NEW STATE OF THE ART IN EQUIPMENT AND STRUCTURE SECURITY AND MAINTENANCE OF THE GAS AND OIL INDUSTRY

摘要

The accidents that took place in the Argentine oil industry during the last years show the need to improve personnel training in the companies of the sector, both in downstream and up-stream activities. Thus promoting the insertion of news technologies in the companies, within the management system framework, in order to improve the procedures of the maintenance and repair areas, including structural steels, aiming at an efficiency increase in these sectors. rnWithin the contributions of the GEMAT and KB Eng. groups the following is worth mentioning: the development of the predictive procedure for oil masts, as well as the search for a more general predictive procedure for the inspection of pressure vessels in accordance with the ASME code and the API, AWS, and other Standards, which will not alter the corrosion protecting systems and will enable continuity of operations. rnThis new paradigm of the predictive engineering is based on the combination of different tools. The development of a model of finite elements based on the plans and calculation log makes it possible to determine the most requested and most risky zones in which metrological, dynamic behaviour and non-destructive (magnaflux , ultrasonic, gamma and x-ray and others) testing are carried out. Such examinations and testing make it possible to determine the real condition of the structure and in the event of risk or damage to elaborate the necessary preventive and corrective measures. In view of the measurements and results obtained from the examinations, a database is prepared