage. Liquid mass is derived from the head pressure at the bottom of the tank. This is measured using a differential pressure transmitter which is located along with the PLC outside of the tank.

The pressure head at the base of the tank is transferred to the transmitter using a nitrogen bubbler system.

The sensitivity of the system is impressive, with level changes of the order of 0.004 mm per hour detectable. This equates to a leakage rate of less than 3 litres per hour from a 30 metre diameter tank.

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED - replaces automatic tank entry with a periodic” health check”. Tank entry is only triggered when a health check identifies that the tank is leaking, thereby eliminating unnecessary spend, and allowing the maintenance budget to be focused where it is actually needed. In cases a leak has been observed, but the offending tank cannot be identified, this system enables the operator to find the leaking tank without having to take them all out of service. Unnecessary expense is eliminated and the risk to personnel minimised as only leaking tanks will be entered.

ADVANTAGES

• Accuracy unaffected by fluid temperature changes
• Non-intrusive, non-hazardous and intrinsically safe
• Minimal tank preparation
• No tank stabilisation time
• Prompt, conclusive and quantitative results
• No capital investment by tank owner
• Not affected by water at tank bottom or product stratification
• Not influenced by roof or tank bottom structure
• Test of any viscous fluid at routine operating conditions and capacity

CAN BE USED TO

• Supplement alternative inspection plans for API 653
• Evaluate tank bottom integrity after internal inspections
• Perform periodic tank bottom assessments in accordance with API 653
• Classify and prioritise tanks for future repairs
• Document tank bottom integrity in conjunction with a hydrostatic test
• Determine the existence of a suspected leak
• Comply with or supplement company policies for leak detection programmes

Overhaul & Calibration of Pressure Relief Valves

A PROPERLY DESIGNED, APPLIED, AND INSTALLED PRESSURE-RELIEVING DEVICE THAT IS MAINTAINED IN GOOD OPERATING CONDITION IS ESSENTIAL TO THE SAFETY OF PERSONNEL AND THE PROTECTION OF EQUIPMENT DURING ABNORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES.

NEED FOR INSPECTION

Pressure relieving devices should be treated as delicate instruments because their accurate functioning is critical to safe plant operation.

Failure of pressure-relieving devices to function properly when needed could result in the overpressure of the vessels, exchangers, boilers, or other equipment they were installed to protect.

OUR SOLUTIONS

BRIMBERG INSPECTION LIMITED carries out inspections, testing, maintenance and resetting of pressure relief devices to determine the general physical and operating conditions of the devices,and ensure that their performance meets the requirements for a given installation.